So I really should have been posting something up here last weekend, but I didn't have internet access at home so it had to wait.  So goodie for you, you get two weeks of DM! shooting news in one convenient package.



Last week the four heroes and I went out to our swanky new location in the ultra-hip South Valley of Albuquerque (yes there were gang tags, and bullet holes, and deranged looking truckers wondering why there was some dude with a cock on his head wandering around their part of town, but at least no one got hurt…) and shot our first Exterior Water Treatment Plant scenes.  This new place – thanks, Autumnwood Furniture for allowing us near your property! – will work much better than our old location for the Ext. Water Treatment Plant. 



We almost got rained out.  I decided to tape a plastic bag around the camera, so we could at least get scene 26 done, which we shot down the street from our location.  So we got that done, and the rain let up, so we went ahead and shot the rest of what we had planned (except one tiny scene we overlooked, we’ll get that one there next time) even though it wasn’t beautiful out.  But we made due and got done.



Today we went down near Java Joe’s on Central and 8th for a few more scenes.  We started by knocking scene 56 out of the way, and then we moved on to 37 and 38.  These two scenes involve the heroes saving a Homeless Man from two Young Hoodlums.  Well, Hoodlum #2 never showed up, so the heroes ended up saving our Homeless Man from Hoodlum #1 only.  The scene worked out fine, and I think it will play well in the end, but cutting the second Hoodlum means I lost one of my favorite and most obscure references that no one ever gets but I put it in everything anyway: “Do it, Doug!”  Oh well, I guess I’ll have to find some other place to slip that in.   After we finished the fight scene, I took off with our Homeless Man and shot the last of Defective Man’s advertising.  Overall, two good days of filming, and now we have a bunch more stuff knocked out.  Be done soon… we swear…



Speaking of that, I added a short teaser trailer to the videos section of Defective Man’s myspace (www.myspace.com/defectiveman) come check it out and please feel free to comment – good, bad or ugly!



Scenes Shot: 26, 109, 112, 113, part of 114 (7/13); 56, 37, 38, 132 (7/20)



Scenes Done: 99 ½ out of 130



Amount of DM! shot: 77%

So we fianlly shot some more DM! last night.  Haylee, Steve, Tracy and I got together to finish up the necessary items at this house (I'm moving very soon).  We used those magazine covers we made back in the end of April (above is one of the four, the rest can be seen at www.myspace.com/defectiveman).  We shot 41/42 (inbetween these scenes is where the magazines show up), 62 (Flo marking up schematics of the "Water Treatment Plant"), and 124 (Flo preparing to go on the lam). 



We will soon be going full-swing again, I'm just waiting on a couple of scheduling issues to resolve, then we will know out the rest.  Steve found us a better Water Treatment Plant location, deep in the South Valley...



Also, we have decided to let Art Black do some animations in the film as well.  Should be pretty fun!  He has creted a little test, but I know not how to post that thing here.  Maybe he can tell me, and it will show up NEXT post!



Scenes Shot: 42, 62, 124

Scenes Done: 91 out of 130

Amount of DM! shot: 70%

So we finally shot our first stuff of this year, Defective Man's dream sequences.  It was a quick (4 scenes) day of shooting, and all (pretty much)went well.  We shot DM in bed, eating Hummus (I realized the other day I actually meant to have hm eating HAGGIS in this scene, but Hummus is kinda gross too...), DM's dream fantasy (Defective Woman cooking him eggs, and domestic bliss), DM's darker dream (DM and HF get into BDSM), and the waking up scene.  Pretty easy overall.



Towards the end, I noticed the camera is acting weird - playback is covered in digitzed lines - so I'm a bit fearful that something might need fixing.  We'll see.



Scenes shot: 86, 87, 89, 90



Scenes done: 88 out of 130



Amount of DM! shot: 68%

We got in to the Lotus Club on Monday (211 Gold SW, open Thursday thought Sunday I think – go check them out, it’s unlike any club I’ve ever been in!) with the intention of shooting our 4 strip club scenes there.  It was cool, we actually had a pretty decent sized turnout for extras, all of our main actors for the day were there (including Becky, our Candi; Arielle, our Scantily-Clad Waitress; Billy, our Badly-Dubbed Kung-Fu guy; Dennis, our Soup; and Adam, playing Smart-Ass) and pretty much ready to go.

 

The problems came when I toured the club with Steve.  I made the mistake of NOT seeing this location before we got there to shoot.  I had these scenes all planned out in my head; camera angles, movement, etc. were all ready to go.  Then I got there, and saw that first off, the place was not set up at all like I had imagined, and secondly, we did not have real tables and chairs.  The Lotus was formerly OPM, and they have remodeled and re-designed the place with an Asian flair.  Therefore, all of the chairs are very short stools, and all of the tables are coffee tables.  So we spent quite a bit of time setting up and I spent quite a while trying to figure out how the hell I am going to do the stuff I had planned in my head.  Also, with the “intimacy” of the club we had set up, most of the extras I had begged to come out and play patrons were unneeded, because I just didn’t have any place to put them (sorry guys, but thanks much for coming!!!).  We had to add some dialogue – “Welcome to Albuquerque’s smallest strip club” – and generally just rework a lot of stuff.  I’m used to compromise on this flick, it’s not like this day was the first where thing didn’t go as planned.  But when you’re making movies at this budget, you can’t NOT roll with changes.

