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Ok , ok , ok . The plan to keep this journal updated regularly is totally now out of the window. Instead you are going to have to put up with irregular updates. I either write a witty wonderful journal or I get on with making the film!
So what has been happening since the last update ? absolutely tons!
Firstly construction of the Puppet theatre is now well and truly underway , this thing is HUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGEEEEEEEEE, Also now on the cards we have a rough shooting schedule courtesy of Matt who is the AD. The schedule is currently being reviewed and soon that is going to be concrete. Also I'm pleased to say the art department is also coming along nicely.
Finally the search for cast and crew expanded out onto shooting people , those of you who read my journal before I edited my last entry would know that I wasnt exactly keen to put it lightly on posting out on SP. But in the interest in the film I bit the bullet , Still have to put the crew ads out on Mandy but good response in general.
Casting has been a great response have about 40 CVs to go through, already a couple have really struck my attention, was surprised to read that someone has already played a similar part to the puppeteer! Tonys character as well has got a great response. Looking forward to doing the auditions and receiving in more CVs.
Have to say auditioning is one of my favourite parts of the process and the auditions coming up I have a cunning plan for them! Originally I was going to make the puppeteers character audition by doing a one man show of the opening of faust , the talk between the director and the clown. But I have something much better in line ! more appropriate to the puppets character is all I shall say at this point.
Not everyone was taken with my Ad on shooting people though, If you dont subscribe to shooting people here is my AD that went out for casting.
This is the very final casting call for Mortus Illumina, Mortus illumina is a
tale of a girl who sells her soul for five years worth of happiness but takes
refuge in a convent, unaware that her soul holds the key to the very
destruction or survival of the deadlights realm a realm that exists between
this and the next, all told by a faustain puppeteer.
By completion of the film over a 100 people would of been involved in the
production and to date, over three years, we have filmed 75 % of the film. We
are now gearing up for the final piece of filming in the first quarter of
2004. The roles we ar looking for,
The Puppeteer
*************
READ CAREFULLY!!! I am not looking for someone X height or X build. Im not
looking for someone X years old and i dont care what your hair, skin, toenail
colour is. I dont care if you have done X years at RADA or just stuff with
the local amatueretics. In fact Im not really interested in you at all to be
honest. What I am interested in is the character of the puppeteer. The
Puppeteer is our "narrator" through the film. in pre production we have been
refering to this role very much as the "anchor" role for the film.
Here is a quick run down of the character,
Over 300 years old, the puppeteer possessed by the book Mortus Illumina
carefully selects his audience to put on his unique form of puppeteering.
Telling stories forewarning of greed, lust and pride. He is the ultimate
showman (well after 300 years who would'nt be?) and has a unique way of
getting his story across to the audience...
If you want a comparison of the character think
the persona of Peter O'Toole in the Man from La Mantra
The showmanship of the Nightclub owner in Moulin Rouge
Body language (sic)Benny Hill
Also a very important point. This is not simply a case of turning up and
shooting, There will be several meeting's leading up to the shoot to build up
the puppeteers character, the key to the sucess of this role lies in the
delivery and the substance of the puppeteers dialouge hence the meetings.
this is a great opportunity to really work and create a character.
TONY
*******
In contrast to the puppeteers role, Tony is a person very much on the wrong
side of the tracks, we are looking for someone late 20's Male with definetly
a "bad boy" look. This is a supporting role and there is great emphasis on
"reaction". Tony is very much the "straight" part in the entire film and this
is very important as we need this to provide the contrast. Also as an actor
we are looking for someone who is very very patient as you will be involved
in two live-animation sequences.
Filming is taking place in the first quarter of 2004, over a intense long
weekend up in Elstree near London. Auditions will follow in the following
weeks,
Travel Expensies, catering , credit , DVD copy and point share
Please send CV's to the follwing address
5YLAC Films
*************
*************
*************
With regards
Chance,
Director
5YLAC Films
WWW.5YLAC.S5.COM
Ps. Want to see what other people have said about working on 5YLAC projects
then check out the following two links
http://www.5ylac.s5.com/Wordon.html
http://www.5ylac.s5.com/Tosay.htm
And here is what appeared the next day on SP ,
Subject: Mortus Illumina posting
Usually I am not the one to complain, but there was no need for the Mortus
Illumina posting to be so rude and unprofessional. I am a casting director
myself and sort of understand where the person is coming from. We all get CVs
that totally do no relate to the brief!!! But, although that can be quite
infuriating, I realise that actors do it in the off chance that they
might end up on files rather than on the recycling bin!
