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Marriage (2012)Plot Summary:The story of a young couples' marriage from engagement till bitter end.
Crew:Writer, Director, Producer, Editor, Sound Editor, and Director of Photography: Tyler Moore
Producer: Kevin Faust Make-up Artist & Production Assistant: Lacie Wallace Cast:David Cantu as Michael
Kevin Faust as Lilly Tyler Moore as George Lacie Wallace as Beverly |
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Behind the Scenes Photos:
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Behind the Scenes & Bloopers (Part 1 & 2):
Written Commentary:
This one was odd from the start. I started this off in a discussion of gay marriage rights. In fact, that's what the short was originally about. It was about Kevin and I getting married and it would just be completely normal. But this didn't really take off.
This all soon changed when we decided we wanted Kevin in drag. The idea officially took off from there. It was going to be a 3 minute sketch where plain and simple Kevin (dressed as a woman) & I get married and it all falls apart really fast.
So after a long time of not really getting around to it, at one point actually dropping the project entirely, then casting problems and all sorts of other fun things, we started production.
The first day of production was pretty hectic and had a lot of running around. I had to go get a print out of the script, then Lacie came over, we went to the store to get some glasses for my character George. Then Kevin came over and Lacie did his make up. After some more running around and grabbing things, David was ready (later than he said he'd be. That's our David), so we picked him up and headed to our set.
Our set for the day was a church I used to go to so I know people there that would let us film there for free. It served as the set for the restaurant Michael proposes to Lilly at and the office that George and Michael work at.
In the restaurant scene it was a little bit difficult to shoot. We had no extras because I didn't think to make a last minute casting call for extras needed so we couldn't show much of the background as to not hint that apparently NO ONE ELSE WOULD EAT HERE! As you can see in the Behind the Scenes pictures, there was a painting on the wall of a big red bus. Why? I don't know. So I had to avoid showing that too. The no one there problem could be solved by simply adding some ambient noise of people talking in the background.
Things were just as crazy in the office room. Only because we were running out of time and there was no way we were going to film on that set again any time soon. So we had to breeze through all of the shots, actually causing me to miss some. But we made it work.
So almost two months passed between the first day of shooting and the second. The reason being that David and I could never really get in touch. David was super busy with stuff and scheduling around that was a pain in the ass. But after a lot of waiting and working on other stuff, we finally scheduled a shooting day to finish it all off.
So the second day began. During the break, I had gotten my first job as an over night stockman at WalMart. So basically, I got off at 7am that morning and went to bed, planning to sleep until 1pm and then get together with Lacie at 2 to get everything set up and ready to go. Instead, I was woken up a few minutes early by Lacie texting me saying she was coming over early and my time to stretch and get fully awake was cut short. At 3 everything was good to go and we started shooting all of the scenes that took place at Michael & Lilly's house. That was knocked out pretty fast. Soon after, we headed over to the set for George & Beverly's house. This took a while. We had to take down pictures from walls, make sandwiches and set a table. Meanwhile, I constantly realized I was forgetting things at home and through the course of set up, I had to drive back home twice.
We shot those scenes over a couple of hours and returned to my house to film the ending scene and a couple shots for the "dissection scene".
There were a few extra shots I needed, such as most of the shots in the dissection scene (basically any of them without David or Kevin's faces), the panning shot of my house, and of course, the shower scene...
FUN FACT: The silhouette of Lilly behind the curtain in the shower scene is actually me with the wig on. However, the crying sounds are still Kevin. It was audio taken from a different scene.
The editing process was pretty on and off because I could only do certain things at certain times, but it took about 6 days. That's a lot compared the usual 1 or 2.
But it got done. As for a script to screen comparison, everything except for the dissection scene and the scene where Michael confronts George and Beverly are the same. The differences with those scenes is that I removed the dialogue from the dissection scene to speed up the pace and make it more confusing. As for the Michael killing George & Beverly scene, it is a bit shorter than it was in written form. This was not on purpose. During filming, we forgot to shoot half of the lines from David's angle. The way we shoot things, we take it a few lines at a time or until someone forgets what they are supposed to say. So we only had my angle and it would have had a lot of cuts. Scheduling re-shoots for that bit would have been insane, so the scene was cut down. It lost a bit of tension and a few really good lines, but it still works. It was my favorite scene in the script. My favorite scene on film is the ending. I'm very pleased with how it all came together. That is of course subject to change.
