A Jeff Anderson LossFest Entry...

from MAXO-FACTO


Actors! We have them! Got to have our first official meeting and wanted to introduce to the world Chandler B. Clark and Tyler Roberds. Both fantastic at their craft and just nice people to be around. We here at the MAXO-FACTO are pleased as punch to have them on board. Anyways just wanted to introduce them and let you MAXO-FACTOIANS get a chance to know them.


I apologize for my inability to focus - brought the 17-200 AFS VR along for the ride for versatility and it’s focus mechanism isnt the greatest for video. Sunlight hitting the LCD doesnt help either. Will be glad to be using manual focus lenses and be shooting at night
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Also played a bit with some color correction.
 
Sorry I've been slow with updates, seems like the weeks are flying by.

Had a chance to sit down and teleconference with my actors and crew last sunday and it truly was an awesome experience. The plan was to do several read-throughs and see what worked and what didnt and kind of modify the script so that it fit. Also wanted to give my actors a chance to really get a feel for what I was intending with some of the emotions.

I was expecting it to be kind of a boring thing really, more mechanical and just a familiarization exercise. Ha! They rocked the house. Started out a little slow, but by the 3rd or 4th time they were just nailing it and bring it out parts of the character I had kinda forgotten about really. Totally added major substance to it. Soundman Josh also sat in and proved to be a really useful feedback mechanism and made a few suggestions that really helped the flow and the understanding of it from the viewer's perspective.

Needless to say I am in love with my cast and crew. These guys are impressive and are going to make me look good - just hope I can do the same for them.

Also have done a little night testing to make sure I know what I'm capable of light wise - the first of a series of tests is up at www.maxo-facto.com/blog as well as my thoughts on working with the D90. Will have more up later this week with a few other lighting situations...
 
Why isn't anyone commenting on my entry!!?! - oh yeah we haven't shot it yet... Damn. Anyways have some new updates on the story and a little look into the camera department up on the blog - www.maxo-facto.com/blog.

Had our second teleconference/read through last tuesday and it was just great. Fantastic group of people involved with this. Live rehearsals are this weekend. I'm totally stoked. As great as the teleconferencing has been working it will be a relief for us all as I know its hard to gauge emotion and of course body language over the phone. Just fun people to work with too - looking forward to seeing them again.

Should have some more testing done this weekend. If its anything earth shattering will post up here. We'll just see what we think :)
 
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