"Fellowship Swede 5" Chosen as Celtx POW!

This week's POW is a Lord of the Rings inspired film called "Fellowship Swede 5" from Daniel Loyd of Los Angeles, CA.

We caught up with Daniel and he had this to tell us about his about project and the production process:

"I'm a 31 year old producer/editor/director working in Los Angeles.  My friends and I got the inspiration from the movie "Be Kind Rewind", where they take favorite movies and remake them their own way. The point being, not to copy the film outright, but to make a script with only the moments that have stayed with you.  We wrote a 15 page script, hacked it down to 11 pages with lots of description, and started preproduction.

I've been watching celtx since it's first iteration (when it was just a blank page with html!), and was thrilled when it became a more full featured production program.  We used it extensively for our preproduction process, keeping track of our wardrobe, props, script versions and most excitingly, our location photos.  The collaboration was pretty essential as the two writers and I were in three different physical locations during preproduction.  

After three weeks of writing, making costumes and props and general prep, we shot the film over two days one weekend December 2007.  We started in a canyon park, but were shooed away by the locals.  We then moved to another park, and shot all our exteriors in 10 hours. Often going from one clearing to another.  The next day was interiors in my friends house where we turned her fireplace into bag end, her backyard into Elrond's council and her garage into Balin's tomb, the bridge of khazad-dum and Saruman's chamber.

We shot everything to the cut, and had a minimum of footage left over. Overall, two days, 20 hours, 200min of footage.  None of this could have happened without the contributions of everyone in the cast and crew. Film is truly collaborative and everyone left their mark on the finished film.

We shot on DV, the exteriors with natural light and bounce boards.  For the nteriors we had a mole-kit, with a fill and two spots (250k, 500k). 416Sennheiser audio into camera.  Edited on Final Cut Pro, Colored on Apple Color.  Mix on Final Cut Pro.

We debuted on Youtube in January and it's been doing great! You can check out the video on you tube and myspace, or check out more production stills here."

Great job gang! Very entertaining!

Michelle and the C-Team