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Model/Photographer takes third at DVXFest
This six-minute short film serves as a prelude to a larger project, ELOQUENT GRAFFITI. It was recently honored at DVXFest as a third place finalist. Sabi Filmmaker, Zak Forsman, was also given a “Special Appreciation” award by the festival director and Filmmaker Magazine will be covering the unique manner in which it was shot in [...]
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Mo/Pho opens for viewing at DVXFest
“MODEL/PHOTOGRAPHER”, the short 6-minute prelude to ELOQUENT GRAFFITI, opened this week at online short film festival, DVXFest. Click the banner below to view it.
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Shooting the Prelude
We’ve shot a short prelude to the Eloquent Graffiti feature that is now in post. It will debut online as a participant in DVXUser’s “LossFest” in mid-March 2009.
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ELOQUENT GRAFFITI Screenshots from the Movie Theater Shoot
New screenshots from a scene shot on location at the New Beverly Cinema featuring MARION KERR as Samantha.
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Eloquent Graffiti – Podcast Seven – Mad Footy, Bro!
Filmmakers Zak Forsman and Daniel Carmody scout for locations and shoot test footage with the Nikon D90.
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Eloquent Graffiti – Podcast Six – First Cast & Crew Meeting
Myself, Daniel Carmody, Jamie Cobb, Matt Garrett and actors Mary Elise Hayden and Dusty Sorg have our first cast and crew meeting to further develop the short film and choose character names. Whenever possible, I like to let actors pick their character names to help build a sense of ownership. More and more, these characters [...]
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Eloquent Graffiti – Podcast Five – Gear Inventory
Nikon D90, Zoom H2, et cetera.
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Eloquent Graffiti – Podcast Four – Mary Elise & Dusty
Catch a glimpse of actors MARY ELISE HAYDEN and DUSTY SORG in scenes from HEART OF NOW.
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Mary Elise Hayden and Dusty Sorg
MARY ELISE HAYDEN is one of my favorite people. Have you ever met someone and felt like “that person is so cool and talented i wish we were friends”. i feel that way about her. mary elise brings an unpretentious edge, and her performance in HEART OF NOW is a clear standout. our time working [...]
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Eloquent Graffiti – Podcast Three – Daniel Carmody
met with Daniel Carmody. after a prior discussion where I threw all my ideas at him, he went home for the weekend and began writing, fueled by eight cups of espresso. he had issues with what he’d developed on his own and I made some suggestions that seemed to stick. two characters, one young woman, [...]
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Eloquent Graffiti – Podcast Two – Deklun
Introducing a few tracks by DEKLUN, for your listening pleasure. DEKLUN will feature prominently on the soundtrack.
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Daniel J. Carmody
Talked to Daniel Carmody tonight. he co-wrote and produced a short film that my production company financed called MOMENTS. He and I may very well collaborate on the screenplay together. We scheduled our next meeting for Monday.
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Loss is Change
Tonight, in researching my developing story, I came across a phrase that simplified everything I’ve had swimming around in my head to three small words. “Loss is change.” So i’ve taped those words to the top of my laptop’s monitor so their resonance will continue to guide me. Wanting everything to be the same as [...]
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Eloquent Graffiti – Podcast One – Intro
This podcast introduces the series we’ll be doing for the short film Sabi Pictures is producing for the 2009 DVXFest.
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SABI joins the 2009 DVXUser LOSSFEST
The next DVXFest has been announced with the theme of “loss” and Sabi Pictures will be producing an entry. More info about the fest can be found at the official site or by clicking the poster below to go to our individual film’s thread on the DVXUser site.
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Matt Garret – Cinematographer
Today I had dinner with Matt Garrett. We discussed the project over Thai food. I think what sold him on the project was that I had absolutely zero money with which to pay him. haha! but seriously, we will resume talks in the near future. We are (likely) shooting this film with the Nikon D90 [...]
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DVXFest Facebook Group
in an effort to build the DVXFest audience, I’ve started a DVXFest Facebook group. Join up! these groups are a great way to inform and mobilize people interested in short films. so become a member and spread the word. then, use this link to invite your facebook friends to the group so they can be [...]
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Trains Connect, People Collide
so right off the bat, I spent the afternoon with Jamie Cobb, the editor of [URL="http://www.sabipictures.com/heartofnow"]HEART OF NOW[/URL]. We were in the Atlanta airport waiting for our flight to LAX when I read about LossFest on my iphone. We immediately began discussing some ideas for the LOSS theme. in the interest of transparency, some of [...]
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Creating Value With Metadata
I believe we are on the brink of a new indie filmmaking movement. And i don’t mean the emergence of a new sub-genre. Currently filmmakers are focused on the monetary value of their films. And selling it to a distributor as a monetary reward. but say you were to aggregate your film using bit torrent, [...]
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PlaceVine
Met today with Greg Neichin, co-founder of PlaceVine.com, who will be helping us integrate appropriate brands into this production. They have a great interface for making contacts with companies who want to place their products in indie films, or engage in sponsorship, etc.
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First Screenshots from Huntington "Pre-shoot"
Today was the first day of “pre-shoots” — scenes and shots we pick up before production begins in an effort to lighten the main shooting schedule. Today we were working in Huntington Beach, CA with an amazing four-year-old actor named Haven Rae.
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Podcast One – September 7, 2008
Zak Forsman introduces WANDERLUST in the first of a series of podcasts.
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Finding the Characters and Beginning Act One
photo by Jamie Cobb Yesterday, we met once again to discuss Wanderlust. And we had a very productive meeting that resulted in a very good idea of who these characters (Sam & Will) are and why they need to go on this trip. Thematically, each character is grappling with their ability and/or willingness to interact [...]
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Nikon D90
If this DSLR meets our needs, we could very well be shooting with it in it new D-Movie Mode. Looks good so far. http://chsvimg.nikon.com/products/imaging/lineup/d90/en/d-movie/
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Character Names
Whenever possible, we like to have the actors choose their character names as part of helping them take ownership of the role. At the moment, we are looking at… MARION KERR as Sam JOHN T. WOODS as Will
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Five Hours
well, we met for over 5 hours. talked extensively about many, many things. Kevin K. Shah joined us with a ton of questions for us to consider in developing these characters. He is a storytelling madman. and i believe the consensus was to step back a bit. to stop talking about plot. and to just [...]
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An Exchange
The genesis of this project recently took hold during the following email exchange… On Sun, 8/17/08, Zak Forsman wrote: hey there jw, i’d very much like to look at Old Joy as a template for our next feature… you, me, marion and jamie. i just found out canon is releasing a new small camera OCT 1ST [...]