Credit:(Mile High Club Movie Poster illustrated by:
Delva Borno/www.facebook.com/DelvaBorno)
When I first arrived in Hawaii, after checking out the indy film scene and realizing that there wasn't one. I was like "wtf" and "omg", this is going to be fun. While Mile High Club wasn't the first project I was inspired to do here, it turned out to be the easiest. It would also mark my acting debut.
I remember concieving the script in New York, about two years ago. While on the set of the Topp Gun X-rated music video. They had this intro rap that played in between the breaks of shooting, called Mile High Club. I just loved the rap so much, I was crusing them like, "we should be shooting a video to that". It was by sheer coincidence, that I had two of the models dressed as flight attendants already. As sexy as they looked, all I could think about was a very cool and fast pace heist story of some type. What I came up with was, "Mile High Club". Which the script turned out to be about a couple who smuggle ecasty into Hawaii. The orginal verison was something esle, but I adapted it for Hawaii. I decieded to keep it a short script, with a opition to make it a feature, by adding various additional footage and make it a faux news documentary movie. Truthfully I was just finding most of the female talent pretty lame. They all had their heads in the clouds about getting signed to some bullshit local modeling/talent agencies and being a T.V background extra. Those where the attractive ones, the rest just didn't come across as sexy or show up to audition with less then twenty people. LOL...
I came up with a very simple fomula, which would include myself and a attractive female who had a few scenes and that's it. I wasn't up for the ass kissing so I just bugdet the neccessary funds to pay a female model to take the role. (FYI: Yes I do offer paid roles, in my projects. Independent doesn't mean poor.) First I had to find a crew, so back to craigslist and dealing with werido's. It was amazing, in New York, you post on craigslist for film crew and you get serious responses. What I got was a bunch of hustling, part timers, with some of this gear, some of that gear, no film school training and didn't know a f-stop from depth of field. After calling the five werido's who provided their number's and talking to them. I just decided to cut my loses and move on. I had no idea that the answer to my problems, was right in front of my face.
So on a whim, I ask a assocate of mine about a friend I know they had mentioned, had their own gear, mainly a HD camera. I asked them to have 'em call me. A week later, I got a call early in the morning, which I just forwarded to voicemail. Except the caller kept calling back and did so three times, until I woke my ass up and answered. When I learned it was the camera man, I talked to my assocate about. I told them, "I would call them back in a few hours". As I hang up the phone and went back to sleep. After all of that, I was thinking this might be the guy.
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