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 | | | STARRING: | | | | | Morris Gammons Randy Gloria The Boss Alicia Gammons Cupid Overboard Voice Delivery Man Carrier Pigeon | RICK STEADMAN BRIAN DARE JENNY UM KILLEBREW-MASON BETHY POLUIKIS MIKE HOVER DEON VOZOV KARL HERTZ LUCKY | | | | Extras | GRAEME FINLAYSON
MELISSA FRIEDMAN
ROSEMARIE GRIFFIN
PATRICK ANDREW HIGGINS
STACY LELAND
SHANNON LILLY
LISA MCFADDEN WHALEY
CLAUDIA NAVARRO
JUSTIN PEASE
CAROLINE REDEKOPP | | | Synopsis | | |
Morris Gammons is a good man. A good hard working man who loves
his wife and new baby. All he has to do is turn in 'the numbers' to his boss.
But in today's inescapable technology age, he can't find a moments peace, which
drives him over the edge. | | | The story behind "Undisconnected" By Steven Karageanes | | | "Undisconnected" was originally written three years ago, out of my frustration as a doctor having to carry a pager, use a smartphone, check a work email that didn't link with my personal email and have three different office numbers. Other hospitals gave doctors Pal Treos, which everyone thought was noble and wonderful -- until they realized that the phone were actually electronic tethers, making it impossible to escape the office. So, I wrote about man versus technology, but with technology playing dirty. | | | BLOG Melissa Friedman Pre-production Blog November 18, 2010 | | | *Congrats to Jenny Um who won a year membership to thecastingdirector.com | | | | | |
“Undisconnected” is happening too smoothly to be named Undisconnected…. but doesn’t that mean, connected? | | | | | | Yesterday we went on a location scout for the two main locations. Our DP and Director are completely in sync with each other on how we are going to make this happen. We have a great cast that met this past Tuesday for the read through and we were all rolling with laughter. There is no doubt that this short is going to be great! | | | | | | One of the biggest challenges is finding a carrier pigeon and it looks like we are close to securing our animal friend. But the craziest thing we need to do is purchase two urinals. Never thought I’d ever have to say that! As a Producer, it’s crazy sometimes what you have to do to get a project done and done right. But you do what you have to do! | | | | | | Carrie Lynn Certa Production Blog December 10, 2010 | | | | | | Wow… what was that?!?! | | | | | | I’ve finally recuperated from the night that was the shoot but reflecting on it, wow. Every production has its highs. Every production has its lows. This was no exception. Giselle, who is the coordinator on another short, stepped up for “Undisconnected” and got our carrier pigeon, who is named Lucky. (Wish she had brought us more luck!) | | |   | | | (Carrie Certa, Melissa Friedman, Lucky, Magic and Rick Steadman) The night started out with a few frustrated tears, which was a layover from the previous night. But my support team quickly went into action to make sure things moved quickly. Graeme and Karl, the AD staff, was fantastic and I know if there were not there, things would have been a whole lot worse. | | | | | | Morris’ big exit scene from the film took a full six hours to shoot. That was half our day in the office location… and it’s now midnight. Our saving grace was having a second camera last minute that Co-Producer, Melissa, was able to wrangle. This big run around the office also resulted in a badly bruised foot on our lead actor, Rick, from tripping on his pants as he strips down in the scene. A heart stopping moment, to say the least. This guilt ridden producer is still terribly sorry days later. Rick stuck it out as he hobbled around and even did a couple more runs around the office. (Please give him a hug when you see him!) | | | | | | But the show went on and we were now in the Morris’ office for the rest of the film and the ten-hour planned day turned in to twelve very quickly. The fog spray used to fog the windows to avoid their high reflection ended in a hell of a clean up job. The actors, the PA and myself included, took a good scrub to the three windows affected. Then a coffee pot got broken and to end it all, a circuit breaker blew and we had no way of getting to the box to fix it before the office occupants returned. | | | | | | Melissa and I tried to stick it out until someone arrived to take care of it but both of us were dog tired and headed back to her house for an hour’s nap before continuing on with the next day. (We were already running on 3 hours sleep from the shoot/night before so running on fumes is an accurate description for both of us.) | | | | | | But that’s the bad news. | | |  | | | (Carrie Certa, Mike Hover, Devin Daley, Brian Dare and Graeme Finlayson) The good news is… the actors nailed it. We were all laughing between takes and even at four in the