Friday, May 14, 2010

Coming Soon: The First Trailer


The first video trailer advertising The Triskaidek is coming soon: "Too Much Magic"



We've asked the fairies how they made this video and here's what they had to say:
(most of these are pretty accurate, but some may be in "fairy time")

105 hours over the course of 3 months as follows:
  • 2 film sessions (one outdoor/indoor and one outdoor) @ 6 hrs each
  • 2 voice recording sessions (w/ rehearsals and costuming) @ 3 hrs each
  • 10 hrs of script writing & rewriting
  • 2 jam-sessions between Director/Producer and Director of Photography for editing and artistic planning @ 3 hrs each
  • 3 shopping trips for costuming and jewelry @ 1 hr each
  • 6 hrs of set preparation and planning (construction of rigs)
  • 40 hrs of video editing (lead fairy is just guessing what the DP has done... maybe it is more?)
  • 10 hrs of location scouting
  • 6 hrs of casting interviews/auditions combined with more costuming and rehearsing
  • 6 hrs of project management (coordinating schedules, emailing people,, writing and getting signed some release forms for all the kiddies)
Cost?
  • $300 in props and costuming
  • $200 in gifts to cast members (hey, if you are a cast member, don't complain - I haven't given them out yet!)
People?
  • Counting the Director/Producer/Writer (me) and the DP (Harry) and the two actors we had 12 people total involved in the creation of this one video. [this doesn't count each of our families!]
  • several fairies and pixies (sorry nobody was quite sure how many as they were barely visible and only for a moment) and possibly (no one was quite sure) one sunbird
WOW, and that is only one of the videos! We've got the footage filmed for four total videos (if I haven't lost count) and are going to be finishing up the others in the next several months.

The videos will be posted FIRST at the Fairy Mayhem Films YouTube page:

(and possibly other places after that.)

See you there!

2 comments:

  1. Can't wait!
    Any way to become one your actors?

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  2. Hi Riv! Sorry it took me so long to figure out I had a comment here.

    Two problems:
    a) we are done filming pretty much (there are 4 more videos in production and we may film a tiny bit more, but no more need for actors or extras
    b) you are far, far away (not to be confused with the actual kingdom of Far Far Away)

    BUT, if Hollywood ever comes knocking on my door and someone with money wants to produce a film of my book, I'd do what I could to put your name in the bucket for actors/extras, etc. :) (keeping in mind I've already got a bunch of kids who'd be begging me for that.) Cheers!

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