A few things what we have been doing and that.

Here's some shots that were edited to be all gory and such, they're not colour corrected and still need to be cut to match the pace of the opening, but you can still tell what they'd basically look like.






It doesn't matter that neither of these things would happen in real life because real life's boring and exploing heads are hilarious, as feedback we have received has unanimously shown.

Filming Plans

We are going to start filming t'film opening this weekend. We're filming at Owain Anderson's house and it will be mad skillz. We are going to have to get certain members of the cast to double up as certain people are useless and can't make it.

Storyboard

Here is our insanely long storyboard.

Buckets Of Dead Friends Storyboard

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It should be mentioned that Aidan wrote all the following stuff by the way, just so I don't go stealing credit and all that.


There are direct links between the stuff we used for research and our finished storyboard:

The shots of the standoff between Carlos and Lucifer, is a direct link to The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, and other Sergio Leone Spaghetti Wesetern films, which popularised the type of shot.

The sideways on tracking shot of Lucifer running across the table and firing the bananas is a spoof of the shot in Desperado in which Antonio Banderas runs across the table firing two pistols, with a similar style of shot. The whole scene is in someway influenced by Desperado.

The shot in which Lucifer shoots through one man's head to hit another is inspired by, if not a full recreation of, a shot from Wanted. However in Wanted the shot is a tracking shot (similar to the table running and shooting shot in this) and in ours it is a stationary long shot followed by a closed of the second man being hit.

Other elements of the storyboard are not direct references but are inspired by generic conventions of the "action" genre. For example, the midshot of the senorita winking after smacking a man with a frying pan is a convention that we lifted from action films, as there is often a humorous ending to action sequences.

 

Test Effects

In this post I will add effects that I have been testing. They're not perfect but will be more realistic in the final piece.

1. Head Explosion



I need to darken the neck gore and make the blood more realistic, but besides that there isn't really much to change in my opinion, though that may be wrong so say so if something looks lame.

MUSIC FOR BUCKETS OF DEAD FRIENDS

We decided for Buckets of Dead Friends to create our own music, possibly via guitar skillz but most likely via Mixcraft. The main influence on the style of music, will be the kinda stuff used in Spaghetti Westerns, the like of which Ennio Morricone and such like used to do. Also, the music that Robert Rodriguez wrote for Grindhouse, and the music of the fictional band Rudi and Spider (of The Mighty Boosh fame) will be an influence. We are getting our mate Joe Cooper to score Buckets of Dead Friends as he has some degree of musical ability unlike us.

Misce-en-Scene Inspiration Chitchat

This is a clip from The Mighty Boosh Episode "The Priest and the Beast". I popped this on the the blog because we were discussing that the mexican bar scene is a perfect representation of the kind of mise-en-scene we are trying to emulate. It is also made on fairly low budget with the "obviously fake" vibe we ere going for and contains similar styles of surrealism and humour.

Shot List

These are the shots that we are going to film:


Close-up (x 18)
Midshot (x 38)
Over The Shouldaz (x 3)
Dutch Angles (x 2)
Extreme Close Up (x 2)
Trackin' Shotz ( x 2)
and thats all folks