Bounty The Movie

A journal on the making of the feature length western Bounty.

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Thursday, December 29, 2005

Script Revisions/Pre-Production

The script is going through massive revisions. There are a number of scenes that are being rewritten and a few that are being added so that there can be more emotional connections made with the characters. The more I do revisions to the script the more I am leaning towards the location at Bodi, California. Unfortunately both locations I am looking at covered in snow and may not be the most accessible at the moment. I will be calling the Bodi main office after the New Year to schedule a time to go visit. I am planning on visiting Montana on Presidents Day weekend to look at locations there.

Because of the budget for this movie I am playing with the idea of shooting in all available light for two reasons: 1) to save money on renting equipment, and 2) to speed up shooting time. Because I only have two weeks to shoot the entire film I want to be able to move as quickly as possible. I will also be pitching to some actors that I may not be able to have for very long, if they sign onto the project. If I am able to shoot quickly then I can get there stuff done in a shorter amount of time and save money by only having them on set for a few days.

My other big issue that I am working on is crew. I will be keeping the crew to a minimum so that things can move quickly but I will need to have an experienced sound person to avoid having to do any post ADR work.

For production and post-production I am looking at a couple of things. For production I am leaning heavily towards shooting on the JVC GY-HD100U and am going to post using Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 with the Cineform Aspect HD plug-in. For post audio I am going to mix in Adobe Audition and visual effects and color correction will be done in Adobe After Effects, (basically I will be using the entire Adobe Video Collection all the way to delivery and possibly film outs.)

I am planning on bringing the editing set up to the location so that I can cut while we are shooting. This should make the turn around process go much faster as well as allow me to decide if I have all the shots I need before leaving the set.

Tests are still under way but the main focus for the next few weeks in going to be on the script.

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