Showing posts with label The Clockmaker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Clockmaker. Show all posts

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Never enough brains




Sometime in the summer after principal photography wrapped on "The Clockmaker", I decided that I was unhappy with the way the blood stain looked in the final scene after the main character commits suicide. I felt there weren't enough chunks of brain and skull mixed in with the blood when we originally shot it. We had filmed the scene in my apartment bathroom, so I was able to reshoot it easily. Late one night, I mixed up a batch of fake blood, set up the camera, and splattered it all over the door until I was satisfied. There are so many things that are out of your control when making a movie, it's important to fuss over the things you can to make them perfect. And this is how it ends. Everyone else has moved on and you're alone in your apartment, hoping that the mess you've made will make sense and that people notice that you took the time to make it.

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Year One


"The Clockmaker" 2004


Above is a still taken from the first setup of the first day of the first film Ten Sundays Productions ever made. The last Sunday in April, 2004 we began filming in the basement of my childhood home with an $800 camcorder. Underneath the sheet and holding his breath is co-producer Ian Albetski. Asking people to hold their breath is a common request when making a horror film. "The Clockmaker" was an extremely rough 16 minute regurgitation of far superior Hitchcock films and Edgar Allan Poe short stories. This blog will be dedicated to the production of Ten Sundays' newest horror film "Dysphonia", but to understand how that came to be it's important to start at the beginning.