It would be good if the Mortus Illumina guys understood that actors train
and work very hard to get jobs that are mostly unpaid and often not that
good. The last thing actors need is to start off a relationship with a
director that writes "in fact, I am not interested in you at all" on his
casting call. With that attitude, no wonder the man has had over 100 people
involved in the project and has taken three years to complete 75% his DV
film!!! Susie Gossling-Valerio
And also I got this in my inbox as well
From: "Tom Wood" <tjwood@onetel.com>To: <chance.5ylac@btopenworld.com>
PLEASE NOTE:
I am not intersted in working with imperious, self-important, deluded wannabees who have chips on their shoulders and their heads stuffed up their backsides.
LEARN SOME MANNERS BEFORE YOU OPEN YOUR STUPID LITTLE MOUTH
To shooting people I replied
An apology to anyone who took offence at my posting.
I agree if you paraphrase me"in fact, I am not interested in you at all" on its own i agree that it does sound rude and unproffesional. BUT! it was in context of the description for the puppeteers role which is very much a character role and there fore iam looking for a character actor. Unlike on the same ad, the role of Tony which had a very much descriptive Ad. And I will state for the record in the AD i mentioned i dont care what colour your toenails are and i still dont care what colour your toenails are.
As for receving CV's that dont fit the brief , i dont know where that has come from. I always welcome in CV's from actors. Over the five years i have been working in film the majority of CV's i have received whether advertised or just freely sent in, have been filed and from time to time on my own and other productions i have worked on I have refered to this file, which having worked with a great deal of people from this board im sure there are a few who can vouch for this.
I am quite proud of the fact that there will be over a 100 people involved in this production by completion as i think that is hell of a acheivement for a low budget film.
For the record Ms. Gossling-Valerio I have had over a 100 people involved as i tend to find crowded bars and packed church scenes seem to work better with more than a handful of extras and also I find that lighting and cinematography seem to work much better when there is a crew behind them.
Yes the film has taken 3 years mainly down to the fact that it is self funded by myself and i like to push the budget as far as possible, this film so far has been mainly big locations shoots which the scale of is few and far between in low budget films. If you had taken the time to follow the links aat hte bottom of the AD to what other people had to say on 5YLAC shoots, you would of seen that a good timr has been had by all and the final shoot will be no exception.
Again i would like to apologies to anyone i caused offence to. it was not my Intention and I hope most people read the Ad for what it was , a casting for a character actor.
With regards
Chance,
5YLAC Films
www.5ylac.s5.com
Judging from the amount of CVs I received I think I'm safe to say that the majority of the people actually took the time to read the ad properly and interpreted it properly, things like the above really do p*ss me off. I know I have already gone into a massive rant early in this journal about people, so I wont go off on one,. But I will say this,
An important bit of advice to anyone in low budget film land
Be nice to your runners as one day you could be working for them or in this case The world of low budget filmmaking is a small one, be careful who you p*ss off
not to bothered about the whole affair, had plenty of slagging e-mails through this production and for every slagging e-mail there are 3 or 4 of good luck e-mails, I think the funniest slagging mail has been is a guy went to great deal analysing my stills on fotki and sent me a lengthy e-mail detailing my photographs along the lines of you can see the camera , that person is wearing make up , That s a costume to this day I still have no idea what the point was , except he was a very angry young man who had to much free time on his hands. bizarre
The MI machine is ticking along nicely at the moment, admitedly were about a month behind schedule but I'm sure at the pace the good ship is moving along we will make up lost time very quickly.
This weekend is the Music Video shoot which I'm now looking really forward to doing, I brushed off the cobwebs off my Union Jack shirt and pretty much geared and wired to go. Few last minute problems with extras and make up which hopefully will be sorted today. Will stick some photos up on the site after the weekend.
