Oh ok. I remember now. 
Trent,
I've known Chris Benson for close to 10 years. Would I, by any chance, know who you are?
I've known Chris Benson for close to 10 years. Would I, by any chance, know who you are?
- 11K
Ahem, private message . . . I keep thinking I'm going to get an update on Ghost Image. 
Hi all!
Artist View Entertainment, the foreign sales rep for Ghost Image, will be screening GI at the American Film Market (AFM) in LA which takes place from Oct. 31st to Nov. 7th. The AFM is one of the top film markets in the world and over $800M worth of deals are made there.
Artist View reps over 150 films and has picked the two they consider their best films to showcase at AFM and GI is one of them.
I wanted to also remind everyone that GI will be shown on Saturday, November 10th, at 9pm, in the large theater of The Tivoli as part of The St. Louis International Film Festival. We're trying to bring in our lead, Elisabeth Rohm, to attend the screening. At this point, it doesn't appear likely as she just started work on the new ABC television show, Big Shots.
GI screened at the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase in July where it won three awards: Best Feature Film, Best Director, and Best Cinematography.
Though there haven't been any professional reviews of the film yet, here is a link to a blog that reviewed it:
http://dynamicshows.blogspot.com/2007/0 ... image.html
And here is a link to another review by a friend of mine (which is obviously biased):
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea ... =298331555
For those that have the time, you should come to the screening in November. GI really shows off downtown.
Jack Snyder (director of Ghost Image)
Artist View Entertainment, the foreign sales rep for Ghost Image, will be screening GI at the American Film Market (AFM) in LA which takes place from Oct. 31st to Nov. 7th. The AFM is one of the top film markets in the world and over $800M worth of deals are made there.
Artist View reps over 150 films and has picked the two they consider their best films to showcase at AFM and GI is one of them.
I wanted to also remind everyone that GI will be shown on Saturday, November 10th, at 9pm, in the large theater of The Tivoli as part of The St. Louis International Film Festival. We're trying to bring in our lead, Elisabeth Rohm, to attend the screening. At this point, it doesn't appear likely as she just started work on the new ABC television show, Big Shots.
GI screened at the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase in July where it won three awards: Best Feature Film, Best Director, and Best Cinematography.
Though there haven't been any professional reviews of the film yet, here is a link to a blog that reviewed it:
http://dynamicshows.blogspot.com/2007/0 ... image.html
And here is a link to another review by a friend of mine (which is obviously biased):
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea ... =298331555
For those that have the time, you should come to the screening in November. GI really shows off downtown.
Jack Snyder (director of Ghost Image)
Jack,
Do you have special passes for members of UrbanSTL?
I look forward to the film.
Do you have special passes for members of UrbanSTL?
I look forward to the film.
Sorry Trent, no free passes. I think I get a couple and so do the producers but that's about it.
- 6,775
Due to a giant software installation at a clent site, I was going to have to miss the first 3-4 days of SLIFF. Now the giant installation has been moved to January, so I can go to the entire festival!
Hey CS, I look forward to seeing you at the show. Now even though we went to high school together, don't heckle me during the Q&A after the screening, or I'll have to sick my gargoyles on you.
"Ghost Image" was on Showtime this last weekend. I recorded it and have it marked so that if a showing is coming up, the system will alert me. From what I saw it was a darn good use of downtown St. Louis.
Hi Dweebe!
"Ghost Image" shows about 7 times a month on average on one of the Showtime channels or The Movie Channel.
We're having some decent success for a relatively unknown indie film. We recently sold the foreign cable rights to 20th Century Fox and it should be out on DVD later this year.
Jack
(co-writer/director of "Ghost Image")
"Ghost Image" shows about 7 times a month on average on one of the Showtime channels or The Movie Channel.
We're having some decent success for a relatively unknown indie film. We recently sold the foreign cable rights to 20th Century Fox and it should be out on DVD later this year.
Jack
(co-writer/director of "Ghost Image")
- 6,775
Jack wrote:Hi Dweebe!
"Ghost Image" shows about 7 times a month on average on one of the Showtime channels or The Movie Channel.
We're having some decent success for a relatively unknown indie film. We recently sold the foreign cable rights to 20th Century Fox and it should be out on DVD later this year.
Jack
(co-writer/director of "Ghost Image")
So what do you get, like a million bucks every time it shows?
LOL! I wish! No... I don't get a bunch of money each time it shows. But money is coming in from various deals. Most of it goes to investors but let's just say that I wouldn't have to work for the next year if I didn't want to. I'm not getting rich (yet!) but hey, it's great to be making some money doing the things you love to do!
