The filming of our little picture is complete. Thanks to everyone! I couldn’t have been happier with the effort and sacrifice of everyone who helped and acted. Thanks to our wives ( Luanne, Alyssa, Sherri and Jenny!) for giving up time and your husbands. Thank you Darryl for driving all the way up here to play the bad guy. And you helped carry equipment and it was a lot of fun to have you here. Thanks Krisha! You were awesome. Krisha helped out so much! She was a boom operator, BTS picture taker, actor, talent scout and all around great daughter. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thanks to our background actors. You guys gave up a lot of time just to walk around in circles to fill in the all important background to make this look polished. Thanks to Adam for taking his free time to write us a score! I know it will put us over the top! Thanks again.

Now for the hard part! Putting this all together to make it into something. It will not be long and everyone can see the results. Here are soe behind the scenes shots from the last day of the shoot.

We finished up our 2nd day of shooting. It was just Bobby acting and Steve and I shooting. We didn’t get any still shots. If I have time I will try to get some BTS shots from the footage we shot.  It went well. The last day of shooting will be the hardest. We have 1 scene to shoot but it will be the most difficult. Pray that it goes well! This is our last week to get the shooting in before Krisha goes off to camp and then Luanne and Krisha go on their mission trip. We will get it all done. I just hope it all turns out like I had “visioned” it….

Well, I had envisioned getting the whole thing shot in one day…but alas, it just didn’t go that way. A bit of rain, alot of pedestrain traffic, and a whole lot of me not knowing what I am doing. Luckily for me, Steve did such a great job ,Krisha was a great big help ( she has a major acting role later as well!) and Darryl ,and Bobby were right on the money. Thanks all of you! That was a great, great first day. the footage we shot looks great, and the performances…well, Bobby is going to get the best actor award. He just put it all out there. I was really, really impressed. Darryl was perfect as the bad guy! Who knew!?

Here are a few pictures of the day of trafffic and alley ways

Note Stephen’s Badonk-A- Donk Pack (It’s much too big for a fanny pack)

Darryl getting told how much he was getting paid for his work ($0)

Thanks again Steve,Krisha,Bobby, and Darryl!

We are quickly aproaching the May 16th shooting date for “Visionary”

Bobby Rapson has taken on the lead role.

Thanks Bobby! He is going to be great! Everyone tell Bobby to breaK a leg….and remind him he is doing this for free….

I’m dsto and I’m out!

Stephen is now a Questfest entrant.

His “Another I” short is in preproduction at our

Beavercreek Studios, Lot A. Jump over to his thread here and check it out. I have a May 16th shooting date plannned for “Visionary” You can check it out here.

Just thought you guys might like to see this.

p.s. I posted a video of a test of the 35mm adapter I have made. (it is a device so that we can utilize 35mm still camera lenses, they are (supposed!) to achieve a more filmic look, with a more shallow depth of field. In other words, you can have the subject in focus and other stuff out of focus, drawing your eye to the intended target.) 

 I call it the Snuff35, because the main tube is made out of 2 dip cans I scrounged from some guys at work, plus the ground glass holder I made out of the lids! Anyways check out the video. It is far from perfect, ( you can see the ground glass rotate as I focus with the 35mm,I was walking the whole time, handheld) but I hope to get it ready enough to shoot this film with it. http://www.brothersstudios.com/35mmtest.html 

(ed. note!) I made an impovement to the Snuff35! I added another lens after the focusing screen ( I guess it is technically an anchromat lens) and the dark edges you see in this video are gone! That was a big deal in being able to use this in our upcoming project. It actually seems to let more light in all together. I need to do a little clean up on the lens and seal the thing so that no dust or dirt gets in on the focusing screen. Any little spec that is  on there shows up because you are focusing in so closley on the screen that it looks like a boulder.

I’m dsto, and I’m out!

Visionary

Snippets of a dream. Flashes of a beautiful blonde woman. Strange images not yet understood. A man “awakens” from his vision. He must get to this woman. Why? Is she the one? Is she in trouble? Who is she? Where is she? Does this man even know her?
As the film progresses we are there as his flashes of insight become more and more coherent, the where, and when become obvious, but the why is still as elusive as the true meaning of the vision. Not until the last moment do we understand that this man must save this stranger. This beautiful woman will be killed if not saved by this man. He arrives in the nick of time to pull her to safety. A look of understanding and gratitude crosses her face. A glimmer of…adoration, a feeling of mutual attraction the man desperately desires and needs in his lonely existence. But it is short lived as a new vision overtakes him. With his gift, his curse, comes the responsibility to act. Only his swift response can save these virtual strangers, but at a price, a normal existence.
We see the mundane become obstacles for this obviously gifted man. Visionary, psychic, hero, whatever we choose to label this man, he is human, and he must overcome these everyday occurrences quickly to save a life, and to save himself from the insurmountable guilt that comes with failure. This man is on a quest to answer the call of his visions, to save strangers from disaster, or is it just to save his own peace of mind…

My pitch was approved. I have only showed it to Luanne. I am going to show you guys. Tell me what you think. Steve, if you want to do yours, you need to submit your pitch to one of the guys listed here on this thread of the official rules. http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=166088

They asked for a simple pitch to see if you were abiding by the theme of the Fest. You had to “answer” some simple questions in your narrative. It was to read kind of like the back of a DVD sleeve.
Tell me what you guys think. I have the “script” all done. There is really no dialoge to speak of (no pun intended) I will post that script (ha get it! Post script!) if you guys want.

I’m dsto, and I’m out!

We are planning on entering a movie in the next online film festival at dvxuser.com

The theme this time around is “Quest”. And it is just as it sounds. There must be a quest of some kind in the film. The deadline for entering is July 3rd, so we have some work to do. When all is said and done, I fuly expect everyone we know to join dvxuser and vote for us.  

(dvxuser.com is an independent filmmaker forum that I go to to learn how not to stink. I have yet to find that page, but when I do, I will let you guys know…)

We used to post pretty regularly. Well, as you may have noticed it has been quite a while since anything new has been put up. Whether in video form ( the last was the “Zombie Chow” commercial) or in blog form. My family has moved, we are still in the midst of unpacking (although my wife, of Iwantmk.com fame, has been doing a great job of taking that on, with little help from me…oops) We have a new camera that we have yet to film anything for brothersstudios.com. I am really trying to learn this camera. It is really amazing, but complicated. I need to get Barry Green’s DVX Book. But the fundage isn’t there at the moment (it is like $70 for the book and accompanying DVD, but from what I have read it is worth every penny) So anyone want to contribute to the ” dsto is a camera doofus and needs this book fund”? Bro Stephen and I are testing,testing,testing, trying to get this right before we post anything. Time has been limited for us both.

I just want to say how much I hate/love that McDonalds Fillet ‘O Fish commercial. That song, if you want to call it that, is so freaking catchy! “Give me back that Fillet ‘O Fish ,give me that Fish.” The person that came up with that should be shot given an award.
 

I guess that’s all
I’m dsto and I’m out!
 Ed. Note—I guess this video got yanked for some reason….sorry!

Note on the Ed. note—Oh yeah! It’s back!