LateNite Films » Photos http://latenitefilms.com Homepage of LateNite Films Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:05:40 +0000 en hourly 1 Photos from the Live Script Read http://latenitefilms.com/2010/10/18/photos-from-the-live-script-read/ http://latenitefilms.com/2010/10/18/photos-from-the-live-script-read/#comments Mon, 18 Oct 2010 21:35:51 +0000 Chris Hocking http://www.latenitefilms.com/?p=285 Here are a collection of amazing photos from the live script read taken by the extremely talented Michelle Leong. Thank you to everyone who attended!

]]> http://latenitefilms.com/2010/10/18/photos-from-the-live-script-read/feed/ 0 And fade out… http://latenitefilms.com/2010/10/18/and-fade-out/ http://latenitefilms.com/2010/10/18/and-fade-out/#comments Mon, 18 Oct 2010 04:59:19 +0000 Chris Hocking http://www.latenitefilms.com/?p=277 Well, despite all odds, we did it! From all reports, for those in the live audience, and those watching at home, the live script read was a big success! Thank you so much to everyone who attended in person, and those that made use of the live stream via the Internet! An even bigger thank you to everyone who completed feedback forms, as this information will be a huge help in shaping the film into the type of movie YOU want to see!

We had a few minor technical difficulties at the start of the stream (mainly because we went live too early – we were supposed to only go live on the introduction video, but, oh well!), but once the read got started, everything settled down, and everyone who was watching seemed to be very happy and impressed!

We will be posting highlights of the read online over the next couple of weeks! We will also be putting up heaps of photos and other behind the scenes videos!

And for those that didn’t notice, we have another behind the scenes feature online RIGHT NOW! Check out:

http://www.memyselfandscreen.com

Nicole will be posting plenty of videos over the coming weeks and months, so stay tuned! Plenty of exciting content in the pipeline!

And for now… I’m off to bed! It’s been a long couple of days, and I need to get up in a couple of hours to return gear!

Onwards & Upwards!

Chris!

]]> http://latenitefilms.com/2010/10/18/and-fade-out/feed/ 0 The read from AL’s POV http://latenitefilms.com/2010/10/17/the-read-from-als-pov/ http://latenitefilms.com/2010/10/17/the-read-from-als-pov/#comments Sun, 17 Oct 2010 23:30:57 +0000 Alistair Marks http://www.latenitefilms.com/2010/10/16/the-read-from-als-pov/ So… Here’s how it went down from my ppv.

]]> http://latenitefilms.com/2010/10/17/the-read-from-als-pov/feed/ 0 Not long to go now… http://latenitefilms.com/2010/10/17/not-long-to-go-now-3/ http://latenitefilms.com/2010/10/17/not-long-to-go-now-3/#comments Sun, 17 Oct 2010 18:00:57 +0000 Chris Hocking http://www.latenitefilms.com/?p=248 Yesterday was a BIG day! We bumped into the venue and set up all the streaming gear, and Al and Nick also did some rehearsals with the actors for the live event. We tested everything, and everything seemed to work – which was a great relief!

Not long to go now… Which is both exciting and scary! We still have a bit to work out, so I’m going to leave you there, and get back to it! See you tonight!

]]> http://latenitefilms.com/2010/10/17/not-long-to-go-now-3/feed/ 0 ALL ABOARD!! http://latenitefilms.com/2010/10/15/all-aboard/ http://latenitefilms.com/2010/10/15/all-aboard/#comments Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:22:35 +0000 Alistair Marks http://www.latenitefilms.com/?p=234 There’s no turning back now!

As I sit in the dark of my room, I am suddenly hit with a certain reality – this once small little script read, now turned LateNite Films event, is really about to happen. A rush of excitement, anxiety, relief, nervousness, confidence and gratitude washes through my veins & my blood. As I sit in the dark of my room, I prepare for our one & only rehearsal tomorrow, plotting various warm ups, some improvised exercises & of course, the read itself. But it is not the directing side of this shin-diggity-do that is likely to cause any sort of anxiety. No, that should be fine. Who couldn’t direct 16 actors, right?

The reality of my soul being on show to around about 40 people in the attendance and the millions watching at home on television (if ya smeeeeeeeeeeeeeell…. what the so-on & so forth is something) is starting to claw itself in and around my self-conscious. But putting my ego to one side, we must push on. Because there ain’t no turning back now. It’s ALL ABOARD the SHOTGUN! train.