So what has been happening since the last update ? absolutely tons!
Firstly construction of the Puppet theatre is now well and truly underway , this thing is HUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGEEEEEEEEE, Also now on the cards we have a rough shooting schedule courtesy of Matt who is the AD. The schedule is currently being reviewed and soon that is going to be concrete. Also I'm pleased to say the art department is also coming along nicely.
Finally the search for cast and crew expanded out onto shooting people , those of you who read my journal before I edited my last entry would know that I wasnt exactly keen to put it lightly on posting out on SP. But in the interest in the film I bit the bullet , Still have to put the crew ads out on Mandy but good response in general.
Casting has been a great response have about 40 CVs to go through, already a couple have really struck my attention, was surprised to read that someone has already played a similar part to the puppeteer! Tonys character as well has got a great response. Looking forward to doing the auditions and receiving in more CVs.
Have to say auditioning is one of my favourite parts of the process and the auditions coming up I have a cunning plan for them! Originally I was going to make the puppeteers character audition by doing a one man show of the opening of faust , the talk between the director and the clown. But I have something much better in line ! more appropriate to the puppets character is all I shall say at this point.
Not everyone was taken with my Ad on shooting people though, If you dont subscribe to shooting people here is my AD that went out for casting.
This is the very final casting call for Mortus Illumina, Mortus illumina is a
tale of a girl who sells her soul for five years worth of happiness but takes
refuge in a convent, unaware that her soul holds the key to the very
destruction or survival of the deadlights realm a realm that exists between
this and the next, all told by a faustain puppeteer.
By completion of the film over a 100 people would of been involved in the
production and to date, over three years, we have filmed 75 % of the film. We
are now gearing up for the final piece of filming in the first quarter of
2004. The roles we ar looking for,
The Puppeteer
*************
READ CAREFULLY!!! I am not looking for someone X height or X build. Im not
looking for someone X years old and i dont care what your hair, skin, toenail
colour is. I dont care if you have done X years at RADA or just stuff with
the local amatueretics. In fact Im not really interested in you at all to be
honest. What I am interested in is the character of the puppeteer. The
Puppeteer is our "narrator" through the film. in pre production we have been
refering to this role very much as the "anchor" role for the film.
Here is a quick run down of the character,
Over 300 years old, the puppeteer possessed by the book Mortus Illumina
carefully selects his audience to put on his unique form of puppeteering.
Telling stories forewarning of greed, lust and pride. He is the ultimate
showman (well after 300 years who would'nt be?) and has a unique way of
getting his story across to the audience...
If you want a comparison of the character think
the persona of Peter O'Toole in the Man from La Mantra
The showmanship of the Nightclub owner in Moulin Rouge
Body language (sic)Benny Hill
Also a very important point. This is not simply a case of turning up and
shooting, There will be several meeting's leading up to the shoot to build up
the puppeteers character, the key to the sucess of this role lies in the
delivery and the substance of the puppeteers dialouge hence the meetings.
this is a great opportunity to really work and create a character.
TONY
*******
In contrast to the puppeteers role, Tony is a person very much on the wrong
side of the tracks, we are looking for someone late 20's Male with definetly
a "bad boy" look. This is a supporting role and there is great emphasis on
"reaction". Tony is very much the "straight" part in the entire film and this
is very important as we need this to provide the contrast. Also as an actor
we are looking for someone who is very very patient as you will be involved
in two live-animation sequences.
Filming is taking place in the first quarter of 2004, over a intense long
weekend up in Elstree near London. Auditions will follow in the following
weeks,
Travel Expensies, catering , credit , DVD copy and point share
Please send CV's to the follwing address
5YLAC Films
*************
*************
*************
With regards
Chance,
Director
5YLAC Films
WWW.5YLAC.S5.COM
Ps. Want to see what other people have said about working on 5YLAC projects
then check out the following two links
http://www.5ylac.s5.com/Wordon.html
http://www.5ylac.s5.com/Tosay.htm
And here is what appeared the next day on SP ,
Subject: Mortus Illumina posting
Usually I am not the one to complain, but there was no need for the Mortus
Illumina posting to be so rude and unprofessional. I am a casting director
myself and sort of understand where the person is coming from. We all get CVs
that totally do no relate to the brief!!! But, although that can be quite
infuriating, I realise that actors do it in the off chance that they
might end up on files rather than on the recycling bin!
