Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Weekend 9 +more

Weekend nine looked like it was going to be trouble.

After two beautiful weeks of sunshine in January, it rained for most of last week and up until Saturday morning. Somehow fortune was on our side and we received almost two beautiful days of sunshine.

Both weekends were filled with scenes featuring Pat and his followers.

Saturday we started early in the arbor and wrapped up earlier than expected because the clouds were too numerous for a reshoot of scene 19.

Then a smaller crew came back to an indoor location at night to film a tender scene with just Pat as he gets ready for bed.

On Sunday we had a minor costume scare in the morning but luckily we found someone with the right clothes to help us out.

We filmed the giant cross scene which came out exactly as I imagined it. Quite an amazing thing.

Then we filmed our second sunset scene with Pat, his followers and a host of extras. Thanks everyone who came out for a beautiful sunset and delicious pizza!

I think this is some of our best footage yet.

We only have two weekends of principle left O_O

The premiere date is changed, details and updates soon!

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

7th and 8th weekend and more

So winter break has started a bit slow, but no less productive.

We hired two new crew:

David Finkelstein our editor and Michael Wootress our Line Producer.

Weekend 7 was pretty relaxing because of a scheduling mishap, but we did some of reshoots for Sylvia's sunset run to campus. Shooting at sunset is hard, but definitely possible.

Weekend 8 we got lots of b-roll/second unit, did an insert shot for one of Johanna's scenes on the beach and an insert shot for the editing scene with Billy.

We also got a few elements of the coda montage where we see former Instinctive Ones living their lives normally.

On Monday we filmed the interview scene between Billy and Sylvia which went smoothly and quickly.

Tuesday night some of the crew watched our very first rough cut!

It's still very very rough, but it's a damn good start.

And our premiere date is now set for the 19th of March, location and time TBA.

Mark your calenders.