Gainesville Ripper blog and news

FILM PREMIERE AUGUST 29th 7:30pm

2010-08-19T17:19:00.000-07:00

For Immediate Release
Contact: Josh Townsend / Empty Bottle Loaded Gun Productions
904-333-3366
joshtownsend@gmail.com
www.gainesvilleripper.com

"GAINESVILLE RIPPER" Movie / World Premiere Taking Place in Gainesville Florida

GAINESVILLE, Florida, Sunday Aug. 29th at 7:30 p.m., GATOR CINEMAS will host what could be the city's first ever feature-film world premiere. The feature horror film, THE GAINESVILLE RIPPER, is based on the true story of serial killer Danny Rolling who terrorized Gainesville in the 90s.

Four years were spent working on the independent production which was budgeted at under $200,000. This film was shot in Gainesville and Jacksonville, Florida.

Local Gainesville TV personality Zachary Memos was cast as Danny Rolling. "Zach did amazing brilliant work and was only concerned with playing the role truthfully, the art of acting, and doing a professional job,” according to Writer/Director Josh Townsend.

“THE GAINESVILLE RIPPER is a horror film that doesn't hesitate showing the violence Rolling inflicted, not only on his victims but the town as a whole,” says Townsend.

The premiere of The Gainesville Ripper hosted at the Gator Cinemas will be attended by the leading cast and Writer/Director Josh Townsend for a Q&A after the showing. Everyone 18 and up is encouraged to come out and support this local production.

Coming Soon

2010-01-13T04:52:00.000-08:00

Sorry I haven't been posting, here's a new teaser. The movie is just trying get the last bit of money together to do a proper sound mix.

Coming soon from josh townsend on Vimeo.

New music page set up on myspace

2009-09-06T12:13:00.000-07:00

http://www.myspace.com/thegainesvillerippermusic

Check it out. Music is almost done!!!!! Two more weeks

Top ten movies of the year

2009-01-06T20:09:00.000-08:00

1. Rise of the Footsoldier

2. Slumdog Millionaire

3. The Wrestler

4. Let the Right One In

5. Time Crimes

6. Tropic Thunder

7. Dark Knight

8. Doomsday

9. REC

10.The Signal

VOTE FOR US - DINNER FOR TWO short contest

2008-09-02T17:22:00.000-07:00

Click here to vote for us.

Teaser trailer for a short rippercrew made

2008-08-20T16:57:00.000-07:00

I produced and color corrected this short film for a crew guy who was on the set for the Ripper every shoot day. I owed him, so I set this short film up and let him do it all his way.

He's entered it to the Chiller TV contest so I cut made this Teaser. Lemme know what ya think (yeah there's some familiar faces in it).

It's in HD, looks and sounds good I think.

We can't release the actual short until next month
sometime.

DINNER FOR TWO teaser from josh townsend on Vimeo.

NEW TEASER ( Warning - Graphic)

2008-08-08T16:26:00.000-07:00

Gainesville Ripper Teaser Trailer (Aug 8th 2008) from josh townsend on Vimeo.

Rolling singing and dialog editing

2008-08-07T11:55:00.000-07:00

I'm in the process of manually cutting, fixing and de-noising all the dialog. And it take a long time. Also we added one more day of pick-ups to get some prison shots and interviews with people who lived in Gainesville at the time. Also got local artist Hank El Diablo (myspace ) Check out the song FLESH IT OUT ABOUT. He wrote it for a bar scene in the movie. Great stuff. He's also rewriting some Danny Rolling songs on acoustic guitar for Zack to sing as part of the soundtrack.

It'll be creepy trust me.

Some Pics of my fake news scene

2008-07-16T15:39:00.000-07:00

Click for full size

The last one is the original. Thanks to Andrew Kramer for the graphics. www.videocopilot.com

Some new pics..sorry about the delay

2008-06-13T16:55:00.000-07:00

Nothing really cool to post lately. Been listening to lot's of composers trying to figure out who really want to go that extra mile to make something better than just just good. Sometimes I feel like a wasting my time spending so much time with people who have never done a movie score. I'm trying to find that talented guy who never got his chance to write a soundtrack to show people that he can do it.

