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 This month we are changing the pace a little with our newsletter by showing you the culmination of a year and a half of work producing our first short film. Squeezing this project in and around the photo and video services you rely on us regularly for, the film is completely a personal project and labor of love. This month tells that story.
Smith Production’s Steve Smith and Rick Phillips, in association with some of the most talented people in our area, have crafted a short subject dramatic motion picture titled The Waiting Room.
The film premiered a little over a month ago and the response was amazingly positive. Shortly after the premiere we realized that others might also enjoy seeing the movie and learning a bit about how it was made. As such, this entire edition of SP News is dedicated to The Waiting Room.
Those talented and generous people who helped make TWR real are: Jill Adler, Micquelle Corry, Scott Frederick, Harmony Hamill, Eliot Case, Timothy Phillips, Sarah Collins, Leslie Phillips, Brent Pribil, Elizabeth Payne and Paige Paulsen. These folks disrupted their lives and their businesses so that our film could remain within its virtually nonexistent budget. We thank each and every one of them.
If you have questions or comments, please let us know. We can be reached at theWaitingRoom@mac.com or at the eMail addresses listed at the bottom of this newsletter.
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No More Waiting
for The Waiting Room
by Micquelle Corry
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Premiere Night |
 The opening shot sets a somewhat ominous tone. A woman’s legs are seen climbing stairs and her plodding footsteps set the pace for what’s to come. A fisheye lens adds to the mystique, but not much else is revealed until the main character, Sarah (Jill Adler), enters the waiting room of a doctor’s office.
The Waiting Room is a short film (10 minutes), written and directed by Richard Paul Phillips. Director of Photography, Steve Smith brought the script to life. In the film, the team of Smith and Phillips wanted to personify the struggle we all have with placating our inner voices. The initial idea for the film sprang from a mini-seminar attended by Smith. Participants in the course were asked to fill out a questionnaire that probed feelings on some of the key areas of life: money, health, body. When answers were read aloud, Smith knew he had stumbled onto materials perfect for a movie.
 The Waiting Room tells the story of Sarah, a woman struggling to resolve deep internal conflicts about mind, body and money issues. Through the rich dialogue between her many personalities, Sarah explores emotions ranging from rage and sadness to shame and fear. Each of Sarah’s internal voices becomes an actual character in the film with Adler playing every role. Director Richard Paul Phillips uses unique special effects throughout the film to personify the clashing of those many internal voices with which we all are familiar. In only 10-minutes, this film digs deep to expose the hidden layers of the human psyche.
Micquelle Corry is an owner/partner of POW! creative services in Salt Lake.
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The film successfully premiered on Friday, November 18 at the
KJZZ Theater. The crowd was treated to remarks by both Smith and Phillips before the film began and to a question and answer session following its showing. Premiere attendee Jaculynn Peterson commented on the sound of the ticking clock which underscores the film’s drama at times. Rick Phillips, responded that he wanted the ticking sound to symbolizes the passing moments of our lives and to heighten the intensity of Sarah’s anxiety over what the doctor would perhaps portend.
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Watch the Film Online:
Viewing The Waiting Room on your computer is as easy as pressing this button…
Running Time: 10 minutes
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Do you use Windows Media Player or an older version of QuickTime? Select the “Movie Options” button for additional options. |
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TWR Special Effects
by Richard Phillips
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From the very beginning we knew that seamless special effects would be required to pull off The Waiting Room. As it turns out, a whopping one out of every four shots in the final film demanded an effect of some kind.
Obvious special effects requirements involved seeing multiple on–screen copies of a single character. While most viewers will understand that all the Sarah Whites in the film are played by a single actress (Jill Adler), there are also other less conspicuous effect shots included.
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Shooting with a mini–DV camera presents unique challenges when it comes to special effects. |
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Bringing Sarah to Life
by Jill Adler
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As I see, for the first time, Sarah climb those steps to the doctor’s office it hits me. This is the end of my journey with this little short gem. My steps began much like hers.
I clicked along the rainsoaked asphalt as I ran for the small office for my late night audition back in November ‘04. I had driven down from Park City determined to ‘own’ Sarah and show Rick I was his only choice.
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Jill does it all and still manages to have time for more. Ski instructor, DJ, actor, journalist and all-around fun-loving woman. She’s constantly looking for new projects so if you hear of anything, send her a note!
She can be reached at:
www.jilladler.com
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