morning, were rolling when Cupid, Mike Hover, hits on one of our leads and when the eager office staff comes running to Morris’ aid but is quickly shut down. We had to take a breather between takes for people to stop laughing. (This scene is filled with our fabulous hero of a crew: Melissa (Co-Producer), Graeme (1st AD), Lisa (Wardrobe), Karl (2nd AD) and Amy (AC) along with our star actors. | | |   | | | (Justin Pease and then the cast and crew helping with the window clean up!) But I must say, our hero of the shoot was a PA. Yep, a PA. There are no small jobs, people. Justin Pease was on top of everything and worked so hard to get the fogging agent off the windows. He’s already on the top of my list of hires on my next job and I hope yours too! | | | | | | Carrie Lynn Certa Production Blog March 2, 2011 | | | And that is a WRAP!!! This past weekend I was able to shoot my last pickups on Undisconnected. WHAT a feeling. I received a little extra help from Steven over at BFX Imageworks to get the last shot of my dreams, even though it took a frozen actor to do it! Once again, rain was not our friend but to my good fortune, the torrential downpour stopped long enough for our 6:30 am call. Poor Rick had to lay in his boxers on the frozen ground to get the last shot of the film but he was trooper and did it. To end our amazing shoot was a gift from the heavens... snow. As we were wrapping the gear we were greeted with the most beautiful of snow falls. The big puffy flakes had all of us laughing, texting, calling and dancing. It was a wonderful way to end the shoot. And so, to end this blog (until the edit blog) I unveil the movie poster. Enjoy! | | | | | | Carrie Lynn Certa Production Blog March 22, 2011 | | | I have to say that I've just seen the best rough cut I think I've ever seen. Wesley didn't deliver a rough but more of a fine cut. I was rolling with laughter. It was brilliant! I really can not wait to show you come July! Now on the the SFX, the REALLY fun part!! | | | | | | Carrie Lynn Certa Production Blog April 15, 2011 | | | You'd think I'd be having a bad day with today being tax day and all but the reality is, I'm extremely happy! Lumeni Productions will be finalizing the graphics on "Undisconnected" for the Overboard sequence!! I'm super excited to see how this project ends up! | | | | | | Carrie Lynn Certa Production Blog July 2, 2011 - the last entry. | | | It's tough being a perfectionist. Frame by frame corrections can take hours or days to complete. Today was one of those days. I truly believe "Undisconnected" is worthy of a top tier film festival screening but that means that I need to do my own work and make it as perfect as I can get... and that's what I've been doing. Only one more fix which I can't do is finally completed. Unfortunately, my free favors have run out so I'm allowing myself to walk away with a solid short (except that one shot, ug). I am very proud of the work the actors, the editor, the colorist... everyone, has put into this short. We all will be holding up our heads high on July 28th. | | | CREW: | | | | Director of Photography | SHANELE ALVAREZ CAMERON CANNON | | | Camera Operator | MASON SEMBLE | | | 1st Assistant Camera | KASEY O'REILLY AMY WILK | | | 2nd Assistant Camera | KATHERINE ALVARADO | | | Key Grip | NATHAN MEADE | | | Grips | DEVIN DALEY JESSE SMITH RYAN LOMELI | | | Camera Provided by | EVS ONLINE | | | Wardrobe Designer | LISA MCFADDEN-WHALEY | | | Production Designer | PATRICK ANDREW HIGGINS | | | Still Photographer Poster Photographer | LARA SOLANKI SPENCER BRENNAN | | | Makeup & Hair | BEATRICE NAJERA
CLAUDIA NAVARRO CHARLOTTE SCOVILL | | | Editor | WESLY VARGHESE | | | Media Manager | SHANNON LILLY | | | Sound Mixer & Boom | DOUGLAS EDWARD MICHAEL HUANG | | | Sound Mixer | BANK GHINVATGHANA | | | Boom Operator | DANIEL MACABUHAY | | | Audio Assistant | BRIAN LUI | | | Audio Mixer & Sound Designer | ANDY HURTADO | | | Visual Effects | LUMENI PRODUCTIONS MARY BEH | | | Script Supervisor | ANNA STARZYK | | | 1st AD | GRAEME FINLAYSON | | | 2nd AD | KARL HERTZ | | | Casting Provided by | THECASTINGDIRECTOR.COM | | | Production Assistants | JUSTIN PEASE COURTNEY SHANE | | | | | | | FILMED ENTIRELY IN LOS ANGELES, CA | | | | | | | Music by | DEON VOZOV | | | Bird Wrangler | MAJED “MAGIC” DAKDOUK | | | Picture Car Provided by | DOMINIC MAH | | | Catering Provided by | FERN FRIEDMAN | | | Special Thanks | ACTION ON FILM FESTIVAL PANDORA CERTA LU DUFFY ZADRINA EISENMANN FERN FRIEDMAN STEPHEN FRIEDMAN KYLE HESTER CHARLES NOH SAINT LUKES OF THE MOUNTAINS SAN GABRIEL – HILTON MARK SHELTON DAVE SZAMET MICHAEL VALENTINO | | | | | | | No animals were harmed in the making of this film. Actors,... well, that's a different story. | | | | | | | | COPYRIGHT 2011 © | |
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