Yeah... that's a pretty good summary of the week.
Struck with inspiration, I've been throwing a lot of time and energy into
writing a kinda crazy first draft of a script. I'm currently about
half-way through, (or a third, if it runs long,) and things have gone
remarkably well, at least as compared to other more recent attempts.
It's good to be back in action.
In keeping with our attempts to
step up our game a bit, our focus as a stunt team this week was
ironically making ourselves less effective. As those who study combat
know, individual fights are over in seconds. Cinematic conflicts, on the
other hand, tend to drag. Understandably, this is important for
building dramatic tension, but it also means that our stunties, who were
taught real combat, are having to dial it back even further, and be
less efficient in combat.
We
ran several exercises, and reviewed other movie fights to compare and
contrast the styles and techniques used. (Stunties heckling movie
fights: a venerable tradition.) We'll see how they apply what they've
learned as this experiment continues.
Well, that's about all for now. Until next time!
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