Film Friday

As a group of people who make films, we've been making very intentional decisions lately to do what we do. It's easy to do what you do when there is a client with a deadline who's paying you. But recently we've been finding joy in doing what we do simply just to do it. This is outworked in what's come to be called "Film Fridays." Every Friday we get together with me and some of my crew, the whole crew, or the whole crew and a slew of friends and volunteers and we get together on Friday and work on a film. It may be a film that we started last Friday and are continuing or it may be a new project this week, but regardless, come Friday, we meet up and we make it happen.

Last Friday we started did a full filming day for our project called "Umkehren," a WWII piece focused on a rural German family in 1944. It's not an action piece full of guns and army uniforms. Hopefully, when it comes together it will be a short insight into these characters lives. The idea was for the the WWII element to be more of an interruption than the focus.








[still pulled from the footage]


[still pulled from the footage]




It was supposed to rain all day and we blazed in prepared. It didn't rain a drop. However the skies stayed thick and overcast all day blessing us with beautiful soft and consistent light. I'm really exciting about the colors and tones that will be able to be pulled out of the raw footage we captured.

All this being said, we do have a lot of explosions, dirt, smoke, and compositing to work on THIS Friday to finish up the project, which will be a lot of fun. The first half of the short is basically done.

Special thanks to Bill Rosa for letting us use his old farmhouse and farmland as well as to Wilson's Antiques for allowing us to borrow era appropriate clothing and props.

Out.
JohnPaul