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I’ve finally got my movie done and am working on the website. It is still under construction but you can see clips at.
Four of the 5 clips are active.
The movie was shot Sony HDV with a Z1, FX1 and an A1U. Edited mostly in Vegas. Some color work was done in After Effects.
The flash was done with the $39 version of ON2 Flix, FLV, with player controls added by my streamhost account. The software did a good job.
If you click the yellow button in the corner of the videos as they play they go full screen but this may be too big. “Escape” button takes it back to size.
The music was written for me by Alex Harvey a composer I knew when I had a music room nightclub in Dallas in the 80s. I woke up one morning with lyrics in my head, found Alex and sent it to him. He rewrote and recorded it for me. Alex’s most known song was “Delta Dawn.” You old guys will know it was recorded by Tanya Tucker and Bette Midler but the young guys probably never heard of the song. You can hear the music on one of the clips. All the video clips except “Change Your Life” work now. Later, we will add the marketing, etc.
Thanks for your feedback.
JerryW
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Your opening scene is quite good – the vo script is great. It would be better if you quickened the pace. In other words, same vo but don’t hold on clips so long.
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Thanks. We aren’t final for the DVD yet so I can shorten that and you are probably right.
JerryW
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Great job Jerry, I like your shooting. Can you tell us the story behind the production, like where it was shot, and how did you get permission to shoot in the bank?
Charlie
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The movie was shot in Dallas. The bank was a lucky break. I was talking to a friend, saying I needed a bank (thought I might have to fake it all) and she said her uncle invested in a bank. The President wanted to help her uncle but we didn’t have insurance. I did have a CD I moved over there for a month to protect the bank and they agreed. We had to pay for two security guards that day. That cost.
Funny thing about the bank was I wrote the script more than a year earlier. This bank was laid out just like I wrote (guard at front door) except better. I never expected a big safety deposit box area like they had, especially up front, but this bank was robbed when it was in a temporary building at this site by some guys with AK47s and they designed it with the tellers in the back and the safety deposit room up front to make it more difficult to be robbed again. The vault door was over 100 years old, was bought from a bank in Illinois and moved to Dallas.
Another funny thing that day was the “getaway car” was actually an old Explorer, not especially powerful and I was thinking I’d have to dub in some sound for it. I was shooting it pulling away and all of sudden I hear it make this huge roaring noise as it pulls out. “What the hell?” I was thinking when one of the cast says, “Do you hear that Corvette pulling onto the freeway in the background?” It was a perfect sync. It made me think I was supposed to make the movie.
JerryW
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Very cool, thanks I love to hear these behind the scenes stories.
Charlie
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OK, I’ll throw you one more. We have a scene with people leaving an airport. License fees are too high for DFW and we find a private aviation reception area they let us shoot in but didn’t decide we can do it until the last minute. So we shoot the scene the day before in a plain room on a couch and plan to surround it with scenes of airplanes if we have to. Then we get word we can go to the airport so when we get there the actors are well rehearsed from doing the scene the day before. The actors are in front of a big glass window and I’m trying to catch a plane in the background. One of the actors is clowning around so I loose the only plane that lands. Then we spot a private jet heading our way. I call “action” and they do the whole scene without a hitch while this jet taxis in behind them, people run out, waive red sticks to park it, etc. An employee walks in and tells the actors their plane is ready, the actors stand up to leave. We cut, all the employees who waive the plane in and park it sign releases.
God only knows what that would have cost to stage, plus the plane came in at just such an angle so you never see its identifying numbers so we use the one continuous shot without even smudging the numbers.
JerryW
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Great stuff, I knew you must of had a few stories out of this production. As a fellow Texan, I hope we can work together some project. I will definitely keep you in mind for any work in the DFW area.
Charlie
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Thanks. I hope to start another feature in a few months after getting this project on the way. If you ever get to Dallas, give me a call.
JerryW
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