The scientists at team Cherry Bomb are currently exploring several different options for the gunshot effects that we will need in the film. This particular example demonstrates a low cost, non-pyro method. You’ll see that the trickle effect works well but the initial burst of blood as the bullet makes entry will need to be more violent and spread out. Back to the lab…
Archive for the ‘Pre-Production’ Category
Fun with squibs!
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009Cherry Bomb giving back…
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
One of the side projects we are planning to achieve during the filming of Cherry Bomb is giving back to the Austin Community. On one of our off days from shooting, the cast and crew is planning to go volunteer our time to a charitable cause. So, what do we need from you? We’d like suggestions as to what charity/volunteer organization you’d like to see us contribute our time to. (Keep in mind, this won’t be until September, so we won’t have our crew around to help out at the Cancer Research bake sale this weekend.)
Party Like Its 1984…
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
Cherry’s story is set in 1984. The year George Orwell feared. Ronald Reagan crushed Walter Mondale in the Presidential Election. Apple slammed a sledgehammer into Big Brother. Transformers aired on TV. We’re going to recreate that world for our film. We wanted to open up a discussion and see what you think of when you think 1984 in pop culture, fashion, sports, music and everything else to best help us recreate that world. Chime in below in the comments section! Post links, pictures, whatever helps you show/describe how you think 1984 looks.
Putting a little Red into our Cherry…?
Monday, May 11th, 2009While trying to solicit investors for Cherry Bomb, we’re working on multiple fronts to fill out our cast and crew. For our opening strip club scene, we’re hoping to pepper the room with Austin celebrities. Through the magic of Twitter, we may have landed the biggest fish for that scene…
Harry Knowles, founder and Head Geek of Ain’t It Cool News, sent us the following Tweet:
headgeek666@cherrybombfilm drop me an email at (Email address) and we’ll talk about scheduling - sounds fun.
Big Red has been the face of the Austin film scene since Ain’t It Cool News started up in the late 1990’s. Harry has been a driving force in fan-film interaction, pulling back the black curtain behind the magic of big budget movies and trumpeting the Austin film scene. We are honored to have Harry take an interest in our film!
Bloody good time
Monday, April 27th, 2009Whether Cherry is using a high-powered sniper rifle or a simple nail-gun, she deserves nothing but the best and that is why we have signed on the very talented and experienced Hawgfly Productions, Inc to do all of Cherry Bomb’s blood effects. They have an extremely impressive resume that includes Grindhouse and the most recent Friday the 13th so we are excited to see what they can do with Cherry’s special brand of high caliber “justice.” ~www.hawgfly.com~
Brief video that Kyle shot at the Hawgfly workshop:
Cherry Bomb gets a little Raw…
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009In times of great need, one needs great allies. Cherry’s closest friend is a fellow dancer named Sapphire. If Cherry was described as “the Girl Next Door”, Sapphire would be “the girl you had pictures of plastered on your walls as a teenager”. We have a wonderful woman reading the script right now for that part…
Miss Torrie Wilson of WWF/WWE fame. (She was on WWF Raw, hence the title of this post). You can look her up on youtube and find any number of videos filled with reasons why she would be such a welcome addition to this project! She is just down the road in Houston and we’re hoping she loves the script like we do.
DP Madness!
Friday, April 3rd, 2009We’re on the hunt for a great Director of Photography for Cherry Bomb. We’ve had people from coast to coast send us their reels and it’s clear that there is a lot of talented people out there. What is a Director of Photography/Cinematographer?
A cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera (the art and science of which is known as cinematography). The title is generally equivalent to director of photography (DP or DoP), used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image. The term cinematographer has been a point of contention for some time now; some professionals insist that it only applies when the director of photography and camera operator are the same person, although this is far from being uniformly the case. To most, cinematographer and director of photography are interchangeable terms.
We’re talking with people fresh out of UT, all the way up to people with 30 years of experience. Currently we’ve gone through about 20+ reels. It’s more difficult then it sounds:
Wow - no more DP ness, I just finished - I have swirls of youtube and vimeo reels
OK, 3 1/2 hours later I have gone through every DP, every reel, and every resume…. off to bed, my eyes hurt like hell.
Now it comes down to finding someone who meshes with our vision of the film, the production schedule, and price range. Wish us luck!
2nd Teaser Trailer…
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009Through hailstorms, editing problems and a total inability to encode our teaser in flash… we persevered… And now, without further ado, here is the sexy new teaser trailer… for Cherry Bomb…
New Footage update
Friday, March 27th, 2009The new footage we were hoping to have today has been delayed due to other projects and the hailstorms. We should have the new footage filmed and ready mid-next week. Stay tuned…
ESPN + Cherry Bomb…?
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
As Cherry Bomb continues on her pre-production path, Garrett has been documenting his experiences as writer and producer for a special project…
(From ESPN’s highly downloaded “Fantasy Focus Podcast“)
That means, our little film, right about the time post production is finishing up, could be featured on that little cable station called ESPN. We have high hopes that this free publicity will lead to increased revenue, contact with distributors and cast and crew for sequels and upcoming projects. Garrett filmed meetings with effects teams, behind the scenes of shooting the teaser trailer and all sorts of fun stuff for this documentary. We’ll keep you updated on the progress of this as well as the progress of Cherry Bomb.
