News Archive - 2005

September 2005 - March, 2006 - Four O’Clock - Post Production continues

After my return from Montreal I spent the next few months learning Final Cut Pro so I could do the final edit in this program. Learning by doing has always been a good way to operate for me. The bulk of the film was put together during these months as well as the sound effects and the foley bits.

August 24-27, 2005 - Four O’Clock - Post Production Begins

Spent a few days at Behemoth Media in Montreal to start post production work on Four O’Clock.After putting together a complete rough cut it was time to start work on what would become the final cut.I spent my days in Montreal digitizing the film, working out specific sequences and laying the ground work for the months ahead.

July 21, 2005 - Four O’Clock - Final shooting day

Today marked the final day of shooting on Four O’Clock. Michael Z Keamey and I met to finish off the scenes in the “backroom” of the clock shop. Other than a prop reshoot and odds and ends these would be the final principal scenes shot for the film.

June-July, 2005 - Four O’Clock - Shooting continues

Pretty much every weekend during these two months we were busy shooting scenes for the film. We shot in Cambridge, Dedham, and Boston.This year went on record as the hottest ever! I can only praise my actor’s for there were many days I didn’t think we were going to get what we were looking for but the professionalism just came through and these people gave there all despite the 90 plus temperatures.

May 22, 2005 - Four O’Clock - Shooting begins & pressing the flesh

Shooting began today in Dedham with all actors in attendance. We shot most of the day in the basement of a house I was using as a main set.A very productive day all around and the wonderful thing about shooting digital is you pretty much know what you have at the end of the day, no waiting for things to come back from the lab only to realize that something wasn’t captured or was too dark.We also had to capture at least one of the performances on that day for the actor playing the Doctor, Michael Lopez, was spending his last weekend in Boston before moving to NYC to continue his acting career.

After completing the shoot about half of us headed over to see one of my heroes, actress Mink Stole, in a play at the ICA. After the show we got to have an audience with Mink herself. What a treat and what an omen of sorts. I told her we just came from Day one of the shooting on my first major film project and how I was inspired to do the whole DIY thing by John Waters, who Mink has worked with many times. We discussed Pink Flamingos, my all time fave Female Trouble, and the newest film, A Dirty Shame.She signed a glossy pic from the film for me and posed for pics. What a special day all around.See Gallery

May 28, 2005 - Michael Z Keamey - Bodyworks opens

Today marked the opening of Michael Z Keamey’s one man show, Bodyworks at Theatre Machine. I was in attendance for many of the performances for I was there to also assist in the filming of said performances for a DVD that was being done by Behemoth Media in Montreal. Several of the shows were filmed and then worked into one complete piece. It was an amazing show and at this point I was so lucky to have Michael agree to play the lead in my film, Four O’Clock.

February 17, 2005 - Darlene shot in Everett

That mysterious woman known only as Darlene was filmed and carried live via satellite to present the “Your career is over” statuette at the prestigious Shelley Novak Awards held annually in Miami Beach. Asylum was there working the camera while Desi and Marc Vos from Design of Boston Salon’s team of stylists created a look and feel to match the amazing energy that can only be, Darlene. Visit Darlene on MySpace.

January 2005 - Four O’Clock - Pre Production begins

With the creation of Digital video it has finally become a reality for many frustrated artists like myself who, due to affordability, put some art forms right off the table.Beginning this month I will be embarking on my first short mystery film all to be shot and edited in DV. I have wanted to adapt this Cornell Woolrich story since I was in my late teens and am very excited to have the tools to do it. This is going to be amazing ride for I get to create in a different artform and I can learn tons of new stuff along the way.