All I can be certain of is this; that all of you watching, wherever that may be, however that may be (you can watch it on your iPhone if you don’t have a computer handy! Just download the “USTREAM Viewer” app & search for LateNite Films), that you are going to help me to make this the best damn film it can be!! Be constructive in your feedback & suggestion, but don’t censor yourself. If you think you’ve got a great idea after the read-through, fill out our little survey & tell me! I want to start a dialogue with whoever is out there paying attention – because that’s one fatal flaw in Australian filmmaking at the moment – these filmmakers are, for the most part, making films for themselves… Not for YOU, the people who pay the stupid money for the ticket (or the high-speed internet connection). So, if I can put my ego to one side…. Hold on.

“Ego..”
“Why heeellllloooo, AL… And how are we feeling today?”
“Yeah, about that. I’m gonna need you to just check yourself into a nice hotel for the next few days.”
“A hooooteeelllll? Why on earth would I want to do thaaaat? I don’t want to miss your LIIIIVEE SCRRIPT REEEAAAD!! STREAAAMING LIIIVE ACROSS THE WORLD- Hold on… What are you doing? No, you can’t… Put that DOWN!! No! NO!!!! NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-……….”

Phew!! Well, now that that’s taken care of, let’s get this train-a-rolling!! I’M PUMPED!!

Will post some pics from the rehearsal tomorrow… So keep your eyes peeled. And then prepare me some carrots. I’ll possibly need my night vision on for Sunday night.

Some insight into rehearsal on Saturday…

See you on the other side….

AL.

P.S. Be sure to tune in @ 6pm (http://live.latenitefilms.com) for a short Video introduction!

]]> http://latenitefilms.com/2010/10/15/all-aboard/feed/ 1 Cue Camera One! http://latenitefilms.com/2010/10/15/cue-camera-one/ http://latenitefilms.com/2010/10/15/cue-camera-one/#comments Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:40:31 +0000 Chris Hocking http://www.latenitefilms.com/?p=228 OK… So I have to admit – my life is way too much fun! Despite the fact that this whole “live stream” event has now blown completely out of proportion, I am so excited about the whole thing. I’ve spent the day driving around picking up gear, and have spent the last few hours testing it, and making sure it all works properly… The good news is, it does. And despite the fact we have a near non-existant budget for this event, we’ve managed to call upon a lot of favours, and are now able to really put on a show! The gear list has piled up dramatically, and I have no idea how I’m going to fit it all in my car now, but it’s still very exciting and very achievable! The best thing about doing stuff like this as well, is that it helps members of our team try new things – for example, Jacqui Hocking normally spends all her time shooting and cutting documentaries, but on Sunday night, she will pressing the buttons on the vision mixer. This will help her expand her skill-set into a whole other world – if, heaven forbid, the film industry dies, then at least she can jump on a console for live shows and TV! Although the technology is very similar, and most of the problems are the same (lack of money, lack of time, it’s always really hard to find good people) – there is still a completely different mentality between live events and filmmaking. I’m lucky – as I moved from the live world to film, so I’ve seen it from both sides. The best thing about this event is now I can drag all the LateNite team into my world! Tomorrow, we will do some tests on the actual location, so it’s certainly exciting times ahead! To infinity & beyond!

]]> http://latenitefilms.com/2010/10/15/cue-camera-one/feed/ 0 Let the games begin! http://latenitefilms.com/2010/10/14/let-the-games-begin/ http://latenitefilms.com/2010/10/14/let-the-games-begin/#comments Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:41:27 +0000 Chris Hocking http://www.latenitefilms.com/?p=214 Like a lot of things we try and do, what started off a little script read with a few actors, a director and a kitchen table has all of a sudden blown up into a full scale event! I guess we’re just too excitable – we come up with ideas that we think “would be cool” to do, and then next thing you know, we’ve all agreed to go ahead with the harebrained scheme, and now it’s time to work out how we actually pull it off!

As I’m sure you now know, instead of just having your usual script read with actors and director, we have decided to open up the session to a group of carefully selected individuals who will attend the read in person, but also, just to complicate things further, we have decided to stream the whole event live on the Internet for everyone to see!

In theory, this should be fairly simple. We just need a venue, send out some invites, hook up some cameras, and some microphones, set up a streaming system, then you’ve got to think about catering, how you’re going to afford all this gear, how you’re going to pick up all this gear, now that you’re streaming it the venue has to look good on camera, what happens if the Internet fails… the list all of a sudden explodes into an achievable, but very large project!

That said, with only a few days until the event, things are looking very good. We have tested the streaming software (after various tests, we have decided to go with USTREAM as our hosting provider), and tonight I picked up all the audio gear, very kindly supplied by Frank from Madzin Productions. Tomorrow (meaning Friday!) we will pick up some cameras, video mixers, and a few other bits and piece to tie everything together.

