Well, we’ve finally gotten down to brass tax and started official production on “The Marvelous Failures of Stephen Priest”.
It’s true. The culmination of hours and hours of work to come will be a ten-minute short film, which will be edited down to five minutes for the Campus Movie Festival at UCF next semester. All parts of the film need to be readied for the week of February 17th, and on that day, and for the rest of the week, frenzied filming and editing will happen in order to have it ready for collection on the 23rd. It’s an exciting week, full of surprises, unnecessary stress levels, unhappy actors and actresses, and an extremely fun aura.
But in order for that week to take place, many things need prepping beforehand. Our usual pre-production schedule usually looks like this:
- Story, Characters, Emotions
- Outline, Script, Narration
- Fonts, color schemes
- Storyboards, Demo Edits (film mock-ups with storyboards)
- Costumes, make-up, props
- Location photo shoots, demo photo shoots, demo photo edits
- Demo footage shoots/edits
- Sound tests/edits
- Promotional material
- Sound shoots
- Exclusive locational shoots
- FINAL SHOOTING/EDITING
Yeah, it’s a long list. There’s a lot to worry about, and for the most part, a team of people I do not have. But this time, it seems we’ll have several people helping out, and some actual legitimate teamwork happening on and off set. Hurrah!
I’m extremely excited. You should be, too. I’m posting some links for you to check out, and by all means, feel free to contact us with questions/comments/help offered/donations/anything! We look forward to presenting “The Marvelous Failures of Stephen Priest” to you next year!
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