It would be good if the Mortus Illumina guys understood that actors train
and work very hard to get jobs that are mostly unpaid and often not that
good. The last thing actors need is to start off a relationship with a
director that writes "in fact, I am not interested in you at all" on his
casting call. With that attitude, no wonder the man has had over 100 people
involved in the project and has taken three years to complete 75% his DV
film!!! Susie Gossling-Valerio
And also I got this in my inbox as well
From: "Tom Wood" <tjwood@onetel.com>To: <chance.5ylac@btopenworld.com>
PLEASE NOTE:
I am not intersted in working with imperious, self-important, deluded wannabees who have chips on their shoulders and their heads stuffed up their backsides.
LEARN SOME MANNERS BEFORE YOU OPEN YOUR STUPID LITTLE MOUTH
To shooting people I replied
An apology to anyone who took offence at my posting.
I agree if you paraphrase me"in fact, I am not interested in you at all" on its own i agree that it does sound rude and unproffesional. BUT! it was in context of the description for the puppeteers role which is very much a character role and there fore iam looking for a character actor. Unlike on the same ad, the role of Tony which had a very much descriptive Ad. And I will state for the record in the AD i mentioned i dont care what colour your toenails are and i still dont care what colour your toenails are.
As for receving CV's that dont fit the brief , i dont know where that has come from. I always welcome in CV's from actors. Over the five years i have been working in film the majority of CV's i have received whether advertised or just freely sent in, have been filed and from time to time on my own and other productions i have worked on I have refered to this file, which having worked with a great deal of people from this board im sure there are a few who can vouch for this.
I am quite proud of the fact that there will be over a 100 people involved in this production by completion as i think that is hell of a acheivement for a low budget film.
For the record Ms. Gossling-Valerio I have had over a 100 people involved as i tend to find crowded bars and packed church scenes seem to work better with more than a handful of extras and also I find that lighting and cinematography seem to work much better when there is a crew behind them.
Yes the film has taken 3 years mainly down to the fact that it is self funded by myself and i like to push the budget as far as possible, this film so far has been mainly big locations shoots which the scale of is few and far between in low budget films. If you had taken the time to follow the links aat hte bottom of the AD to what other people had to say on 5YLAC shoots, you would of seen that a good timr has been had by all and the final shoot will be no exception.
Again i would like to apologies to anyone i caused offence to. it was not my Intention and I hope most people read the Ad for what it was , a casting for a character actor.
With regards
Chance,
5YLAC Films
www.5ylac.s5.com
Judging from the amount of CVs I received I think I'm safe to say that the majority of the people actually took the time to read the ad properly and interpreted it properly, things like the above really do p*ss me off. I know I have already gone into a massive rant early in this journal about people, so I wont go off on one,. But I will say this,
An important bit of advice to anyone in low budget film land
Be nice to your runners as one day you could be working for them or in this case The world of low budget filmmaking is a small one, be careful who you p*ss off
not to bothered about the whole affair, had plenty of slagging e-mails through this production and for every slagging e-mail there are 3 or 4 of good luck e-mails, I think the funniest slagging mail has been is a guy went to great deal analysing my stills on fotki and sent me a lengthy e-mail detailing my photographs along the lines of you can see the camera , that person is wearing make up , That s a costume to this day I still have no idea what the point was , except he was a very angry young man who had to much free time on his hands. bizarre
The MI machine is ticking along nicely at the moment, admitedly were about a month behind schedule but I'm sure at the pace the good ship is moving along we will make up lost time very quickly.
This weekend is the Music Video shoot which I'm now looking really forward to doing, I brushed off the cobwebs off my Union Jack shirt and pretty much geared and wired to go. Few last minute problems with extras and make up which hopefully will be sorted today. Will stick some photos up on the site after the weekend.
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