Did You Like It?

[Guest BuBu]

I've just seen episode 5.

Very, very good job guys.

I see you make progress episode after episode. It's a real pleasure.

Go on this way. ;)

[MovieMaker]

Thanks BUBU, we are trying, I think faulters a little with six but really gets back up in 7 all the way to the end.

-mm

[Guest BuBu]

I looked at the 6th episode and I'm definitly in love with the musical composition. I can just congratulate Mick Moreau for his job.

Otherwise, I have a little question.

Do you take all the sound on the set (dialogs, ambiance, noises...) or do you use post-synchro ? I'm interested to know which technique you use. ;)

[MovieMaker]

I looked at the 6th episode and I definitly in love with the musical composition. I can just congratulate Mick Moreau for his job.

Otherwise, I have a little question.

Do you take all the sound on the set (dialogs, ambiance, noises...) or do you use post-synchro ? I'm interested to know which technique you use. ;)

Hey there,

Thats a good question, we kinda do both, Idealy (as in any normal hollywood film) you would completly recreate all the audio from scratch, which is ussualy called ADR and Folly, ADR which means Automatic Dialog Recording (some call it other things) and Folly is named after the guy who came up with it, it was his last name caint remember his first. Anyway, when we can we do ADR and Folly or use sounds from a sound FX CD's, our biggest problem doing so is getting time with actors and having a final cut version of the episode. It has worked for a few scenes but not many, such as a scene coming up in episode 10 all the audio was prety much created and the location audio was scraped. So in short yes some of the audio is really not that great and some of it is ok.

-mm

[Raven Wolf]

Cool! Thanks for that tidbit, Jason!

[Guest BuBu]

I just saw de seventh episode.

And... Whooooooooooooo

Technically, I'm very impressive. To be honest, it seems to be another show. Photography is superb.

How many days did you take to shot this episode ?

What about the budget ?

I'm interested to know how you produced it.

Thanks. ;)

[MovieMaker]

Umm good question, lets see, I guess I will break it down for you:

Scene 1 McDonalds Scene:

Took about 20 minutes, we shot all of the scenes in this location at one time and all of the scenes were very short 15-30 second shots, that play through out the movie.

The computer servailence graphics are a mixture of premade animation footage available from artbeats and some of my own creation, this took about a day to put together and composit into the raw footage.

Scene 2 The Duck Pond:

This was shot not to long ago, this scene was actually never supposed to happen and was subsituted for a scene that was supposed to happen between Morgan and Fields, we got rid of Fields and with the help of Michael Martin and William Martin (not related) this scene came about to add a connection to the following scene and to why Fields wold not be around, the shot of fields watching them was lifted from the forst Jordan Jogging scene from Episode 2 Of the End. This scene was shot with the 2 actors, myself and one other crew member Rob. It took us about 2 hours and we would have shot more coverage but the sun was going down and we were lossing light fast, you can see the color temp changes on the faces of the actors, i suck at color correction cause I am partialy color blind (blue green & red brown color blind, i do not see black and white just slightly different shades then the rest of you all)

Scene 3 Carreau Tech. 1:

This scene was again supposed to be with Jordan and Fields going to see Malack after their trip back from the reservation. Joe Amos was out of the picture by this time (although this scene was shot way before the duck pond) So with Michaels help we re-wrote the scene and made it work on a different level which brought about a much more interesting aspect to Morgan. The lighting was a 1000 watt hallogen work lamp you can pick up at a hardware store for about 50 bucks, we placed it out side on the right so the light would cast the blinds shadow on the actors and walls to add depth, we also shot more here which you will see later on it other episodes. We aquired the laction from one of our crew memebers friends dad, whom his buisness is run out of. It was a great setting and we did not get as much coverage as we wanted and in fact right at the end of the shoot my folks were calling my phone none stop trying to reach me to come and pick up my son so I had to leave to go and get him as they were upset and i left Jeremia (camera guy) with shoni to finish up what he could before we got kicked out, Colby (the guy that opened the building for us was nice enough to stick around but it was almost 1 in the morning and we were all tired. I knew from experiance we might have access to the building again so I directed Jeremia from the cell phone while i was picking up my son while he tried to get the last shots we absolutly needed to make the scene work, he did and it turned out good but we did intend to shoot much more coverage. All in all we shot from 5pm (including set up and break down) to just after 1am, we acomplished an unhead of amount of pages in that about of time which was 12 pages of script ussually a full crew and everything going smothly would only allow about 8 pages for a full work day which could be around 8 hours not including set up and break down. A note for you: the scene where malack pulls the folder from the desk was thought up right on the spot and I figured I need to add some more support for the absence of fields and his departure from MA, I think it worked fairly well, but you be the judge.

Scene 3 Morgan and Jordan get in car:

This scene was shot fairly recently as well, it was supossed to be Jordan and Morgan getting out of the car going into Carreau Tech, we didnt have the time to film that so we made a scene with them leaving, we wanted show Morgan uncomfortable and show some sort of interpersonal reaction between Morgan and Jordan to give them more of a human aspect then just chess peices being moved from here to there, it didnt work as well as we hoped but its ok. This was shot with 2 cameras to get a good amount of coverage in a short amount of time. About 1 hour for this shot and most of that was set up cause I was alone on this one.

