Still Working on Kinonation Deliverables

I've filled out all the forms on Kino but here's something that's sucking right now.

SRT files.

You have to have one for the deliverables. An SRT file is the file used to display subtitles when people speak.

For instance, this is how some of mine looks:

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00:10:11,230 --> 00:10:13,711
You know, they think it'll
lead back to drugs,
which is

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00:10:14,062 --> 00:10:14,985
total bullshit man.

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00:10:18,202 --> 00:10:19,118
I ain't going back to that.

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00:10:24,102 --> 00:10:25,377
What's up guys?

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00:10:29,812 --> 00:10:32,477
See, the drug thing's why I
can't carry a gun like the
rest of them.

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00:10:33,154 --> 00:10:35,886
I got a conviction so it's
against the law for me.

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00:10:37,122 --> 00:10:39,021
So, uh...

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00:10:40,034 --> 00:10:41,282
I get the pepper spray.

So I had a dialogue spotting list for Bounty, but it was never exact(and it also applied to a file that had a Universal Counting Leader), so what I'm having to do is play the movie on VLC, trying to note when they say a line--beginning and end.

Then go over and add those times to that line in the text file. Note--VLC doesn't display milliseconds, so you're guestimating numbers. You save that text file, then reload it into VLC and check to see if you're exactly right.

You never are. Let me just say, I'm at the 11 minute mark in the movie and I've spent about six hours working on it. It's the worst thing ever.

Gonna put quite a delay in this...

Bounty & Kinonation

I did a pretty extensive post on our current attempts to get Bounty a wider release, and rather than reprint it here I'll just give you the link to check it out:

http://indyfilmmakeradvs.blogspot.com/2015/02/kinonation-update-1.html?showComment=1425898625567#c102510053496730062

But here's the new Bounty poster by Erik Ashley, which you can find more info about on the link above!!

Bounty "Making Of" Clip 4 Starring Tom Proctor

Clip 4 from the "Making Of" Bounty, where we are confronted by cops, firemen, and police choppers...

Clip 3 of the Making Of "Bounty"!

Clip 2 of the "Making Of" Bounty! Never Before Seen!

Feast your eyes on another clip, this one I just uploaded today!

Part 1 Video of "The Making Of Video"

This is part 1 of the Making Of Bounty.

October 11, 2008: It's About To Begin

Things To Come...

Me in the center, Chris O'Brocki crouched, and some extras who came out to help.

October 11, 2008

Okay, 1 day away from shooting. Not near ready, really.

The night after he had surgery Tom called me in a drugged haze from his hospital bed to tell me not to worry. He would be out  on time, ready to shoot. He was so out of it the whole thing would be funny if I didn't have so much banking on this.

Last week he called back to tell me not to worry. It was still on and nothing could stop him from coming. The guy's awesome.

He's as good as his word. Shows up, we get him situated in the house he's going to share with his fellow bounty hunter actors, and I decide that we need to dye his hair a darker color.

We hit the mall where we pick a color to dye it to, the guy at the hair dressers dyes it, and his hair is black as coal(when we picked a dark brown). Oh well, guess we're gonna roll with it.

Anyway...

Through creative storytelling we somehow got a Balt Co film permit. It's pretty funny, really. Doesn't even have the name of our flick on it.

Yes, I lied to get it. I do that sometimes.

Even funnier--I'm starting to suspect we won't need. it. We've been to the Balt location a couple of times now, including twice with my guy dressed as a bounty hunter, and four times the cops have slowed down, looked at us, and sped off.

THEN tonight Tom and I go out driving for some more B-roll and he cuts a cop off(without knowing it was a cop), so the cop pulls us over. I'm shooting from the passenger seat, no seatbelt, special lighting in the car so Tom's visible. I wish I had kept shooting, but I was scared we were about to get hit with the riot act.

One cop on my side, one on the other. The cops look in, see Tom, and one goes, "Oh, bail enforcement." They take a very cursory look at my lead actor's driver's license, and the one cop goes: "So you're filming some stuff huh? You guys should go down the street, make a left on X street, then a right on Y street. You'll get some good stuff there."

Then they took off. Crazy.