Finally finished my latest, a short crime thriller called "Staged" about a group of theatre undergrads and their murdered professor. As spontaneous a movie as ever I've made, we learned we'd have access to a local high school's auditorium for one day only. I love interesting locations that hobbyists don't normally get to shoot in, so I wrote a simple script, we held brief auditions and arrived just in time for everything to fall apart. Just about everything that could go wrong did.
We lost our Zoom H4 audio recorder halfway through the shoot without realizing it, so a lot of the dialog has been salvaged from just the camera's reference mic. I chose to place the music throughout (not a choice I would normally make) to help cover up this otherwise glaring error, and it works alright. But even worse, it was a two camera shoot and for some still unknown reason only the 2nd camera managed to capture anything. Editor almost gave up several times but STILL somehow managed to pull together the film utilizing mainly the hand-held B roll!
Anyway, the entire cast and crew put forth Herculean efforts that day and we still managed to tell our story, although not in a way any of us originally had in mind nor would choose to repeat!
Check out the trailer at http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi4094099993/
And the whole film/official site at http://uraniumcityfilms.com/staged.html
We lost our Zoom H4 audio recorder halfway through the shoot without realizing it, so a lot of the dialog has been salvaged from just the camera's reference mic. I chose to place the music throughout (not a choice I would normally make) to help cover up this otherwise glaring error, and it works alright. But even worse, it was a two camera shoot and for some still unknown reason only the 2nd camera managed to capture anything. Editor almost gave up several times but STILL somehow managed to pull together the film utilizing mainly the hand-held B roll!
Anyway, the entire cast and crew put forth Herculean efforts that day and we still managed to tell our story, although not in a way any of us originally had in mind nor would choose to repeat!
Check out the trailer at http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi4094099993/
And the whole film/official site at http://uraniumcityfilms.com/staged.html
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