BREAKING INTO HOLLYWOOD WITH A SELF-FUNDED SHORT FILM? IMPOSSIBLE!! It’s in the can! Here are some shots from the 2nd weekend’s filming. 1000 bonus points for anyone who guesses who the Academy Award winner is in one of the stills below… Next, it’s onto postproduction… And the Oscar goes to…. (went to) MILTON JUSTICE!!! For [...]
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Photos from the 2nd weekend
Posted in 'Be Careful...' Production Diary, tagged Academy Award, Be Careful, Craig Hall, Creative New Zealand, direct, director, DOP, DP, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Lisa Chappell, location, Lynette Forday, Milton Justice, Narelle Ahrens, principal photography, Red camera, short film, SIPF, stunt on April 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Craig Hall from King Kong & World’s Fastest Indian
Posted in 'Be Careful...' Production Diary, tagged Anthony Hopkins, Be Careful, Craig Hall, King Kong, Lisa Chappell, Lynette Forday, Mike Edward, Narelle Ahrens, Peter Jackson, Roger Donaldson, short film, The Worlds Fastest Indian on April 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BREAKING INTO HOLLYWOOD WITH A SELF-FUNDED SHORT FILM? IMPOSSIBLE!! And of course, where would I be without my fabulous leading man? Craig has worked with Peter Jackson and Roger Donaldson. He’s starred opposite actors of the caliber of Sir Anthony Hopkins, Jack Black, Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody, Josh Hartnett, Dougray Scott, Saffron Burrows, Flight of [...]
Lisa Chappell from McLeod’s Daughters
Posted in 'Be Careful...' Production Diary, tagged 1st AD, Be Careful, City Life, Claire McLeod, Craig Hall, First Assistant Director, Lisa Chappell, McLeod's Daughters, Red camera, short film on April 2, 2009 | 14 Comments »
BREAKING INTO HOLLYWOOD WITH A SELF-FUNDED SHORT FILM? IMPOSSIBLE!! Can’t believe we’ve wrapped! What a feeling (to be dancing on the ceiling). It was a privilege to work with actors of the caliber of Lisa Chappell who has a reputation around the world after playing Claire McLeod for 70-something episodes of the popular Aussie drama [...]
Pre-schooler advice
Posted in 'Be Careful...' Production Diary, tagged Be Careful, principal photography, short film on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BREAKING INTO HOLLYWOOD WITH A SELF-FUNDED SHORT FILM? IMPOSSIBLE!! At the dinner table the other night, my three year old had the following advice to offer when discussing the movie Daddy was making… “Watch out for the slugs. They’ll eat the vegetarians.” I’m not making this up; those were her exact words. So if the [...]
Welcome aboard…
Posted in 'Be Careful...' Production Diary, tagged Be Careful, camera tests, Craig Hall, DigiPost, Digital Post, editing, Lisa Chappell, location, location scout, Matt Cunningham, Narelle Ahrens, principal photography, production assistant, Red camera, rehearsal, shoot, short film, tech recce, wardrobe fittings on March 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BREAKING INTO HOLLYWOOD WITH A SELF-FUNDED SHORT FILM? IMPOSSIBLE!! … to Celeste, our new make-up person, and Imogene, our new wardrobe person, and Bevin, our production assistant. PLEASE nobody offers these guys any work until after March 29th. Final location scout with DP on Sunday. 1st rehearsal with Lisa and Craig (Fi and Mike) on [...]
Crew merry-go-round
Posted in 'Be Careful...' Production Diary, tagged 1st AC, Be Careful, First Assistant cameraman, Focus Puller, Red camera, short film on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BREAKING INTO HOLLYWOOD WITH A SELF-FUNDED SHORT FILM? IMPOSSIBLE!! The problem with making a “no budget” film is that it means you stand to lose cast and crew if they get offered a paying gig! Good for them; tricky for the shoot. I’m meeting with a potential new make-up person tomorrow, and contacted a new [...]
Casting Coup
Posted in 'Be Careful...' Production Diary, tagged Albedo, Be Careful, casting, Claire McLeod, Lisa Chappell, McLeod's Daughters, Peter McCully, Red camera, Sara Wiseman, short film on February 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BREAKING INTO HOLLYWOOD WITH A SELF-FUNDED SHORT FILM? IMPOSSIBLE!! Well, the new postings have been rather few and far between lately, but for anyone following this blog I wanted to make two special announcements: 1. Due to clashes with other work, we’ve been unable to get Sara Wiseman in the female lead role (Fi). After [...]
More crew, more locations…
Posted in 'Be Careful...' Production Diary, tagged Be Careful, cast read through, film funding, production meeting, script, short film, wardrobe on February 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
BREAKING INTO HOLLYWOOD WITH A SELF-FUNDED SHORT FILM? IMPOSSIBLE!! Hope I’ve locked-down a wardrobe person – waiting to hear back after she’s read the script. Figure I’m gonna need to set a date for a full cast read-through – maybe combined with a full crew production meeting. Dunno how I’m gonna get everyone available on [...]
New crew, new locations
Posted in 'Be Careful...' Production Diary, tagged Be Careful, Clooney, Craig Hall, film crew, film insurance, Peter Huljich, public liability insurance, screenwriting, short film, Unitec on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BREAKING INTO HOLLYWOOD WITH A SELF-FUNDED SHORT FILM? IMPOSSIBLE!! Met a great make-up artist yesterday who’s agreed to come on board – yay! (Hayley Marlow) Our production manager (as of a few days ago), Hannah Jones, is ripping into the arduous job of trying to get us free “stuff”. She’s a recent graduate of Unitec [...]
An actual actuary
Posted in 'Be Careful...' Production Diary, tagged actuary, Be Careful, Clooney, Craig Hall, DP, location, Peter Huljich, Production designer, script, short film, tech recce on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BREAKING INTO HOLLYWOOD WITH A SELF-FUNDED SHORT FILM? IMPOSSIBLE!! OK, so I’ve got to stop starting (!) blogs: OK, so… Brent (productions designer) and I met an actual actuary today – just like the hero of our short film, Mike. If you’re reading this, Ross: Thanks mate! Very informative. We also had the lovely Peter [...]
