Sample:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NZmLqUIljw

we're both pretty loud, and quick talkers.

no accent, but I think we say 'melk' instead of 'milk' in washington state...

Possibly Something more toward the annoyed/pissed would be interesting, but im down for anything.

No limitations

and no fucking problems with profanity.

im a Ridley Scott/Terry Gilliam fanboy.
But Ghostbusters never stopped being awesome.

That was awesome.

I think we should all chip in via the donate button and buy Teague something nice to say thank you. I hear he loves Japanese food and Asian cinema.

Last edited by Dave (2012-04-19 04:28:19)

I've already paid him a bottle, heh.

This is awesome. And I have the perfect shirt!

*looks at IM*

Holy crap!

/excited/terrified/needs to pee

Also, how about props?  Can I wear a hat?  In one of my quiet shots, could I be checking my twitter or eating a banana or doing a Rubik's cube or fiddling with a sonic screwdriver?

Consistency with props would be important, but yeah, props are cool.

Please have your footage to me no later than Monday the 7th. The sooner the better, but any later than that and I'll be whiney about it.

If you could upload your files with the following naming convention, I'd be psyched. If not, I'll live.

For your individual shots (that's what those "S"s are, by the way), go with this:

So, the third take of Ewing's second shot would be "ewing.s2.3.mov." Might not be .mov, could be .avi or .mp4 or whatever. Hopefully you have three or more takes for each shot, so I have some wiggle room on picking a favorite. Obviously you can cull out ones you really hate, just try to give me at least three by the time you're done. Six takes wouldn't hurt my feelings, though.

Also, if you're so inclined, you can do your multiple-takes in one long video. Or two. Just call it "ewing.s2.1.mov" or "ewing.s2.2.mov" or whatever.

For your silent take, where you get ten seconds of "silence" in whatever your filming environment was, call it:

So, "ewing.silent.mov." For your "looking at the other three seats" shots, you can put them all in one video, just spend a few seconds looking at each seat, like I said in the PM. Call that:

Or, "ewing.reverse.mov." For your "looking out the window" stuff, you should have at least one, but it might be several, videos. Some of you might want to get a discrete shot that's JUST what's going on outside, or maybe a couple of those, etc.. Maybe it's just the one shot of you looking out the window. For these, number thus:

So everyone should have at least a "ewing.window.1.mov," and some of you might have 3 or 4 individual shots. I'll be able to sort out what I'm looking at, so go crazy if you want to, this is just to manage the giant mass of shots I'll eventually be working with.

For your end shots, getting out of the car and all that, the same as above. As many shots as you get, either multiple takes or shots that I'll need to use in sequence, number 'em up.

So, if you just have the one shot of you getting out of the car and looking around, that'll be "ewing.end.1.mov," but if you end up getting several takes, or doing several takes of several shots, just order them up sequentially.

I know when you look at the PM, or at this post, it's like "jesus, this is a lot of work," but I don't think it's actually too bad. I'm just being very detailed about everything, because this editing project is gonna be a mess under the best of circumstances. Every little bit of clarity helps.

Thanks folks.

Also, Dave is the only other person who has the whole script and knows what all the secret-y secrets are. So if you have a question and spot him in the chat, ask him. Just be friendly about it, he's a biter.

The shades of the shirt color aren't too important - between burgundy and bright red and maroon - it's just going to be a subtle hint for the audience that we're looking at this seat now. That's all. So, sorta red, sorta blue, sorta green. We're not trying to convince the audience that you're the same person as another that-color person, just subliminally trying to keep their heads from exploding with all the people changery.

There's nothing stopping everyone from putting their PMs together and trying to suss out the whole script, but I like the fun of nobody knowing quite what they're actually doing. If anyone has questions about delivery, they're super free to ask - it only makes the thing better - but I'd prefer to keep the overall proceedings sort of secret-ish.

All of the props written into the movie are also written in to everyone's PMs, so if folks need to know something really specific prop-wise, they do. Same with filming details - several of you have to make a stop at McDonalds for one scene, for instance, and everyone who does knows what's up.

The cast list is the folks in the thread who said they wanted in. 27 folks, not including myself. So. That's them.