Filming - Day One - The Replacement

So today we began filming our 2nd movie, The Replacement.

If, for some reason, you haven't seen our last movie then you can view it HERE. It's called A Meeting Gone Wrong. For that feature, we had a 3 page script with a handful of storyboards. We used 3 main characters and a handful of extras. After filming for maybe 2 or 3 hours we had enough footage for a movie that would be 4 minutes and 36 seconds long.

So - how does this one compare? For starters, the script is 14 pages (and that's after some trimming). We're using 5 main characters and a handful of extras, and the end product should be a little over 10 minutes. So compared to our last movie, it's like going from making a TV show to making the movie Titanic.

Well, today we shot for 4 hours and barely got through half of the scenes. Plus, these were the easy interior office scenes. Next time we have to move outside and do some stunts / Special Effects. Oh, and I have a feeling we'll wind up scrapping a lot of today's footage and re-shooting the scenes. In short, today was rough.

But ya know what? I loved it. There is nothing more satisfying than taking an idea from your head and putting it on paper, and then actually filming it. Plus it's fun to tell people what to do on set :)

I imagine that none of this is very interesting to anyone. But I wanted to get it on paper (metaphorically speaking). Hopefully we'll finish filming by the end of the month. Then it'll take about 2 months to edit. We'll plan a Red Carpet Event for the end of May. I hope to get a trailer up online by the beginning of next month.

PLOT OUTLINE:
Tom and Gus (the Corporate Monkeys) are IT guys for a big corporation. Because of the current economic situation, the company decides to lay them off and replace them with one person. So Tom and Gus decide that they need to hatch some crazy plan that will win them their jobs back. Will it work? Or will they be in the unemployment line by the end of the week?

Stay tuned for updates.