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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 2/8/2008
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Oops, I meant my "shoe size", not my... show size! (The guy seems to be completely convinced about the own capabilities for a show, ey? ;-))
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 2/8/2008
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A very interesting place, it must be where you live, Andre! And also very well suited to our movie! Just think about how much forgotten equipment we could gather in streets and woods! ;-)
BTW, who's gonna be Bigfoot? My show size is about 43 (European size), so I'm not really optimal for that role. I think I could play the scientist that doubts Bigfoot's existence until he drinks a couple of beers with him in some pub near Toronto! ;-)
But indeed, even the simplest take for a movie can get quite a complicated thing to do. One must have a great great talent for scene concepts that can rely on the real existing things and for which not much equipment is necessary. Else one has to really "construct" some scene using much things that wouldn't be there otherwise. Even some "carelessly thrown away beer can" is not as carelessly put to its place in some movie scene of a street in the city. Those guys really know where to put everything in order to achieve the most expressive look of what they want to show.
I remember once back at the times when I was living in Germany, we visited the Movie Park ( http://www.movieparkgermany.de/Homepage.mp ) and it was astonishing to me to see how much work and concideration was necessary until some scenes that I thought as "easy" could be accomplished. Take for example "Rick's Caffé" of "Casablanca". I couldn't believe that they made so much thoughts about where everything should be placed - and I naively thought up to that point that they just went in some pub and just made all takes.
But so it goes, really. Anything seems to be soooo easy until one gets a bit more involved, and then you know that it is not as "easy". I think it's similar to what we are doing here, during our day by day learning.
Cheers,
Nick
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 2/5/2008
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Hi Nick,
Our movie will be extremely low budget :) Worse than the Blair Witch Project.:)
Actually Toronto has quite a large film industry. At least while our dollar was low. We were known as Hollywood North. A lot of American film companies would shoot around the countryside and in the city streets with permits. They come into town and put up United States mailboxes, flags and Highway signs to turn parts of the country side into temporary fictitous US towns. We live in an area where film crews shoot quite a bit. Sometimes it is for a tv show and sometimes for movies. They are always very efficient picking up after themselves. Except once, I remember when they were filming a jungle movie and left hundreds of potted jungle plants in the woods. :)
It is amazing how much equipment and set-up it takes to make a 30 second scene in a movie.
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 2/2/2008
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Hi Andre!
What an idea! Provided the hunters wouldn't consider you or your brother as great trophies, I could ask around here, where I could buy that outfit and send it to you - but I get 10% of the profit that the movie will bring, OK? ;-)
BTW, what do we call that movie? "The Bigfoot in a swiss outfit"? ;-)
And soon we're millionairs - who cares about Hollywood, here's Toronto-Wood! ;-)
Nick
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 2/1/2008
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Hi Nick,
My brother and I keep talking about doing a phoney movie of a "Bigfoot". That outfoot might be just exactly what we need. :) From a distance moving through the woods, who could tell the difference? We just have to watch out for hunters in the area. :)
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 1/31/2008
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And many many thanks again, Gustavo!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 1/31/2008
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Hi Andre!
Wow, I got your name right - my dusted mind must be making progress! ;-)
Thanks a lot for the nice comment - it's a good thing to refer to the "effect" right away. His outfit was not really fur but something like that stuff out of which they make the "fur" of teddies and similar toys. Many guys wear similar suits around here when it's carnival time, and the image is from last year's carnival.
I don't know if it perhaps has some special meaning. It always looks rather messy, much like the fur of teddies after kids have played some years with them. And this was for me the reason to somehow try to "lengthen" the many spots and hairs on it by letting them burn on film while moving the camera around. But I do realize now that it didn't really have any advantage to do so. It would be exacty as (or even more) interesting without the panned look, I guess.
So, while we have carnival again, I must retry that in a sharp shot. The hard thing will be of course to catch all that mess in the black outfit, but if I have a bit luck and there is enough sunlight, it might work.
Thanks a lot and all the best!
Nick
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Gustavo Scheverin
{K:164501} 1/30/2008
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Muy interesante también.
Un abrazo!
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 1/30/2008
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Hi Nick,
Not sure if this guys outfit needed to look any stranger.
Is he wearing some kind of fur pants.:) Interesting effects anyway.
Andre
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