Yes! I recently finished the treatment for my next film and my producer packaged it with his business plan. It's a crime thriller that we're tentatively scheduled to shoot next summer. I still have to write the screenplay but I'm fast and efficient. I know the drill and I know how to tell a story cinematically and what does and doesn't work. And I'm savvy enough with the production end of things to know how to tailor a story to fit a specific budget.
Of course we have to raise the money and who knows how that will go. It almost never gets easier. Robert Altman directed dozens of indie films in his career and was nominated for 7 Oscars. Yet, he would talk about how difficult it was to raise the money each time he set out to make a film.
So we'll see how it goes. I have high hopes though. If I didn't, I wouldn't have spent my entire life pursuing filmmaking as a career.
The Central Scrutinizer knows. He was in one of my films back in high school; 31 years ago!!
Of course we have to raise the money and who knows how that will go. It almost never gets easier. Robert Altman directed dozens of indie films in his career and was nominated for 7 Oscars. Yet, he would talk about how difficult it was to raise the money each time he set out to make a film.
So we'll see how it goes. I have high hopes though. If I didn't, I wouldn't have spent my entire life pursuing filmmaking as a career.
The Central Scrutinizer knows. He was in one of my films back in high school; 31 years ago!!
- 6,775
Jack wrote:Yes! I recently finished the treatment for my next film and my producer packaged it with his business plan. It's a crime thriller that we're tentatively scheduled to shoot next summer. I still have to write the screenplay but I'm fast and efficient. I know the drill and I know how to tell a story cinematically and what does and doesn't work. And I'm savvy enough with the production end of things to know how to tailor a story to fit a specific budget.
Of course we have to raise the money and who knows how that will go. It almost never gets easier. Robert Altman directed dozens of indie films in his career and was nominated for 7 Oscars. Yet, he would talk about how difficult it was to raise the money each time he set out to make a film.
So we'll see how it goes. I have high hopes though. If I didn't, I wouldn't have spent my entire life pursuing filmmaking as a career.
The Central Scrutinizer knows. He was in one of my films back in high school; 31 years ago!!
Maybe I should get a cameo in the next one for old times sake!
Maybe I should get a cameo in the next one for old times sake!
I'll think about it. Maybe you could be one of the dead bodies! LOL!
- 6,775
Jack wrote:Maybe I should get a cameo in the next one for old times sake!
I'll think about it. Maybe you could be one of the dead bodies! LOL!
I was hoping for a sex scene with some hot young actress.
But a dead body wouldn't be a bad second choice.
^ You can kill two birds with one stone. Have you watched the bathroom scene with Caitlin in, "Clerks?"
- 115
I've got the DVR set to record "Ghost Image" tomorrow morning on Showtime Too @ 9:15. I know it's supposed to be on again early Saturday morning.
I've been wanting to see this for a while. Thanks dweebe for bringing it up. I read your post then went straight to the DVR for a search.
Hmm, a TCS cameo as a dead body. That could be a crowd pleaser.
I've been wanting to see this for a while. Thanks dweebe for bringing it up. I read your post then went straight to the DVR for a search.
Hmm, a TCS cameo as a dead body. That could be a crowd pleaser.
Notes from Home wrote:I've got the DVR set to record "Ghost Image" tomorrow morning on Showtime Too @ 9:15. I know it's supposed to be on again early Saturday morning.
I've been wanting to see this for a while. Thanks dweebe for bringing it up. I read your post then went straight to the DVR for a search.
I'm just bummed it hasn't been shown on the "regular" Showtime since that's the only one Charter has in HD. I'm still glad they at least show it in widescreen.
Jack, what aspect ratio did you shoot with? 1.85 or 2.35? A couple of scenes look constrained on the sides. But then again the rooftop nighttime shots would have been impossible if shot anamorphic.
Now that I think about it: did you guys go film or digital?
Notes from Home wrote:Hmm, a TCS cameo as a dead body. That could be a crowd pleaser.
Even as a dead body CS would still find a way to point out how stupid you are.
- 11K
dweebe wrote:Notes from Home wrote:Hmm, a TCS cameo as a dead body. That could be a crowd pleaser.
Even as a dead body CS would still find a way to point out how stupid you are.
Now that's funny.
Dweebe,
It has been on the "regular" Showtime a few times. It pops up on the The Movie Channel once in a while too and they also simulcast in HD. Two friends of mine tivo'd it in both SD and HD to show me the difference. I was blown away. That being said, I did watch it in HD in Los Angeles while doing the final post-production but since that was a working environment I wasn't able to take the time to appreciate it the way I could back home here in St. Louis while relaxing on the sofa and just viewing it as opposed to making color-correction decisions, etc.
