Keskarel - The Penultimate Scene

Keskarel A Quicktime Storyboard has wrapped. Thanks to all the people who watched this happen - it helped a lot! We will be in post-production for the next few weeks, and will have our first screening in September. in San Francisco The final version of the movie will here on Vimeo, free and downloadable until sylvia stops paying the bill, which she can do for quite a while, since this movie cost less than one thousand USD! Long live video!

Later today, sylvia will post the remaining rushes from this past week. In the next few days, the final cut (save the very last scene) will be posted. And the complete movie will be available for downloading after the screening in September.

There's a good chance that this October the San Francisco Board of Supervisors will lower the daily permit fee from $300 per day to $100 per day for budget sub-1/2 million productions. But we are hoping that we can avoid some of the permit expense by getting the permission of other merchants in the Hayes Valley neighborhood where we're located, in order to shoot scenes that we left out of the storyboard, mostly for the sake of storytelling economy. We have kept this "movie" lean, and hopefully, crisp - nobody wants to hear "trim the fat." But cinematographer Mike Lewis, who's directed or co-directed a few scenes, has some great ideas for further developing Keskarel's inner conflict by exploiting sensory details that are already in our scenes.

Techside: sylvia found a boom stand 85 or 90% off for $20 (knock wood!) and a starter lens kit (a decent wide-angle lens and an adequate telephoto lens) for the Vixia HG 20 (knock even harder: $35, down from $140!). She finally bought replacement bulbs for the worklights she's used to make some of her crazy performance art videos, and has two nice 500 Watt studio light sets. We need a better mic to use with the new boom stand, but sylvia is looking for the best one she can find at a bargain. Besides, we don't have any reflectors - we've got to get those first. And fortunately, she's already got four nice Shure XLR lavaliere mics and a Juiced Link XLR adapter.

Thanks for reading - and watching!

Keskarel, A Movie