Welcome to "The Shadow of the Bear" movie blog!

We are an independant young adult-run production based in the U.S. Midwest. The film has been in pre-production since summer 2008, and wrapped up filming on August 26th, 2010.

We premiered the project on June 23rd, 2011 at the St. Anthony Main Theater in Minneapolis, MN to a delighted audience of over 100 viewers.

For details about the future of the project, click here.



Thursday, April 16, 2009

Interview with Regina Doman!

Check out my personal blog for an exclusive interview with author Regina Doman!

http://elenatintil.blogspot.com/2009/04/interview-with-regina-doman.html

Day 5 - More Photos

I'm always amazed at how many pictures people can take without me realizing it. My friend Josh (who was co-producer/director on my three previous films and comes along to lend us his expertise on some SOTB shoots) told me he had gotten a lot of pictures, but I didn't believe him until he uploaded them today. Wow. Well. I've picked out the very best ones for you all to enjoy...

Making Fish's Scar
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Blanche applying Fish's scar
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Going over lines, prefilming
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Checking what our superman cinematographer is doing...
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Filming Rose
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Going in for a close-up
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Rose with violin
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"This is what I'd like you to do..."
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Laughing at Fish...
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Film Crew
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Our lovely tech ladies hiding behind the master script
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Blanche holding the mic for Rose
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Being Mafia with the reflector sheet...
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Fish and Rose
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More Fish and Rose
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Fish and Rose at War
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Editing Report - Day 2 - April 14th '09

Yesterday I got together with Phil (our Editor) and Eric (our Cinematographer) to work through the footage we shot on Saturday.

First off I had to say, I was thrilled with the quality of the image on the big screen. Saturday had been so sunny, that the camera viewer had been nearly obscured by glare, so unless I was filming myself (I did about three differant shots, multiple takes) I really couldn't see what was being filmed. Anyhow, I loved what we shot - the images are so beautiful, I can't wait to get them into a trailer or something for all of you.

We spent about five hours editing together the footage from Saturday. It begins with Rose walking into the park, she plays her violin, talks with Fish, and ends with Rose walking away. This is about three pages in the script, so it should have been about three minutes, but interestingly enough, the violin solo stretched it out into nearly five.

Phil did a great job of pulling together five differant angles from over 20 takes and assembling them into the scene. Because it was shot outside, we will have to re-record the dialogue, and then there will be sound effects and music, but visually it is pretty much finished. The lighting is so consistant, that we may not even have to do much for color correction.

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Set Report - April 11th 2009

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Yesterday was Anthony's (Fish) first day of filming, and our first day filming in the day without snow! It went wonderfully well.

We filmed downtown (those of you who live in state, see if you can guess where!) in a lovely, lovely park and had lovely, lovely weather.

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Because of the sun, we had our first use of a reflector - I don't know if we got any pictures of that or not, but I hope to get more actual filming photos up soon. That includes pictures of Hannah (Blanche) applying a scar to Anthony's face. ;)

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I was extremely impressed by both Sharayah (Rose) and Anthony. I've seen them do this scene before, but never to this level. Seeing Rose and Fish really come alive...well, it was amazing.

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^ That's madame director (moi), directing, producing, filming, holding the mic, AND taking care of Anthony's glasses.

And then below you can see the issues that Sharayah had with the heels of her boots. She had to do most of the scene with a broken heel.
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Friday, April 10, 2009

Filming Again!

The very latest in SOTB news...we will be filming tomorrow!

Our intended scene is the meeting between Fish and Rose in the park! We have a very good forecast, so it looks like the weather will cooperate! Still, we'd appreciate your prayers for good weather, good communication, good equiptment and wise judgement among the cast and crew.

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Arranging an improvisation

We're hoping to shoot the meeting between Fish and Rose this weekend, weather and schedules permitting. So today my musically-minded sister and I sat down to arrange the violin piece that we'll be using for Rose's improvisation.

I know it sounds a bit strange that we have to prewrite and improvisation, but believe me, that's the only way it can be done- especially since we have to be able to replicated it exactly at a later date when we do recordings for the editing process.