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

We're On INSTRUCTABLES!

My DIY Werewolf Costume for Redd is now being featured on Instructables.  Not only that but it is also a contest entry into their Halloween Costume Challenge.  So feel free to check out this link:

http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Werewolf-Costume-A-Werewolf-Army-for-47/

Register for an Instructables account, vote for it by hitting VOTE in the top right, and then give it 5 star further down on the right side.

I'm proud to say that I've only got two Instructables on the site (the other one being the DIY Necronomicon) and they've both been featured.  Woo Hoo!

Being featured means they like you. It also means a bit more exposure for Redd.  Which is always good.

We're back into shooting tomorrow. Be prepared for some pretty nifty behind the scenes on our first Zombie FX for the movie.

Cooling Down

September has been a very welcome cool down. We've only been able to really fit in two shoot days for REDD, but at least it wasn't miserably hot. The rest of this month is about other projects, and then we'll be back at it in October.

If you haven't seen it yet, here's a run down of some of our latest video and a few pics we snapped off. You can see all of the pics and video we've posted so far on the other pages of reddmovie.com as well as on our Facebook page.

Meet Snow




Production Vlog 2

Quick Update for September

We've been busting our asses through out the month of August. September is going to slow down production wise for REDD, as I have to tend to that day job of making Ads.

BUT, there will be more updates through out September. Already posted some new pics of our first day with the bad guy SNOW, played by the awesome Alethea Delmage. Great working with her, and we look forward to getting the rest of her shots in.

Coming up, more pics, some new video, including a couple of production vlogs and your first look at Snow in action.

More soon!

Patrick

Just Keep Swimming

Whoa. When did it become August?

Yup time flies when you're trying to make an indie film.

Yes, we've still been shooting.

And BOY! Is it HOT!





We actually cancelled a couple of days because of the heat.  And the last time we shot, it wasn't the heat, but the humidity that was killing us. It's like trying to breath underwater. Throw in some major car problems with some of the cast and crew, cameras over heating, rained out days, a vomiting cat, an exploding TV, and gear that just won't work, and you have yourself a typical day on the set of REDD.

So what's going on?  I will tell ya.

Been working on re-writes of the script. This is necessary when you're working on a VERY low budget. You have to sorta adapt your story to what your resources are, and since we've lost locations, gained locations, have to deal with cast and crew scheduling problems, then you just have to roll with the punches and re-write your scenes in a way that you can actually shoot them.

The full script has been overhauled, and now we've finally got the rest of the main cast in place.

Eve Butler will be joining us in the role of the holographic entity, RICK.

Alethea Delmage will be joining us in the role of the sadistic assassin, SNOW.

We're happy to have these to great actors on board, and we look forward to throwing them into the action.

We've got Production Vlogs coming up. We'll actually be doing them in the form of a weekly web series that will also be a How To/Moviemaking Show.  So you'll get updates on Redd as well as learn the process of how we make this happen.  It's been interesting so far for sure, and I hope these coming episodes will be just as entertaining as well as educational.

We've got three shoot days coming up this week, and then we'll be shooting all of next week and the week after.  Look for more updates soon.

Patrick