Category: All the Others Were Practice BLOG

In 2009 I decided to take some story ideas that Jon and I had been playing with, and use them as the basis for a script. I wanted to write a script that I could film on a small budget but one that didn’t feel like the typical three-people-in-a-room independent film. My other goal was…

The teaser Trailer for All the Others Were Practice has finally arrived! The films’ edit is nearly finished, and we’re starting on the color and sound mix. Festival submissions have begun, and we are on track to have the film finished by January 2014. Until then, here’s a little tease. http://vimeo.com/btolle/atowp-teaser-trailer

We had a few false starts and the original rough edit was never recovered, but we had the technology and we re-built it. (It was actually re-built a few times, until I figured out why the files kept getting corrupted.) On Friday 9/6 we watched a full edit of the film for the first time.…

We have been very lucky on this production. On the technical side we have tried our best to anticipate problems and filming went very smoothly, all things considered. We had redundant video and audio recording, all the footage is double-archived. In post we have been backing up all of our files. On Friday 7/26 we…

Our first look at ALL THE OTHERS WERE PRACTICE. Between April 25 and June 15 we had twenty-one 8-hour filming days. We were busy – averaging over an hour of footage every day. With over 27 hours of footage for our 90 minute film, we have a lot of work ahead of us. During July…

On Saturday June 15, we wrapped photography on All the Others Were Practice. We filmed the office cafeteria scenes, and it proved to be one of the more challenging days of the entire schedule. There were lots of food props and wardrobe changes, and we had more actors on set than any other day. We…

Our last day of filming is Saturday, 6/15. We will be filming the cafeteria scenes. I can not wait to see these scenes, they are some of the purest comedy in the film. When the cafeteria scenes play in the film they’re little bits that perk up the pace. We are filming them all at…

We couldn’t find a suitable office location. We looked at what we needed, and realized that all we needed was some walls. It needed to be claustrophobic. So on Sunday 6/9, Joe, Kerry and Eric helped me assemble and paint a small set on the rehearsal stage of Boxcar Theater. It is the only set…

On May 25, we completed 18 days of filming. We have a lot of amazing footage and performances, but there is still about 1/4 of the script left to film. On June 10 & 11, we resume filming with all of the office scenes. This will be the only sequence where we will be filming…

These are the boards that we used to help keep track of what angles needed to be filmed while we were filming each scene. The drawings seem simple, but they contain just enough information for me to remember what the various camera angles are that I need to tell the story.