A few miscellaneous notes, since I haven't posted in a while.
Last week Anna and I helped Sam with a wire-rigged hit-and-run car stunt on the local feature "Spunky Z". I also laid out the shot list with Sam during practice, and operated second camera. It was the first time we'd worked together in a long while, and a great reminder of why we want to do this stuff in the first place. Too much fun.
Sam, I must report, has been called for stunts on Pirates of the Carribean 3. Congratulations are most definitely in order! In fact, astonishment and profound jealousy are in order. Go Sam!
As for Intermission: We have started the ball rolling on getting our SAG Short Film contract. Alex and I continue to gather and respond to critiques of the script, thanks to our various readers. I've recruited Sixten Abbot for help with props and photographic work, welcome.
My cell phone was stolen last week, and the replacement won't arrive until tomorrow at the earliest, so I apologize if I owe anyone a phone call.
This is the website for Intermission, a short film tenatively scheduled to be shot in October 2005 in Providence, Rhode Island. It is intended as a resource for the filmmakers, so look here for links to the script, cast, crew, schedule, locations, everything that goes into the soup. It is also my podium.
My collaborators so far are Kas DeCarvalho, Anna Henke, Sam Hargrave, and Alex Wilson, all of whom I have worked with before, and Jessie Austrian of Trinity Rep and Brown University, who joins us for the first time.
Kas drew the long straw, and is producing for us. Be nice to him, he has a lot to do. He is the contact for Providence casting and location management. Alex Wilson cowrote the script with me. Sam is generously forgoing paying gigs in L.A. to join us as stunt coordinator, fight choreographer, and action director. Everyone but me will be in front of the camera as well. I will be hiding behind it, where I am happiest, shooting and bossing everyone around.
We are doing this because, on the basis of past experience, we expect it to be too much fun. It's been too long since we all got to work together, and we've come a long way since then, we're eager to do things we've never done before.
It is my expectation that everyone will emerge from this experience with a gem for their showreel, a truckload of festival awards, and high six figure offers to participate in the feature version, but that is incidental. Fun seems to be an unavoidable part of the process.
We're shooting in Providence because we've never done that, and you know, it looks pretty interesting. I'm eager to see what we can do with it.
If scouting stills are not enough entertainment for you, you can watch Sam and his friends hurt each other. I can't condone this kind of behavior, but if it's going to happen anyway, the least I can do is shoot it.
And here's my own page.