A down and out rapper finds a reason to run the game.
This past weekend went as smooth as butter, no egos, no gossip, no bologna. Simply the creation of a Film we all firmly believe in, and each having faith in the process in the way(s) that they needed to craft movie magic. So started my third round of the 48 Hour Film Project.
The bell rung Friday when we picked up the equipment from Cinequipt including the Red One. From there we went to Aquilo Studios and met up with John and 'G' to sign the location release, discuss the rules of the house, as well as the layout out of distro for the joint. Form, Northeast Minneapolis we made our way down 35W to Bloomington our pre and post production house. We got things together, and waited to head over to Walden Entertainment about a mile away.
As I stood in line to pick our genre with Hoskins I felt a bad moon rising with my hands, so I had Hoskins reach in after I rubbed his head for luck. Good thing, we drew Buddy Film! I knew instantly the story and characters for the film. The one Justin Johnson and I had talked about the night before for mockumentary. The story of a down on his luck rapper. Even the title song was already in my head. So, I made some calls and got things in place with my lead actor Jon Krivo and Taylor Trygstad who created the main title track we used in the film. The character of Paul Williams a Chef, the prop of a pair of pliers, and the line of dialogue "What do you want to know?" round out our elements for our film.
We grabbed some seats out front of the house and brainstormed out our main plot points for the film. I called the actors to set things up with them for the next shooting day. Meanwhile, Daniel and Joseph worked on the Red One 4K HD workflow and things looking stunning under tungsten bulbs. As the sun went down and after some breaks and rethinks we began to write our script, and by about 2am it was done for the most part.
I woke up at 5am Saturday, and went over the script and changed a few things as well as cleaned up a few things. I was a happy boy with this blue print in my hand. We got our equipment together and headed back over to Aquilo Studios arriving around 8am to shoot the studio and rapping scenes. We were wrapped and struck at Aquilo by around 3pm and head back to the house to shoot the scenes of the Rapper at home. After some ten hours we wrapped principal photography on the film at around 1am. We cooked the footage, and got it on the timeline. I went to bed and once again got some three hours of shut eye.
With Sunday morning I woke up at 5am and began the rough edit of the film which was done by about 8am in the morning. Hoskins and Joseph went to pickup our opening title shot, and soon returned with awesome footage which wrapped the production side of the film. Another great feeling was to give Steinberg hours to color correct and to his beautiful and subtle tweaks to the film. By about 5:30pm we were getting her ready for submission which we did the first time around 6:20pm and again with a better compression around 7:15pm. We headed back home and got some rest. We returned things to Cinequipt come Monday morning. I scored us some Arri swag from Jeff, and now just like I promised him, Daniel has his own Arri hat to wear on set. We all then went home to get even more rest and recoup. Nothing could have felt better.
Then came Wednesday, and the World Premiere of the film at the Riverview Theater. The film went over great, and I've got some good feelings about this one. Check it out for yourselves and let us know what you think of the film.
Shoutouts to everyone who's help, support, and skills made this all happen. John Edel, 'G', John Hensen, Brian Hoskins, Justin Johnson, Jon Krivo, Michael Latterll, James Norgard, Mccrea Olson, Jon Sadeh, Daniel Steinberg, Taylor Trygstad, Teddy Berg, Joseph Young, and last but not least Richard Oxley. My eternal thanks to you all. Stay tuned, much more on the way.
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