"Ele e Ela" Behind the Scenes

Syncing Sound!

This is what I've been doing for the past few weeks, SYNCING SOUND! 16mm film. I can now say that I am an expert on syncing sound! It was a very hard process, mostly because the take notes were lost in the filming process, and we had to search for the good takes in a sea of bad takes. But thank god thats over, and now we get to the juicy part in which we actually EDIT.

Fat Marely Music Video Shoot

Today, bright and early, was the start of the Fat Marely music video shoot. Locations include Ave. Paulista, random apartment, office building, and helicopter landing pad on top of the office building. So the general idea of the video is the following. We follow Fat Marely, who's animated head is superimposed on to the body of the actor.
Here is a test shot
He wakes up brushes his teeth, walks out side, gets on a bus, goes to the office, and then parties with ladies in bikinis. We're shooting that scene tomorrow morning. The five girls in bikinis will also have over sized and animated heads.
The actor who plays Fat Marely's body had to wear markers, blue sticky things, on his face and wear a very big hat with markers on it the whole day. The hat and the blue stickers will help super impose the over sized and animated head on to his body.
I directed a few sequences and tomorrow I will call some more shots as well.
I had so much fun today!

Last Shot

Today myself and Ian went to talk to the manager of the apartment building directly across the apartment building where we are shooting the short. We needed to get onto the roof of the building to get the last shot of the film. And exterior shot of the female character and male character in their apartments through the windows. It took us a while to get a hold of the manager and we had to explain what exactly we were doing over and over, but we finally got access! We were finally able to get up there and take photos and see if the shot would work. Its absolutely amazing up there!

Virada Cultural 2007

Virada Cultural, a two day music/arts/culture public event held in Sao Paulo. This year 3.5 million people participated. From 6 pm to 6am Sao Paulo's streets where full of people enjoying live music and events. I went with some friends of mine. We started at Anhangabau where the plaza was filled with people watching a dance performance. Then we headed to Rua Direita where there was an all night electronic music event. Over 20 different Djs played. Then at Praca da Se there was a famous Brazilian 90's rock band playing. After that we went to Ave. Paulista to the Casa da Rosas where there was a live Forro band from the northeast of Brazil. We stayed there dancing Forro until about 5 am! I didn't bring my camera because it would probably have gotten stolen, and I didn't feel like lugging it around, so unfortunately no pictures. It was an amazing sight seeing the streets of Sampa which are usually filled with unending traffic, filled with people dancing all night long!

Map of Shooting Location

We are scheduled to shoot starting May 25th to May 29th. FAAP is providing one can and a half of 16mm, and processing. Yesterday, myself and Ian, another producer, went to the location to collect measurements of the apartment. I put together this map last night.

Laura++

We have casted our lead female role to Laura. She will play the role of the violinist. She has many years of musical, theater and dance experience.

Actors Workshop

Our crew organized an actor workshop so we could all meet the prospective actors, and get a feel for their talent. Most of the time was spent on working with how the two interacted with each other, while one tapped danced and the other played the violin. The two sounds are completely different so it was awkward at first, but by the end of the day they were able to work better together. Here are some photos of the day.