Category: All the Others Were Practice BLOG

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 entire camera package, sound equipment, lights and some grip equipment for less than it might cost to rent just the camera package for the four weeks of filming.
It helps that we’ve only gotten as much equipment as three people can carry, and the whole filming package has to fit into my Smart car.

But with this modest kit we are planning on capturing some beautiful images and funny performances in what is shaping up to be quite a unique little film.
We can’t wait to share it with you.

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.

We will be all over San Francisco from the Sunset to the Mission, not at the tourist spots but in the neighborhoods, on the streets. The city is reflected in the characters. It defines where they live where they eat and how they get around. Not a backdrop or a setting, San Francisco plays it’s part in shaping our characters futures.

Over the 22 days of filming, we will be covering the city. Seventy-nine locations. That’s a lot. A whole lot. Our online coordination tools will help us corral talent and crew as we move to as many as four locations in a day. By keeping crew to a minimum we can also minimize our foot print – with less cars to park and tents to pitch we can move quickly. Still it will be a bit of a feat to pull it off.

If you’d like to watch behind-the-scenes as we film All the Others Were Practice, be sure to join us as a crowdfunder.