Thursday, October 28, 2010

5 Day Film 2010 part 2

I thought I would take a minute to upload a couple of stills from the film 'Rendezvous'. There were a lot of behind the scenes pics taken while we were shooting, but I haven't received any of them yet. When I do, I'll probably post a few of those as well.

Enjoy!




Opening Title Screen



The Journey


Jensen Bucher as Margeaux


Amanda Kay Schill as Emilie


Nick Martorelli as The Stranger


Die like Willem Dafoe

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

5 Day Film 2010

Hey there.

There have been a number of things going on in the last month. Still banging away at Preservation, and writing the Chrononauts. I've also been trying to finish up the last few shots in the extended edit of last year's 5 Day Film, Rebel. Soon it should be finished and ready to be put on dvd. Stay tuned for that.

That brings me to this year's 5 Day Film which was produced this past weekend. If you don't know what the 5 Day Film fest is - here is a brief explanation: It's a competition to make a 5 minute film in 5 days. Pretty simple. Well, the concept - not necessarily the execution. That's usually a little tougher. Basically there are certain elements that are required to be in every team's film (theme, prop, line of dialogue), and then each team picks a genre at random. Last year ours was Romance.

This year we got "Road Movie".

So, armed with that we set out to make this year's film entitled, "Rendezvous". The story takes place in Nazi-occupied France in 1940 and centers around a woman (Jensen Bucher) and her sister (Amanda Kay Schill) who are traveling across the country trying to fulfill the last mission of her late husband who was killed while trying to get a message through to a contact in Dunkirk. A daunting task itself, things get trickier when they meet a mysterious stranger (Nick Martorelli) along the way who seems to be hiding several details of his past.

We shot the film in one day - on Sunday - in Bucks County, PA, and it went very well. The next two days were spent editing the film and doing all of the post work that comes along with that. The film came out very well (despite some sound issues), and I'm proud to say that this is the first one of these that I've done where I finished everything I wanted to finish before I had to call it quits to get the film in on time. So, that's a victory in and of itself.

The film will be screening on Nov. 3 at 7pm at Montgomery County Community College in Blue Bell, PA. Should be a good time. I've added the trailer for the film below. I will try to put up some screen stills at some point in the future.

Enjoy!

Rob