Sawyer's Bail Recovery
"Bounty Knows No Boundaries."
555-9279
Dear cigarette counterfeiters,
We're watching.
Sincerely,
Jim Sawyer
Owner
Ted Brown
Chief Financial Officer and Lead Bail Enforcement Specialist
Gina Masters
Executive Enforcement Specialist
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Thursday, June 18, 2009
President?
Why Ted played Mike...or vice versa.
After waking yesterday his first question to his girlfriend was, "Is Reagan still President?"
Editing a monologue...what a nightmare.
Also, despite what the documentation might tell you, the frames you select when reversing a clip have no bearing on what the final result will be. It actually appears to perhaps count back that distance from your first frame, which makes little sense. So the only way to achieve the result you want is, of course, trial and error. Woot!
After waking yesterday his first question to his girlfriend was, "Is Reagan still President?"
Editing a monologue...what a nightmare.
Also, despite what the documentation might tell you, the frames you select when reversing a clip have no bearing on what the final result will be. It actually appears to perhaps count back that distance from your first frame, which makes little sense. So the only way to achieve the result you want is, of course, trial and error. Woot!
Friday, June 12, 2009
From The Economist:
"TOWARDS the end of the cold war Ronald Reagan announced plans to use powerful lasers to shoot down any incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles that the Soviet Union aimed at America. The lasers were real but the plan was fanciful. Scientists now propose a more modest system, aimed at insects rather than nuclear warheads. They think lasers could be used to zap the mosquitoes that carry malaria, a disease which kills more than a million people each year, most of them children, and debilitates hundreds of millions more."
Have Jim and Ted gotten it all wrong?
"TOWARDS the end of the cold war Ronald Reagan announced plans to use powerful lasers to shoot down any incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles that the Soviet Union aimed at America. The lasers were real but the plan was fanciful. Scientists now propose a more modest system, aimed at insects rather than nuclear warheads. They think lasers could be used to zap the mosquitoes that carry malaria, a disease which kills more than a million people each year, most of them children, and debilitates hundreds of millions more."
Have Jim and Ted gotten it all wrong?
Monday, June 8, 2009
Viewing party
Had a chance to show a big portion of the movie to part of the crew last night. It was cool. There's still a neverending stream of work to do, but this was the largest continuous assemblage yet seen, of both film and personnel.
Film, please finish yourself now.
Film, please finish yourself now.
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Ah, disaster
Nothing like making some edits to a scene only to discover you've killed the audio sync for 90% of the movie.
Let me pose a question to you, Adobe. Your ripple edit is a powerful tool and behaved as designed, but do you really think someone making a small change to one clip really expects two hours of footage and hundreds of clips to be pulled out of audio sync in doing so? It's not wrong, but is it right?
The fix was relatively simple since only one video track was affected, although the whole affair was rather stressful. Of course it happened after I'd been thinking how oddly well things had been going. In general, despite my initial frustrations, Premiere has been a powerful and useful tool. Now if only it would stop rendering my computer unable to emit sound every now and then...
Let me pose a question to you, Adobe. Your ripple edit is a powerful tool and behaved as designed, but do you really think someone making a small change to one clip really expects two hours of footage and hundreds of clips to be pulled out of audio sync in doing so? It's not wrong, but is it right?
The fix was relatively simple since only one video track was affected, although the whole affair was rather stressful. Of course it happened after I'd been thinking how oddly well things had been going. In general, despite my initial frustrations, Premiere has been a powerful and useful tool. Now if only it would stop rendering my computer unable to emit sound every now and then...
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Teaser poster
No, we haven't changed the tagline. When we were getting ready to shoot, Mike came up with a list of possible slogans for Sawyer's Bail Recovery. There were a wide range of options. One of the most interesting was "We make your problems reappear." It didn't have the instant recognition pop, because you have to think about it for a second, but I liked it. Besides "Bounty knows no boundaries" was too perfect for the movie. Another entry was "Criminal Magnets" which just seemed appropriate for this image. This shot arose on one of the days when we let Nicholas out of the office prison and I like the result.
Monday, May 25, 2009
Seeking Adrenaline Friend
Okay, so something happened.
