Photos from Improv Movie Shoot!

June 28, 2009 at 8:11 pm | Posted in Keith Boynton | 2 Comments
Tags: basements, behind the scenes, filmmaking, photographs

Yesterday’s shoot was a wonderful and bizarre experience. It’s hard to describe why, exactly, but here are a few contributing factors:

We didn’t have a script or a shot list.
There were four men on the set, and seven women — an absolutely unheard-of ratio for a film set.
We spent roughly ten of the shoot’s twelve hours in a dingy basement with a five-foot ceiling.
When we emerged for our dinner break, we were greeted by a huge, unbroken rainbow stretching out across Brooklyn — a moment of surreal beauty that, for a few brief seconds, eclipsed even our eagerness for pizza.
It’s a really weird movie we were shooting.
Making films is weird anyway.

Somehow, all of this strangeness added up to a ridiculously enjoyable experience. I have no idea how the movie is going to turn out — I could literally make hundreds of different versions using the footage we got — but if it winds up being half as oddly perfect as the shoot, we’ll really have something. One thing’s for sure: this film is going to be different from any other 12in12 movie so far. Different, in fact, from any film I’ve ever been involved in. And that in itself is probably a good thing.

Enjoy the photos! Behind-the-scenes video will be up in a day or two.

Actor/director conference in a strange locale.

PA Dylan Bandy (of "Sublet" fame) cuffs Mike with eerie facility.

Sound man Kevin Adams is too tall.

Director Keith Boynton and actress Angela Perri crane their necks to see the shot.

Actress Angela Perri, director Keith Boynton, and cinematographer Giuseppe Pugliese crouch and crane to see the shot.

A woman-heavy crew! Director Keith Boynton is not complaining.

A woman-heavy crew! Keith is not complaining.

Actor James Creque (in costume) and director Keith Boynton rig up the rear of Keith's Volvo for the "car dolly" shot.

Actors James Creque and Angela Perri support each other.

Mike really banged his head! Watch the film to see it happen.

There's sort of a "Jesus in the manger" feeling to this one.

Gathered around the light...

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