John Q. Phats Entertainment

So, I’m putting together the credits for Nice Guys Finish Last.  Holy Jesus, there were a lot of people involved in this thing.  The credits are like 45 seconds long.  Normally, my credits are like 10 seconds long, if even that.  I hate to say it, but I may need to cut them out for the festival cut.  I’m not sure if that’s going to be way too long to add to an already pushing it short film.  Getting a 15+ minute long short film in to a festival isn’t going to be easy.  Maybe I’ll send the judges a version without the credits and when I send them my screener, I’ll send them a version with credits.  That’s pretty shady though.  Maybe I just won’t count the credits as part of the film.  Of course, I could be wrong on the time estimation and the short could turn out to be 9 minutes long.  In which case, I wouldn’t mind adding another minute of credits to it.  Or I could be wrong in the opposite direction and it could turn out to be 19 minutes long and I would be screwed.  That actually happened to a guy in my film school.  Our finals were supposed to be around 10 minutes, his was like 22 without credits.  He wrote us an E-Mail 1 night before it was due at like 2AM that said “I’ve cut my short down as much as possible and it’s still 22 minutes long…….Fuck me.”  Film school was awesome, I made some pretty good friends there and produced Say Something while attending.  Which I consider to be a very polished piece.  I think Nice Guys Finish Last may surpass Say Something in the polish and overall wow sector.  Nice Guys Finish Last has some good production value.  We have a lot of different locations and one of them is a restaurant with extras and all.  I’m kind of an idiot to have sat on NGFL for this long.  I could have been submitting it to festivals months ago.  Apparently, that’s what I do now, I shoot short films and just forget about them.  That’s how I role.
You know, I seem to jump back and forth when it comes to genre.  After I shot Red Hood (horror), I shot Say Something (Romantic Comedy).  Then I went back to Red Hood again and now I’m doing Nice Guys Finish Last, which is a comedy, but I would not in a million years call it romantic.  It’s actually kind of the opposite of romantic.  You know what I’m missing?  Some raunchy comedy.  I haven’t done raunchy in awhile, it might be a bit of an overload.  The last time I did raunchy, was The Train Wreck, which was quite awhile ago.  That might be dangerous actually, it’s probably pretty backed up.  It would all come gushing out in a display of hysterical horribleness.

Censored was sort of a nightmare.  This is actually the second time we’ve shot it.  The first time, everything that could have gone wrong, did go wrong.  The camera that we rented broke because the heads were dirty.  The boom mic didn’t work even though we had tested it just the night before and it was working fine.  The person supposed to get the food dropped the ball and didn’t.  He was also supposed to buy drinks which he didn’t.  One of the actors was late.  I lost my story boards (which always happens.)  We figured out quick fixes to all this stuff but I felt like Censored was such a good concept that it kind of got ripped off.  So I shot it again.  The second shoot went fine but editing was rough.  I sent it off to several film festival.  It got in to 4 of them.  I think it’s a solid short film.  It’s funny, it’s too the point, and it has a good punch line.  It doesn’t really have an explanation, but it doesn’t really need one.  Kristen isn’t topless, she wearing a bright rainbow tube top.  When I asked her “Why the hell do you even have that?”  Her response was “For just such an occasion.”