While deciding what to watch the other night, it came to my attention that Susan had not seen "Point Break". This was a cause for some concern on my part. Some people in "Hollywood" use a phrase to indicate that a production is coming together with a solid vision, "we're all making the same movie." Essentially, all the pieces fit the whole and serve the key idea of the story. That our producer had not seen one of the seminal films of the 90s and possibly the single greatest Patrick Swayze-Keanu Reeves collaboration, meant a key piece of filmmaking DNA was absent in her person. I mean, how could she even begin to understand where Kennyboy came from if she had never seen Gary Busey punch John C. McGinley?(If you know of this event occurring in a different film, please let me know immediately)
Having prechambered the film on Netflix Instant Watch, I immediately fired up 120 minutes of thrill-seeking ecstasy. Yes, it's a bankrobber surfer movie and Keanu's character arc basically consists of him being able to summon enough adrenaline to beat Swayze at each new challenge, but there are some smart choices that separate this movie from most action fluff. Setting the two sides of the same coin story around their thrill-seeking testosterdome and having Keanu's choice to bust Bodhi be not about purely breaking the law, but crossing a personal code wherein ego caused friends to be injured makes things interesting. It's not "Five Easy Pieces" but I think even that bit of character subtlety amidst the action has been burnished off of most recent Hollywood productions.
Susan had issues with the end. Being 'tough on crime' she thought Bodhi should be denied his chance to go out in the waves-that was the point of punishment. I maintained that yes, that was the right choice for her perhaps, but that Keanu's character would not necessarily agree. Protagonists need not make the decisions we might but should make decisions appropriate to their situation and personality to be realistic and our empathy latches on to those parts of them with which we can identify. This did not satisfy her, so I suggested that perhaps she needed to spend more time staring into the eye of the tiger. Immediately, she made this post on craigslist:
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22f Seeking Adrenaline Friend - Seattle
I just saw Point Break. I have no friends like they are friends. Will you be my adrenaline friend?
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Amazing.
PS: Not having seen the film in many years, I was astonished hen Keanu went to fight Swayze at the end. All I could think was, "What is he doing? Swayze is just going to Roadhouse him. Right in the neck." And he does. Only through trickery does Keanu overcome the galaxy's greatest bouncer.
While deciding what to watch the other night, it came to my attention that Susan had not seen "Point Break". This was a cause for some concern on my part. Some people in "Hollywood" use a phrase to indicate that a production is coming together with a solid vision, "we're all making the same movie." Essentially, all the pieces fit the whole and serve the key idea of the story. That our producer had not seen one of the seminal films of the 90s and possibly the single greatest Patrick Swayze-Keanu Reeves collaboration, meant a key piece of filmmaking DNA was absent in her person. I mean, how could she even begin to understand where Kennyboy came from if she had never seen Gary Busey punch John C. McGinley?(If you know of this event occurring in a different film, please let me know immediately)
Having prechambered the film on Netflix Instant Watch, I immediately fired up 120 minutes of thrill-seeking ecstasy. Yes, it's a bankrobber surfer movie and Keanu's character arc basically consists of him being able to summon enough adrenaline to beat Swayze at each new challenge, but there are some smart choices that separate this movie from most action fluff. Setting the two sides of the same coin story around their thrill-seeking testosterdome and having Keanu's choice to bust Bodhi be not about purely breaking the law, but crossing a personal code wherein ego caused friends to be injured makes things interesting. It's not "Five Easy Pieces" but I think even that bit of character subtlety amidst the action has been burnished off of most recent Hollywood productions.
Susan had issues with the end. Being 'tough on crime' she thought Bodhi should be denied his chance to go out in the waves-that was the point of punishment. I maintained that yes, that was the right choice for her perhaps, but that Keanu's character would not necessarily agree. Protagonists need not make the decisions we might but should make decisions appropriate to their situation and personality to be realistic and our empathy latches on to those parts of them with which we can identify. This did not satisfy her, so I suggested that perhaps she needed to spend more time staring into the eye of the tiger. Immediately, she made this post on craigslist:
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22f Seeking Adrenaline Friend - Seattle
I just saw Point Break. I have no friends like they are friends. Will you be my adrenaline friend?
-------------
Amazing.
PS: Not having seen the film in many years, I was astonished hen Keanu went to fight Swayze at the end. All I could think was, "What is he doing? Swayze is just going to Roadhouse him. Right in the neck." And he does. Only through trickery does Keanu overcome the galaxy's greatest bouncer.
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