Rehearsal of Wrath

 Okay, so over the top title aside, the highlight of this rather crazy week was our full on rehearsal of the lightsaber fight, complete with camera angles. My hope is to make a temporary edit to see what needs to be improved before we do it for real with costumes and everything. (That and perhaps find solutions for any technical issues.) 

 

As that was the overarching point of the week, we will leave it word short and picture long. Until next time!

Down Again, Up Again

 So... directly after the last blog post, we went into building the DVD of "Gatewalkers"... whereupon the project promptly got corrupted and crashed. However, whilst trying to fix that problem, I had a bit of inspiration regarding what was wrong with the re-deleted deleted scene, and how to go about fixing it. The solution was not without its own setbacks, but the end result is that the scene has been reintroduced, and yesterday we printed the first test copy of the DVD.

The Thursday costuming run was fairly successful, netting us several random pieces, as well as a few elements that can be turned into props for future projects. The biggest victory for me personally was finding a metal tube that neatly fit over David's current lightsaber blade, allowing for a long, shining light-halberd.

 

 

 

Sunday the team drilled again, and this time they surprised me with a costuming piece that will be very useful for this and future projects.

Well, that's about all for this week. Until next time!

Inspired Trickery

  So, this week was promising to be of dubious development, but that has all thankfully turned around. I have spent a goodly amount of time cleaning up the Gatewalkers Season One audio for an archival/ feature edit, but the render system kept crashing on two of the final sections. Thankfully a 1 AM bit of inspiration allowed me to trick one of the files into rendering properly, whilst the other one required more draconian measures. Sadly one of the deleted scenes that I had hoped to add had to be re-deleted so that the project could render. What the exact problem was is still unknown, but thankfully now I have moved on to building the DVD copy.

 

 

To make up for one of our leads missing the last two weeks, Tuesday we ran a special practice session. Sadly, the rains were fairly heavy, so we had to do most of the work inside (hence the small number of pictures).

Thursday we will be going on a costuming run, which could definitely be interesting... updates to come next week.

That's about all for now. Until next time!

On Brick Walls

 So... the week started out pretty well, we made plans for the LCC costuming, went hunting for lightsaber parts, and drilled the fight some more.

 

 

Come Monday, things got interesting. Long story short, the program Premiere uses to render videos is now crashing whenever I try to render a video, either at the beginning of the process or the last possible moment. I've been looking for solutions, but thus far none of the suggestions have worked. While this won't put a crimp in future projects, it kinda torpedoes the Gatewalkers archive copy and feature film edit. Ah well, perhaps give it a few more days, then move on.

So... that's been the week. Wish it was more optimistic, but maybe that'll be next week's update. Tune in then!