When will the movie be done?

This is the question that has plagued me since we finished filming all the way back in late July 2012. Finally, I have an answer. The movie will be done in early August, just in time to submit to the first of 10 or so big film festivals that require submissions to be premieres. After we find out what happens with those 10 fests, we will be submitting to many, many more medium and smaller fests. So, odds are, you'll be able to watch it on the big screen somewhere near your neck of the woods (assuming these festival programmers have good taste, of course), but the film fests screenings won't come to fruition until many more months have passed.

However, if you're cool enough to be a Kickstarter backer, you will get to see the movie shortly after it's completed via a private link online. If you'd rather wait for the DVD, it will take a bit longer to create the box art/menus/special features, and to get them manufactured. Same goes for the other rewards. Right after the movie is done, we will be devoting all of our energy into creating these awesome Kickstarter rewards to thank our generous backers. So what we're saying is: we appreciate your patience and assure you, it will be worth the wait, ladies and gentlemen!

Teaser poster for the movie!

Note that this isn't the final poster for the movie, just a teaser to whet your appetite!

Music in the works

We finally met with our composer, Torin, this weekend to show him the film. He now has a copy and will begin writing the score. Once that happens, we'll be paying some musicians to come in and record it. Definitely looking forward to see what he comes up with!

In other news, Chris and I may be embarking on a little entrepreneurial adventure starting this month which, if successful, will lessen the amount of time we need to work to support ourselves, giving us more time to work on movies. More on this in the coming weeks!

The Entitled Retitled

Oh Good's second feature film will no longer be referred to as The Entitled. Instead, you all can look forward to seeing Try Try Again! We released the teaser poster for Try Try Again to our Kickstarter backers a couple of weeks ago, but I still need to make a couple of tweaks to it that I haven't found time to do yet, so hopefully I can release it publicly next week.

In other news, Chris and I rented some high quality lenses and spent 2 nights back around USC and downtown LA grabbing the majority of the pickup footage we needed. It seems everyday there are less and less missing pieces to the puzzle of this movie!

More of the same

Starting to schedule the voiceovers now, and we should be getting the last prop we need to finish the poster by mail in the next couple of days. Other than that, it's just more of the same from last week. Since there's nothing interesting to post news-wise, here's a random photo from back during production of our camera gear!

Hopefully there will be some more exciting updates next week...

Working on taxes, posters, sound, and pickups

As the title suggests, it's been a busy couple of weeks. We're almost done with a very cool poster for the movie. We're still trying to decide between a couple of designs, but most likely we will end up using more than one poster design to promote the film, depending on what kind of festival/media we are trying to advertise it in, etc. However, we plan to release the official teaser poster for the film exclusively to our Kickstarter backers in a week or so! The rest of you will have to wait a bit longer.

Currently I am wading deep into craggy waters of IRS forms laden with clauses, numbers, and fees that will probably drown me and my financial incompetence. We will be seeking the help of an accountant very soon. Fortunately we did a pretty good job of saving all of our receipts during pre-production and production.

I've started compiling a list of voiceovers to get from the actors, which we will begin collecting this week. Thanks to the excellent sound work of our field mixer/boom operator Justin, there aren't very many we need.

Pickups are taking much longer to finish that we originally though. Now that Chris and I are both working varying shifts 4 days a week, it is a bit tougher to get together and drive downtown at night to get what we need. We have about 2/3 of it done, and are working on getting the rest of it ASAP so that we can picture lock the movie and start working with our composer, Torin.

Also, we have settled on a new title for the movie. It's no longer going to be called The Entitled. What's the new title? You'll have to wait a couple of weeks for that!

Another little update

We had our longest day of pickup shooting this past week, where we had to go back to a hotel we had shot in for the opening scene of our movie. It was a nice relaxing day of shooting, and we caught some great footage that really amps up the beginning of the film. We also tackled some other pickup shooting, meeting up with an actor and shooting footage around USC, downtown, and Chinatown. The movie is really improving with all this extra footage, and Chris and I are very excited about it's potential.

To keep things interesting, here's a photo back from principal photography I never released. I might try to throw in something like this every week if I don't have any exciting news to announce. Enjoy!