Huge thank yous to Jonathon Alberstadt and an Anonymous donor for your recent contributions to Private Life’s Indiegogo campaign! Thank you very much!
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Thank You, Pamela Minty!
Thank you, Pamela Minty, for your recent contribution to our finishing funds campaign over on Indiegogo! We could not do this without your support!
Thank You, Mike Boisvert, Gay Outdoors.org and Arun Narayanan!
Thank you Mike Boisvert, GayOutdoors.org and Arun Narayanan for your contributions to finish Private Life!
Our Indiegogo Campaign For Finishing Funds Has Begun!
We are so close to completing Private Life. Visual effects, color correction and some final work on sound are all that remain. Then we begin the process of turning it into DVDs, Blu-rays and other means of sharing the movie with film festivals, film markets and you!
But we need your help to get there!
Take a moment and stop by our Indiegogo page. Watch the video we made just for the campaign. Then take a look at our thank-you perks and help us bring this story to the big screen!
Thank you!
Principle Photography
Director of Photography Matt Edwards, Director of Photography/Key Grip Robert Hanson, 1st Assistant Camera Alicia Fischmeister and 2nd Assistant Camera Eric Parkin setup a shot.
Director of Photography/Key Grip Robert Hanson sets up a shot.
1st Assistant Director Katie Wincor stands in for an actor while the camera department lights a shot. She uses the time to prepare the callsheet for the next day.
Sound Mixer/Boom Operator Kari Barber and Boom Operator Charles Leisenring preparing for a take.
During production in fall of 2012, cast and crew camped for 4 days and 3 nights in the San Bernardino National Forest. These are a small collection of pictures from that time. The location was beautiful. The hours were long. The cast and crew were fantastic, in great spirits, tireless and completely dedicated.
Student Emmy
The Moving Picture Company
We are absolutely thrilled to announce color grading services are being donated to “Private Life” by The Moving Picture Company! This is huge! Even though this is a USC thesis film, we receive $0 from the school to make it. It’s an ambitious project being done without much funding. Without the support of a caring and interested community around us, “Private Life” simply would not be happening. THANK YOU to The Moving Picture Company and everyone who is helping us make this film!
The Moving Picture Company is a world leading post-production facility with offices in Los Angeles, London, New York, Vancouver and Bangalore. Just a few of the projects they’ve worked on include “Life of Pi,” “Skyfall,” “Prometheus,” and “Wrath of the Titans.”
Private Life is Picture Locked!
It’s a major milestone. For five months, we have focused in the picture editing process on telling the story visually–from which scenes are in the movie and which are out, to shaping those scenes down to the blink of an actor’s eye. It provides the backbone for the rest of the post-production process. Now we set picture editing
aside and move on to everything else needed to polish and finish the film: shooting pickups, editing sound, creating an original score, visual effects, color grading.
Amy Adler has done an excellent job editing the film into something we are eager to share. Check out her bio here on our website under the Crew tab. It’s very exciting to see the film taking shape!
Private Life Is In The Can!
Eric (Kevin Joy) and Christopher (Joe Briggs)
We have wrapped production on Private Life! It was 10 intense and demanding days to be sure, but with such a great cast and crew, it was really a fantastic experience.
Production took us through a number of locations, including a number of places in Angeles National Forest; Mountain View Cemetery in Altadena, CA; San Bernardino National Forest; a private house in Van Nuys, CA; a sound stage at USC; and we even built a bridge in the parking lot of the Robert Zemeckis Center at school (a location often touted within our USC circle for its ability to become just about anything for shoots with hazardous conditions).
With principle photography completed, Amy Adler steps up to the plate to begin editing the film. Transcoding and syncing is finished and the very first cut is now beginning. Editing will take us through December, with Picture Lock scheduled at the very end of the year.
DP Matt Edwards sets up the shot with Key Grip Robert Hanson and Boom Operator Charles Leisenring
1st AD Katie Wincor (peeking out from behind the camera) preparing for a take…
- Actor Kevin Joy and Producer Billy Sullivan
- Eric (Kevin Joy) and Christopher (Joe Briggs) preparing for a take by the campfire
A New USC Thesis Film
