Purple Cobras Update

Our first day of shooting was yesterday and it went very well, we shot the first and last scenes of the film. In the first scene, our main character Daryll picks up the mail and sees that he is broke. His younger sister Misty walks downstairs and complains that there is no food in the house. Misty tells Daryll that he looks nice and asks where he is going. Daryll tells Misty that he is going to a job interview at the local thrift shop and the Misty needs to go to the store after school to pick up milk. Daryll also tells Misty to pick up her little brother from school. The next scene that we shot was the last scene of the film. Daryll walks downstairs wearing a shirt and tie and hands Misty some lunch money. This scene is similar to the first scene but Daryll now has a job and the house they live in is much cleaner.

Overall, the shoot went very well. There were only two setbacks that happened during the shoot. The first was that ppecs did not give us the ME-66 that we had reserved and we did not realize until we had arrived at the location. I had to drive back to Park and get the mic. Luckily it did not take too long to drive back. The only other problem that we encountered was that we did not clap or use a slate during the shoot. Since we used Craig's Canon T3i, we had to record sound separately and we also did not have a slate. For the first scene of the shoot we did not clap in front of the camera. This will make syncing sound more complicated but it is not a major issue. The shoot went very well and we are scheduled to shoot on Sunday with Nicky Wood.

Project Update

The Purple Cobras are currently in pre-production for the project. Matt has finished writing the script and we have found our lead actor and are waiting to here back from a couple others. Craig has emailed Nicky Wood and we are waiting to hear back from him. I hope we are able to use him as an actor because he seems exactly like the character Artie in the script. We are still looking for locations to shoot but the plan is to shoot later next week and edit the project the following weekend. We will have our storyboards completed by the time we are ready to shoot. It is expected to snow some time next week but that could actually work to our advantage. The original story did take place during an ice storm in Indianapolis so if it is snowing when we shoot, our project would be even more accurate to the original news story than it already is.

Purple Cobras

This week my group and I have been contacting each other via Facebook and email.  Matt finished the script which looks really solid.  I contacted Nicky Wood who we hope will play Art in our script.  I have not heard back from him yet but I await his answer.  We have not decided where we want to shoot yet but figured that we need two days to shoot the film at two separate locations.  Our main actor is going to be played by one of our friends who is absolutely perfect for the roll and is very excited.  We are contacting our other actors this week to find out their availability for possible shoot dates.  Hopefully the weather will be a little warmer by the time we are ready to shoot next week.