Hello everybody, Welcome to the construction/production blog of the Brian Sarvis and Joe Carabeo’s next feature film, Help Wanted (Or whatever name it will become)
As we contemplate what the name will be. The 1/2 of the hosts for the lovable riot, The Carolyn and Joe Show, tells a very interesting story about names that she heard from thedollarbin.net
Thanks for tuning in. Catch us again next week.
Some people were wondering if there was “actually” a script to our feature film, Help Wanted (working title)
Well, here it is in all it’s bloody color glory.
If you’re interested in investing in our film or reading the script, please contact us at astrayproductions.com – our contact info is on the bottom of the page.
Thanks for checking out today’s blog post. Catch you next Wednesday.
Welcome back the Help Wanted (working title) feature film construction blog!
For those of you who haven’t checked out the past works of Brian Sarvis and Joe Carabeo, check out Astrayproductions.com
Now just before we head back into the door business from the last post, we have one last thing that’s been waiting forever to get done.
The Front counter.
VIDEO – Brain tells Joe to hold this.
VIDEO – Finally, the trim!
Back to the door adventure.
So we talk to our main executive in charge of the grounds, Robert Guva, about the dilemma of the door. And of course being the extremely nice person that he is, said that he possibly has a door that’s not being used in one of the scary barns. He said if it’s not being used, we can put it to use. Awesome.
So we took a look.
BELOW – The search begins.
BELOW – Maybe up here!
There were a few doors after all.
And this guy was the one. But how are we gonna get him down?
Oh we’ll just drop him out the barn.
Plan worked. The easiest thing we’ve had to do this whole construction period.
VIDEO – Brian can carry anything!
BELOW – So now we have a solid wood door. It’s pretty snazzy.
But now the challenge of trimming it down starts again.
Can Joe be up for the task?
Let the sawing begin! (again)
VIDEO – Once more, you must be perfect, Joe.
Guess what we were talking about?
VIDEO – The second cut.
Well there you go. A lot more mess, but we got the door that fits.
BELOW – God is surely shining down on us on this day.
After Brian attached the door it was time to test it out.
VIDEO – Brian is the first one to test the door.
BELOW – The glorious mess.
The sunsets are so beautiful on the lot.
VIDEO – One last look
Now we celebrate our victory like only we can.
With slurpees!
Thanks for checking out the blog. Hope to see you at the next post.
Finally. It has arrived.
Hello again, welcome back to the adventures of Brian Sarvis and Joe Carabeo, as they try to get their feature film (Working Title) Help Wanted, made. Right now we’re at the construction stage. A lot has been done so far, but now our heroes must deal with the winter cold, lack of electricity, dying spirits and now…
a broken boom box.
Besides that, everything is coming together with hard work and inspiration.
But on this day, a deal was struck.
Electricity is coming!
Now it’s time to clear everything that didn’t need to be there , so that in the process of the electricity coming through, we don’t set the whole place on fire. Just in case.
So it’s time to clean up.
Good bye to all of our fine art.
Below – Where did these pans come from?
Below – This is how the cabinets will look like, but imagine it sitting up.
Below – Another view next to our blue corner.
It’s time to get that chalk board up. We start by places the braces.
Then Brian lays in the final touches, cleaning up little sections of glue.
And up it goes!
Not bad.
I can’t wait till there’s electricy, then we can put the over head lights in.
Anyone want to buy some stools, they really are for sale. Just contact us or leave a message below.
Below – The chalk board.
I also can’t wait for the set dressing to come in and really make this place a full character.
Below – The on lookers
Below – The look of the diner with the sun coming in.
A lot is gonna happen in these booths. Watch and see.
Still going. See ya next post.
Look what happened!
I wish there was a story to tell about this, but there really isn’t. We rode up to the set like we usually do and…
There it was.
Long story short (I guess) I’m just gonna say that I wanted that thing knocked down anyway.
Below – The Diner so far. Now with it’s newly created stools. I dig.
A real cool thing came with the stools when we bought them, AGE!
You really can’t buy that type of age anywhere. We just thought it was a cool incentive. In the ad it said that the stools came with 60 years of history. I wonder what type of people have sat in these stools in the past 60 years? Who’s butts have glided across leather, what stories their asses can tell, where did they go, who they’ve met. Where are they now??
