Our brand spanking new website does not seem to be very google friendly at the moment. But our production blog is. Here is our official site:
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-Ben
Friday, December 10, 2010
Visit Our Official Website
Our brand spanking new website does not seem to be very google friendly at the moment. But our production blog is. Here is our official site:
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Slamdance 2011
Hey all,
Today is the day we get to confirm that Beneath Contempt is premiering in the feature narrative competition at the 2011 Slamdance Film Festival!
Check out this article in today's Variety!
A big kudos to this Benjamin Bower fellow who managed to swoop in and take credit for the film right before press time. What a big shot!
We'll keep you posted, but make sure to visit us at
-Ben
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Countdown to Finish
Catching up on the production’s progress.
It’s been a while since our last post at the end of November, when our last sentence said simply: “Let the editing begin.” Well, it began, it progressed, and it has culminated in an almost-complete rough cut of Beneath Contempt. Without going into detail, it looks and sounds fantastic, the performances are uniformly superior, and it has turned out EXACTLY as we were hoping.
We recently shot a couple of additional scenes that needed to look more like March than August-September. That digitized footage is now winging its way back from the West Coast processing wizards at Cinelicious. There’s plenty of time to edit it all in to the final cut, right? Also in the works: an amazing music soundtrack. Also there’s the sound mix to do. Plenty of time. And the credits are half done. And we have to render everything to DVD. Plenty of…well you get the idea.
We will be ready, somehow.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Editing Begins
Wow. How to describe the feeling? A simple UPS delivery arrives from LA containing our 1 Terabyte hard drive, the same drive that we had sent to Cinelicious two weeks ago. We open the box, plug in the drive, and there it is: seven beautiful hours of digitized Beneath Contempt film footage-- a sterling HD transfer-- safely in our hands and looking...fantastic!
First things first...cut together a quick trailer to give everyone a taste of the look of our film. Second things second...log and synchronize all the audio files...bleh. Now here we are, three days before Thanksgiving and six days after giving thanks to the gods of film processing and ground shipping.
Let the editing begin.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Post Production Begins!
Since the end of principal photography, we've transitioned to the most nerve-wracking phase of the whole project: processing our 40 rolls of super 16mm film and transferring the images to digital format. At the start of this phase we have to part with our 17,000 feet of exposed film--and send it traveling 3,000 miles to our processing house in Los Angeles, FotoKem.
After a nervous week of waiting, the package made it OK.
FotoKem did the processing without any problem.
The next step: move the film negative across town to LA-based post production house Cinelicious, who handles the transfer to HD (Apple ProRes 422 1920X1080). We saw bits of the footage online via their "Colorcast" video service as it was corrected for color and exposure. Everything we saw looked terrific.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Last Day of Principle Photography: The Farm
That's a wrap!
Abby and Mike join hardy crew stalwarts Erin, Shant, Kaz,
Ben and Greg for day 21 of a shoot that lasted from August
to October.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
The Support Group
Melanie attends her regular support group meeting
...at the church
Jodi
Gina
How do you stand it?
As your mother, I naturally thought I'd have a
MUCH bigger part...
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