Addy Miller joins the cast of REDD

We're happy to announce that we've added Addy Miller to the cast of REDD.

Addy has appeared in The Secret Life of Bees starring Dakota Fanning and Queen Latifah, Blood Done Sign my Name with Michael Rooker and Rick Schroder, and the upcoming Bad Blood with Christian Slater and Jeff Fahey.

Addy's most recognized work is on AMC's 2010 new original series "The Walking Dead," cast as the "Little Girl Zombie" in the pivotal opening scene that set the tone for the entire show.

Check out the Youtube Vid below if you're not familiar.

Since her appearance on The Walking Dead she's become a fan favorite at Horror and Comicbook conventions all over the U.S.

We're very happy to have her on board in an extremely important and pivotal role for our movie.

So excited to shoot her scenes.


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Whoa! I guess I should update the Blog.

I certainly hope that if you're keeping track of this movie, that you're doing more than just keeping an eye on this Blog.

Although this blog hasn't been updated since last year (gasp!), we certainly have been working our asses off, as well as continually updating Twitter and Facebook.



As far as shooting goes we're a little more than half way past shooting the movie.  The plan is to get to a final cut by Summer and start screenings in select venues late Summer, then festivals and a DVD release Fall into Winter 2012.

But anything can happen especially when you're working on a high concept, no budget, sci-fi, action,  horror epic.

From December to February we've continued shooting exteriors out in the forests and out back behind Northwoods Stables. As you may have seen most of the movie takes place in the forest.

We've shot outdoors throughout the year meaning much of the exteriors change season, but thankfully I've planned for that and actually wrote that into the script. The forest in the movie is cursed and is actually changing seasons every moment, so it all works out.

Shooting outside started taking it's toll on us. Sometimes it became bitterly cold and the wind would prevent us from getting proper sound. I knew eventually we'd need to move into a studio, so I went off in search of one.

From February through March we've been able to set up shop in a small warehouse, put up a huge green screen and knock out alot of footage.

We've shot much of the Vampire footage with some of our gorgeous actresses. We've also been able to work on much of the Visual FX shots, especially shots featuring REDD's Ship "The Redd Raven"

I'm trying to apply alot of old school sci-fi visual fx techniques to this film. I'm very much inspired by the early days of ILM working on Star Wars. I've built all the Space Ship models myself and am making them fly by shooting them in front of a green screen and moving the camera. Nowadays the ship would've been built in the computer, but since I don't have the expensive software to make this happen, I figured I'd go old school and build it myself. A full Vlog is on it's way specifically about these Ship FX we're working on.

We've got alot more to do, but I'm proud to say that everyday that passes we're able to achieve more and more. Shooting is a huge undertaking, of course, and the Visual FX and the Editing are a journey all on it's own but I'm getting through it.

It's been an adventure getting this done and so much fun working with some amazing people. I'm so grateful to have so many people willing to help make this no-budget vision happen. I'm truly amazed at the support.

Check out some of these pics of the adventures we've had in the past few months, and be sure to check out our Facebook to see more photos as well as our Photo Page.

 

 

 

And if you haven't yet, check out our last production vlog. The fourth one will be coming along soon.

REDD Teaser Trailer 1

Just a quick 1 minute Teaser. Longer Trailer to come. New production vlog on it's way. And further updates on our little indie film. Thank you everyone for your support.

Happy Thanksgiving

Hope everyone had a great turkey day. We'll be re-grouping in a few weeks to get back to work on this movie for ya. In the meantime enjoy this short preview of our next Video Blog.

Aim True but Tread Litely

Had quite a few shoot days for REDD. Knocked out some of the Monster Make Up stuff. Worked on some Special FX. Finished a major dialogue scene.

The timeline is open for REDD. The editing timeline that is. I put in the edited shots and scenes where they need to go and any blank spaces I fill with descriptive text.

Here's an example. I have not yet shot the scene where we see the Dead Cyborgs laying on the ground. So a text place holder sits in it's place.

There are many of these placeholders. Really shows how much needs to be done.




I pinpoint what pages need to be shot, I schedule shoots, and I knock out the footage. When I get the footage, I immediately throw it on the timeline to see if it all fits. And thankfully so far it does. If it doesn't then I figure out how to make it fit, or re-shoot it.

What I'm realizing right now, is if I'm not careful, this movie could turn out to be total crap.  Yeah, you'll probably still like it, but by my standards it might be crap. One wrong shot placement, one bad edit, one too many shots with CGI, and my movie could end up equaling the same crap you'd see on the SyFy Channel.

As outrageous and campy as some of this movie sounds (I mean Red Riding Hood has guns, and there is a Werewolf with a laser eye) I don't want to wander into typical B-movie territory. When you watch this I don't want you to roll your eyes, I want you to laugh outloud and cheer on the good guys. On some level you'll giggle at some of the campyness, sure. But I'm aiming to make a good solid movie here. Not a throw away B-feature.

Yup, it is indeed no-budget/low budget indie. But I'm REALLY trying hard for it to look and feel like something more than that. I really feel like the secret to this lies in what I don't show you.  There are plenty of fx shots that we have that if you glimpse them, it'll be fine, but if I leave them up for a frame longer than necessary, you'd start to see the seams.

Now more than ever I need to maintain a steady eye on what the audience sees, and try to perceive what they perceive. Much of this will be smoothed out when we start doing beta tests on the first few cuts of the movie. But we've got a ways to go til we get there.

Here's a few pics and frames from this past months shooting.

Richard Gaither as The Chapel Wolf. Make up by Chana Van Meter.

After Visual FX has been added.

Before. The raw footage by itself.

The above frame is from a scene where Carter (Jennifer Russoli) is being interrogated by Snow (Alethea Delmage) and Simon (Nick Karner). It was quite pleasurable to be indoors working on a dialogue scene. A much welcome reprieve from running around in the woods with guns and monsters.

Nick Karner as Simon Weller.

As much as I love the action and fx stuff, I really love getting down with dramatic dialogue. Especially when the performances are just that good, shooting it the right way really enhances the tension of the scene. Can't wait to get this scene completely cut and mixed.

Plenty of scenes where we show armies of soldiers.

Here's an example of a shot where we took 2 actors and turned them into 6.

Some of the Monsters and Crew on our first day with Monster FX.

Chana applying make up to Richard.

Having fun making this film. Hoping you all will have fun watching it.

Aiming to have a full trailer out by Christmas.

More later

Patrick