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I immediately chose the script Nique and I wrote, and began gathering cast and crew. Adding fresh faces to the cast and crew, combined with old trustworthy friends made a great mix. Shooting was divided into three days. Day one, we shot at Bill's house for all of Benedict and Elwood's scenes. We had the most cast and crew that day, and worked straight through the day until the late evening. After finishing, the crew had minor celebrations with burgers and substances.
The last day of shooting was set in Grange Park, downtown in the heart of the city. The crew was Kirill, Amanda and myself. We shot the stuff with Amanda first and she went home, while Kirill and I continued filming Heppech's running scenes. I took a vow to quit smoking after running out of breath in two minutes, but we got it done in the end. We returned to the park a few days later, because Kirill knew someone who lived in a building overlooking the park. We got some shots from 15 stories up, but they will appear in the "Scope Version" of the film at a later date With the movie in the can, I spent many long nights perfecting the edit to the best of my ability. Kevin was able to work with the (bad) audio we had recorded, and mix it beyond my hopes had ever reached. Kirill was scoring it at the time, but when it became a race to the deadline and creative differences occured, I went with a back-up plan, and used some of the loops from The Perfect Sandwich to construct a musical overlay. Kirill's score will appear on his own version of the film, which he'll release at his own pace. But for another short film on the belt, French Onion was an incredibly fun and challenging project to complete. When it won in almost every category, I was floored. I had grown to love and then hate it through editing, but having that outside confirmation means a hell of a lot to me. It still would have been worth it, even if it didn't win... but fuck I love that icing on the cake. And so the story of French Onion comes to a close. Check it out above and let me know what you think! |
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Synopsis
French
Onion was the largest scale for a short I've ever directed, Clocking in at just
over 16mins, and taking 3 full days to shoot, it was certainly the most ambition
project since Macbeth 3000! But that's not how it started. It started when a
British writing counterpart of mine, Nique asked me if I'd like to collaborate
with him on a screenplay submission. I had already written 3 for the contest,
but have been wanting to do something with Nique for some time, so agreed. He
came up with the initial idea, and we spent lots of time batting it back and
forth, until we knew we had a script of tempered material. Lo and behold, the
script was one of three winners in the first round, and was green-lit for
production. At that point, multiple crews could choose from the 3 scripts to
shoot. 
The next day, Kirill came over to my place, and we shot Heppech's solo stuff,
with Amanda doing audio and reading lines for Rebecca so I could get the timing.
It was a quick set of takes, and we wrapped quickly. During the week, I went
over to Rebecca's house with the camera and mic and recorded her scenes and
voice-overs. Upon returning, and editing what I had, I realized I wanted more
dialogue for Rebecca, and did some ADR, putting my cell phone on speaker-mode
and pointing the mic at it, having her read some new lines. It worked pretty
well, so I did the same thing for Jenn and Rob's parts. 
Heppech... Denis Logan
Make-up: Jenn Vanassche