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Old 04-30-2006, 02:36 PM   #5 (permalink)
robbdn
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No problem! I have to be honest, it is my hope to eventually make Pizza Girl available for free download on the internet, so if you can't make the showing hopefully you will eventually be able to see it anyway. It's quite a task to set up that much bandwidth without paying for it... but I have a couple of ideas in the works!

To answer your questions...

We started pre-production while the script was still being written. Casting, location scouting, equipment, and funding took us about four months, during which time we also rehearsed.

Once we got into shooting, we were on a one-month shooting schedule. Unfortunately, when you're not paying your actors they often cancel shoots on you due to their work schedule. Oh well. We got 95% of our shooting done within 2.5 months, but we didn't get 100% for six months. We'd already started post before we completely wrapped, however.

Studio recording for the soundtrack and looping and misc. sound engineering took about 8 months, which was going on simultaneously with production and post.

Editing and special effects took about six months. In all, the project from start to finish was about 14 months. Producing a feature film on a next-to-nothing budget is no small time commitment... it would have gone MUCH faster if we had money.

We shot the film on DV. We used a Panasonic DVX-100, which is a sweet camera. We shot everying in 24p mode with a 16x9 anamorphic lens. It turned out really, really well if I do say so myself. The only time it was really obvious it wasn't shot on film was when it was seen on the big screen.

I have a mirror set up for the trailer here, if you have trouble downloading it:

http://www.eternalgamer.com/mirrors/pgtrailer.mpeg

Thanks for all your interest!
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