SharpDressedMenInc are back! ...or SDMI for short.

So the small production company I am affiliated with have been quiet for a while what with me busy with uni, and other members busy with college. The last that was heard from SharpDressedMen was the teaser trailer for the pilot 'Devil's Day off' which is still in the post production stage. This time, a short sketch was filmed and put on the Youtube page.
This short scene was directed by myself, and starred fellow SDMI members Will and Rob. It was filmed in under an hour, and was edited and put on the page the next day. This is the first of many short films to be produced by SDMI, especially with the summer coming up. However, when September arrives, so begins my last year of uni, so things on the SDMI front will most probably be quiet until 2013.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WECAkVQGAVE

No more group work!

So the group film project has finally come to an end, a painful one at that. On day of submission, our producer turned up incredibly late while the rest of us were sorting out the production folder and making sure everything was in it. This is meant to be the producer's job, but for some reason our producer did nothing to contribute to it throughout the whole assignment; our scriptwriter did all the work. The production folder was finally submitted at the very last minute. It was done, finally. Not yet. There was still the presentation to do. Shit. It was going to be like the Rebel Alliance flying to the Death Star and finding out it was a trap. And that's how it turned out to be. Like Hell, and humiliating. We got it over and done with, but still didn't hide our shame. The film was awful.

A few days prior to submission day, I finally recieved the final edit. Now, having a few days to do post-sound was a massive piss take, as I should have been given two weeks. I cracked on however, and had many sleepless nights trying to fix the sound, which was impossible in the time frame I had.

So yeah, another group film finished, and a disappointing outcome, but at least I learnt a lot, and discovered who never to work with again.

The painful group assignment continues...

So continuing from the previous blog, re-shoots were indeed added. They were desperately needed, and have now been put into the edit, and look a lot better, the film definitely flows better now. Although the re-shoots worked well, being on the set was a nightmare for me.

Two of the actors were very busy at the time rehearsing for their end of year show, so their availablity for us was constantly changing, and on days that they were available, they would only be available for a short time. So scheduling had to be planned to perfection. It wasn't. On the first scheduled re-shoot, all of the actors cancelled, maybe due to the fact that there was torrential rain and wind outside, so filming had to be pushed back.

When we finally got to re-shoot, my sound equipment decided to fail on me; the boom microphone didn't seem to work, so I had to do with the edirol's interior microphone. The next day, I was supposed to do ADR with one of the actors, and we only had him for 2 hours, so the plan was to film his scenes in an hour, then do ADR. This didn't happen. The crew seemed more interested in messing around, and the producer didn't even turn up. I didn't get to do ADR. I have to now do it in the next week, 3 days before the film is due in.