Click the link above for the Bachelor Party in the Bungalow of the Damned production/post-production diary. I had no idea what I was in for when I started making the movie, and I hope that you'll be able to learn from the tons of mistakes I made before making them yourselves!
KITCHEN CHASE SCENE
This is a scene from the film that I'm particularly proud of because nothing went right on the day of the shoot: make-up took forever and we actually ended up losing the night, half of the shots were cut, and somehow we managed to not shoot a death sequence for Monique! Nobody's going to be begging me to do CGI on the next Avatar, but the truth is that we managed to finish the movie despite lacking a hell of a lot of the footage we required.
THE RED BAND TRAILER
This is the second trailer I cut for the movie, after the effects were done and I had finished composing the score. It suffers from the same flaws as the film itself, particularly in the bits where I cut in shots from the dreadfully underexposed Day For Night sequences. (I talk about this problem a bit in the Production Diary above, and at length in the book I've just finished writing: Trashy Movie Breakdown: Harnessing the power of pre-production on your first no-budget feature.) All the same, I suppose it did the job: the DVD has sold several thousand copies and there have been something like 90,000 VOD orders for the film!
THE FIRST TEASER
This is the trailer I put together shortly after finishing the rough cut, but before I had really started working on any of the visual effects for the film. Since it was taking me a bit longer than I'd expected to finish the movie, this was a way of telling the cast and crew, 'I swear to god that I'm not a deadbeat!'
