As some of you may already know, the folks here at Film Junk have been working on a short horror film over the last couple of months. (News to you? Check out the official production blog: http://colorenonvedenti.blogspot.com/) After taking a couple of weekends off from shooting, we’ve started to get back into the swing of things thanks to some confirmations on some locations required for the climax of ‘Colore Non Vedenti’. Roman was lucky enough to secure a night club and some access tunnels (underneath our local shopping mall) for the finale and it should be a lot of fun to shoot. Until then, I’ve decided that seeing as Halloween is upon us this week, it might be cool to put together a ‘teaser’ trailer of sorts, which is basically just a collage of some of the stuff we’ve shot so far. We’re still missing about 1/3 of the film, including any footage of one of the main characters. So take this as it is, simply a look at some of the stuff we’ve been doing. So…enjoy!
So we had a pretty big shoot last weekend and managed to get four scenes finished over two days. That means about 70% of our short horror film, Colore Non Vedenti, is now complete! I’ve posted a bunch of pictures over at the production blog, but I thought I’d share the third production diary here on Film Junk. We filmed in a really cool diner here in town, and not only did the scene turn out great, but the whole night was a lot of fun. Check it out below!
Sunday night we shot our first semi action scene. The set up is as follows: Our hero, Jack, is attacked by a waitress outside of a diner. She’s under some sort of mind control and ends up struggling with him in the cab of his work van. Eventually, she barfs on him. Plain and simple.
Friends. Just wanted to let you know that we’ve set up a separate production blog to keep all of you Film Junkies up to date on the filming of our short horror/thriller/comedy, Colore Non Vedenti. We hope to document as much stuff as we can along the way, including some behind the scenes video diaries and pictures, stills and footage from the film, and written posts about certain challenges faced during production. Maybe even a podcast or two! Anyways, just follow the link below and check back now and again for updates. Oh, and we’ll probably do a weekly update here on Film Junk as well. Enjoy!
Posted by Jay C. on September 22nd, 2008 Filed under: Site News
Some of you may remember us talking about a short horror film we’re shooting on the Film Junk podcast. Well it’s now underway, and it’s looking to be a much bigger undertaking than we’d expected. The film is called ‘Colore non Vedenti’, and it’s a ‘body snatchers’ type thriller/comedy in the vein of such films as The Stuff, Invaders From Mars and more recently, Slither.
The script is over 30 pages, we’ve got some great actors working in the film (we’ll introduce them on a later diary) and things are going quite good. Ultimately, I made the decision that this isn’t just a Film Junk video. We’re putting a lot of time and energy into this thing and I think it will deserve a little bit more exposure than a week on the front page of Film Junk. Anyways, I’m not entirely sure what the ultimate goal is, but hopefully we’ll have a great end product that you’ll get to check out by the end of the year.
So to start things off, I thought I’d post some video that I shot when me and Roman (producer) went to do a lighting test at the locally infamous ‘Blue Ghost Tunnel’. It’s a pretty creepy place and is a bit out of the way. The main issue here is a lack of power supply. Ultimately, the logistics just didn’t seem to work and the sequence was pretty weak overall, so I cut it. But it’s all a part of the process! Check it out below:
Posted by Jay C. on September 17th, 2008 Filed under: Comedy, Internet
Every now and again, myself and Reed Farrington share some pretty unbelievably stupid MSN conversations throughout our work day. I figured it might be fun to post some excerpts from these every once and a while and give the Film Junk readers (and Cantankerous fans) a look at the real world interactions between the real life Odd Couple. (Reed is the effeminate one.)
Of course, the reality of it all is that this will probably be the only post of this sort because Reed, knowing that his MSN conversations could at any time be posted on Film Junk, will start to try and be funny and cool whenever I talk to him online. So enjoy it while it lasts! In this edition, Reed tells me some pretty amazing news first thing in the morning. He obtained a celebrity autograph! Who could it be and how did he get it? THAT is the stupid part.
Reed F. says:
Hey, I got John Ortiz’s signature! Jay C. says:
i don’t know who that is Reed F. says:
He was the star of AVPR. Jay C. says:
i’m looking it up on imdb and i still don’t know who he is Jay C. says:
oh Jay C. says:
how? Reed F. says:
Trading card pack. Read the rest of this entry »
Listeners of the Film Junk podcast may recall a conversation we had a few episodes ago concerning the parallels that have been made between Chris Nolan’s ‘Dark Knight’ Batman and George W. Bush. Personally, I thought the whole thing was absolutely ridiculous. Too topical, too sensational and too controversial. This brought up a discussion about reading into films.
First off, in no way would I ever claim that filmmakers do not intend to inject messages and metaphors into their films. I think Cloverfield’s 9/11 imagery is fairly obvious and clearly intentional. HOWEVER, I must say that my eyes have rolled on numerous occasions during discussions of phallic imagery within slasher films. So when I came across these short Volkswagen ads on Slashfilm today, I was reminded of how horrible film school COULD’VE been if we’d focused more on theory. These ads manage to celebrate film as an art form that’s worth discussion and debate, yet takes the shit out of pretentious, over analytical film theorists. I truly believe you can connect ANYTHING to a film if you really tried, which is what annoys me about most academic film theorizing. How ’bout them apples? You can check out of few of the videos below.
Finally, it’s here. It’s all about supply and demand baby. Thus, we bring you the third episode of Cantankerous…in half a year. That’s right, supply and demand. This episode Sean sits in and talks garbage with myself and Reed for just over an hour. We touch on Reed’s shopping and eating habits, why white actors play white people and black actors play black people, existence and a fear of dying, and Reed details his frustration with the Dawson’s Creek DVD boxed sets and the obsessive compulsive trouble he’s gone through to work around the issue of inconsistent theme songs. Oh, and we touch on his journey to back up the internet on CD-R.
If that isn’t enough, we’ve also included a special video companion piece to this episode. It turns out Reed is quite the cook, and about twenty years ago he decided to capture the magic on tape. Check out an edited version of ‘Cooking With Gerry’ below. (Cut down to 9 minutes from its original 48 MINUTE running time.) I do recommend you listen to the podcast before watching the video.
