Pitches, Night Shoots, and Shifting Terrain

Greetings, one and all! So it begins… This week I started pitching us and what we do to various organizations, with a wide spread of reactions. Now I’ll give them another week or so before following up, and seeing what further action needs to be taken. The delay is both for the wheels of bureaucracy to start moving, and due to the fact that pitching/sales brain is very different from the frame of mind I need to be in for literally every other part of my job, so I need to give myself time to be productive first.

The next props were also finally completed, allowing us to start in on shooting small vignettes from the universe.

Lastly, the team met again, and, in order to dodge the first heavy rains of the season, ran a somewhat more complex storming exercise…

Using some of the lighter sheeting in the shop, the team changed the building layout by blocking off different doors and hallways for each iteration. It did a lot for the exercise, and a good time was had by all.

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

Between Short Blocks

Greetings, one and all! So, let’s see… This week heavily featured finishing work on the props required for the next batch of shoots, which is still very much a work in progress. As mentioned before, work schedules for the team members make this somewhat difficult. Still, the progress is being made, just not on the timetable we’d originally planned.

Next up was laying the groundwork for the next script idea, fleshing out the major factions that operate in this world. It was quite a bit of cultural data to extrapolate, but thankfully the moment was right, and I finished the work in record time.

After that, the team met on Sunday for a more casual training session, where they ran through a couple different choreographies, followed by a classic training exercise.

Lastly, I’ve also spent a couple days compiling data on the various groups that I hope to be pitching us to sometime in the near future. We shall see what we shall see…

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

Jailbreak Day 3

Greetings, one and all! A not insignificant percentage of this blog week and next has been and will be occupied with real life requirements, which slows production somewhat, but for all that we’ve made progress. Props were finished in time for this week’s shoot, which highlights the future/past fusion that defines this universe.

Given the scheduling difficulties inherent in working around the polar opposite work schedules of our two combatants, the shoot was done on Sunday, while the rest of the team flexed their own assorted combat skills in a series of training exercises.

On top of that, there was some script work, and preparing to pitch us and what we do to various organizations, so we pray that goes well.

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

Fields to Face

Greetings, one and all! So this week was both long and slow. Additional attention has been turned to refining the pitch for us as a group, and I think it’s getting close to being done. As the old saying goes, the last ten percent takes ninety percent of the time.

A highlight of the week was of course the stunt team. Sunday we had the opportunity to just play in the old fashioned way, tinkering with an overly complicated fight scene involving six fighters and falling floors.

It was fun to watch, and everyone seemed to be having a good time.

The writing continues this week, and more thought is being given to how delivery format determines narrative style, and how both of these relate favorably or unfavorably with low budget work. In short, way too much thinking on way too many different topics. But all necessary to get the job done.

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