Halloween Contest Update!

Hi, everyone!

We got our first submission for the First Annual Chief Coffeestache Pumpking Carving Contest the other day! I will try to get a picture of it up here and on the myspace page soon. It is an exquisitely breathtaking rendition of a pensive Chief Coffeestache. Very well done, indeed. So the gauntlet has been thrown down. A line in the sand has been drawn. If you want that free DVD you better get cracking on your pumpkins!

Just to remind everyone, the deadline for your pumpkin is Halloween night. Our highly qualified panel of judges will pick the best pumpkin from all entrants and the winner gets a FREE DVD of Lawson: White Heat. Good luck and thanks for reading!

More Dumb Videos

This was a while back, and I was supposed to post it weeks ago. I bet the suspense was killing people.

Status update from Barry

I have been beyond slacking the past month or so. I said I would post some things a while ago, and had planned to have all the shit we have finished edited, but the frustration we've all been through due to the inconsistent shooting schedules has made me relax and not stress too much. The only deadline we have is "when its finished its finished" at this point. They got a good deal of shit done this weekend, and it seems like we are all back on the right track to finish this bad boy up before years end. not a promise, but a genuine and realistic hope on my behalf.

Its gonna be pretty good. Hopefully expectations are still there for us to have something enjoyable for people to watch, because while its not going to be a classic like Harry and the Hendersons, it is still going to be a worthwhile way to waste an hour and a half of your time hopefully.

Ah yah!
Barry

A few updates

Hello, friends!

Saturday night saw us back on track finishing a scene in Whitman. Overall I think it came out really well especially with a few "on-the-fly" additions that were made to the scene. I feel like we might need a few more shots to tie things together but we might be able to do those elsewhere and be finished with our Whitman location finally. Egan was on fire as the Chief. He's such a loud, vulgar character. And thanks to Bill for coming out again. His portrayal of Officer Flannigan will warm many hearts.

In other news, we have a new video of some outtakes and bloopers. Here it is:





Thanks for reading and remember that we are taking submissions for the First Annual Chief Coffeestache Jackolantern Competition all month long (see the post below for more details).

CONTEST!

Hi there, friends!

We are having a contest during October and YOU could win a most excellent prize! Here's the deal:

The other day, as I carved my annual Halloween pumpkin into the likeness of Charles Bronson, I realized that I really wanted to make a Chief Coffeestache jackolantern, too. If any of you share my dream (or at least want to win a cool prize), then that's the challenge! All you have to do is make a Chief Coffeestache pumpkin and send us a picture of it. Our esteemed judging panel will vote for their favorite and the winner gets a free DVD of LAWSON: WHITE HEAT when it is released!

So here are the rules again:
1) make the best jackolantern of Chief Coffeestache
2) send us a picture of it
3) win a DVD of LAWSON: WHITE HEAT

The deadline for your submission is Halloween night! So get the kids in the car and head on down to the pumpkin patch!

And here's the pumpkin that started it all:




My Charlie Bronson Gourd

The Classy Interview

Here is a short interview with Jesse Ali Cintron who plays Scott Balls. He clocked out of work today so we could get the shots we needed. Thanks, man!

Bit by Bit

Hey, everybody!

We've slowly but surely been getting back on track. We shot a new teaser trailer recently and just need to finish up editing it and then we will unveil it to the internet and possibly at a festival in North Dakota. Other than that we've been getting a lot of the montage footage and b-roll stuff done.

Today we were able to get access to a truck trailer and so we got some good footage of a few gang members (Stefan Kersey, Scott Balls, and Henchman #7) loading boxes of White Heat into the truck. It looks pretty good and I think it will fit in nicely. We also filmed a brief interview with Jesse about the fact that not only did we not pay him for his time, but we also technically cost him money since he had to leave work for half an hour or so to get the shots. He's a real trooper. Hopefully we can get that interview up here, too.

Every little step we take forward is bringing us closer to the end of this project and I can't wait to see the finished product. And this brings us to the broken record you always seem to hear from us: we still need a warehouse space. If you know of anybody who is in-the-know on how to get a large space cheap (or free) please get in touch with us.

We have a meeting tonight where we plan to schedule out the rest of the shoot and hopefully get underway on wrapping up this movie! Should be fun. More updates to come as we figure more out. We're a bit disorganized at the moment but I feel we are still on the right track and on pace to finish soon. Lawson will be busting bad dudes soon!

Thanks for reading!

-Tommy

ehhh...

So it's yesterday afternoon. Tommy and I are out, trying to film the first thing in weeks. (possibly the first thing we've tried to shoot in a month and a half) We're talking for a bit over a ton of ideas that we can accomplish in his basement, but I realize as we are having this conversation that it is getting close to sunset, and we can walk, fairly quickly to a beach and some parking lots that will have very cool sunset shots of the city. The walk takes longer than we hoped, and we cant really shoot the sunset shots that we had planned. Along the way, we spied a bunch of places where a well placed camera could get a pleasant shot for us to use in teasers or random montage places.