I bet they didn’t know that 60 years later that they would be in a feature film by two crazy film makers.
But we did.
The stools still had to be melded together to complete the illusion, but that could wait.
Below -After a lot of rubber mallet hammering, we have the beginning looks of the wall slot. Soon will come the kitchen set dressing behind the wall and then we can slide plates of food across it all day long. That should really put it together.
Below – Ohh spacious.
Below – A view from the “kitchen”
We also took some aluminum and connected it to the wall. Will it stay, will we take it off, time will can only tell.
Below – Things are getting messy again.
Below – Another view of the stools, the booths and our floor. Where do we go from here?
I know that some of the stools are gonna go to a stool hospital. Their heads have fallen off.
It’s also about time to start thinking about what the outside of the diner is gonna look like. We have the ideas, but stay tuned to see what we actually do.
Hello, Welcome back!
Yes indeed, we are still trying to get this movie made. If you guys haven’t had a chance to read what the movie HELP WANTED is all about, please have a peek at the links to the right of the page and you’ll find a link labeled “Help Wanted the movie” and that should give you a clue towards the type of movie that we’re constructing here.
The process may be tiring, but we’re dedicated to giving you guys a tale that will shock you till you smoke.
But now back to the creation of the diner set.
Today Jacob Pulliam is joining us once again, but this time we’re gonna focus on the layout of the overhead lights. Jake saw the diner that we have now and thought that he had something that would fit perfectly with what we were going for. So he donated to us these aluminum over head lamps. Great guy. Now lets start planning on how to get them into the ceiling.
One thing to note is that this building does not have drop down ceilings. So we can’t exactly just push the ceiling up, make a hole and drop the lights in then cover it AND we can’t just attach a helicopter clamp and hang the light. Yes, like always, fate has handed us the “Life is Funny” card. So we had to plan accordingly.
Below – Jake looks very happy about the situation.
So of course we went out and searched for some sort of workable inspiration. This search did not take us very far. We stopped by a very close UNO’s Chicago style restaurant and looked up. They had exposed piping that traveled the wiring of their overhead lamps, and it looked pretty damn cool. We all looked at this and thought, “Lets go for that.”
So, the process now is to assemble the lamps that would attach to some sort of exposed design in the ceiling.
Below – Jake, starts the drilling, while I take the photos
Just like always, a problem arises. Our drill is not powerful enough to pass through the wiring box for the lamps. Great!
Below – But at least we can lay out where the lamps would go in the ceiling.
Below – Empty boxes of tile.
Below – Some how our sign moved…
Below – Still going…
Below – Jake knows a guy that could get the drilling job done for us.
Who could it be???
Yay! Jacob Pulliam is back!
So we arrived in the Diner set today and found something staring right at us.
A dolly!
What fun!
Some of us use dolly’s to make a living, but here we are face to face with a rouge one. Apparently this single dolly found his way into our diner set and decided to take a nap. But not on our watch, no one falls asleep while on set. So we woke him right up and immediately started testing out how smooth our new diner floor is with the newly placed tiles. Jake did the honors.
And oh it was so smooth!
But then we found something…
A script!
And not a page from the Help Wanted script ether…
It was to another movie!
Does that mean while we were out that another film crew slid in and filmed in our unfinished diner set before we could be have a chance at doing so ourselves?!?!?
I think so…
Heartbreaking…
Below – Even worst, they left a calling card!
Three big scratches on our beautful new floor!
Was this from them or someone else, we would never know. But the sight of it almost brought a tear to our eyes. But we held it in.
It’s best for me to keep in my anger. This is just how the business works sometimes. Besides, it adds to the “Set Design”
So here we are again. More tiles to be placed on the ground. This time they were would be placed underneath the red booths. Which is why Jake came along, lifting these booths is definitely a two person job.
Bam! And the tiles are laid.
Below – New tiles with red booths on top of them. Looks good.
Below – Jake is excited about the progress.
One final thing had to be done before we leave.
We have finally found a set of stools that we thought matched the look that we were going for. Something with a chrome finish. So yes, yet again we have new stools to be placed into the diner. But the colors matched perfectly and the chrome was already aged like it’s been around for 60 years. It was a good price so we couldn’t pass up on them. But it does pose a new question. The amount of money that we spent on the stools so far, would that equal buying completely new original soulless stools. The would never know. But I believe character wise that these are the stools that will take us into the movie.
