Beaches and Breakouts

 Greetings, one and all! I’m happy to say that the oversight of the weeks and months leading up to last week is being quickly corrected, and the presentation is coming together well, if slowly. I’ve decided that the presentation will be capped on either end by the two videos I’ve been working on. As they are the persuasive bits, most of what I’ll need to do in the middle is give them our background, and tell them how they can be a part of what we do.

In other news, we went on a bit of a location scout to the coast Thursday, in search of an important location for early in the script. I personally have no photos, my scout partner has them, and is currently at work, but they’d mostly be cliffsides, anyway. There’s a lot of trying to figure out what will and will not be seen with different camera angles, as the coastline is naturally fairly developed, and the beach is a wide open space.

Lastly, the team met on Sunday to block out the emotional climax of the movie. Not to worry, it still involves swords…

For as short as the action is, it still took the bulk of two hours to plan, as it’s quite intricate.

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

The Art of Remembering to Say Things

Have you ever been so preoccupied with one aspect of a project, that you forgot the rest of it exists? Apparently that was me this last month or so. In the good news, the crew pitch has been completed, and I have very warm feelings toward it, though that may just be my bias, because it’s all about the team, voiced by the stunties. I’ve also adjusted a bit of the main pitch video for better flow between concepts. Now, the rest of the news.

It seems that, in my rush to make the pitch videos, I’d neglected to work on what I was actually going to say to these groups of people once the video plays. The audiences will be diverse in both age and motivation, so I must touch on each of those niches, in light of the overarching video pitch. So, y’know, no big deal. I had worked extensively on the pitch that gets me past the gatekeepers to actually talk to the people, but had apparently neglected to actually develop the point of pitching to the gatekeepers in the first place. I should really stop surprising myself like this.

In other news, the team met again on Sunday, and started out by working on calculating the minimum size the Raven’s Head set would need to be, to make everything work. While larger is better, there’s budgetary constraints to consider.

After that they leapt into a sword exercise where they each start out on arms of a star, and maneuver to their advantage across them until the last man standing. Low duration, high intensity, which works out well for a very warm day.

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

Edits New and Old

 Greetings, one and all! As hinted last week, the efforts this week have centered on the new recruit pitch video. Unlike the previous video, this one came together fairly quickly, but will likely be subject to a lot of minor adjustments, as I’m making this without a script, wholly from pieces of team member interviews.

In the middle of that process, the team met as a slightly smaller group and practiced a bit of shield use, coupled with both the sword and spear…

Officially, the masks are murder while exerting yourself in the heat.

While waiting for some more footage to come in, we spent some time refining the script a bit. Also, I think I’ve found the title font…

All in all a quiet but productive week.

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

Pitching, Dodging, and Weaving

Greetings, one and all! Well, it’s done. After a month of working on the pitch video, it is finally finished. It went through a lot of iterations, but when it finally clicked, it did so quickly. Behold our creative use of public domain imagery!

In all seriousness, it’s a relief to finally be through, though it was damped somewhat by the realization that I now have to do the video for potential new recruits. Still, it’s good to be editing again. Very, very good.

In other news, the team met this week to choreograph the first action sequence of the new project. Basically, they all start out in this 12’x12’ box…

  Things get more chaotic from there. It was an intensely fiddly scene, where most of the time was taken up by deciding where people should stand, but when that was done, everything came together quickly.

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