"Ghost Image" was shot on 35mm motion picture film. The aspect ration was 2.35:1, however, while in post-production in LA, we discovered that our distributor wouldn't except it in that ratio. So we had to remove the "mask" which converted it to 1.85:1. This created problems as boom mics, flags, and the occasional camera hood were revealed in some shots. So we had to blow-up and reframe about 50 shots to remove the objects that were now visible in the frame. And due to the removal of the mask, there is too much headroom throughout the film which drives my Director of Photography crazy.
If I were a "big" filmmaker, this would never have happened. You see, the big name directors, as well as the major studios, can release a film in any market in whatever aspect ration they shot it in. The unknown indies, like me, have no such leeway. Our distributor must release their films in an aspect ration that will fill a widescreen television without showing any letterboxing.
When we shot "Ghost Image", the frame is automatically in 1.85:1 and to achieve the 2.35:1 ratio, we used an eyepiece that had "lines" showing where the "real" frame line would be. Anything outside that line wouldn't be a problem -- or so we thought!
In doing the off-line edit, I just added a mask conforming to the 2.35:1 ratio, only to discover we had to remove the mask if we were to have any hopes of distribution.
We shot it in the 2.35:1 ratio at the recommendation of a Hollywood "type" who we thought knew what he was talking about. Oh well, live and learn, it wont happen again.
One other thing. Every monitor is different! No matter how expensive/professional it is. After the reframing at the post house in LA, we discovered that in some shots we could still see an occasional boom, flag, or hood in the shot on other monitors. You can see these once in a while on Showtime if you watch closely enough. These objects are far and few between and they're not really distracting.
20th Century Fox, on the other hand, took it upon themselves to correct those few shots for the overseas distribution. It required blowing up/reframing about 10 shots or so. When I say there are blown up shots, they are not dramatic. We blew up shots 5 - 10% is all.
Sorry about the long post, but when I get on a role, I can be a bit long-winded.
It has been on the "regular" Showtime a few times. It pops up on the The Movie Channel once in a while too and they also simulcast in HD. Two friends of mine tivo'd it in both SD and HD to show me the difference. I was blown away. That being said, I did watch it in HD in Los Angeles while doing the final post-production but since that was a working environment I wasn't able to take the time to appreciate it the way I could back home here in St. Louis while relaxing on the sofa and just viewing it as opposed to making color-correction decisions, etc.
"Ghost Image" was shot on 35mm motion picture film. The aspect ration was 2.35:1, however, while in post-production in LA, we discovered that our distributor wouldn't except it in that ratio. So we had to remove the "mask" which converted it to 1.85:1. This created problems as boom mics, flags, and the occasional camera hood were revealed in some shots. So we had to blow-up and reframe about 50 shots to remove the objects that were now visible in the frame. And due to the removal of the mask, there is too much headroom throughout the film which drives my Director of Photography crazy.
If I were a "big" filmmaker, this would never have happened. You see, the big name directors, as well as the major studios, can release a film in any market in whatever aspect ration they shot it in. The unknown indies, like me, have no such leeway. Our distributor must release their films in an aspect ration that will fill a widescreen television without showing any letterboxing.
When we shot "Ghost Image", the frame is automatically in 1.85:1 and to achieve the 2.35:1 ratio, we used an eyepiece that had "lines" showing where the "real" frame line would be. Anything outside that line wouldn't be a problem -- or so we thought!
In doing the off-line edit, I just added a mask conforming to the 2.35:1 ratio, only to discover we had to remove the mask if we were to have any hopes of distribution.
We shot it in the 2.35:1 ratio at the recommendation of a Hollywood "type" who we thought knew what he was talking about. Oh well, live and learn, it wont happen again.
One other thing. Every monitor is different! No matter how expensive/professional it is. After the reframing at the post house in LA, we discovered that in some shots we could still see an occasional boom, flag, or hood in the shot on other monitors. You can see these once in a while on Showtime if you watch closely enough. These objects are far and few between and they're not really distracting.
20th Century Fox, on the other hand, took it upon themselves to correct those few shots for the overseas distribution. It required blowing up/reframing about 10 shots or so. When I say there are blown up shots, they are not dramatic. We blew up shots 5 - 10% is all.
Sorry about the long post, but when I get on a role, I can be a bit long-winded.
^^ That explains why I saw some of the framing issues.
So I assume you shot flat/Super 35? You seemed to have a lot of depth of field.
So I assume you shot flat/Super 35? You seemed to have a lot of depth of field.
- 6,775
Can't you jump up and down and scream "I'm an arteest" and refuse to make the changes?