But what else can I say? We had a crazy idea, I set out to write a script that no one will like, it was a risky film to shoot and probably won't get me any where, but I think it was worth doing.
This all soon changed when we decided we wanted Kevin in drag. The idea officially took off from there. It was going to be a 3 minute sketch where plain and simple Kevin (dressed as a woman) & I get married and it all falls apart really fast.
So after a long time of not really getting around to it, at one point actually dropping the project entirely, then casting problems and all sorts of other fun things, we started production.
The first day of production was pretty hectic and had a lot of running around. I had to go get a print out of the script, then Lacie came over, we went to the store to get some glasses for my character George. Then Kevin came over and Lacie did his make up. After some more running around and grabbing things, David was ready (later than he said he'd be. That's our David), so we picked him up and headed to our set.
Our set for the day was a church I used to go to so I know people there that would let us film there for free. It served as the set for the restaurant Michael proposes to Lilly at and the office that George and Michael work at.
In the restaurant scene it was a little bit difficult to shoot. We had no extras because I didn't think to make a last minute casting call for extras needed so we couldn't show much of the background as to not hint that apparently NO ONE ELSE WOULD EAT HERE! As you can see in the Behind the Scenes pictures, there was a painting on the wall of a big red bus. Why? I don't know. So I had to avoid showing that too. The no one there problem could be solved by simply adding some ambient noise of people talking in the background.
Things were just as crazy in the office room. Only because we were running out of time and there was no way we were going to film on that set again any time soon. So we had to breeze through all of the shots, actually causing me to miss some. But we made it work.
So almost two months passed between the first day of shooting and the second. The reason being that David and I could never really get in touch. David was super busy with stuff and scheduling around that was a pain in the ass. But after a lot of waiting and working on other stuff, we finally scheduled a shooting day to finish it all off.
So the second day began. During the break, I had gotten my first job as an over night stockman at WalMart. So basically, I got off at 7am that morning and went to bed, planning to sleep until 1pm and then get together with Lacie at 2 to get everything set up and ready to go. Instead, I was woken up a few minutes early by Lacie texting me saying she was coming over early and my time to stretch and get fully awake was cut short. At 3 everything was good to go and we started shooting all of the scenes that took place at Michael & Lilly's house. That was knocked out pretty fast. Soon after, we headed over to the set for George & Beverly's house. This took a while. We had to take down pictures from walls, make sandwiches and set a table. Meanwhile, I constantly realized I was forgetting things at home and through the course of set up, I had to drive back home twice.
We shot those scenes over a couple of hours and returned to my house to film the ending scene and a couple shots for the "dissection scene".
There were a few extra shots I needed, such as most of the shots in the dissection scene (basically any of them without David or Kevin's faces), the panning shot of my house, and of course, the shower scene...
FUN FACT: The silhouette of Lilly behind the curtain in the shower scene is actually me with the wig on. However, the crying sounds are still Kevin. It was audio taken from a different scene.
The editing process was pretty on and off because I could only do certain things at certain times, but it took about 6 days. That's a lot compared the usual 1 or 2.
But it got done. As for a script to screen comparison, everything except for the dissection scene and the scene where Michael confronts George and Beverly are the same. The differences with those scenes is that I removed the dialogue from the dissection scene to speed up the pace and make it more confusing. As for the Michael killing George & Beverly scene, it is a bit shorter than it was in written form. This was not on purpose. During filming, we forgot to shoot half of the lines from David's angle. The way we shoot things, we take it a few lines at a time or until someone forgets what they are supposed to say. So we only had my angle and it would have had a lot of cuts. Scheduling re-shoots for that bit would have been insane, so the scene was cut down. It lost a bit of tension and a few really good lines, but it still works. It was my favorite scene in the script. My favorite scene on film is the ending. I'm very pleased with how it all came together. That is of course subject to change.
But what else can I say? We had a crazy idea, I set out to write a script that no one will like, it was a risky film to shoot and probably won't get me any where, but I think it was worth doing.