We are so close I can smell the coffee and doughnuts at my 4am wake up call! Everything is moving along well, despite having to put back by 6 weeks owing to a foul-up with the financial completion. Now just tidying up cash-flow we have a confirmed schedule start of 10 July for pre-production with a 24th August 2009 first day of principal photography. Everything is in place - cast, HoD's, studios, equipment , and post-production elements. Money in the bank with a little more to gather and we are rocking ready!
It's getting very exciting as Steve Simmons completes the storyboards, concepts, mood boards, and costume preliminaries ahead of our first production meetings. Steven Priovolos, currently overseas will be back to help me with test shoot and equipment compilation ahead of final delivery requirements from Panavision. currently we are still negotiating with both Kodak and Fuji for their best stocks, unsure quite of which to go with. We may end up shooting test strips of both the Eterna 500 and the Vision2........only because Vision3 I feel will offer too saturated an image for our needs.
We are continuing with our production design ideas and will undoubtedly have something very intriguing for the Production Designer and Art Director when they are brought onto the project and the production meetings begin in earnest. Mike Peel, heading up our SFX department, is also working hard, currently on a scale model of the set, again for those first production meetings in July.
So all in all things are incredibly busy. If you want an update on any other of Oceanstorm Films projects then you know where to head by now........the blog is online here as well.
Catch you later!
Nick
Synopsis:
Carl Foster is a man committed to his work but a man who also knows he should give more time to his family. Taking a much needed break from the pressures of his professional life he embarks on a weekend vacation with his wife, daughter, and young son. But what begins as a pleasant, if somewhat conversationally strained journey, ends in a flurry of violent abuse, and spine-tingling terror as Carl, inadvisedly confronting a group of Carnival - type travellers, watches in desperation as the ones he loves are brutalised and humiliated in the dank, and grimy confines of an abandioned roadside diner. Will he be able to find a way for them all to escape, or are they destined to disappear without trace? Is everything quite as it seems or is the line between reality and fantasy blurred even for those who watch? Is Carl really the epitome of 'family man' that we have come to think of him as? Or is he something all-together more insipid and sinister? Whichever and whatever he is only time and the passage of cruel and tormented event will reveal. But rest assured -life, and death, is never as clearcut as they might seem to be.
Cast:
Subject to contract terms and availability:
Carl Foster - Wil Johnson
Maddie Foster - Angela Dixon
Chloe Foster - Frances Speedie
Lucas Foster - Callum Anderson
Dog - Jamie Foreman
Diggs - Jon Campling
Bones - Jill Greenacre
Mamon - Lucy Drive
Herschel - James Fisher
Old Timer - Eryl Lloyd Perry
Carl Foster - Wil Johnson
Maddie Foster - Angela Dixon
Chloe Foster - Frances Speedie
Lucas Foster - Callum Anderson
Dog - Jamie Foreman
Diggs - Jon Campling
Bones - Jill Greenacre
Mamon - Lucy Drive
Herschel - James Fisher
Old Timer - Eryl Lloyd Perry
Attached Crew:
- Written & Directed by Nicholas David Lean
- Produced by Nicholas David Lean, Gabrielle Lederman, Mark Booth
- Executive Production by Gabrielle Lederman, Mark Booth
- Cinematography by Steven Priovolos
- Concept Designs by Steve Simmons
- Special Effects by Mike Peel
- Production Design by Claudia Brewster
About the Writer.....
A screenwiter learning and honing craft over 10 years and now just beginning to see the fruits of labour. Moving into producing and directing, but always seeking new, commercially driven concepts that entertain worldwide audiences with themes and characters that resonate with reality and credibility.
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Thursday, 7 May 2009
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