Restraining Hollywood's Second Film. It's about a guy named Vincent (Brandon VanVliet) who's had a horrible week. The events of the past week left him cold and feeling alone. At midnight he turns 29, all he has left is his birthday party. The only thing left. He travels throughout the day and various things happen to him. Its hard to tell you what the movie's about without giving anything away, but we can tell you what's in the movie. 60 people, 42 songs, 19 bands. It's 60 minutes 55 seconds long for the final count.
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A SHORT HISTORY This movie started very loosely based on an experience Aaron Palmer had, having a bad birthday, etc. The details don't matter, he never felt in any way like Vincent does in "People Talk", but it was a good start for a story. In August of 2004, Brandon VanVliet was finishing up his first movie "Up North", and he had just come back from up north after a long weekend of filming. Aaron, one day bored at his job, wrote up a synopsis for the movie on the back of a DJ sheet he had swiped from the coat check. He gave it to Brandon the same day, and Brando really liked the idea. So in late winter of 2004, they sat down at a coffee shop and started thinking up the story, the characters, and everything else. Aaron Palmer actually wanted it to be a drama the whole way through, that's how he had written it in the synopsis. Just a dark dark movie, all in black and white, 20 minutes long. He also wrote "Upbeat Working Music like Eye of the Tiger" to go over the setting up montage on the side notes haha. Luckily Aaron realized that making it a comedy was a great idea, and having Day Kit's "Christmas Clothes" over the montage was even better! Over the next few months they worked on it, and once all of the ideas were in place, Brandon wrote most of the script. Aaron finished up some other missing parts and they finished up the rest together. They recruited Ben Lewis and Christopher Yocum to do the camera work. And they started telling people about it and getting everything together in Spring of '05. Brandon VanVliet gets most of the credit there, the man is a machine! He got 99% of the actors and all the locations, got everyone set up and told them where and when they were needed. It was nonstop madness. We finally started filming in June and July of 05. Of course most of the scenes had to be filmed during the week it was the hottest all summer, 100 degree weather. It wasn't fun but we trudged on, one day filming about 50 shots over 12 hours. Set it up, Take it Down, Reset it up. Once finished it was 16 tapes, 16 hours worth of footage (by the end of it we would add another 5.) Then we went on a long hiatus during which we got a G5 Mac and started dumping footage. We didn't have anyone who knew how to edit to help us, so in the end Aaron picked up the manual and started reading up on Final Cut. In January Aaron and Brando began editing the film. I would estimate that we put in about 700 hours editing over all, and we've seen this movie almost 1000 times. We'd spend hours on one scene to have it turn out to be only 2 minutes long. The band scene alone took over 20 hours. And the Hoyt's scene took a really long time to edit as well. Then again, we were just learning how to do it all, and we went over scenes several times, trimming it down and adding other stuff, making it better. We put out the first Trailer in Feb 06'. We filmed like 5 hours of city shots. When we started putting music in, we finally saw it coming together. There were times when it was hell. Aaron edited up the intro sequence 3 times to 3 different songs before we got lucky enough to get LIKE HELL's "(Sound of Impending) Doom". We had to go back and get contracts signed by all the locations we were at, by all the people in the movie, and all the bands that had songs in the movie. We didn't know how to color correct (Thanks to C. Lotti, it got done!) But most of the time it was just a great, fun experience. We got a ton of cool bands to help us, and Aaron edited most of the movie to their songs. It's like a giant music video in a way. We were missing 3 key scenes and we got those filmed, the last one about 3 weeks before the release. Nick up at the Sound Gallery helped us mix the audio. We put out the second trailer a couple weeks before, and then we finally added ring tones and a few last touches one week before the release. It was nerve wracking hell, it took 2 years, but it's here now! We hope you enjoy it !!! |
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