Greetings, one and all! Well, this week we’re getting
in to it: The Spire Sequence. A meticulously planned and choreographed sequence
that quickly turned into the largest exercise in cinematic free form gymnastics
to date. I’ve tried to write about this process a couple times, but after two
or three paragraphs it begins to feel like vaguely traumatized ranting. Suffice
it to say that the Spire sequence started as a well-planned three day shoot
that quickly ballooned to seven days as the process got carpet bombed by a
series of events well outside of our control. Thus the extra days were made up
of us doing shoots to cover for the fact that people were suddenly unavailable,
or to hide the fact that the terrain had abruptly changed due to sudden
landscaping impulses on the part of the park maintenance crew. (To name but two examples.) So now I must take these intentional shoots and wild jerry-rig measures, and somehow sew them together into a cohesive whole. Let the games begin...
On the more upbeat side, we have finished the fine edit of Block 7, (save an ADR
session we will need for a night shoot that had unfortunate combine activity,) and despite the Spire challenges, already have a good bite taken out of Block 8.
On top of all that, the team met again on Sunday, and we walked the younger stunties through footwork
and agility exercises.
It’s an important process to work through, though tedious and tiring.
Well, that’s about all for this week. Until next time!
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