TRACY is finally FINISHED!

After a six year pregnancy and a brutal 4 day labor, we just gave birth to a 75 minute movie named Tracy !



Jeff Pidgeon did this great illustration yesterday. Thanks Jeff!




* Also in honor of the first screening on Feb 20th, I'm gonna post a special clip from the film here Friday morning.



Wish me Drunk!

Dan

Finishing Tracy

Sorry I haven't been posting much lately, but all of my extra time has been devoted to trying to finish up Tracy before the first screening on Friday February 20th. I'm damn close, but man, after 6 years of working on this project, it's the last few weeks that have been the most difficult in a lot of ways. This would probably be a good place for a sports metaphor, if I knew one. The fun, creative stuff is long finished, and now it's all the technical nightmare of wrapping the whole thing up. The last few weeks have been spent hovering over the film ready to suffocate it with a pillow to put both of us out of our misery.

This Sunday night is more or less the drop dead, cut off date to finish the film, and that's what I plan on doing when it's done.

Wish me luck!


* This is me on the set with Brian Fee and a great group of friend's kid's during the Imagination Train Station shoot in September of 2005.

2009 Tracy Update!

I've been working on our film Tracy over the holiday vacation to have it "done" in time for the first screening of the fully completed film on February 20th! There is still plenty of work to be done, mainly wrapping up the score during the month of January. I've also been working on some changes to the voice over narration. In recording some of that new voice over recently I noticed this unfortunate similarity...



This is the video image of me recording the audio for the voice over.




...And this of course is the famous "Chocolate Rain" Guy.

Happy New Year!

Better Looking Tracy Trailer

Thanks to Vimeo, we now have a much nicer looking version of the "Tracy" Trailer up online. Now you can really see the fake wigs and bad make up!!!


"Tracy" movie trailer from Dan Scanlon on Vimeo.

Tracy Comic of the Month

Here is this month's vintage Tracy comic book cover! This is one of the several "Imagination Train Station" comic's made for the film.

Shooting Kids

We had a great shoot this morning for TRACY with the Stanton family. It was a lot of fun, and a good lesson in shooting with children. A good rule of thumb is to shoot a master and let the child do what he or she wants to do. As much as you'd like to think you can prepare or figure out what the staging should be, you can't. You just need to let them have fun and tell you what the shot will be about. The take I ended up using had a lot more energy than I'd planned on because the little girl in the shot jumped into her mother's arms during the take, causing her mom to laugh in a real fun natural way. Again, something I couldn't have planned on. So remember, let the children run the show, other wise you'll just be the jerk yelling at a small child who doesn't care about what you think you want.

Tracy Comic of the Month

Here is this month's vintage Tracy comic book cover!