Posts Tagged ‘new millennium studios’

26. The Clean Up

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

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.

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19. The Stools #3

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

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…

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1. The Plans

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

Hello, World!

Welcome to the production diaries of the Astray Productions, Joe Carabeo and Brian Sarvis produced feature film, the suspense, mystery, crime noir, HELP WANTED.

In the following weeks we’ll take you through our crazy journey of making this feature film happen. Starting from the very beginning,  Images of the construction, production videos from the set and even casting. 3 times a week we will upload images of our progress and sometimes even our missteps in the making of this movie.

Our goal is to show as much as we can on the production of the film, Help Wanted. From the good to the bad, the ups and the downs, this is an entity on to itself that will be a documentation of “This is what happened?” Our hope is that no matter what, it will be ether interesting, heartbreaking or inspiring, we WILL show you a beginning, middle and end.

We would to first off like to say thanks to Daphne Reid, Tim Reid, Robert Gava and everyone else at New Millennium Studios in Petersburg, Virginia.  We couldn’t have gotten this far without the help of all of you.

And, so…

The Plans

The majority of the film Help Wanted will be located in one single location, a down and dirty diner. As crazy as it might sound now, instead of just finding a diner that is already in existence, Brian Sarvis and I, thought it would be in our best interest to create a diner on the lot of New Millennium Studios, who happen to have a building that would fit our needs. With this we would not have to succumb to the time limitations of a real working 24 hour diner,  its costumers and it would also give us more creative freedom. It sounded a lot easier then…

Above – Sketched out plan of the building space.

Below – Images of our first day of planning inside the building at New Millennium Studios, minus images of Joe.


Above – Brian Sarvis


Above – Robert Gava


Above – Exterior of the building


Above – Isabelle, who’s name you will hear later on.

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