http://roadhousepictures.com/mywork/weblog.php en-us http://roadhousepictures.com/mywork/weblog.php http://roadhousepictures.com/mywork/weblog.php?id=P82 The Biggest Challenge of Jeopardy's Pre-Production is FINALLY complete. As far as Prop/Set Construction, this was the first thing I started and like the Location Problem, was the last thing I completed. With the exception of hammering the roof on the Newspaper Stand and making a little nook for cigarettes, candy etc... It's done. Looking at it without periodicals on it and by itself without the vendor table, and attachments it doesn't look like much and of course, I couldn't stand it so... http://roadhousepictures.com/mywork/weblog.php?id=P81 I keep my films fresh in my mind for principle photography by waiting to do the creative stuff such as shot lists, layouts and stuff like that until maybe the last couple of weeks before go time. For this one, I'm starting now. There are still battles I am fighting with money, location, casting and workflow management. Heaven forbid I get all the logistics done and forget to do MY job.I normally am my own Director of Photography because I'm ALWAYS the Editor and filming my own pictures... http://roadhousepictures.com/mywork/weblog.php?id=P80 I've been prepping this film for a year and yes, I'm strapped with time. Being a full time father on top of working full time and part time contract, it makes getting stuff down daunting. But the most miserable part of it all is the first thing I was dealing with for this film last August, is gonna' be the last thing I deal with this September as well. LOCATION!! For the past two months I have settled on using a hotel for the scene where Dana enters the elevator and heads to... http://roadhousepictures.com/mywork/weblog.php?id=P79 OK My Blogger Friends: I'm getting down to the wire and have waited, (of course,) to the final moments to take care of an issue in my latest film project... I NEED DEAD GIRLS! If you live in the Hickory area and can find Saturday, September 27th 12pm-5pm available to be at LR and well want to be in a movie, we could use you. We only need 3 to be "Dead Girls." We could use others, (guys as well,) to be extras in a classroom scene. Anyway, everybody would be required to sit... http://roadhousepictures.com/mywork/weblog.php?id=P78 I've been doing this film thing for quite sometime. I've borrowed, made, stole, pissed away money on my craft in some shape or form in the past 14 years. The unfortunate part of my dream is in the reality that you have to have money to make a movie. If you want it to be good and push your career forward, there has to be some sort of money involved. If you don't have money, you better have a script that even Steven Wright could get excited about, otherwise, well, again... You better... http://roadhousepictures.com/mywork/weblog.php?id=P77 It took a Vasectomy and an Acute Kidney Infection to boot to get me off of my feet long enough to complete the fun but rigiorous task of making a bunch of fake periodicals. One Month of constant design in Creative Suite, to three weeks of adjustments, to last minute add ons, to a week at the press, to my fantastic and helpful wife and I spending 4 hours on Tuesday night stapling them together, the second hardest task of pre-production for Jeopardy is done. With the acception of a TIFF... http://roadhousepictures.com/mywork/weblog.php?id=P76 Addison Fox, an old friend of mine from school, begins the shaping of Jeopardy by creating the first finished product, the Metro Police Jacketsthat will be worn by the actors for the final scene of the film. It started as just a storyboard where I sketched Metro Police on the jacket of one of the cops. Then I started thinking, that would be a cool little added prop to make the scene more real. I thought it would cost a mint, but Addison found the cheapest jackets and did the... http://roadhousepictures.com/mywork/weblog.php?id=P75 In the winter of 2003, I began writing Meter from a conversation I had with a disgruntled gentleman at Sergeant Peppers in Hickory. Three years later at a chinese restaurant, I put the finishing touches on it and locked it down for shooting. Throughout those 3 years I had taken bits of conversations here and there I had with different people and incorporated it into Charles' or Randle's thoughts. As bad as it sounds I never really took Meter very seriously at first. I knew it was a twelve... http://roadhousepictures.com/mywork/weblog.php?id=P74 So I'm banging away in Illustrator coming up with all these different designs and names for Metro's very own cigarettes when I realize I'm having too much fun and must just get to it. So I keep my 3 favorite designs. How was I gonna' get the labels onto the cartons with out taping or gluing? Neither would work because of how they were being used so first thing was first... I spray painted over the Marlboro and Newport designs on the carton to keep the original logo from bleeding through.Then... http://roadhousepictures.com/mywork/weblog.php?id=P73 And Thus The Countdown Begins...To Mark Nearly the Year Anniversary of deciding to push forward with this film I found it fitting now that we countdown the final 60 days until Principle Photography with my traditional and superstitious ritual of getting a customized director's hat done.I have done one for every project with the exception of Hometown in the past so considering the pressure there is to make this one, "the one," I didn't think it was the right time to break tradition...