I bet your asking. “But what would happen to the other stools, the black ones?”
Well, since you’re asking…They’re for sale!
Just contact Astray Production if you’re interested in buying stools that have never been used. Images can be seen in postings before this one. I bet they would fit perfectly in any place you wanna put them. They can also be mounting into flooring. The sky is the limit! We only have 8, so offer only stands until we run out. Buy one or buy them all! It would be ground if you could pick them up, but I bet we can figure out shipping in some form.
WHILE SUPPLIES LAST!
You may have noticed that the stools that we have in place now are a bit short. Well, we have an idea, and it could fit back to the original theme that we were working on before.
Stay tuned…
So at this point, Brian and I have been taking turns, at random times, laying tile at the diner. There’s no real reason for both of us to be there if we have the free time to just stop by for a few hours. SO we chose to just come in whenever we’re free and chip away at all the tile laying. It has now become a nice place to gather our thoughts and think about the problems of our real life while we still conjure up ideas about this on going project.
Pretty soon we’re gonna start audition for this film and bringing in more people to help us out, so the alone time really helped set things into perspective and on what we have to look forward to in the incoming future. Which is a lot more work. But someone might see this and miraculous be THE right person, you never know. Everything is luck and hard work. We got the hard work and now it’s luck’s turn.
But on the day that I chose to come into the studio, the sun set was amazing.
I loved how the light came into the diner, it was perfect, almost romantic. I could really envision this being real.
Below – This is how the sunset looked outside.
Below – More interior sunset light coming into the Diner.
It was really a calming moment to have. Usually at the diner we would just fear the sun going down like as if it were the dinosaur age and predators were gonna kill us at night. But the moment I stepped outside and saw the entire sky a shade of cloudy gold, it was a heavenly feeling, and it was only me and my camera.
It was truly a Smallville moment.
Below – Our sign is now gold
So when I continued to walk out into the field in front of the diner, I turned around and was instantly taken back by the hugest rainbow that I have ever seen in my entire life. It was the whole entire sky. I’m not a rainbow person, and I might now start losing my street cred for saying this, but damn it was nice…
At one point the rainbow attached from the diner to the sound stage. These words and pictures will never come close to the experience, but I still wanted to share it with you.
On the way back home it rained like crazy. That was cool too.
Armed with his trademark Vans shirt, Brian and I are ready to get down to it. (It would be awesome to get a sponsorship from vans)
It’s time to lay down some tiles.
BUT, before we get to that piece of business, we decided to make a little bit further progress on our counter top.
It was feeling a little bit bland with it’s roadster blue, so we decided to gloss it up a bit. So we did our usual number of inquiries and bought a coating that would finish up the look of our counter top. This material, to tell you the truth, like I always have, was intense. It truly became the theme of the day of us having to deal with material that could only be used for a short time before completely hardening and ruining our set goal.
So the material that we were using was a liquid gloss that we would evenly apply to the counter top to give it it’s shine. The challenge was that we had to do it in under 10 minutes. That means it had to be smooth, bubbleless and evenly applied to the whole space, or it would just harden into a lumpy muck. Also, lets add to the game that we had really no tools to do this with, so we just improvised with sticks that you get when you buy paint. (I know…)
But we got it done.
Now were were ready to get to tiling the floor. First thing that we had to do was set our starting point on the ground and that would be our guide so that hopefully all of our lines will be straight when we apply the tiles.
Below – A lot of snooty contact glue.
Below – Time to roll up our sleeves, it’s about to get sticky in here.
Below – The first tile to be glued to the diner floor (Yippie!)
Below – The second tile to be glued to the diner floor (Yes!)
And then we repeat this process…
And repeat…
It was pretty exciting seeing the floor come together. It was also nice and super smooth. I almost didn’t want to touch it when it was settle in. But then I had to come to the realization that this was made for people to walk on.
Below – The sign still stands.
Below – Our doors are turning blue.
Below – Our addictions
Below – Whoops. It’s ok, it’s gonna be covered by tile anyway. But it sure does look cool.
Below – A closer shot of the glossy counter. Hmmmm….
Below – We also spotted a deer on the lot.
So the process of laying down the tile has begun. Where will it take us from here…?
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