Last weekend I finally got to get behind the camera again. The shooting was for Craig Stagg’s upcoming new short “Fuck This Fucking Town” (which from this point forward will be abbreviated as FTF’NT). The movie is a romantic comedy about dating and relationships in Austin, TX.
We had 2 and a half days to shoot over 20 pages of script. I normally subscribe to the rule that 5 pages a day is a good number to shoot for, so this shoot required working fast and smart. The thing that allowed us to move faster than normal is that the final film will be completely animated via rotoscoping. This means that all the video footage will be drawn frame-by-frame by Craig and a team of animators. Craig was one of the animators who worked on Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly, so he knows a little bit about what he’s doing in this area.
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