48 Hours 2007

Once again Fractured Radius entered 48Hours - our fifth time.

It’s all over now, the tape is in, there’s no going back, we just have to sit back and wait to see if we were on target. In retrospect it certainly felt like a good effort. For the first time we managed to do a real sound mix (thanks to Alan and Sound Post) - meaning we had to have the whole thing cut and locked off by 3pm - certainly earlier than we’ve ever managed before.

Here’s a very rough schedule of events for the weekend…

Friday

1715 - Pickup camera kit from Rocket Rentals, shoot the breeze with Scott about the state of digital filmmaking.
1755 - Arrive at Grey Lynn Bowling Club to draw genre and receive elements.
1820 - Draw ‘Crime‘ as our genre. Begin talking to James about ideas, and talk shit with the guys from Bald Faced Cheek.
1855 - Receive elements, the prop A Rope, the line what do you call that? and the character Jerry Reed - Hypochondriac.
1900 - Head home for the brainstorm session with tea.
1925 - Get home - present the idea that we could make a serious crime drama, proceed to discuss the possible options
2035 - We’re skeptical about a serious entry.
2105 - A rough idea about a heist movie appears to be where we’re going. Not sure how it happened exactly
2145 - Most of the team is gone, Melanie, Robyn, Ryan, James, Faith and I write the script.

Saturday

0200 - We have a script. We know what we’re making. Mostly. Everyone sleeps.
0900 - The core team is at James’ place.
0945 - First scene is shot, it’s a fairly unrehersed action scene.
1015 - Molly and Morgan are called. Their shooting begins.
1230 - Molly and Morgan are wrapped.
1235 - Lunch.
1315 - More scenes shot in and around James’ place.
1330 - Harrison arrives on set for his big scene.
1430 - Harrison is wrapped.
1445 - More additional scenes shot. First tape sent back to post production. Graphics, with Bobby and ‘pyrotechnics’ with Matt begin.
1530 - Location wrap at James’ place.
1535 - Andy’s has locked his keys in the car.
1615 - Shoot at Grey Lynn Park.
1645 - Wrap at Grey Lynn Park.
1705 - Arrive at Bunker for final location and post production.
1800 - Set up for scenes at Bunker.
1900 - Begin shooting at Bunker.
2100 - Brian arrive to begin rough edit.
2110 - Wrap principal protography.
2200 - Home for a quick bite to eat. Mel heads to bed.
2245 - Back at Bunker to meet with James and Robyn to shoot night-time establishing shots and brief Brian fully.

Sunday

0130 - Home for sleep.
0600 - Brian finishes rough cut, goes home to sleep.
0815 - Arrive back at Bunker, final edit begins.
0930 - Mel arrives at Bunker.
1015 - James and Faith arrive.
1130 - Matt G arrives with finished music.
1230 - Alan briefed about sound mix - heads to Sound Post to start prep
1300 - Lunch.
1330 - More editing.
1520 - Locked off final cut given to Alan for mix.
1540 - Final picture polish and grade.
1700 - James and Faith leave to return lights to CineStuff
1720 - Mixed audio is delivered.
1740 - Final edit and audio layed to tape.
1800 - Mel and Harrison arrive for hand in.
1815 - Mel, Harrison, Robyn and I head to Grey Lynn Bowling Club to hand-in.
1830 - The Big Job is delivered to Grey Lynn Bowling Club.