As the sun is completely disappearing, we walk back to this railroad bridge, which links the dorchester port to the mainland of dorchester. When we passed earlier, Tommy said "this would make a cool shot, lawson looking over the trains" As I'm setting up the camera and getting light levels a train passes. Bill and Alicia come by to watch us work and lend moral support. I am set up and waiting for this simple B roll shot when I hear these guys start saying "ennnhhh, here we go" and I assume the car I see in my peripheral vision is Kyle, who was supposed to meet us here and drive us back to Tommy's where we are planning on shooting more scenes. Even as this car pulls up, perpendicular to us, with flashing lights, I am thinking "where did kyle get flashing lights?"

These two cops hop out of the car, and point flashlights in out eyes. I say "hey, how's it going?" they ask what we are doing, and tommy says "we're filming a movie" They say "No, you're not" They say "In this day and age, you should know better." We acquiesce. We say "oh?" Tommy says, "well, we could leave.... or..." the say "yeah" As I'm packing, the train passes. We walk to Alicia's, and try to convince her mom that we got arrested and she came and bailed us out. It doesnt work.

Update

Hey, everybody. There isn't much to report on right now, but I wanted to disperse the crickets before they began chirping insessantly. The movie has been on hiatus for the past month or so while we recharge our batteries, but no need to worry. We are starting up again shortly. We will dust off the guns, badges, and mustaches and get back to finishing this movie.

The warehouse situation remains as our biggest obstacle at the moment. There are ways to work around it creatively but situations like this prove the benefit of having cash while trying make a movie turn out the way that you want to see it. To have a budget greater than pocket change seems like such an amazing luxury to have and, although I don't want to speak negatively, it is disheartening to see that some of the worst movies have had more money put into them than I may ever see in my life. It's dissapointing when Larry the Cable Guy can make a movie with explosions, stunt men, and Danny Trejo and we can't even get an empty warehouse.

We have plenty on our plate to take on, though, as we march forward to the conclusion of our Lawson adventure. There is still a lot of montage footage to be done and some very funny short scenes still need to be shot. And then the epic finale. And then the sequels.

The myspace page (myspace.com/lawsonwhiteheat) has been touched up a little, too. Let us know if you like the changes or not if you get a chance. We also have a few friends working on movie posters, which are looking very sexy. They will be posted here, the myspace page, and everywhere else we can reach once they are finished.

We are all looking forward to finishing the movie and then watching it with everybody. It's going to be a lot of fun, so we hope to see you at the premiere!

Thanks for reading!

-Tommy

guys!

For the past month I said I'd put up some new bloopers, or SOMETHING on here, but I have been pre occupied with other shit.... Like eating food, moving, buying a car, and generally being a moron.

I am almost moved into the place, and then I will be able to get back to business and do some more shit on the movie. It doesn't really matter anyways, because we are stuck at a standstill YET AGAIN. No worries, we are very close to the end, we just have to figure out another way to get over another stupid bump in the road.

Clips this week hopefully.

Hey Yo!

I'm just giving a little update here on what's going on. The movie is coming along pretty good. Got a lot of shit done in the past month, but we still aren't at the end. What's good though is we can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel, as opposed to a month ago when we were stalled and couldn't see shit.

I've been slowly but surely getting back into editing the shit. I have one of the scenes we've done like 90 percent done. I need to add a lot of sound and stuff to it, but as it is right now, it looks pretty good. I am also about halfway through another one. I haven't been able to pump through the stuff like before, but I have been extremely busy/burned out recently so cut me some slack here.

We are taking the next two weeks off to recharge our batteries. I know I need it, although I can't speak for everybody else.

Either way, when we start back up, we have 4 things to take care of that we could theoretically do in a weekend, and then we have one more huge part to do. Either way, it's SOOOOO close to being finished as far as shooting goes. We are almost there so all three people that read this, bear with us here.

Also, I still gotta throw some new bloopers or something on here, just so there is SOMETHING to put up.

We're Making Progress

Hi, everybody. We've all been asked the same question lately: "Are you guys done yet?" The answer to that is: "No, but it will be worth the wait." We have all been putting alot of hard work into this movie and for us it will be a great accomplishment to finally have an opportunity to show it to all of you. The past few weeks have seen alot of progress. Some great scenes are being put together and I feel that every time we film something new we get a little better at what we are trying to do.

On Saturday we filmed some TV news footage/press conference stuff with Chief Coffeestache. It was very fun to do and hopefully comes across that way in the movie. We also shot a "special effects masterpiece" on Saturday followed by a "stunt spectacular" on Sunday. Very fun weekend indeed. You'll have to see the movie to find out more about those though!

If you are on myspace we have been adding some pictures to the page periodically over the past couple of days (like the two Barry posted below), so go check that out: http://www.myspace.com/lawsonwhiteheat

If you aren't on myspace and you can't see the pictures then fear not. Here are a few of them to whet your appetite for the upcoming movie:










We hope you like them and hope you like the movie even more. It will be alot of fun when it's all done. Thanks for showing interest in the movie, being patient while we finish it, and for reading the blog!

-Tommy

*This just in*: Apparently Lawson has a posse!

messing around

Two pictures I messed with in iphoto and came up with this shit. I have a few more to post, I just have to clean out my flash drive.

HAHAAAA!

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