Movie Summary

Carbonated Pop Icons is an all digital production originally filmed from 2001 into 2002. It follows a day in the operation of a movie theatre and it’s employees in a small shopping center the day before the biggest weekend of the summer. Carbonated Pop Icons was written by LL and Mike Shannon , both former managers for the movie theatre industry. The majority of actors used in the production were former or at the time of production, movie theatre employees. Since all movie theatres have few “dark hours” all shooting had be accomplished with limited resources, quick setups, mobile equipment, and quick rehearsing. The majority of filming took place from 11 o’clock at night until 3 o’clock in the morning or 5 o’clock in the morning until 11 o’clock morning. Most filming blocks consisted of five mintues rehearsal with three to five takes. Due to the presence of the theatre techs and cleaning crews at night and into the morning, 90 percent of ambient audio was added in postproduction. Senior theatre management “looked the other way” as long as shooting did not infringe on the theatres normal operation. Due to the difficult shooting schedule most coverage for all scenes were filmed weeks or even months apart and placed together in the postproduction process. Specifically one sequence contains four elements that were each produced over 30 days between. When production wrapped in 2002, the film enjoyed a long postproduction process as the company that owned the theatre was sold …