Life, Film, and Extras. Oh My!

Today marks the end of day 17 of principal photography for the film In Memory of the Days to Come. 

Whilst I was pooping, reminiscing upon this day of days, I couldn't help but think that this is the life. I'm not sure how or when it happened, but somewhere in between wipes it really sunk in that I love what I'm doing. There's something about New York too. It could be the ridiculously ego-centric way people here think the world revolves around them, but I'm not sure. I have to admit, there's an energy and feeling in the air that anything is possible. Well played empire state.

Now for some fun facts. Well, only two because I'm exhausted.

Fact #1:

On our production, we have a French director, a Spanish-by-way-of-Mexico assistant director, British script supervisor, Australian make-up designer, Irish producer, Israeli gaffer, and an American assistant camera [that's me]! Oh 21st century...

Fact #2:

My dear friend and former roomie Candice Chan, and her paler counterpart Darren Franich, graced our set as extras during the art gallery sequence. You can see them oh so quickly in this brief clip. They are the grey blur and such on the right side of the frame [sorry guys, couldn't find a better clip yet]. 

More pics/clips to come around the bend!

Life is good.

Lakes and Liars

Yo ho. So I lied about the whole "posting my own stuff here next." Whoops! Been crazy busy though, so haven't had as much time as I'd like to work on that front. And oh what a great lead-in to my next topic! You might ask, "Ryan, what have you been doing that you can't take some time out to make some pretty films/posts so that I may entertain myself watching/reading them." "Working as 1st A.C. on a rad film all day and all night," is what I might respond had this hypothetical question been posed to me by you. Yadadamean?

We're shooting all around NYC in different locations, but the last three or four days, we went upstate to a beautiful lakehouse. T'was breathtaking round those parts, but mostly because it was cold as balls. Did me a little bit of paddling on the lake, a little bit of wading in freezing water, but mostly just worked, worked, worked.

Will post more soon, but not sure how anti the film crew is about having pics/vids up on the intertubes about the film. So for now, it shall remain mysterious. Oh, except for another picture:

Featured Features & Wikipedia

See what I did with the blog post title? "Featured Features"?? Solid gold stuff right there!

In any case, just popping in for a quick update, so here it goes: the last week or two I've been working as an AC [Assistant Camera] on two independent feature films coming through the ole pipeline. One is for director Jean-Christian Bourcart called Memories of the Days to Come. I'm not going to try to explain it, but let's just say it's good and that visually, it deals with the blending of reality and perceived reality (JC's a pretty damn good photographer too so you should probably check out some of his photos since you aren't doing anything else right now).

The other feature is called 69 Love Stories by director Marc Lafia. The whole concept behind it is that it's a re-telling of the same 3-minute-or-so story in 69 similar locations with 69 different sets of actors, with each re-telling constituting its own "event story."

Even more interesting than that is Marc's Wikipeida article! It's massive! It's like 10x the size of my wikipedia article. Ok I don't have one... yet. One of my not-so-secret secret goals in life is to have a wikipedia article about me, not written by me. If you can help make this happen, I won't stop you. Also be sure to include a section that's called, "The Audry Hepburn years(s)." We all know that was a big one.

Also, please give some love to the DP [Director of Photography] I've been working with: Marcus Burnett. Mouse clicks/money/jobs will suffice. Annnnnd, I'm out.