Almost Perfect
Yesterday’s shoot was about as could as I can reasonably expect anymore. We didn’t get everything done, but quite a lot of it, which I’m fine with. Thankfully, Trevor offered to work more tonight, which is when we’ll get the light painting done for our brief battle scene. Thanks a bundle Trevor! You’ve given up a lot for this movie!
Also a great big thank you to Sorrelle and Sarah Alspach for helping out with lighting. It is very very tricky to light things up in the woods and it wouldn’t have worked without you. We also had a bit of a scare when the copper prop flashlight suddenly died. Turns out there were bad connections inside it, and Sarah managed to hotwire it with some wire running between the batteries and the connection points. It worked great and truly saved the shoot.
Earlier in the day I dragged my iMac all the way across campus and back for monitor calibration (still having problems with dark levels though), and filmed with James for about four hours downtown as the impromptu main character for his “Fortune Cookie” vignette, running all over the place and eating somewhere around 20 fortune cookies. It was a very tiring but fun and productive day. Hopefully today will at least be able to carry the latter of those three traits. It is for sure going to be the last day of Trapmaker-related shooting unless some horrible catastophe happens. Hmmm… I probably shouldn’t have said that.
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