I was having dinner at my parents earlier this week when my mom and nephew started making up songs about Hellphone. I remember laughing, but not what they “wrote”. I do remember the one line I contributed: “you’ll find yourself…
Yeah, it’s been a few days. Sorry about that. Got a little distracted, you know? Doing what-not and stuff. Got some great behind-the-scenes stuff shot yesterday by Aaron. Who is, really, none the worse for wear for throwing himself on…
Getting good foley requires ingenuity from the people doing it. You try to find sounds to substitute for other sounds. For example, slicing an onion can be used for a punch. Sometimes, though, the real thing is hard to duplicate….
Tomorrow I am heading out with Neb, a local sound guru, to record some foley for the movie. That’s the term used for sound effects that are created by a person/object on screen, but recorded separately. Footsteps is a good…
Picture lock means the images are no longer being edited. Pretty much allows all the other departments to do their thing without worrying that something will change. We won’t have it until all the effects shots are done, but we…
Editing often is about removing scenes, characters, sub-plots and other things in order to more efficiently and effectively tell the story. As writer/director/editor you may think I’d have a hard time cutting parts of “my baby”. Turns out I’m usually…
Got a look at a first pass of some rotoscoping done by our executive producer. That’s right, he’s digging in and helping out. Rotoscoping is frame-by-frame image manipulation. In this case, removing a lens flare we don’t like. It’s about…
Watched the ultra-low-budget horror film “The Signal” tonight. Made in Atlanta for only slightly more money than we spent on Hellphone. Got a $2 million distribution deal. Very slick looking. Solid acting. Interesting premise. Worth a look if you like…
Editing is one of those tasks that can seemingly have no end if you don’t get deadlines. I doubt there’s a filmmaker alive who doesn’t wish they could go back and re-edit certain parts of their movies. Hellphone is no…
That was the working title Paul McCartney used for the song “Yesterday” when he was first writing it and didn’t know what it was about. I like to picture him making breakfast and the tune popping into his head, and…
