Beneath Contempt: The Production: We Shoot in a Week!

So here we are.

We have our amazing cast.

We have a few key locations.

We have our camera and equipment.

Time to shoot!

From May 15th to May 17th we will actually be rolling footage on Beneath Contempt... It is pretty insane to be even saying that, but we are treating this first shoot as a mini-movie. If we have something done by May, it gives us three months to make adjustments before we go up for the big September shoot.

Shant and I have been running around for two days securing insurance, booking equipment, and emailing people so that next weekend will be nice and organized. As for this weekend, Shant and I have booked the Aaton XTR and will be shooting a test roll to see about pull process and pushing for night exteriors.

We will have digital transfers of our test footage up as soon as we get it back. Hey, we might even throw in a little preview scene when we get next week's footage back!

Above is the view from outside the restaurant where Matthew works at night. This is the NIGHT EXT. with no lighting pushed 1 f-stop.

This is the same shot pushed 2 f-stops. The image holds up in terms of noise, but the Nikon D90 performs very well in low-light. Lets hope those Kodak Vis3 blacks do their magic.

CAR NIGHT INT shot of my face pushed 2 f-stops.

This is main street in Concord, MA. Pushed 2 f-stops.

Holding a light meter, looking like shit. This is pushed 2 f-stops as well.

The Club Car Cafe in Concord. We've looked at a lot of diners, but this place would be PERFECT.

This is the Carlisle bog. We will most likely shoot one of the scenes where Matthew walks Jaime to school. Beautiful and quiet.

Shant and I decided to use the video feature on the D90 to get a rough idea of how certain tilt-pan shots might work at the bog. We didn't have a tripod, and we forgot to lock down the auto-exposure, but I thought it might be cool to post one of them anyway...