So it has been a little bit of a challenge as I try to nail down the bands. Word on the street was that some were not playing much anymore, one group was dissolved for the summer, not to mention my own frantic days of juggling to much... but I digress.

Labels: action film, city of animals, la grande, sons of guns, test audiences

So - it is 13 minutes passed midnight which means I did not get my blog done for the first day of pre-production... already a little behind... yikes.

I began the day after a full nights rest - as now I am grateful for that. I had set up a meeting with my team at 2:00pm this morning at Hought's 24 flavors (our sponsored location). I spent the most of last night and this morning running scene after scene in my head, shot after shot - all of it was "SLIPSTREAM" like.... but around 10 am this morning I was able to start fusing pieces together and come up with a brief outline.

Action - I thought to myself - no real dialogue just cool stunts and explosions.. oh wait I have no budget -

2:00pm: I arrive at the meeting with the ideas in hand and we immediatly start trying to figure out who can play these parts. I had the foresight to call up Mike Cooper (EOU theatre student I know) to meet with us as a quasi casting directing and a potential "THUG" himself.

Anne suggests someone for the MOB BOSS part and it pans out - we have our first actor. Mike has a handful of GOONS to use - now we just need our leading action star and the lady star. We have some friends with think will be perfect - we give them a call - DRAT! Already snaked by the "DRAMA" team.

A suggestion from Sarah from behind the ice cream lands us our lady...but no luck on a leading man... my mind is filled of ideas and twists and turns - but more so on the key ingrediant - one of the main elements of a good action film... "THE CHASE SCENE" - Definately putting some focus here...

I stumble through Blockbuster and run into an old favorite... Bobby D. in "RONIN" - man oh man - one of the best car chases in action history... take a look:



So as the last couple of hours have passed doing some daily-need doings - this chase scene has been stuck in my brain... K - still need my MAIN ACTOR - we start shooting tomorrow or today I guess - I know the person will pop up - but by 2:00pm tomorrow where I need him to yield a Samari sword! - I guess we will find out... hoping to get some insights during dreamtime.

Excited to see what our mystery prop is in the morning!

Sweet Dreams,
Christopher

Labels: action film, chase, Deniro, Hought's, preproduction, ronin