And they're off!

So I am settled into my new place after about 2 months of living out of boxes and not being able to do much in the way of editing. I got a lot of rewrites and scene polishing done in that time for the last few scenes we are doing. The original ending to the movie has been changed drastically. Overall, the entire tone of the movie is completely different now than when we starting working on it. What started out as our attempt to do a serious, gritty cop drama, has turned into what we know best, and it is ridiculous comedy, perverted humor, offensive insults, and our always improving attempts at some serious action/effects.

Now that I am settled (which I will take pictures of my sweet set up once I am finished making my little studio look good and post em up here so people can see where I do the "movie magic" and edit, do music, blah blah blah.

Onto the editing spectrum:

It's been a while but I started back into it this weekend. Went back to an old unfinished scene, and noticed that a file of footage has literally vanished from my hard drive. I have to go back and reload a few minutes of a tape to fit it back into the timeline. Not only that, this is the one scene left that we need to head back and get reshoots on. It shouldn't take very long, but in the end it will be worth doing. Since I forgot we were doing that, I decided I would stop there and just move on to a completed scene. Now here I am at almost 2 in the morning, needing sleep so I can be nice and refreshed for work in the morning. PRONTO.

I am planning on going through all of the tapes and making a catlogue of them in case we ever dub the tapes or anything and see if any fans out there want to make their own cut of the movie. In theory we should have all these tapes logged and labeled and stored properly for these organizing reasons, but I am a busy guy, and this isn't my full time job and I don't have an intern to do it (unfortunately)

Needless to say, I have a full plate in front of me now as far as editing goes. In the time since I've been between houses, a lot of footage has piled up, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's just a time consuming thing, and something I don't think will help me out in the "I think I am getting carpal tunnel syndrome" from using the computer so much. That's lame.

Regardless, I WILL be back with another update in a few days to a week. Should have pics posted of my station, kinda do a LAWSON: CRIBS type deal and maybe I will post new screen shots and shit from this weekends big shoot. BIG SHOOT.

After this weekends shoot, there are 2 more BIG SHOOTS left. This is all shit for the finale that we've been discussing, laboring over, and pulling all of our hair out dwelling on. We've gone through so much trouble, so many cancelled locations, and plenty of time and tape working on the last half hour/45 minutes of this thing. This is the reason for delays, but now it's almost over! CAN'T WAIT!

As a momento to the old days, let's take a trip down memory lane, almost 3 years ago to be exact, and take a look at the silly 10 minute weekend whipped together video that inspired us to buckle down and do an actual legit version.

It is a strong possibility that this will be included on the DVD release of White Heat, sans copywritten music and shit, and touched up a bunch so it will be smoother so we can have a compare and contrast so people can see how we went from "THE FORCE" which is what it is, to the all out epic "WHITE HEAT" which I truly believe is going to impress a lot of people. Especially once our budget of pocket change, crew of under 5 etc. etc. comes out.

So enjoy the inspiration one last time as the horses make their way around the home turn, and the release of WHITE HEAT finally nears.

LAWSON: THE FORCE

Finally an update

Over the weekend we finished up on most of the ridiculous special effects of the movie. It was a VERY long day of shooting, with a lot of different gags and incidents going on in one scene.

There are 24-26 scenes in the movie. There are plenty of locations, characters, gun fights, violence, comedy and all that hopefully you'd want. When all is said and done, I am expecting that the movie is around 90 minutes, give or take. When we set out to make a feature, I am sure people assumed we were just clowns messing around and doing nothing serious. To be honest when we started, I dont think even we realized exactly how intense, how legit, and how good this thing would be turning out.

Throughout the entire shooting process of the movie, I have done numerous rewrites and made plenty of changes to the original script. Honestly, the comparison to the original, and what we have now is crazy. Its a lot tighter, better dialogue, more consistency with the story, and literally about 40 pages longer than the original. I have a copy or two lying around of the original, so when we become huge, famous movie producers and directors and all that jazz, those puppies will be collectors items huh?

SIKE!

Anyhow, we have 3 or 4 things left, and I have plenty of editing and post to do as well. Almost finished... Almost.

One hold up for me personally as far as the editing process goes is the fact that I am literally in between living spaces as we speak, and have been for over a month. This weekend that changes and I will be FINALLY in my new place with a sweet ass set up/mini studio for editing, shooting, and music. CANT WAIT!