DISTORTION - Pre-Production #11

It has been too long since my last post and there is good reason. Trying to tackle too much at the same time has been eating me alive. At this point I have been the Writer/ Director/ Producer/ Blogger/ Casting Director and much more for the past couple of months. I have ran the rehearsals, casting calls, location scouting myself. The rest of the crew that was supposed to be backing me up, has put in very little time with this production. AFTER DARK, killed them. This is readily apparent now. When ever Casting, rehearsals, reads have been scheduled.. I was told, I will be there and something has come up every time. The Production setbacks from the first film we were originally going to do, has sucked the enthusiasm right out of them. Ben Bachelder, my partner in crime is not to blame in anyway what so ever for the lack of enthusiasm from the rest of the crew. He just has his plate full to the brim right now and cannot give time to this project, like he would like to.

Talk about bad timing. Now that we have a cast set, that is energetic and ready to film, the crew is falling apart. NOW it is in my hands to replace crew with people who have the drive to get a production done. The final straw came when we were not ready to shoot, after just casting everyone, one week after the actors had received the scripts. I was not going to push the cast into filming, without rehearsals or even a read. No one was ready. the film has many hard roles that require a lot of emotions, choreography, and so forth to film. Since I pushed back the dates to get it right and not waste a ton of time on set getting performances right, the crew has faltered. They have no desire to get into the film now. I can't blame them a little, but I can when it comes to.. everything is in place now. We have rehearsed, I want a couple of more, just to nail down choreography and a couple of the very intense scenes. We should be ready to shoot within 30 days. Not a lot to ask.

It could have been sooner if I had back up helping me to arrange things, but it is not there. I will be posting on MANDY again, tonight to get two positions filled that are vital for our production. DAVE MARTORANO, has now been put in my ASSISTANT DIRECTOR position, simply because he has the vision, drive, and energy to get what we need out of our Actors and our script. Our vision is identical and so is our Passion to get this project right. We all know, that if done right, this could be a huge hit for us. I am proud to have him backing me up and moving forward on this production. I feel now that I am not working alone and this is not stressing me out to the point of fracture. The next couple of days you will see the difference it will make in the Blog site here. I will be able to get the four other video's up that are being edited right now, FUNNY STUFF, and there will be some detailed backgrounds on cast and crew.

So please stay tuned. Things are going to start barreling forward at a nice click now!

David Lytle
Mindworks Pictures

VIDEO DIARY #2 - Spell Check?

Here is the second Video I have been promising for a while. This is from the read on 5/8/08. Obviously we did not upload the entire read, this includes a scene between Jessica ( Yulia Popova ) and Sharon ( Kellie Karl ). This video showcases how spell check is not a grammar check. There are times when I buzz through typing very fast and type a word, that is a correct word, but was not my intention to put in that particular spot.

Normally it is simple little things like know and now, off and of, etc. This one was a bit funnier and would require some interesting special effects if we really wanted to shoot what I wrote. It would be an audience grabber, noway they would see it coming, or be prepared.

So, take a peek and we'll TT later,

David

DISTORTION - Pre-Production #10

Kellie Karl "Sharon Richfield"

Sorry for not touching back with everyone.. My 12 year old has been going through some tough things. We had her in and out of ER and Doctors Offices for the last week. Things are back to normal and she is healthy as can be again. BACK TO DISTORTION! I just finished editing Video #2. As I am writing this post it is Rendering. There have been some great contributions to the Script by all, but most have been by Dave Martorano and Kellie Karl. Dave and I have been throwing things back and forth at each other on a couple of the key scenes to the film and I have done a Re-write with these ideas peppered throughout.

Kellie has been a huge help as well as she is helping with consulting to ensure that we are accurate and take care in how we present certain things and word them as well. She has been absolutely instrumental in CONTINUITY for us and has now been given an additional credit in Crew now as our Film's Consultant.

There will be a couple of additions to the Video added tonight to catch us up, after falling behind this last week. I have given Cast and Crew this week to relax a bit as we are now pushing to get one more big rehearsal and start principle photography. The first of several videos to be uploaded tonight is a scene and a funny situation during our read. Not wanting to reveal too much, the read will be broken up a couple of times and unfortunately you will just get glimpses of it, to ensure that the twists and turns aren't given away. Stay tuned, just a few minutes from now, Video #2 will be ready to view!

TT later,

David

DISTORTION - Pre-Production #9

Hello all, there has been a bit of a delay getting the next videos up, with rehearsals and reads happening this week.. It has left me little time to get everything edited and uploaded. There will be several in a row added here within the week. Tomorrow is our first real rehearsal. Our read Thursday went terrific. Everything sounded good, we tweaked somethings right on the spot, that have made the script even better, as well as our ending is being rewritten just a bit. All to better our final product. Everyone is excited, we had a lot of laughs on the night of the read and you will see some of those on the video, once it is up.

This week there will be around three or four new videos that get uploaded to the site and you'll love what we have. Great stuff.

TT Then,

David

DISTORTION - Pre-Production #8

Alright here is the full cast list for DISTORTION officially!!

Kellie Karl as Sharon Richfield
Jason Male as William Richfield
Dave Martorano as John/ Detective Harrison
Yulia Popova as Jessica Stantz
Lamont Witcher as Detective Pritchard
Lonetta Maier as Tracey
Alastair Lochan as Stephen

Time to get this party started! Our first official Read through
of the script will happen this week and air as our third Video
on Friday night. Obviously we will not let everything out of
the bag, so only pieces of the read will be available for all to
see.

Then Sunday will be the first rehearsal with the entire
cast and this too will air, but most likely on Monday night.
Again not all of this will be available, but some of the film's
choreography will definitely make it to the Video. It's heating
up and we are clearly in second gear now, as we push
forward towards our Shooting schedule. TT everyone soon!

David Lytle

VIDEO DIARY #1 - Casting Distortion

At long last here we are. The first Video in the Series that will visually document the Production of DISTORTION. This is Part one of a Two Part Mini Series. It contains clips from the Auditions of the cast that are now involved. Interviews with them Accepting their roles and signing on. There is also at the end of this clip, a series of OUTTAKES that came from the first video shot. The introduction to the Video aspect of the WEBUMENTARY. So enjoy Part One and be ready for the second part which will be hitting really soon.

Thanks for staying tuned!

David Lytle

DISTORTION - Pre-Production #7

AUDITIONS are completed. Roles have been filled. Sunday we are doing interviews with the Cast to post on the website. We will FINALLY have some video for everyone to see. I will post clips of the Auditions, as well as interviews with the Cast members with their auditions. Should be a cool compilation of stuff for everyone to see. Now I have promised this many times and have not delivered yet. Just so much stuff going on trying to keep up everything made it very difficult. There will be no more EXCUSES from me!!!! Sunday night there will be our First Video postings NO DOUBT ABOUT IT!

I will be shooting the Interviews early in the day, editing and posting at Night. I believe we have a strong cast that will fulfill everything we need them too and then some. Finally excited again to be fully up and running with no more speed bumps in the way. Switching to DISTORTION was absolutely the best thing we have done. Everyone who has even read snippets of the script, are locked onto the project for the originality. We have a very new, fresh, twisted script that is going to turn heads and totally catch everyone off guard. Believe it or not in a world or Movies that have been done 100,000 times this one has not been done. The twist to this has not even been tampered with, which just gets me more and more excited every time I talk about it.

Anyway. Will TT everyone Sunday and look for the Video Sunday night or if it gets posted to late Monday morning for those who don't stay up to late.. But it will BE THERE!!!

David