Monday, September 26, 2011

AP Update, Filming in less than two weeks

I'm a little under two weeks away from filming "Pit Stopping," and thanks to everyone's support we've managed to fundraise enough money to shoot on Super 16, which I'm excited about seeing as this may be my one opportunity to shoot on film. I made my final decisions on our cast this past Friday.

My friend Alex who has offered to be our stand-in production designer and I have figured out a great solution to Harvey's bench, and the past two days we have started working on getting all of our materials together. Hopefully we'll get it constructed soon! I'm very happy with what we've come up with so far. Here are a couple of pictures of our progress and considering how we were completely bench-less at the start of the weekend, this is quite an improvement.


Not quite the same as Harvey's bench in Alaska, but I have to say, I think this is a fun substitute.



This past weekend the production team and I went to all of our locations and took a look around to see about how best to deal with the logistics of filming in these locations as well as start constructing an idea of how we want to film at these spots. It was admittedly a pretty long day and one of the locations at El Modena Open Space is definitely more of a hike than we were expecting. There's a chance we'll have to find a different location that will be more accessible, but based on the view, it might be worth hauling all of our gear up to there. The director of photography, Owen, took pictures of our location scouting, so here's two of his pictures.


Steve (1st Assistant Director), Steph (Producer), and I at our road side location. We're sitting on an imaginary bench. Can you tell?


El Modena Open Space, great view, but it's going to be rough getting everything up there. I guess it'll be quite an adventure if we end up using this spot.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

IndieGoGo Site Up For AP Project

Hey everyone!

I wanted to post a quick update that I started a page on IndieGoGo in order to fundraise for "Pit Stopping," and would like to thank everyone for the support and interest in the project! If I can, I'm hoping to fundraise enough so that I can shoot the project in 16mm, because I think this may be one of the few opportunities I'll have to shoot film. Here is the IndieGoGo site in case anyone would like to take a look:

IndieGoGo: Pit Stopping

I'm excited to say that I have gotten to start talking with my producer and 1st assistant director on the project, and we're going to hold casting auditions next week. The latest draft of the script is in good shape, which I'm very happy about. I went location scouting last weekend with my parents and boyfriend and am looking into getting permits for a couple of the places we found. The location that I'm having the most trouble finding is for the last scene of the film, I'm looking for a scenic point (like a lake, reservoir, hiking trail, or the like) but haven't found one yet. Here are a couple of pictures from our location scouting adventure.


This is out along the side of the road in east Orange County.


This is the road side I was thinking of using for the second scene.