DISTORTION - Pre-Production #6

Principle Location for DISTORTION

Final casting was done on Tuesday night. We are buzzing through all of the audition tapes to see who fits what part the best and will be making final placements tonight. Call backs to Actors and Actresses will be tomorrow to let them know the good news. We had several really talented people show over the last couple of days and going into Production I am feeling great that we have someone for every part.

Ben and Myself again will be reviewing starting at 8:00 PM. We will be looking for several criteria for everybody. How good do they listen to Direction and change the performance. How good are they with no Direction, Creativity, how they can change up the dialogue or contribute to making the dialogue more realistic and not too stale sounding. Tomorrow after we tell the winners, we will post the winners here. So come back and check it out!

Till then,

David Lytle

DISTORTION - Pre-Production #5

Bakedmind Films 2008

Well, the majority of the final casting was done yesterday and there were a couple of standouts. I was a real relaxed setting for everyone. Fewer people showed than expected, due to me sending out the script parts a bit late. 4 out of 11 made it Sunday. Tuesday night, there will be 3 others who could not make it.. due to prior engagements. So Wednesday Ben and I will be going over the tapes and making final decisions on our cast. Calling everyone back by either that night or Thursday. Most likely be calling back Wednesday night.

Have to admit, I was excited the whole day, hearing my words spoken by Actors and Actresses. The different interpretations were very interesting. I just can't wait to get camera's rolling on the 9th and 10th. I'm ready right now, eager as hell, want to put things on tape right this second if I could. Going to try and set up things so that maybe the next coming Sunday we can get a read, might not be able to squeeze it in, but I'm going to damn well try. Will get Auditions of the cast that is chosen up on the net right after choices are made, and get a couple of interviews as well. This will make it to thew web..

TT everyone soon,

David Lytle

DISTORTION - Pre-Production #4

Hello all. This weekend is going to be very exciting we are taping our rehearsal/ final casting on location. There will be a couple of the scenes knocked out that day as well. The main shoot will occur the 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th. Meanwhile, this weekend there will be many people coming in vying for the final roles. It will be fun and there will be lots of footage to post here when we are finished, along with cast list and more. I know I have been promising everyone some cool video footage and i keep missing my dates. Jeesh! With all the developments, twists, and turns, it has been fun keeping up with just that. I WILL GET VIDEO UP this week, a couple of things before the actual video rehearsals. So staaaaayyy tuuuuunnnnneedd!!!

TT everyone real soon,

David Lytle

DISTORTION - Pre-Production #3

Independent Film Making is the wave that everyone is riding!

Hello all,

Just wanted to touch base and let everyone know that we have extended the schedule in order to get a better project. We will be shooting the weekend of the 25th - 28th as well as the 9th-11th. This gives us a reasonable schedule to accomplish everything that we need to. As well as really get the rehearsals and stunt scenes established, without rushing. Everybody is feeling the weight of that one weekend melting off their shoulders now and we will all be much less stressed and pressed to get an hour and twenty minutes of screen time in that one compressed weekend.

We can also commit the time and effort into the behind the scenes blog to get what we really wanted out of it. Lots of Video and Photos. Not all diary. Been hectic trying to shoot footage for the webumentary, write the script, shoot behind the scene material, cast, etc with the little time we had. Was going to be more of just the shoot than we originally planned.

Now it can be spread out much better.The blog has changed addresses for the new shoot as well. You can access the old blog from the new site in the links. But all the new stuff will be at this address.....

http://www.bakedmind.blogspot.com/

Our Myspace is up and rolling now and can be checked out at...

http://www.myspace.com/bakedmindfilms

This weekend lots of new posts will be occurring, especially come SUNDAY so check it out then.

For now keep on shooting, keep on writing, and creating!!

