3 days ´till shooting

So, this Friday will be the first day of shooting of my first big short movie project. I´ve planned this since December, the script is much older than that, although you couldn´t tell from the looks of it. Shootings will take about 11 days. Almost all of it will be on location, just 2 days indoors. Let´s hope the weather is what we need. If it isn´t.. well that remains to be seen.

I´m the writer,producer,director,cameraman and editor of this upcoming movie. When I got some money from the South-eastern Finland artcommittee things started to roll. I put out some adds to find some actors. But after a while I found some promising ones trough a friend or something.
During the spring I wrote the script again and got shooting equipments from a firm called Mediacenter and a drink sponsor from Laitila, beer, cider and lemonade. Slowly I gathered a small group of people around me.

I couldn´t work very much on this, cause I study at the University of Arts and Design, in Helsinki. So that took a lot of my time. Also I did 2 musicvideos while doing this. Manitou - Fools in Control in the winter and Total Devastation - Aware. So I did everything like a part time job, almost all by my self. Expect the clothings are designed by Netta Kervinen, who has done a great job with them, which I couldn´t have done. So of course that is a really big part of the pre production. And I´ve had help from my brother Matti Rautaniemi.

Anyway. Today I woke up when one of the soundguys called and told me that we didn´t have any sound equipments, cause there had been some mistakes in the renting business. So now we have to find the soundequipments fast, but if we cant get it anywhere else, we must rent them from Helsinki. ( we shoot in Karhula about 120 km from Helsinki, not such a big deal) Before we could have get the equipments for free, now we might have to pay. That sucks. This will resolve tomorrow.

I also noticed that the beach we use as a location, has a gate so people can´t drive to the shore. After a few phone calls i managed to get a key to it. I also coloured some pants using black tea leafs! and built some reflecting thingies from folio and styrofoam.

I think the hardest part is still to get the message trough to people..cast and crew. It always feels like no one understands anything I say. But no one has quit or anything, so I think we´re okay.

Nothing more today, this is my first post, lets hope it gets more interesting when things get a little more messed up when we start to shoot!