Greetings, one and all! Well, this week we had to make
a pivot. After assessing all the performances of the people we’ve tried out thus
far, we realized that we’d run out of time to bring everyone up to spec for the
major roles before shooting was due to start. So now we’re shifting focus to
team development. In short, we plan to run different exercises to teach the
theater backgrounds how to interact for the camera. We’re also expanding the
stunt work overview to prepare our new stunties for our Plan B. Namely, we’re
currently developing a short script to shoot this summer that focuses on using
everyone we currently have, as sort of a shakedown cruise, to familiarize everyone
with the process before we do anything larger.
While most of the week was plan revision and script development, Sunday the team met again, and
ran through precision exercises, followed by learning the use of the sword and
shield.
It comes to mind that this is probably the first time I’ve taught this art since my shoulder injury, which explains why it’s now killing me. For all that, they’re learning quickly, and just have to develop the static strength that’s so important to shield use.
Well, that’s about all for this week. Until next time!