Progress Report

Mr. Robert Downs, Jr. on May 15, 2011 - Day 1 of shooting Hookman: Redemption

May 15th marked the one-year anniversary of the first day of production on Hookman: Redemption - and what do we have to show for it? Well, quite a lot, actually.  We started out with 52 scenes to shoot. As it stands right now, there are 26 scenes left. When you look at page count, we're at about 32 out of 60 pages.  Crap, that's like half the movie!?  

Well, sorta.  We started out with seven poker scenes to shoot, and they're ALL complete, thank god.  We also started out with ten songs to shoot, and eight of those are complete.  Songs in the script occupy about 2 lines on a page, but can take up to four minutes of actual screen time. Plus they take much more time to shoot than a standard dialogue scene.  So maybe we're a little over halfway done.

That's good, because as of this past week, everything that has been shot so far has also been edited into a rough semblance of a movie, and that clocks in at about one hour. ONE HOUR OF HOOKMAN GOODNESS.

The edit in its current form - clocking in at 56 minutes with half the movie left to shoot.

Two weeks from now, we'll just be wrapping up a three-day shoot aimed at knocking out the rest of the scenes that require all the main cast.  In three days we plan on completing nine additional scenes, totaling 18 pages of script - comprising two fight scenes and two songs, among other things.  Therefore, in two weeks time there will only be about 12 pages left to shoot over the course of four or five short pickup days with only partial cast - the scraps.

That's pretty good progress, I'd say. It still needs a TON of sound work, and many hours of visual effects work put into it, but that's what the fall is for.

Here's the edit in it's current form (sped up twenty-five thousand percent):