David Lytle

DISTORTION - Pre-Production #2

Ben Bachelder & David Lytle of Baked Mind Films

Hello all, been a couple of days and things are really getting down to the nitty gritty. Last night I spent a couple of hours talking to my camcorder to do the first Video Interview. Ever try doing an interview with yourself? It was funny as hell, could not keep a straight face, let alone, get my lines down. Worked on till 2:00 am. Think I'll put up a bunch of it for laughs. Just basically doing an intro to Behind the Mind and what we hope to accomplish with this Documentary.

Final casting is happening this week. Have a couple of players for the final roles, that should work great. I reshaped the script a bunch in the end to give it more bite. We have a stunt crew working on the script, if we can implement a couple of good stunts into the film. Had to work hard to create scenes that would make sense and be amplified buy stunt work. Think I pulled it off well. The location of the main part of the film is my house ( My Wife is thrilled ) wait till she sees the splatter of blood on the wall for the opening scene, probably end up sleeping in the backyard for a while. It's not small, but it's not all that big, yeah.. that's how I'll play it.. Till we shoot it. Then bigger the better.. OOps, probably should erase this part. NAAA.

The basic premise to the film is as follows...What if you woke up with total and complete amnesia. Not knowing where you were, who you were, and why on earth you had a gun in your hand. Add to the mix that you are bleeding from a wound to your head and the power is flickering on and off from one of the worst storms in the cities history. There are moments of complete light only intermittently, making you have to dig through the amnesia and the darkness to find out just what happened. Add a dead body to the mix, with a bullet hole right between the eyes and your pulse is racing now. All this would be bad enough... What if your weren't alone in the dark?That's all ya get... I'll be posting an edited version of the Video Introduction by Friday night. Wasn't able to film the last couple of lines. You know I truly know what a schizophrenic person feels like after the interview with myself. Oh well. Until Friday Night!!

David

DISTORTION - Pre-Production #1

Background from Pyzam.com

DISTORTION set to shoot in Las VegasThe back up film to AFTER DARK is fully Greenlit. What can we say, things in the Film Industry happen, dates change, things change, constantly. At this point DISTORTION a Suspense/Thriller in the tradition of Memento and Sixth Sense is the A #1 project now. The script is finished. The Crew is finalized, the cast is just about set.

Two more roles to fill. We have posts on MANDY and CRAIGSLIST LAS VEGAS to finish these off. Totally believe that we will have these cast here in the next two days. Also next post will be our first Video Broadcast Upload. It will consist of a quick interview with Writer/ Director David Lytle on the issues so far and pushing forward on DISTORTION. Look out for this one should be cool.Photos of locations, sets, storyboards, soon to follow as we crank it up and get this documentary really flowing. Tune in next couple of days for the first video interview.
TT everyone soon..

News Flash - New Site for the New Movie

Transition over to New Blog - Bringing over a few
of the old ones.. Baked Mind can now be found at
www.bakedmind.blogspot.com

Well things have taken a dramatic turn. We have officially had to put AFTER DARK on the back burner for now. Our Producer, supplying our location, has the Ranch rented for the weekend of our shoot. This being the second time we have had to reschedule with our very large cast and crew, we feel that it is only fair to put this off until we have a SET DATE, which we thought we did.We do have a back up plan and it is now in full effect. We have a second script that can be shot in the same time period, a quick 4 day shoot. It was slated to be our next project and now has been bumped up to the front of the line. DISTORTION is a six sense type Psychological Thriller, but filled with more action. The plot is very original, with many twists and turns, that we feel will really rocket and make this a very engaging film.We will be shooting this in Las Vegas, it is a three location project, and we will still do the Webumentary for this film. This will become a trademark of ours, every film will have it's Webumentary online. This one will have much more behind the scenes video and photos from the set, so it will be much more updated. Every day from this point we will be blogging with what is happening. We have the time to make this Webumentary really detailed and chalk full of great video and photos. So stayed tuned, tonight I will get the first official Pre-Production #1 for DISTORTION up and running. Hope you all stay tuned, this is going to be a much more fun ride!David Lytle