Butch aka Travis

Well, the shooting for my film Old Man Time has wrapped as of 21st of September. Excuse the above graphic, I made it ages ago for no particular reason There are pictures of our production here

The film was a learning experience, one that I don’t think can be taught in any classroom. This was my first Hi-End short. I ended up financing it myself. $1500 and it had a serious impact on my wallet for like a week afterwards. As a result i spent my whole holiday teaching kids to swim and serving Chapel Street Poseurs their “Soy 1/2 strength decaf Latte’s with Cinnamon on top”. I tell you it breeds contempt.

Anyhow, back to the story at hand. The cast was great. The main actor Francis McMahon is an actor of distinction. The whole way through the shoot, the constant was Francis’ energy. He really made us look amateur in the way he never let his spirits dip. Francis is one of those guys who can lift the whole energy of the room with his presence. I was incredibly impressed by him, and i hope he and i have forged a working relationship we can build upon.

Working with Francis was the first time i have worked with a proper solid and professional actor. I really enjoyed the experience, i feel i Directed him well enough, not that i Directed him as such, more drew a box and let him colour it as he pleased.

Our daily order was such that.

Day 1. -
Morning - Courthouse in Broadmeadows

The first location was sourced by Jennie Parker, who somehow sweet talked the Victorian Court into letting us use a magistrates court out at Broadmeadows. It was a great start, everyone rocked up, we had a massive amount of food, we were all in high spirits. It was a great time to be alive. The shots came off very nicely as well.

Afternoon - RMIT TV Studio

Shots came off really well, the Studio was lit to buggery. We spent most of the afternoon moving the Russian Dolly. We were the first people to ever use it. I had had my eye on it since our induction. I thought it may have been a Formula One Chassis, but it is much to heavy to have been that.
We had Francis and Mark Raffety for the afternoon scenes. We also had three actors as inmates. They all did very well. The russian dolly worked well, squeaked a little, but our sound man Chris Turner (who is one hell of a sound man) managed to avoid the sound.

Practisng our scene run through with Mark, Francis, Andrew and Hugh. Evan martin is pulling the dolly, Christ Turner is infront of him with the boom.

more pictures, click here

Day 2
whole Day was shot at Jules’ House (Jules or Julian Culpan is one of the Producers, the other being Gemma Bradley). It was a full on day. Lots of shots, lots of dialogue, if we had the time money and resource we should have divided the shots over two days. But we just had to bite the bullet and do it.

Day3
Reservoir Bus Company
This was actually my favourite day out. It pissed down with rain all day, the wind was horrible, but i enjoyed to conditions. It was quite cool. The footage was great and again, we had a hell of a lot of shots to get through

Day 4
Northcote Plaza
Some outside shots at Northcote. Short sweet day

Day 5
Insert shots

Day 6
Damien’s house
Massive final day, i had a major dummy spit, but it was just an ill timed (but funny) joke that set me off. It was just that we had an incredibly difficult schedule and were always running behind. I worked straight through my lunchbreak again. Didn’t stop, i was wrecked by the end of it.

We had a small wrap party at Damien’s, i drove home half drunk (i do not promote drink driving, i still would have been under the limit……. with hilarious consequences) I was really tired. I was meant to go back to Jules and have a bit of a longer wrap party, but i was way too tired from a week of solid shooting, and driving across town every morning. I put in a DVD of Robert Altman’s M*A*S*H, then fell asleep half way through it. Its okay, we can still have another wrap party.

The credits so far are as follows

Produced by
Gemma Bradley and Julian Culpan

Written and Directed by
Travis Sutherland

DOP
Damien Pierce

1st AD
Oyvind Skilbrei

Sound
Chris Turner

Production Assistant
Evan Martin

Editor
Oyvind Skilbrei

Art Dept.
Jennie Parker

Make Up
Kate Taylor

Script Editor
Vicki Englund

Creative Advisor
Rupert Mena e Silva

Executive Producer
Marshall Korvick

Staring

Francis McMahon as David

Featuring

Mark Raffety
Stan Roach
Irving Read
Ashleigh Goodison

Also
Andrew Phillips
Hugh
Rupert Mena e Silva

More Photos here

check out
damien’s spin on the shoot.
and also check out
Ovens excellent blog on Amelie

and be sure to help Rupert as he attempts to decifer human nature.

Also check out www.sonofmarshall.com.au to see the rest of our day 1 photos.