2010 July

  • Scenes 24, 26, 41 – EDITED
  • Created era appropriate feminist posters (both pro and anti pornography) and tracked them into the feminist-porn-conference-that-never-was scene
  • Experimented with visually creating “Happy Hand” (one of our favorite characters from the movie) using animation, Cinema 4D software, and good ol’ fashioned puppets
  • Replaced 4 terabytes of hard drives. Due to all kinds of problems. (yes, the one we’re making the movie on). We had 4 Spinpoint F1’s die on us. Don’t buy those pieces of crap. Charlie claims it wasn’t too much fun trouble shooting this.

2010 April

  • Scenes 8, 10B, 10C, 10D, 15A, 15B, 16, 17, 20, and 36 - EDITED
  • AnC and most of our lovely talented cast and crew are reunited for the April 19th cast party at the White Rabbit – complete with the actual paper machete pterodactyl used in the movie!
  • A trailer, featuring all cast members, is created and premieres at the Cast Party. You can check it out MOVIE TRAILER LINK.
  • Nathaniel Blume, our illustrious composer, gets music onto scenes 10D, 16, 17A, 17B, and 20, and they are premiered at the cast party. With a quick turn around, he uses some older compositions some temp tracks, and composes a bit.

2010 January

  • ScienceSexandthe Ladies.com is up and running
  • AnC New Years Cards sent out
  • Cast Party / Preview of SSL selected scenes set for April 19, 2010 at White Rabbit Cabaret. Invitations are sent out
  • Rough cut is finished rough animation work beginnng
  • Working towards having select scenes finished for Cast Party

2009 December

  • The rough cut is finished and sent of for Nathaniel Blume, our patient and awesome composer, for a look.
  • Charlie works on creating ScienceSexandtheLadies.com
  • Trisha and Barney work on creating copy for ScienceSexandtheLadies.com
  • All work on the AnC 2010 New Years Card promoting the new website.

2009 Aug/Nov

  • Charlie works on creating a rough cut of the movie with some attention to detailing in backgrounds
  • Barnaby works on organizing files
  • Trisha works on blogging for the SSL blog site
  • Cathy Hamaker record voice over for the animated “Hand”

2009 The rest of July

  • AnC does as little as possible

2009 Late April Early July

  • Actor voice-overs are recorded.
  • All footage using actors is shot, mainly during weekend – well pretty much every weekend.
  • Heidi Keller Philips collaborates to choreograph the opening number, practices take place, and the dance is shot.
  • AnC puts together a submission and 20 minutes of rough continuous footage for a Sundance Documentary Finishing Grant they don’t get it

2009 March

  • AnC does lots of planning and testing…

2009 Jan/Feb

  • AnC hold auditions and chooses cast.

2008

  • AnC turns the essay into a script (visualizes the essay) during long detailed sessions. It goes through several drafts.
  • Charlie works diligently on researching and obtaining equipment needed to make this movie.
  • Trisha and Barnaby pass the script back and forth making detailed corrections.
  • AnC begins advertising for actor auditions.

2006-2007

  • Trisha presented the first script essay to AnC. From that point on, the essay would be scrutinized in the group, changes suggested and Trisha would come back with a new version for the process to begin again.
  • Nathaniel Blume composes the opening number “Shitty Perspective” for the movie
  • Research continued

2005

  • Research continues
  • More AnC discussion
  • Ladies and Gentlemen We Assume, a short movie discussing the scientific study of gender differences, was made and premiered at the AnC Movie Prom. The “visual essay” style was thought up and used for this.

2004

  • Research continues
  • AnC discusses the topic more in-depth and particularly plays around with finding a focus for documentary
  • It is decided that a short documentary will be made on the topic for play at the AnC Movie Prom in 2005. The short will be used to test a style for the eventual full length documentary

2003

  • Research continues
  • AnC discusses
  • Trisha writes the first primitive essay on the topic while on an AnC vacation to Florida – we think this is where the title Science, Sex and the Ladies began, and we haven’t strayed from it since.

2002

  • AnC begins discussing the possibilities of making a documentary around this subject. Trisha begins researching books and journal articles.

2001 Fall

  • Trisha, finishing up her chemistry major, has to take a philosophy class and chooses Philosophy of Science. She also wants to take an easy class so takes Intro to Gender Studies pass/fail. At the same time, she is wondering about the shortcomings of porn. This mixture creates the first thoughts related to this movie.