Shoots at the Full Moon ( Moon cycle table below)

I want to finish casting and shoot full moon in the desert. The above is actually my bike in an Italian village, if I could be shooting there I might be.

The goal is to try to create a dreamlike psychological space.
There's a full moon (See calendar below) Friday the 18th at midnight, IDK whether it's early Friday morning or late Friday night.


Shoot schedule is pending, please email at help@magicalrealismfilms.com

Alain Lumina, Director
LIfe is change, and our plans work the same way.
At this point, all actors and crew can still call me eves and weekends at 541-469-7014

Quick and Dirty Pro Cinema Sound

1) Use a boom. Wireless lavaliers are too unreliable, nearby radar, C-I-A death-rays, etc. can cause unforeseen, intermittent interference that will leave you screaming about CIA death rays. Not good. .
2) Shotgun mike Sennheiser 416 about $1050
3) Small battery powered mixer with limiter built in Shure FP-33, about $1328

Record ambiance separately, then mix in at will, or during Foley.

George at Full Compass super-helpful and did film sound himself,
800-356-5844 x 1114

Bingo, ex pro gave me the five minute rundown it would take years of blunders to learn. However, blundering is so enjoyable I am still hoping to succeed at it.

Fantasy Noir

Our new poster has confirmed that we have created a whole new film style. Well, I like the coloring anyway.

It's Fantasy Noir. I had called up script consultant Karl Iglesias, and he told me ( at $100/Hour) my pretentious label of "Magical Realism" should actually, in "Industry" parlance, be "Fantasy."

I think of elves and boring witch fantasy tales when I hear that. Although the Wizard of OZ was one of the best films ever made.

So I've got my own label.

Lighting Supply Place

I can buy some of these tasty little suckers at :

http://www.filmandvideolighting.com/

And can't lose the link here.

The Worser The Better

I've never met a harebrained scheme I didn't like. The worser the better.

And if you're really addled, you can come up with some great ones. Like shooting on film because it looks cool. Even on a microscopic budget. No, really-- it's logical! Film has so much more latitude!

As for services for the addled, this pre/post house in LA has all the pieces you need. The web page is easy to use also. If it's here, I can't lose it:

http://www.cinelicious.tv/

As for the required photo, taken with FILM in Hawaii-- wasn't the idea of technology to make out lives Better? Instead, we run like rats on treadmills-- thinking about how much space on the treadmill we have, rather than getting off. But it's an egalitarian treadmill-- everyone can go and make a bad looking video, whereas they never could have afforded a 35mm negative.

Great Ideas Generously Given By Collaborators

1) Use family members to motivate characters. Poor bastards.

2) Wind up the conflict. They live two hours. Punch it.

3) Incomplete sentences make things sound pithy and punchy. Pithy. Punchy.

4) Maybe if they sound pithy and punchy, they are pithy and punchy. (Refer to quote from Duke Elllington, "If it sounds good, it is good."

5) And the requisite Hawaii photo, ho hum I was there for years, don't hate me. OK, go ahead.

6) If it makes you feel any better, the stylish Minolta x-370 35 mm ( lots of anodized black parts) with which the above was taken was stolen from me in a Russian Metro.

7) Looking at the above photo, I realize how much my life has sucked since I left Hawaii. Whuh..whuh... why am doing this instead of eking out a living in Hawaii?

8) Do you think there is any chance that the above photo would look anything like that from a digital camera? Seriously, not a rhetorical question.

What They Did To Me

This is what happened the last time I filmed in San Francisco. It was for the script they said, more than for the shooting.