Apology for the Silence

So, it has been a while since we've updated our blog, obviously. But we've got a little treat for you. In the past months, we have been brewing a documentary. Yes, brewing. The brain child of mostly Stephen, we are now embarking on a new adventure which landed us in the office of previous Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson last Wednesday. Before asking Rocky about some policies and practices, he and stephen kicked back a local brew. Here's a sneak peak!

For your viewing pleasure

Hell Hole, The Series (episode 5 scene 6) for your viewing pleasure... since we have been talking about it so often. We are still working (when we are not really working) on tightening up the rest of the episode...

Enjoy!

Business Plan Update

Yesterday, we just finished a massive updated to our business plan for Hell Hole, The Series (as we are still on the search for funding). It sits as a beastly 47 pages thick... graphs, art, comics (oh yeah!) and data... coveted data.  Our business plan also includes a very detailed budget... which is constantly changing as we move from gear purchases to gear rentals to different gear, etc.  While the research we originally did on webseries success was initially the most challenging part of creating our business plan, it truly is the budget that keeps kicking our asses.  

The things most filmmakers don't initially consider when creating a budget:  

1. Food is expensive in mass and you can't skimp on that... it will mostly likely be one of the most expensive items on the list... other than gear.  

2. SAG fees. Ug. And if a SAG actor is considered a creator or the content/film, then it can become cheaper but more complicated.  Oh and there is sooooo much more to it than that...  

3. Gear Gear Gear.  At first we were going to purchase all our gear, then we were going to rent. Now we're somewhere in the middle where that keeps changing.  We have been making constant updates due to our progression with our own gear and who we meet and what their gear rental rates are.  Pad yourself here if you don't want to keep fidgeting with the numbers.  

4. POST! Yeah, this key item here seem to get left by the wayside in ultra-low budget films all the time.  With a crappy sound design and a poor edit, a film is as good as dead.  Doesn't matter how good the content is.  And what's funny is that post has become relatively cheap... and it still gets left behind.  

So... you want to know what is in our business plan???? Well, I can't tell you specifically as those are our guarded secrets.  But our budget is nine pages, our art/photos/comics is lumped into six pages, and the rest is our research and plan to make money back on the process.  And even with such a detailed plan, we are still working on finding funding.  It is quite a trick to find someone to say yes, but this is much more of a learning experience than shooting the series right now as weekend warriors.  Plus, I'd rather be more than a weekend warrior... wouldn't you?

Looking the Part

Sometimes, you have to look the part.  As Jason says... "Proceed with confidence!"  It's rather easy to put a logo on XLRs, so here are the first two official AOI XLRs!  

Slate Games!

Who ever said that an old skool slate and the slate game are unprofessional?





It doesn't matter who you are what you shoot, it's okay if work is fun!