V-656

[Hawk Teflon]

This looks awesome! Very impressive, Taylor.

[Chris Messineo]

June 11th - fourteen hour shoot, five actors, 42 set-ups, two locations. First two minutes cut. I'm in South Carolina on a paying shoot and plan to continue editing and effects when I get back Thursday. Looks like lots of projects are progressing nicely. Should be some fun viewing when this thing is over.

Sounds like a busy shoot - I can't wait to see how it turns out!

[taylormade]

Some shots from last Saturday's shoot.

[Chris Messineo]

Great BTS shots and location.

Is that the HVX you're shooting with? I love that camera; I still use mine all the time (we even shot all our BTS footage with it).

[taylormade]

HVX 200A. I like it, too. The shoot went great, but the air-conditioning was off at the school for the summer, so things got a bit hot.

[Chris Messineo]

I feel for you - heat can be brutal. I shot in an attic once during the summer and I thought someone was going to pass out.

[taylormade]

Four minutes in on the edit with grading and effects work done. Lots of effects and rotoscoping in the last two minutes, but it looks like I'll make it if no unforseen disasters occur.

[Hawk Teflon]

Rotoscoping. Yuck. I do not envy you. Good luck on that!

[taylormade]

Yeah, one of those things that came up after we shot. Me and my big mouth commenting that it would be cool to insert a CG figure into this scene. Then I realized it meant roto, motion tracking and 3D perspective animation and rendering to get it right. Like I said before - next fest one room, one actor and no special effects!

[taylormade]

Cast and crew at the finish of the shoot. A minor problem deveolped when the robots demanded scale at the end of the day but we worked things out.