Both of these were shot on 16mm film, I'm talkin' film film, not video or dv, but film, 24 frames per second as opposed to video which is 29.97. That means I had to light every single scene indoors with special lights, take light meter readings, expose the film properly, and a lot of other stuff that doesn't need to be done with tape. Also, the camera only records the film, not sound, so all of the sounds had to be recorded separately and then edited with the film later on, it's very difficult to record sinc sound, which is why when people talk, you don't see their mouths in shot.. The process is a beast.
FYI:
The outdoor scenes were shot with 3 rolls of 7212, and one roll of 7218, which has an ASA of 500, which means it requires very little light to expose the film, basically you can film just using the lights that are actually there and don't need to set up the film lights.
1 week before I had to film this, 3 of my 7 actors dropped out on me. I was lucky enough to find a person to fill in for the main protagonist 2 days before the shoot, another person had to play 2 parts and I had to fill in as a cop.
I filmed this in the third week of October, hoping that the weather would be nice enough for me to still shoot outside. It was a crappy day though, and what really sucked was like a month later, it was in the 60's.
The whole opening up until the apartment scenes was the last footage I shot outside. I wanted to make sure that I had the entire ending first, so once we filmed that, we went to another location and filmed the beginning. The problem was that I only had 50 feet of my outdoor film left, only about 35 minutes of sunlight left, and I needed to get about 24 shots. Normally, 24 shots would take about 2 hours and much more than 50 feet of film, which is the equivilant of about 75 seconds. So I was running around with the camera, just guessing at what the light meter would read, and shooting right when the action started. It was insane.
FYI:
Was shot with 2 rolls of stock 7212 film, which has an ASA of 100. This means it needs a lot of light to expose the film, but since we were outdoors the whole time, the sun was plenty of light.
About half the people who saw this didn't understand it and the other half did. If you don't get it, I'm not going to tell you.
I wanted to film all of this outdoors so that I wouldn't have to worry about lighting any of the scenes, which takes up so much time.
Originally, I was going to shoot all of this near a Chineese restaurant, but I couldn't find any good locations, so I settled on Bar Louie. Every Tuesday night, they sell burgers for one dollar.
