Monday, June 25, 2007

last week we finished our Summer Time commercial to help out kids who are faced with a long empty summer and parents at work.

We shot and edited this in about a week so it could play at two local highschools before school ended. It has been playing on Channel 69 in Arlington.

We just returned home from a four day movie shoot in Durham NC. The film is a short film called Perryville Crime.

Anyway, check out the video...and learn from it.

Monday, June 18, 2007

New York Exchange









Friday, Adam and I woke up at 5, drove to Georgetown where we met up with the crew from MRB films. They were filming something I later found out was called the "nose PSA".

We picked up the Van they rented for us and loaded up the film. 6,000 ft. 35mm . Before we left, we got a few comments from some of team members regarding the severity of the goods we were carrying. words like "important", "a lot of time and money went into this" and "loose them, you die" were mentioned to us as they went home after the all night shoot.

the mission:

Drop of the film at Post works in Manhattan.
Drive to Brooklyn and pick up 6 bird costumes.
Drop off the van in Alexandria.

Adam and I used the time in the van to write a script for our next short film called PERRYVILLE CRIME, that is going to be shot later this week in North Carolina.

We got into the city around 11:30
dropped off the films and called the costume place. They weren't going too be ready until 4 so we thought we'd park and walk around. well, finding parking for a cargo van in Manhattan is ridiculous. we drove into at least 4 underground parking garages and had back out because the ceiling was almost scrapping the roof.


We found one and parked for 2 hours... 30 dollars...not our money though. MRB paid for the van, gas, tolls, parking, and lunch...and $100 each for driving.













We found a wheel chair in the trash and took turns pushing eachother around in it - each time acting out a different ailment.










We ate at Famous Ray's pizza. our pizza looked like it had all the past days left over on it. but pretty good.











we then went into Central Park and did some Jumpstyle... if you don't know what that is, look it up... it will change your life.


anyway, this is getting long.
we drove through insane city rush hour traffic and got lost. picked up the costumes then got lost in brooklyn some more. we got home around 12:30.


Im glad we didn't get stopped by any police...just because they are police and because if they had looked in the back of the Van, they would have thought we were transporting 7 dead bodies in bags.

good trip.

if you havent watched all of the Morris & Deutsch videos online, do it up.