 

So we got the first scene out of the way, and then went in the bathroom to shoot the shortest scene set there while we waited for the lunch to arrive.  By the time lunch was there and eaten and we began to set up for the next stuff it was already 3:30, and we had to be out and gone by 5.  Steve and I asked Brian, the manager who has been nice enough to allow us to use his club, what our chances were in coming back another day.  Brain let me know that he felt his club was being disrespected, and told me why.  I agreed, and if I had seen the stuff Brian had told me about, I would have cracked some skulls.  However, I was in our shooting area, not our waiting area, so neither I nor Steve saw what Brian was concerned about.  We worked out with him that if we left the place immaculate, we’d be allowed back, and we did, so we will be. 

 

So only ½ of what I wanted to shoot was shot, and that’s ½ if you base it on number of scenes, not pages.  We actually shot out about 2 of the 7 and change pages we had to shoot.  STRESS.  STRESS, stress, stress.

 

However, on the stress front, we have decided to break for a while.  Our decision was made for a couple of reasons; first, we wanted to let everyone have the holidays off.  And secondly, the climax of the flick takes place on the “hottest day of the year,” and as the leaves are betraying the season to the camera, we didn’t really see a way to do that.  On top of that, we probably have lost access to a location (that we were almost done with anyway, so not a great big deal), so we need to do some more scouting.  Anyone know of a place that could pass for a water treatment plant, AND that we could possibly get in to without getting arrested or mauled by dogs?  If so email me – ryan@sb-films.com

 

So looks like that’s that for a while.  We still plan on shooting a few indoor scenes over the next couple months, but for the most part we’re on winter break.  So now I can stop stressing about the shooting…

 

…and start stressing about the editing, as Steve has provided a hard drive for me to start dumping footage onto. 

 

Scenes Shot: 32, 102

Scenes Done: 84 out of 130

Amount of DM! shot: 65%

Hello everyone.  Just a real quick post to say that the TDNM07 schedule is finally up, and SB-Films is in there for the 4th year out of 4 years.  Pretty freakin' sweet, says me.  TDNM04 had Time Has Come (the Film), 05 had After the End, act I and Before the End: The Making of 1/3 of a Movie, 06 had Nact van de Duivel DVD-Speler and this year will have the first Defective Man! trailer.  Also playing this year that I was involved in - Adam Jarmon Brown's The Hooker Incident (I was the DP), and Scott Phillips' Gimme Skelter (I was the AD, co-DP, "Cell Phone Guy" and some other stuff as well).  Anyway, come out for a fun weekend of (mostly) locally made films.  Check out www.burningparadise.net for more info.  Hope to see you there...

 

Here's the schedule:

Day 1 | Friday, Nov. 16

8pm: OPENING NIGHT GALA EVENT!!

Lloyd Kaufman Presents: Poultrygeist!!

$10 Admission

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Day 2| Saturday, Nov. 17

12 - 2pm: Make Your Own Damn Movie Master Class!

Lloyd Kaufman Presents His Legendary Filmmaking Seminar!

$10 Admission

2:30 pm: Festival Screenings Begin (Full Schedule Up Soon)

$8 Admission Per Screening Block

2:30 Shorts Block A

The Hooker Incident

The Misled Romance of Cannibal Girl & Incest Boy

Penisella 1

W.O.R.M

Screamer Clauz

Troma VS Hollywood

Suburban Heroes 1

Let's Go To The Drive-In

 

4:10 Darkside of the Moonshine

5:50 Shorts Block B

Maid For TV

Penisella 2

Freakin' Zombies Man!

Syndi's 1st Dragon-Con

Upaduhk...

Nancy Ray Smiggen's Family Tree

Shameless

Little Known Facts

 

7:30 Teen Ape Goes To Camp

8:40 Gimme Skelter

10:20 Poultrygeist

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Day 3| Sunday, Nov. 18

12 Noon: Festival Screenings Continue (Full Schedule Up Soon)

$10 Admission Per Screening Block

12 Noon Vampire The Movie

1:25 Shorts Block C

Walking With Homogeekus

Defective Man! Trailer

Penisella 3

Discrepencies

Duke City Nights

The Kegger

Carol's Little World

Come Uppance

Ghost of the Marquis de Sade

 

3:05 Land of Entrapment

4:35 Shorts Block D

Out To Lunch

The End

Inner Conceptions

Penisella 4

Fugue State Trailer

Tasteless

Hamlet

Anyone Whose Anyone

Strange Visit

 

6:15 Feature Length Shorts

7:25 Faithful & The Foul

8:50 Necroville

10:30 Poultrygeist