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LATEST NEWS
08.10.2006 The Unwrapped trailer has joined the YouTube generation -- you can see it (again) HERE. 08.01.2006 Unwrapped has been added to the lineup at this year's PCT Film Night fundraiser, to benefit Pacifica Community Television on August 25, 2006. 06.30.2006 The Capricorn Entertainment website is now live -- 04.14.2006 Unwrapped had it's hometown premeire in one of the film's locations -- the Sanchez Concert Hall, which served briefly as the location where Carly met Joe. The turnout and hometwon support was strong and enthusiastic. Introduced by Bay Area broadcast legend John Staney and executive producer Martin Anaya, the screening with followed by a Q&A featruring co-writers and directors Dennis Willis and Steven kirk and Carly herself, Kristina Hughes. 03.31.2006 Unwrapped premeired at the Sacramento International Film Festival at the T Street Theatre in Sacramento. In attendence were writer-director Dennis Willis, co-producer Amy Romano, directior of photography Andy Pavis, co-producer Christopher Vogan, executive producer Martin Anaya, and composer Tom Kidding. CLICK HERE or HERE to see the Q&A SESSION that followed the screening. 02.20.2006 The world premeire of Unwrapped is scheduled for Friday, March 31st at the Sacramento International Film Festival at the T Street Theatre in Sacramento. Unwrapped will screen with Year, a feature selection directed by Mike Carroll. For more information, visit sacramentofilmfestival.com 02.17.2006 At this point, the movie is done, save for a few visual tweaks. With the help of digital matte artist Kira Hammond, co-producer Christopher Vogan's face is removed from a reflection in a mirror on the set. As well, a visible light stand is digitally removed; and a background is softened for greater effect. 02.10.2006 Sound mixing is completed. The last few touches are made to the score. 01.15.2006 Composer Tom Kidding screens the film with a full score for Dennis Willis and Steven Kirk, and notes are made about the next pass. Music is at about 85%. 01.13.2006 The final After Effects shot is finished and a digital work print is created for final sound mixing. Credits are also finalized and created. 12.30.2005 Composing begins. Pick-ups are shot, completing two sequences that needed visual clarification. 11.21.2005 Composer Tom Kidding purchases his new Apple Power Mac G5 Quad, which will become a vital piece of equipment used for the composition. 09.15.2005 Sound mixer Robert Krueger begins work on smoothing out the dialogue audio. Since composing won't start for a couple of months, this is the last major action for the film before a post-production hiatus. 9.02.2005 Unwrapped Co-Director Dennis Willis is the featured speaker at the NORTHERN CALIFORNIA WRITERS & FILMMAKERS meeting. This session will be featured in the podcast selection. 8.24.2005 The TRAILER is mentioned in the 8.24 edition of PACIFICA TRIBUNE: HERE or HERE. 8.23.2005 The TRAILER will debut as part of PCT's Film Night fundraiser on Friday, August 26th. At 100 seconds, the challenge was to entice without revealing much - after all, the running time will be only 18 minutes! 8.19.2005 The running time is now 17:00, including opening credits. 8.10.2005 Editing has commenced! The first pass was 20 minutes, then 19, then 18:31. After a day of break, the running time is 18:00, including 40 seconds of credits at the beginning. Two scenes hit the cutting room floor: the failed relationship montage is gone, as is about thirty seconds on the couch after the opening scene. 8.03.2005 All the footage is in the Avid. The performances are great, the shots 8.01.2005 Filming on UNWRAPPED has wrapped, pardon the pun. An amazing weekend filled with the requisite challenges, conflicts and drama of a film shoot! But in the end, we shot 70+ different set-ups on four sets. 7.30.2005 One last set-up: the stage at the Sanchez Art Center in which Carly meets Joe. The crew is wrapped, except for Kristina, Steve, Dennis and Amy, who break back into the hotel room to take the "website photos" of Carly. A quick meal at Raymond's Chinese restaurant and everyone's off. 7.29.2005 A minor miracle of a shoot day: We covered everything else, with the exception of the theatre shots. First the opening, shot from a wheelchair (thank you Robert Rodriguez...), the couch, the table, the overheads, the dance, and the finale BEFORE heading over to the Salada Beach Cafe, the oldest building in Pacifica and a coffee house by day. For our purposes, our amazing crew transformed the place into a seedy bar complete with smoke. 7.28.2005 First up, Kristina once again in front of a bathroom mirror, this time with Carly preparing for her final act, and then processing her fight with Joe. The first real scene between Kristina and Paolo will be the revelation scene, which moved from being staged in the living room to the kitchen two weeks prior to shooting. We shoot the energy from may angles, two ways -- meek and feral. This combination will serve us well in editing in crafting a flow. The kitchen scene runs long so we change our plan of attack and decide to shoot all the living room scenes tomorrow. Everything else in (and out) of the house will be shot today. The march out, the hallway, the porch. 7.27.2005 Arrival at Executive Producer Jeff Gracia's house, which will double as Joe's house. The crew begins blocking off the huge picture windows with duvatine and black drapes to simulate night. The table read happens, followed by the first shots, a quick montageof Joe at the computer that will serve as half the bridging sequence between the past scenes and the present. Then the fun begins: The crew (of ten) files into a small hotel room and converts it. Before the end of the night, room 428 will serve as Carly's office, Carly's bedroom, the Spring Break hotel room, and we'll get some shots of Carly and Harry French in the bathroom in front of the mirror. By midnight, we've got 15 shots in the can, 60 more to go. 7.26.2005 Steve Kirk (co-writer/co-director), Paolo Cascardo (Joe) and Kristina Hughes (Carly) arrive from Los Angeles. The crew begins setting up the equipment. Kristina and Dennis Willis (co-writer/co-director) go over Carly's warddrobe. |