Scene 4 Jordan sits on bed:

This was a cool scene to me actually one of my faves, the extra cool thing about it though was Echelon came all the way donw from Oregon to help shoot with us, she got to be the boom operator (sound) Jeremia was up ontop of a lader to get the over head shots and that was kinda scary cause he fell once but was able to save the camera, what a guy huh! Another cool thing about this scene is the picture Jordan holds in her hand is a picture of Shoni and he real Father. This scene took about 2 hours to shoot bacause we did alot of hard dolly shots that take time.

Scene 5 Porno Scene:

We call this the Porno scene ...well I guess cause we gave morgan this kinda human relife aspect to him by showing him with porn on his floor of his hotel room and out in S.F exiting a strip club, William came up with the idea to shoot this to sub for a scene that was to be between him and Fields, most of the dialoge is the same for morgan but we made him call fields and try and pretend he gets the answering machine. This was going to be one of thoes meet me in a dark ally and talk in the car type of scenes which I think would have been cool too but this works just as well and again gives more depth to morgan as a character. I was out of state at the time this was shot so this is Jeremias fist shot at a directorial debute, I think he did well and did good on the coverage. We wanted to get William in to do some A.D.R. for this scene but he was leaving for florida so we decided it was best to spend what ever time we had left with him shooting the remaining scenes we needed for the rest of the show. I am not sure how long this took but if you go to the message forums on our site and ask "madcowbeefbutchershop" (thats Jeremia) he would be more then happy to discuss it with you he loves that kind of stuff and I'm sure he would ove the inquiry.

Scene 6 Jordan calls Malack:

This scene was shot at the same time as the Jordan sits on bed scene. we were lossing light really fast and you can see the changes in the color and light of the scene, we had to pull out some of the hallogens which give off a different color temp but we had to do what we had to do, i say this cause I had to use gels on the lights (basicly colored see through peices of plastic that cover the light to make the color change) to try and match the depleating sun light. Echelon was here for this scene as well and we almost killed her as one of the hallogen lights almost fell on top of her, she's a trooper though and saved the light from crashing to the ground. The book she is reading has a jacket on it that was origonaly going to be a Jose Chung book but I decided against it, i dont know why but it didnt matter because you never get a good enough look to see what she is reading. this took about an hour to shoot maybe longer cause I was playing with the camera crane for a bit to figure out what i wanted to do.

Scene 7 Peggs Western Grill:

We eat here a lot, so we needed a restarunt scene and asked if we could us the place and they liked the idea. and since a local band finger tight recently was signed to a major lable they used the place for a hametown video type thing for a dvd their lable was putting out for them and they just thought it was neat we wanted to shoot a film there. Time was limited and we had to shoot 2 restarunt scenes in about 4 hours, I look back it and just dont know how we were able to do all these shoots in so little time, it is terribly rediculouse but you do what you gota do... yea ok you heard that already. So we shot here from 5pm till about 9pm covering about 10 pages of script and shooting a news cast scene that was cut out. the news cast was to explain sme things but I think it was just double talk cause you hear it again later on. If your ever in the area they have great chicken fried steak and eggs. People ask me about the special effects of the demon wings, well Im sure michael wants to kill me cause the character wasnt supposed to have demon wings but i didnt anyway, not to defy him but cause I was testing out the idea of being able to creat the wings and see how realistic i could get it to be. it worked ok but i started to like it and left it in as the character is supposed to have some angelic type characteristics which I was unable to achieve at the time. the wings were made in a program called poser, very rough work but it served it spurpose i guess.

Ok welp I know that was a lot, I dont know for some reason i felt like typing....

Hope thats what you were looking for, glad you liked the episodes, hope we didnt shoot ourselves in the foot and thats the best one, personaly I think there are some good things in the episode but it is the pacing that makes it better then the rest, a hard thing to make wook in 10min. kinda hit and miss.

-mm

Edited to say"

P.s. yea budget.....lolhahahahahhahahah.....none exsistant. We havnt got alot of donations and not alot of responce really on the message board so its hard for us to really spend any real money to do this now its kinda switched from for the fans of millennium to just for us and the select few that have taken the time to interact with us and support us, cause well like I said we don;t get a whole lot of feed back. it seems people are watching cause we get ok web page hits but just know one accept for a select few including yourself take the time to give this kind of much needed feed back. We are busy making it and dont have a lot of time to post but we do make time and we do read the boards when we get a chance. We do extreamly apreciate all the help we have recieved from everyone and the responces everyone has given and that alone makes it all worth it i just wish more people wanted to respond to what we are doing...sorry dont mean to whine.

[Guest BuBu]

Thanks a lot for these explanations.

And don't loose your motivation.

I know how it's hard to carry out this kind of project. Feedback are rarely there. But when you will have finished it, you could be prout of what you did.

Don't give up ! ;)

[Raven Wolf]

Jason...

I have just one question...

Why do I hear commentary in the background of the episodes?

OK, two questions... where did Divx go? Now it's only WMV or QT, and we can only view it if there is a Divx link.

[Guest BuBu]

I saw the last episode.

One more time, good job guys.

It was a real pleasure to see this show, who is better than most of short films I have seen yet.

And I know how difficult it is to produce that kind of thing.

Congrats to the team.