End of Year: 2018 Edition

Greetings, one and all! Well, the year is finally drawing to a close, and what a year it has been. We shot our biggest project in almost five years, and a short on top of that. Said short was released this last week, and can be found here, for those of you who haven't seen it yet: Light of Hope

Speaking of the series, after the release of our short, we were well into editing episodes 7 and 8, before a pretty nasty bug laid the team out. Hopefully we'll be able to get more of that done after Christmas, when our brains are clearer. (Yes, despite the Wednesday release, this is being written on Monday, due to this little event on the 25th of December...)

All in all, a fairly productive week, despite the sickness and the holiday.

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

Coming Soon, to a Screen Near You...

Greetings, one and all! This week finds us racing toward the release of our short, which takes place in the Stormborn universe. But first, a recap.
Wednesday night saw our first shoot, in a stand of trees well after dark. For a little over three hours on location, we managed to turn out about four minutes of screen time. The chill wind picking up 2/3 of the way through was an excellent incentive to move quickly...

Friday saw a mad rearrangement of schedules, followed by two shorter shoots, framing the primary narrative. The wind picked up during the first, making sound challenging to capture, and the rain started to fall during the second, leading to a mad juggling of umbrellas, and so no pictures.

Those two hours netted another two plus minutes of screen time. All in all, a very productive shoot session. On Saturday, we dove into a rapid edit session, as well as full sound sync.

Sunday saw the team meeting for the final storming exercise: Medieval style.

By the end, they were getting a good idea of how to go about the process, and then we released them for Christmas break.

Monday came around, and with it the slow process of color correction, and the limited number of effects that are needed to tell the story. As Tuesday is supposed to host a bit of a wind storm, we have no idea if we'll have power, and so this blog is being written early. Thus, the update will end here.

But, before that happens, I will say that this short is being released within the week, before Christmas! So, keep your eyes out for that, and have a great week!

Merry Christmas to all!

On the Cusp of Christmas Cinematography

Greetings, one and all! As I write this, we are fast approaching our first film day of the season. Odds are, by the time you're reading this, we will be setting up for the shoot. It's been one of our shortest production schedules to date, and, as such, we've been doing a wide range of pre-production aspects at once. Everything from costuming and prop construction to casting.

This is also a learning experience for me, a trust exercise, as it were, because I have no time to double check the things that others are doing without me.
Sunday saw the stunt team meeting to refine what they've learned about clearing buildings. This is also the first week where the whole team is back from finals, so it was a packed shop, to be sure.

On top of all that, we've also been keeping apace of our primary duties with Stormborn. Sound sync has been finished on episodes 5 and 6, and the edit tightened yet again. They have also both been color corrected, which has been interesting, as I'm trying to give different planets their own unique feels, despite both being fundamentally forested in nature.

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

'Tis the Season

Greetings, one and all! This week has featured a wide spread of events. First off, the focus of production has been sound syncing some more complex scenes, as well as cleaning up the audio. As such, there are no new production pictures, on that end.

Secondly, Sunday saw the team expanding their modern combat skills, in the form of storming lessons.

By the end of the day, things were beginning to move fairly smoothly, barring one hostage scenario...

 

On top of all that, there's the aforementioned "classified writing." While the exact plot will have to wait for full release, let's just say that this particular project would be best if released within the next 20 days... I leave the rest to your imagination. This short project was born out of the realization of how much post work Stormborn has, and the need for simpler projects to be released between now and then. To that end, we are currently revising the short script, while also casting from our closer circle of friends and team members. This production blitz is gonna be a new one for us, so... we're off!

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