Update

SUPPOSEDLY getting in the warehouse space this weekend to do some shit. We will see.

I have a shit load of footage to start editing again, which I am VERY excited about. I have 3 scenes to cut up and piece together and see how we did on. I am pretty confident we have some good shit in there.

Browsed the photos the other night from the photo shoot. Longest picture slide show in history, but there are some beauties in there.

When I am editing the footage, I will probably piece together another set of bloopers so we have more clips to show, and you can see some funny mess ups. We finally did something with Leeann, who replaced our old female in the movie. She was awesome, and was (as we all agreed), a much better actor than any of us, and made it look easy.

Either way, finally making progress on the thing again makes me so excited. This is gonna be pretty entertaining (knock on wood) once everything is finished. Hopefully people will enjoy it as much as we will.

Effects Test

I just learned how to do this today using a tutorial from the cool guys at detonationfilms.com

Either way, I realize after the fact that I should have put a before and after on the clip with and without the music, flares, and sound effects, but whatever. Either way, this is just a ten second sampler or so of what the movie will hopefully be like effects wise. AWESOME!

Also, I realize the machine gun in the background has nothing yet, but it will, dont worry.

Barry

Saturday highlights

just a couple little things from the two shoots over the weekend.

We had a very productive reshoot, correcting a bunch of mistakes I made on the first run through of the scene several months ago. The whole thing looks much more coherent and natural thanks in part to Barry's eye and a bunch of people who didnt mind waking up early and being background actors.

Afterwards, we fed an injured sparrow donuts for like twenty minutes, Kyle went to work, and the rest of us went to grab lunch back in dorchester. It was a pretty typical time at Gerard's, with us musing over highlights from the day's shoot, a couple worries about the upcoming night shoot, and talking way too much about the police academy movies, mexican wrestling, and debating the merits of fart jokes. On the way out Tommy spotted Kevin McBride, a local boxer who defeated Mike Tyson a couple years ago, sitting by the door, playing Keno. We spent 2-3 minutes debating whether to ask him to be a generic bad guy in a fight with lawson in the weeks to come. We ended up just walking by him and saying "hey, how's it goin?" Then we all split up to crash/recharge for a couple hours.

At dusk, we showed up at the location, spent some time setting up shots, figuring out the schedule and waiting for actors. The shoot went pretty smoothly, other than a couple problems finding the best lighting, and some of our effects not working as well on set as they had throughout testing. At one point, while we were shooting this very intense speech by the chief, behind this warehouse, somewhat in the middle of nowhere, at about 11pm, the real cops drive through, but dont even give us a second glance. Later, after a few hours, we see the flashing lights at the end of a very long driveway, and start to worry that perhaps now, after all this time, they are coming to yell at us. To tell us to wrap it up and go home. Paranoia sets in. So we all walk over to the front of the building, just to chat and diffuse any situation that's about to happen. We talk to a very cool cop, who tells us they were just arresting some drunk off the street, and as long as someone doesnt call in to complain, he wasn't worried about us. We didnt finish everything we'd hoped that night, because our plan going in was fairly ambitious, but we got a ton of great footage, and though it was a long night (I think we got back to Boston around 4am), I think we all had fun.

thanks to Doug, Abdi and Debruyn for waking up too early to not get paid.
and thanks to Bill, Al, Eli, Gomer, and A.D. for staying up too late to not be partying.

LAWSON: the ending begins
-johnk

update from today so far

we had a few extras show up and give us a hand this morning which was awesome. overall a pretty good shoot this morning, although we have to go back tomorrow to get one more set of line recorded due to a mistake on my behalf, but thankfully we wont need the extras, and we wont need to be there as early as we were today.

this is a quick bogus commercial we did today after Egan asked that I buy him some Summers Eve for a drink, and I did just that. Very stupid, very us.

Smell that? . . . It's Excitement!

Hi, everybody! We are getting ready to start filming our epic final scene. We have all been keeping busy getting things ready and I think we're all a little nervous but very excited to finally get going on this scene (which will be awesome if all goes as planned). Egan put together a blood pump that we will hopefully be putting to use on Saturday at our warehouse location. Barry and John have been looking into after effects and stuff like that which could be very cool additions to the movie. I've been working on some music. Kyle found a "Chronicle" themed ice cream. Excitement is in the air!

So, any of you out there who feel like participating in what will be a very fun movie, let us know because we will be filming the finale over the next few weekends.

"Blood and Gore and So Much More" will be on the menu at the White Heat diner, so stop by for a visit. You can have Chronicle Crunch for dessert.

Thanks for reading
-Tommy

YOUTUBE Contest

Our video didn't make the cut. If you go watch all the videos that did, maybe it will be mind boggling to other people as well why we didn't. Ours is WAY better than half the shit that made it. Not being a bitter Barry for not even making it into the competition, the other videos legitimately suck, with the exception being:



That was AWESOME!

Hi, everybody! We are finally getting started on the big finale for the movie. If anybody in the Boston area wants to play a cop on Saturday, June 16 we could really use the help. Filming will be in downtown Boston from 7am - noon and then again later in the day 7pm - (possibly) midnight in Whitman. Ideally, we would like the same people at both shoots for consistancy reasons. It will be a long day that will consist of milling about on camera and there will be a lot of down time but it is for a good cause. And you also get a chance to be killed in an epic shootout near the movie's climax (during the night shoot).

Get in touch with any of us if you are interested in being a part of the movie!

-The cast and crew of Lawson:White Heat