From a technical standpoint, the event is quite simple – but there is a fair amount of gear. We have decided to mic every single actor – so that’s 18 lines of microphones in itself. We are using a Yamaha O1V96 as our primary audio console, plus another bunch of preamps that connect to the console via optical adat. We will have three Sony V1Ps (thank you Jill & Dennis!) connected to a Panasonic MX70 (thank you Hugh!) as our primary vision mixer. This will then be fed into a MacPro via a Canopus Analogue to Digital Converter, supplying video to the USTREAM Producer Pro software package.

We will also be shooting behind the scenes footage on a Z1P, and live streaming that as well via an iPhone 4 on a separate stream.

Despite the fact that we now have a million things to consider, rather than just a few hundred, we wouldn’t do things any other way! It’s a lot more fun trying to push the boundaries, and really just get out there and test new software, than just taking the easy route.

So stay tuned until Sunday, as we post more information about the live streaming event! It should be a blast!

Onward & Upwards my friends!

Chris!

]]> http://latenitefilms.com/2010/10/14/let-the-games-begin/feed/ 0 Scheduling OR why my brain hurts… http://latenitefilms.com/2010/09/29/scheduling-or-why-my-brain-hurts/ http://latenitefilms.com/2010/09/29/scheduling-or-why-my-brain-hurts/#comments Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:09:02 +0000 Nicholas Colla http://www.latenitefilms.com/?p=118 I had two maths teachers when I was at high school. One was frighteningly similar to a certain Hannibal Lectar and used to hang a mirror on the black/white board so he could see people screwing around behind him and the other was a borderline alcoholic who once drew us a diagram on how to grow our own doob plant because we weren’t listening to what he was saying.

My point here is a very simple one. For as long as I can remember I have always struggled with maths and numbers, often staring blankly at them for long, long periods of time. And unfortunately it didn’t matter that I was being threatened by a man reminiscent of a cannibal or being educated by a drunken pot enthusiast – I just never got it.

So you can imagine the joy that spread across my face when it has finally come time to start working on scheduling and budgets!!! I must admit working with Al, Anli & Chris has made the path slightly less rocky and although I did leave Al’s house on Tuesday with a significantly swollen brain, I am happy to say we managed to nut out what seems to be a schedule consisting of a respectable 33 days.

Me being the optimist that I am reckon we can do it in 30!

What I am about to post up is the first of many video blogs that will be following us on our epic journey to create what is going to be a mammothly difficult but ultimately achievable, kickass Australian film!!

So please keep checking out our blog for regular updates which will be happening from here on in – also we have a young film blogger (my cousin in fact) coming in to cover our behind the scenes stuff so I will keep you up to speed on that as we should be seeing that happening real soon!!

Apart from that enjoy the photos and the videos and until next time in the words of a Mexican or Spanish person – adios!

]]> http://latenitefilms.com/2010/09/29/scheduling-or-why-my-brain-hurts/feed/ 0 Inside Insanity http://latenitefilms.com/2010/09/23/inside-insanity/ http://latenitefilms.com/2010/09/23/inside-insanity/#comments Thu, 23 Sep 2010 03:17:12 +0000 Alistair Marks http://www.latenitefilms.com/2010/09/23/inside-insanity/ Thank God for new technology, right? Now with the power of a phone in the palm of my hand I can take pictures of my script, upload them to our wonderful blog, and then if you have our iPhone app thingy you can see it straight away on yours! Isn’t this marvelous!

Anyway, here’s some proof. And some insight. In image form!

From treating myself to a nicely printed & bound script (thanks OfficeWorks), to shot listing… Writing out scene by scene on flash cards… Scheduling… It’s all getting a bit mental!!

]]> http://latenitefilms.com/2010/09/23/inside-insanity/feed/ 0 Photos from the Short Film http://latenitefilms.com/2010/08/13/short-film-photos/ http://latenitefilms.com/2010/08/13/short-film-photos/#comments Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:39:45 +0000 Chris Hocking http://www.latenitefilms.com/?p=50 If we step back in time to 2007, Alistair Marks was just your average film student studying towards a Bachelor of Film & Television at Swinburne University. However, unlike a lot of young up-and-coming filmmakers, he decided that instead of just putting together a short film that has a very limited chance of actually going somewhere, he would write a full length feature film script, and then film the opening sequence and submit it to festivals. As it turns out, Alistair was on the right track, as the script attracted a great collection of actors and crew, and put him in a great place to actually get the feature film from words on a page to big bangs on the big screen!

Here is a sneak peak behind the scenes on the short film shoot. Enjoy!

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