In the race to get all the costumes, props, crew, cast, and locations together for the Catwoman Summer Project shoot in a little over a a week (eek!) I have to say that the last few days have been hugely productive, but I do feel the clock ticking.
I’ve manage to track down most of my missing costume elements, while Bill’s been swamped with the overwhelming response to our cast and crew ads. Today I should be able to finish off the costume list and start on the props that we are missing.
If you’d like to be a part of the project, but too far away why not contribute a story for our third shoot? It involves the purple Jim Balent version of Catwoman from the nineties, with a twist: a wedding dress. White Wedding anyone?
Get your submission in by the end of tomorrow and you might see your story come to life!
“Love The Way You Lie” by Eminem feat. Rihanna. Who’s that in the video? That be Megan Fox and Dominic Monghan. Warning: this is an intense song and violent video. What do you think?
Last week I introduced you to Bandcamp and posted my single “Last Dance” on there. Now I’ve listed all my music to date on Bandcamp, which I love for its amazing ability to drop the song into Facebook, MySpace, WordPress, Twitter, Typepad, Blogger, LiveJournal and more. In the case of your blog, you can select different sizes and even little visual players.
For example, check out the equalizer that plays with “Disguise, bubbles with “(Nothing But My) Heartbeat”, abstract 3D art for “Dirty Step Upstage” and the flowers that pop up with “Who’s That Girl”. Just don’t play them all at once or you’ll have an awful racket!
Funday Sundays is a diversion from the rest of the week.
This month is turning out to be quite the whirlwind. After a family holiday to Maine, I had a four day trip to my parent’s home in Minnesota to help out at the house and do a tiny bit of relaxing. Now the vacation is very certainly over and I have found myself racing at full speed until my graduate program in New York starts in September.
After spending the last two days packing up most of my stuff, this is what the rest of August looks like for me:
August 9-14: You’ve heard of my Catwoman Summer Project right? Well, it requires costumes, props, locations, crew and talent. I’ve been slowly working on all that, but this week it will get DONE!
August 15-18: Assuming all of the above is completed, this will be the time to focus on fine-tuning the scripts, drawing storyboards, making shot lists and call sheets. It’s the blueprint from which the shoot is based.
August 19: Location Recce with my crew. This is where you go and check out the places you want to shoot and work out any lighting or sound issues. Hopefully it will be a pleasant day full of Chicago sightseeing.
August 20-25: The shoot. A day per production, plus two days for a Girl In The Red Dress music video we’re shooting. That’s four separate productions in five days. Did I mention that I’m ambitious? Hopefully not insane. Not yet anyway.
From that point on I have a couple days of post-production, a bit more packing and then I’m kissing Chicago goodbye and getting on a plane for New York to begin my school’s orientation.
Part of the reason I’m telling you this is to share the filmmaking process. The other is to warn you that my blogging may be a little sporadic this month. When I can, I’ll turn the blog into a production diary for the month of August, so come back when you can to hear about what I’ve been up to and if we manage to get these productions off the ground!
Happy Fan Friday! My schedule is filling up with pre-production for the Catwoman shoot, coming up in two weeks. So much to do, so little time!
First, what you’ve been waiting for. The third and final Catwoman costume. Based on popular demand, I am happy to select the rarely seen costume from Catwoman #18 Catfile Four:
Here’s the official August 2010 poster:
Inspired by the wedding dress, I’m going to change the writing contest for the last story. Instead of a script, I’m accepting music video one page treatments for a story that links this costume and my song “(Nothing But My) Heartbeat”.
We will shoot a short fan film to accompany the photo shoot and we need YOUR story. You’ll have a little under ONE week to write a one page music video treatment for the purple suited Catwoman plus wedding dress. We’ve had a lot of fantastic submissions for both Catwoman #1 & #2 and I hope to see even more this month.
2. Location is open. Try to write as generically as possible. Tricky, yes. Impossible? Ha! Get creative.
3. One character: Catwoman/Selina Kyle. But there are three possibilities: Selina in the wedding dress, Catwoman in the purple suit. Catwoman in the purple suit & wedding dress, shredded.
4. Keep it low-budget. That means no explosions, special effects, green screen, foreign locations, or other things that would make my producer panic. Try instead to keep it simple and creative. It could be funny. It could be dramatic. It could be surreal. How do you see Catwoman?
5. Keep it Safe For Work! ;-)
6. Post your submission on the Facebook Discussion Page, just title it “Catwoman #3:” followed by the title of your piece.
7. Turn it in before Friday, August 13.
You can submit as many times as you like!
Because of time constraints we won’t have time to open the rewrites to the public. So, this is your last chance to submit your writing for Catwoman Summer Project 2010!
Many thanks again and good luck!
NOTE: The winning author will be credited on the finished piece, as well as all other creative contributions that we use.
Coming from a performance background, Amber's first foray behind the camera was the co-production of the feature film, Cross Eyed Waltz, which played at the Independent Film Festival of North Texas, Fylmz Online Festival and The B-Movie Film Festival in New York, where it was nominated for Best Foreign Movie. Read More
