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William Porterhouse is dead and
headed towards the express elevator to hell... until he escapes into a
stairwell to find his wife. But death is never so simple. Trapped on the
stairs and pursued by a sage homeless man, William confronts his own misspent
life. What he learns could change his... death.
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fantasy - 28
pages - DV widescreen
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notes: |
This is the first
project I have produced, written and directed in eight years. It started as a muse about a Noirish private
dick. Fifteen drafts and a page-one rewrite resulted in a
completely different story about a man's personal redemption.
These work-in-progress frames are from the camera masters with
some stand-in compositing and color correction.
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cine: |
We shot this
project at 30p since, other than festivals, it's most likely destination
is online portals, DVD magazines, and broadcast shorts programs.
I was very careful to choose locations that leant themselves to
beautiful lighting, requiring very little additional instruments for the
640ASA XL-2.
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vfx: |
Some finished
scenes will include digital back lot and character doubles. The
top-most frame and the car interior scene, for instance, still show
white backdrops that will be used to pull luminance keys behind the
foreground talent and set. Other key scenes have
the dead William (Jonathan Boatwright) observing his living incarnation.
I chose specific moments when both the living and dead Williams would be
in a shot at the same time. For these shots, we locked down the
camera and shot the scene twice.
See a VFX example
here.
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tools: |
camera – Canon XL-2
lighting:
Mole Baby's, Tweenies
Lowel Pro-lights,
3-watt LED flashlight
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