Basically I send these guys clips and just figure them out. Some are quick to give me music. Some can't play quicktime movies. Some give me a minute and are either too scared or too lazy to write the whole scene. Then there was this ballsy guy who promised music in a two days...and delivered...it was OK. Then got realized he got himself in over his head and had the balls to tell me he didn't want to ruin my movie and he didn't think he could pull the workload. Too bad more people aren't honest with themselves and other like he was.

I quickly tried to convince him to help me with sound FX and he might bite.

Anyway sorry I'm so slow. Sorry Mitch and Simon for missing Fantasia this year. It's coming along and getting better by the day as I start to work with more talented sound folk.

edited pic taken down...too spoilerish

Cut myself makin' this poster....

2008-05-26T11:57:00.001-07:00

Click on it (or any pic here) for larger version.

Sorry no posts lately been doing the kind of stuff I can't show you. Oh yeah and there's a (5 minute) hidden scene somewhere on Vimeo. Good Luck finding it.

Thanks to all the composers who keep sending in some great stuff. Looks like we're gonna pick someone soon. Getting close....

Gunshot to Belly FX shot HD

2008-04-30T20:42:00.000-07:00

Almost completed FX shot. The blood blooming is CGI done in after effects.

Click here for HD version.

Gunshot to Belly FX shot HD from josh townsend on Vimeo.

This is where the magic gets done

2008-04-28T12:40:00.000-07:00

Cries of joy....Shrieks of pain all come this place. Two separate computers. The black box up high is the speedy main machine. AMD 6000+ dualcore, 4 gigs pc800 ram, nvidea 8600 video card, blackmagic Intensity card, 4 WD hard drives (the boot drive is a 10,000rpm raptor and each drive is named after a member of Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch). This computer is named JOHN MILIUS.

The other fulls size computer has basically the same specs it just has slower processor (3800 dual-core and a nvidea 7300). This one has it's hard drives named after members of the Reservoir Dogs. The computer's name is named CHAN-WOOK PARK.

The two widescreen monitors on the left are run by the faster computer. When two people are working here, whoever is working on the left slower computer is essentially 'riding bitch'.

And here's my a signed copy of my CREEPSHOW poster I got.

click on pics to enlarge

480p trailer

2008-04-28T09:22:00.000-07:00

I spit and polished the trailer for ya. Kris the editor is coming back from a 3 week vacation and he's hinting he might have new trailer on the way.
Here's the link to the 720p HD version (also spit and polished)

GAINESVILLE RIPPER 480p trailer from josh townsend on Vimeo.

BY POPULAR DEMAND - ANOTHER FX TEST

2008-04-25T11:10:00.001-07:00

AND THIS ONE'S PRETTY SCARY.

Here's the a link to the HD version.

FX shot test Danny doing the TWITCH from j townsend on Vimeo.

thanks to videocopilot.net

Article about execution with quotes from me??!!

2008-04-22T10:06:00.000-07:00

Found this. Never seen it before thought it was odd.

Here's an excerpt, not bad:

Before the execution, some family members were critical about the protesters and news media attention given to Rolling. Chealea Neckler, the 17-year-old niece of victim Christa Hoyt, said seeing protesters was the hardest part of the day.

"I feel like they don't know the story," she said. "They didn't live it."

Mario Taboada, the 45-year-old brother of victim Manuel Taboada, said he hoped the news media would focus on the victims rather than Rolling.

"I don't think he deserves this much attention," he said.

He was also critical of an independent horror movie about the murders, "The Gainesville Ripper," which is now being filmed. Director Josh Townsend was in the crowd outside the prison, getting footage he said he will use at the end of the movie.

The former Gainesville resident said he changed the names of the victims and other details out of respect for the victims' families.

"That's the best we could do to be respectful and still tell the story," he said.

Others Gainesville residents who assembled outside the prison said they came to see the conclusion of a story that they experienced firsthand.

