Inside "Scoop"
With the simple realization that 'Everybody's dog poops' the filmmakers set out to make a mockumentary exploring the life and business practices of 'Scoop' Jackson, a prominent pooper scooper. With interviews with his trophy wife, rival pooper scooper, unhappy customer and other characters, we learn the secrets to Scoop's success. The movie is complete with Scoop's first commercial and actor re-enactments.
If this movie were rated: PG13
Comedy, Adult Language
Time: 6:31
Format: Standard Def.
F-bombs: 0
Inside Scoop Cast
Vincent Dee Miles
Cameron Johnson
Tarra Marina Flores
Marcus deLeon
Rae Wright
Sean Morneau
Kat Monda
Wesley Travis
David Ligon
Irina Nath
Inside Scoop Cast
Vincent Dee Miles
Cameron Johnson
Tarra Marina Flores
Marcus deLeon
Rae Wright
Sean Morneau
Kat Monda
Wesley Travis
David Ligon
Irina Nath
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Final Draft
So, for as long as I can remember I have used the screenwriting software Final Draft to write my scripts, including the script for Inside "Scoop". Final Draft makes writing a script easy and its intuitiveness in formatting is a real time saver (I remember when I first was dabbling in screenwriting trying to do it in Microsoft Word -- talk about a nightmare). If you are a fledgling screenwriter, then I highly recommend you use the Final Draft software. It costs a little money, but it is definitely worth it in the long run.
About the making of Inside "Scoop".
I nside Scoop, was originally titled "Scooped" and was made for the 48 Film Festival, as part of the Sacramento International Film Festival. Which means on Friday night, my co-producer Vincent Dee Miles and I went to the film meeting with all the other filmmakers who were participating and drew a genre at random out of a hat. Vincent drew the genre and it was mockumentary. So we then had 48 hours (might've been more like 49) to write, shoot and edit the film and turn it back in on Sunday night.
As we drove from the film meeting to my home I asked Vincent if he liked the named Thurston (at which time he started telling me about a Dodgers player named Thurston). So I settled on the name, got back to my place and started writing while Vincent got on the phone and started assembling the actors. So between 8:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. I wrote the script and around 10:30 p.m. we had our first read through, at which time we shot the Kat Monda scene (she played Stella X in the movie) and Kat was wrapped. Then we recorded the off camera audio from Mark Hoffman, because he would not be there the following evening when we shot the opening scene (that's my hand you see ring the doorbell). Then I sent my DP, Jeff Smith, out in the car to shoot some night stuff (which I don't think we ended up using), while I polished the script.
We started shooting in earnest at around 7:00 a.m. Saturday morning and had all shooting wrapped by 7:00 p.m. When I arrived home at around 9:00 p.m., my music guy Dan Wallace played for me the jingle he had recorded. I loved it. I was too tired to start editing, so I went to bed. That day we shot in the California cities of Sacramento, Carmichael and Folsom.
I spent the day Sunday editing and we turned in the film that evening before the deadline.
The movie you will see is pretty much the same film we turned in and was played at the Crest Theater in Sacramento. For this version, I fixed a couple of graphics, changed the film title and changed Stella's name (remember, we only had 48 hours so there was obviously some editing mistakes). The film played to roarous laughter and that evening, based on this film, I met a lot of new faces who I would work with numerous times in the future.