production photos – F47 Productions

I have started working on a revised iteration of my Straight 8 film submission, Take Care, Tar Creek which will feature a newly edited and expanded version of the original film. The newer version will be in the same vein as the first version; same topic, same approach, with the narrative being told from the perspective of Tar Creek, itself. The working title for the time being is Take Care, Tar Creek (revisited).

Picher, Oklahoma. Northeast Oklahoma. Tar Creek Superfund Site

I have been invited to feature the film at the 2023 Tar Creek Conference in Miami, OK in October.

I have ordered some additional film; a couple of rolls of 50D Super 8 film from Pro8mm, and plan to drive to NE Oklahoma this weekend to shoot some additional footage.

This is all moving pretty fast, under the circumstances, but kind of makes sense for the way I work.

I’ve already started the revised edit of the new film. I think this version will be somewhere on the order of about 5 minutes in length. I have some behind the scenes footage from the first version (about a year ago), that I’m going to put online.

We’ve got quite a few pictures from the production shoot last weekend. I am uploading them to my Picassa album. See them here.

As for what remains, we have a couple of scenes that we are shooting tomorrow morning. These are scenes that we had left over from the main shooting days. The plan was to shoot them on Thursday but it was raining so we had to push the date back a bit.

After this I have one more day of shooting – August 17th – and it’s just a couple of scenes with “Miss June.”

In the meantime, all the film up through Saturday’s shoot will be shipped off to Yale Film & Video in Burbank for processing and transfer. I’m hoping (if I can find an affordable plane ticket) to go out to Burbank so I can be there during the telecine process. That will allow me to give input on elements of the transfer and possibly make adjustments to the light when needed.