Lights, camera...

Got the phone call last night - Principal photography begins on Sixufus today, 5/4/10, at 9 AM Pacific time, in Los Angeles.

OK, so this isn't a big post.  Maybe you feel cheated.  But Hey, this news alone deserves it's own article, dontcha think?

For my sins, how about a new pic?  Here's an action shot of our director, hard at work:

Pre-production: Concept, Part 2

So how do you make a feature-length movie with little or no money?  'Spen done and written about, most famously by Robert Rodriquez.  Basically, you use what you have, beg and borrow what you don't.  Production resources, I'm talking about.  

With that in mind, started thinking about the cheapest kind of production you can have.  Or I could have, specifically. Minimum locations for starters (so you don't spend time carting your equipment all over the planet).  Mostly interior (so you're not slave to the weather or the time of day).  Small cast (so you don't... OK, you're getting it).  Zero number of things I can't do myself, like model and animate Godzilla, or shoot at the Eiffel Tower.

And still be interesting to watch.  

Taking all those factors, and then munging them whilest I slept, I concluded that we should do something noirish.  You know; crime & punishment, passion, bad guys and bad girls with guns and lethal weapons, and a lot of money involved.  With a psychological angle.  (Hey, I majored in Psychology in school.  That needs to pay off somehow.)

So that's how Sixufus was born.  

[Well, if you want to get technical, "Sixufus" was just a word that popped in my head while driving to Starbuck's one morning.  Wasn't quite awake yet, really.] 

Up next:  What's Sixufus, and how far along are we? 

Preproduction: Concept

Usually, you start with an idea. It fascinates you, you think about it when you should be concentrating on... Oh, you know, something more pressing. Like traffic.

This time though, it came backwards. It started with a want. You know what I'm talking about: "I want to...."

I want to make a feature-length film. Too bad I have no money to do it with.

So... I want to tackle a feature-length film using the money I DO have. Which is chump change. We're talking zero-budget.

Hey, it's possible! It's been done, and by people I know even (check out Deadland Dreaming).

There ya go. Now we've got our dramatic question to answer: How? Or are you just insane?

But now, in typical serial fashion, we'll leave you hanging there, and promise to answer the question of Sixufus in the next post.

But before we leave it at that, let me add a small note about frequency. Blogging-wise. My goal is to update this blog once a week, usually on a Wednesday, before high noon CST. Call me on it if it doesn't happen, 'K?