Shoots!!!

 Whew, okay, a little excited there. After repeated delays we were finally able to shoot the insert scenes for the teaser. Thursday we worked on simulating a massed battle with only six people and a very tiny pop-up green-screen. That said, they were an incredibly busy six people, between the running and the marching and… more… running… Anyway, where were we? Ah, yes. The army duplication went amazingly well, with just one or two glitches that would only be noticed by a) frame by frame analysis, or b) the guy who actually composited them. ;-P Amazingly enough, the fact that we shot on a windy day in a field with tall grass swaying and tree branches bobbing in the background, really didn’t present a problem when it came time to composite the elements together.

 Saturday, ah yes. That day we shot in the hill country with a couple horses. The hike in was about a mile and a half, all uphill, raining the whole time. In spite of the fact that we had horses guess who wound up carrying the heaviest gear? Yup, the two guys on foot. Funny how that works out… Fortunately the rain stopped for the duration of the shoot, starting again in time for our hike back down the hill. All in all a good and productive week, with adventures had by all.