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Film Title: At Confession
Producer: Steve Franco & Brad Simmons
Director: Steve Franco

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Date of Completion: 12/15/2003
Length: 6 minutes
Language: English
Credits : Maynard Edwards
Tom Nunan
Aimee Parker

Genre: Drama

Synopsis : Faced with his wife's infidelity, a tortured man finds momentary peace inside the confessional of a church.

Notes: Filmed in Washington, D.C. and Alexandria, Virginia. Equipment Used: Canon XL1s, 16x manual lens, Arri Fresnel Lights, Sennheisser ME66 Mic. Shot in 16:9, frame mode, Edited on Premiere/Canopus DVStorm, color correction in After Effects. Some other notes on the production...We spent several weeks building the booth. We couldn't find anything on the web about how to build one so we just decided to wing it. We took two pieces of paneling that we bought from Home Depot stained them, and then connected the two with an L-bracket and some screws. We knew we needed a moveable wall to accomodate both the priest and the confessor's angles so we made one using a piece of fiberglass insulation board covered in black cloth. The confessional screen was harder to come by. We looked at radiator screen covers and realized it would be hard to shoot through them. We then made a screen from vinyl gutter guard, but it looked horrible. After some brainstorming we bought a barbeque grill and spray painted it matte black. It worked nicely. We then cut a hole in the the moveable foam insulation wall and lined the "screen" with some stained trim, and voila, a confessional was born! We spent several days working on the lighting set-up but I think we got a good look. The confession booth stood in the center of our living room for about 3 weeks before shooting began. After awhile we didn't even notice it and accepted it as an minor encumbrance on our mobility.