Retired University of Florida sports management professor Owen Holyoak, 73, sat in a lawn chair and listened to a radio headset for news about the execution. He said he remembered that students stopped attending his and other classes in fall 1990 because of the fear surrounding the murders. "It just had a profound effect on me when it happened," he said.

Sitting among the execution supporters, he said, "just seemed like the thing to do to try to get some closure."

Read the whole thing here.

another unused a FX shot

2008-04-18T19:05:00.000-07:00

http://www.vimeo.com/914910 - for full HD

The one in the trailer worked way better. Thanks Andrew. Oh yeah this was done with after affects only.

another unused test shot to ZOOM TO GAINESVILLE from ira townsend on Vimeo.

A composer turned us down because the movie was 'too scary'

2008-04-18T08:10:00.000-07:00

So I figured I'd celebrate (must be doing something right) by putting up some more stills. Below that is an email I received a few months ago that might give you a guys a laugh.

MORE PICS!!!

2008-04-16T17:24:00.001-07:00

Here's an FX clip that didn't quit work.

2008-04-09T21:52:00.000-07:00

it could was close but he angles were of so I got rid this FX shot. Wanna know how I did?
Well ask.

Click her for the HD version. http://vimeo.com/871784 Below is the embed SD version.

Unused FX test for GAINESVILLE RIPPER from josh townsend on Vimeo.

More Color Corrections!

2008-04-09T17:58:00.000-07:00

First one has no correction. These were corrected by Kris the badass editor.

Color Correction

2008-04-07T11:43:00.001-07:00

First one is a frame grab (1920x1080) without color correction. The rest are various corrections I did. I used Magic Bullet Looks to do the correction.

POST PRODUCTION WORKFLOW

2008-04-04T10:17:00.000-07:00

Guess I should talk about how we are handling post production on this flick. It's pretty tech oriented but I get asked this stuff a lot.

We shot the movie over a year and half period, about thirty some odd shooting days total. The main camera was a then brand new Panasonic HVX-200. We shot it at 1920x1080 resolution at 23.976 frames a sec. The camera shoots to memory cards called P2 cards. The codec the camera shoots is called DVCPROHD and the raw footage takes up a gigabyte a minute. Because it's digital we back everything up onto two separate hard drives. Every day after we shot I back everything up a third time. Generally everything worked well, we never lost a single clip and the camera has been totally reliable.

I began editing the movie on Sony Vegas and using Cineform to make the footage into .avi' files. Last October Adobe Premiere CS3 updated and now edits footage shot by this camera natively. This means we can drag and drop files right into the timeline. It also means that we can use Photoshop and the mighty After Effects without ever having to render out. This means that there will never be a single generation lost no matter how many times I take my edits between these programs. There's even a simple yet very powerful program called Adobe Soundbooth that does an amazing job cleaning up audio and has decent collection of foley sounds you download for free.

So right now everything is Adobe CS3 we plan on locking a cut next week so I can move on to audio cleanup, foley, CG, color correction etc.

Gotta go. The movie Editor Kris Caudilla is having to much fun putting on temp music when we need to take the movie from it's present 110 minutes running to something closer to 90 minutes.
to be continued

FLASH SITE UNDERCONSTRUCTION

2008-04-03T13:03:00.001-07:00

We're gonna keep the blog up until we can get the Flash version of site done.
Guess that means we're under construction please excuse the mess

Official 720 trailer

2008-04-02T13:19:00.000-07:00

Click here to see the 720 HD version. The embed video is only Standard definition.

720 Gainesville Ripper trailer from ira townsend on Vimeo.

rough footage!!!!!!!

2008-04-01T15:21:00.000-07:00

Check this out. We're testing effects clips and I uploaded it to this site and woah the quality. Here's a direct link:

http://www.vimeo.com/849844

Untitled from josh townsend on Vimeo.

2008-03-26T13:37:00.001-07:00

Photobucket Album

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2008-03-26T09:20:00.000-07:00

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