Rock Chikz Filming Aftermath

Well well well! What a week. 6 days, 14 hours a day, an average of 20 people on set each day, many many locations, a ridiculous 4-6 scenes a day turnaround, 690 takes, 90.5Gb of footage and it's done. At least the production bit.

I used the PMW EX1 shot it at 720P 25 - all went well, and only a few moments where I thought I'd lost half a day's footage. But they turned out to just be white-hair-forming moments without any real need for immediate international departure. The Sony software/firmware is still a bit flaky though hopefully the firmware upgrade I've scheduled for next week will go some way to solving the issues.

It was also a chance to see how I coped with the experience of full-on production and try to imagine this for 6 weeks next year doing NWG. Well first off, the intensity of this production was ridiculous and could not have been continued beyond 6 days. Based on the scene turnover we just did, it would have meant a 90 film could have been filmed in 18 days! I agree with the wise words of Rolf De Heer - 'Shoot twice as long with half the crew'.

The footage looks great. The camera is tops. There's probably a few over-exposed moments but that doesn't surprise me at all. This was simply too intense. We didn't even manage to set up the monitor once all week! (Admitedly we could have but it was a crappy SD monitor and I can frame perfectly well in the viewfinder of this fine camera). Sometimes you just have to get the thing in the can and move on - not a preferred option but time and money were on my back all week long.

Overall, would I do this again?? HELL YEAH!!

Rock Chikz - Sexy Band Photo Shoot

Spent a very pleasant saturday photographing the actresses playing the Cindy Low Band in the upcoming episode of Rock Chikz I'm directing in a couple of weeks. Here's a few favourites.





More can be found here.

I get all the tough gigs!

The Original Weekend Trailer

Well this is the weekend project that's started the whole process. I made it for a meeting of Kino Sydney, as a bit of fun. Which it was and still is. So expect pretty basic production values, dodgy acting, editing, etc, but it still has something about it... What I'm working on now is radically better but still rooted in this ozploitation/nunsploitation genre headspace. And yes, Sister Sandy will be in the upcoming project. Think Batman crossed with Mother Theresa :-)

Get ready!! Nuns With Guns - The Original Trailer

And So It Begins..

My new blog, that is. It also coincides with the formation of BoomTime Productions and what is clearly the next step in my film and storytelling development.

For the sake of continuity, all the previous posts on the PJ Collins Film Blog can be found here:

http://www.sheepdiaries.com/diaries/view_diary.asp?DiaryID=257&UserID=32

So technically it's more of a 'continues' than a 'begins'... Anyway I'm being pedantic.

'Nuns With Guns' (NWG) is well and truly in the development stage now. The treament's pretty much nailed and the script is taking shape, with a shoot timetable planned for March/April/May 2009. I'll be using this blog for a few purposes:

1. To track all the significant NWG events
2. To track my planned RTA Motorcycle Safety Video Series (if the funding comes through!)
   
3. To track the filming of the 30 minute 'Natural Beauty Queen' episode of Rock Chikz, to be directed and DOP'ed by me from 15-20th September in Sydney, and finally,
4. To post any amusing web videos I come across or make for a laugh.

There. 4 core purposes. Let the games begin!
And to kick it all off (in this Olympic Month) let's go back to the basics.... back to Sesame Street. :-)