Author: Brian Tolle

4 setups, 10 scenes. A pretty good first day. AND – Charlie is on grindr with his new prop phone.

Action!

Getting ready for the first set-up, scene 69. Jôrge has just gotten dumped.

The original camera we had hoped to film with never shipped, and we ended up getting a different great little camera. We are filming with a Sony FS100, recording the images directly to Quicktime ProRes – bypassing the compression from the camera. We end up with pretty amazing images. We’ve been able to get the…

When Brian started writing All the Others Were Practice, he made the decision that the movie could go out into the world. Often small budget films end up being shot in a few locations, but there are so many great locations across San Francisco that is seems a shame to lock ourselves in a room.…

One of the ways we plan to keep down costs on All the Others Were Practice is by owning as much of the equipment as possible. New camera technologies allow us to buy the equipment for less than it would cost to rent it. Plus we save on insurance costs and the equipment is always…

In the spring of 2011, I decided that I was ready to make a feature film. It was a simple idea – make a funny, beautiful film on a budget that will allow it the best chance of breaking even. I had just finished a script. We’d had some readings and gotten good feedback. It’s…