fixitinpost
Well-known member
Yep, this was the only shoot day. Wouldn't have been nearly so long, but we were knocked off schedule by about six hours (I think) due to the P2 catastrophe. Full report to come later. Right now I'm going to crash.
235 Studios Presents: SEMELE
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Norm Sanders
Script Wrangler
JUST got back home from the shoot. So, about not being able to keep up with the Steadicam ... um, yeah. 
We went well over our scheduled time, but everyone agreed it was best to just get all the shots we needed today vs. scheduling another. I'm glad we did. Had fun, but I'm beat.
REALLY looking forward to seeing it all come together now! :thumbsup:
We went well over our scheduled time, but everyone agreed it was best to just get all the shots we needed today vs. scheduling another. I'm glad we did. Had fun, but I'm beat.
REALLY looking forward to seeing it all come together now! :thumbsup:
Shawn Philip Nelson
Veteran
So my wife hates DVXUser in general (something about me spending more time here at night than her, I don't know, I was posting at the time) and I think all those anti-dvxuser sentiments transferred to our unborn son because...
Many months ago back in November I agreed to help Ryan because Semele's Jan 6 shoot date was a full week after my wife's due date and we all expected her to go early. Well Dec 30th (due date) came and went and she was still pregnant. We got to within a few days from Jan 6 and Ryan asked me to be sound guy as well. So Friday night I call Ryan at 10pm telling him my wife is having no contractions so I'd see him the next morning. At 10:45pm her water broke! I had no choice but to stay with her all day Saturday. So poor Ryan had to wake up at 4am just to drive an hour away to the hospital to meet with me so I could pass off my blank guns (I provided all the guns for Semele). I was also going to finally get to meet Norm and all the other DVXUser guys that were there. Alas.
William John Philip Nelson (my first) was born yesterday at 7:30pm, weighing 7-1/2 lbs, 19" long and totally healthy. Mom is great too. I post this from the free wifi at the hospital. My wife is saying something but I've just got to post this first...
Many months ago back in November I agreed to help Ryan because Semele's Jan 6 shoot date was a full week after my wife's due date and we all expected her to go early. Well Dec 30th (due date) came and went and she was still pregnant. We got to within a few days from Jan 6 and Ryan asked me to be sound guy as well. So Friday night I call Ryan at 10pm telling him my wife is having no contractions so I'd see him the next morning. At 10:45pm her water broke! I had no choice but to stay with her all day Saturday. So poor Ryan had to wake up at 4am just to drive an hour away to the hospital to meet with me so I could pass off my blank guns (I provided all the guns for Semele). I was also going to finally get to meet Norm and all the other DVXUser guys that were there. Alas.
William John Philip Nelson (my first) was born yesterday at 7:30pm, weighing 7-1/2 lbs, 19" long and totally healthy. Mom is great too. I post this from the free wifi at the hospital. My wife is saying something but I've just got to post this first...
Blaine
Mr. Hollywood
Congratulations, Shawn. Your life will never be the same...:beer:
And congrats to you guys on getting it done. I know what you're talking about (being beat) as we just finished a week of shooting yesterday. Is the shoot done or is there still more to do?Envision said:JUST got back home from the shoot. So, about not being able to keep up with the Steadicam ... um, yeah.
We went well over our scheduled time, but everyone agreed it was best to just get all the shots we needed today vs. scheduling another. I'm glad we did. Had fun, but I'm beat.
REALLY looking forward to seeing it all come together now! :thumbsup:
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Norm Sanders
Script Wrangler
Congratulations, Shawn!! Yep, bummer we didn't get a chance to meet, but I know we will at some point. :beer:
The shooting is all done. And I'm really HOPING that there's no reshoots needed, as I've now shaved clean for the next short this coming weekend ... I could have waited, but I was counting the minutes until I could shave, lol. In fact, after posting at 1:16am this morning, before I even went to bed I had grabbed the beard trimmer & took it all off. Ahh, so nice.
We have ADR scheduled for the 15th, so Ryan has a week to get all the locked edit in place.
Blaine said:
The shooting is all done. And I'm really HOPING that there's no reshoots needed, as I've now shaved clean for the next short this coming weekend ... I could have waited, but I was counting the minutes until I could shave, lol. In fact, after posting at 1:16am this morning, before I even went to bed I had grabbed the beard trimmer & took it all off. Ahh, so nice.
We have ADR scheduled for the 15th, so Ryan has a week to get all the locked edit in place.
fixitinpost
Well-known member
Shooting should be completely done (hopefully there will be no pickups).
So yesterday call time was 7:00am. I woke up several times in the middle of the night to hear it pouring rain. I was hoping and praying that it would clear up by call time. And it did for the most part. By the time we wrapped at the outdoor location, it was a beautiful day.
The first real complication of the day was the glidecam (can't remember the model). We had and HVX, Redrock, lens, and Marshall monitor on it. The glidecam couldn't support all the weight. So Patrick couldn't really "fly" it. He just used it to relieve his arms of part of the weight (and that sucker was HEAVY). Even with the weight problem, we managed to get some really good footage. We didn't have the follow focus for the outdoor location, and trying to rack focus while the camera was moving quickly on the glidecam was a really fun challenge.
I also learned that dry erase markers don't work when your slate gets wet.
We got a few weird looks from people driving by when we had the guns out, which was mildly amusing.
At this location, Ryan decided to cut a few shots to keep us on schedule. We got out of there only ten minutes late. Then it was on to Ryan's house (only about 2 minutes away) for lunch and the set in the garage. Brandi had awesome craft services going for us all day.
In the afternoon, disaster struck. We'd shot several scenes (about 12-16Gb of footage). Performances were good, and the visuals were fantastic. Then I went to offload the P2 cards. Long story short, don't switch back and forth between external and internal hard drives while capturing with P2 Genie. We ended up losing 12GB of footage (we had Genie set to erase cards at the end of the copy operation). An attempt at data recovery yielded nothing but thumbnails. We were, however, actually able to recover the data from one card, that was actually hiding somewhere on the hard drive. But we still had to reshoot. Counting the time lost trying to recover the data, as well as the time lost by losing all that footage, we were 6 hours behind when we started re-shooting. We didn't have time to tweak the lighting to the degree that we had before, but some of the performances were better during the re-shoot, so it kinda turned out to be a good thing.
We got caught up to where we had been, and moved on to new material. Norm had "fun" learning some of the more interesting points of using a Mac (Semele uses one in one scene). I had a couple of fairly complex (for my skill level) focus pulls. Can't wait to see if they hold up on a larger screen.
The wall that Evin built was fantastic. We moved and redecorated it for two scenes where we see the fourth wall of the room. And it was just fun to say "Wall, flying in!"
Wrapped at about 1:30am. We were all super tired, so after we took the obligatory cast and crew shot, we just left all our gear lying around, and went home. Went back and picked it up this afternoon.
Now we move into post. Ryan will be editing this week, and we'll have a locked edit hopefully by the ADR session next Monday night. Then the requisite materials will go out to FX, Music, and Sound Design.
As far as sound design goes, we have some pretty special stuff planned, and will be posting details as they emerge. Stay tuned!
I'd also like to say that it was a blast to work with everyone involved. Everyone was highly skilled, and very professional. Positive attitudes were maintained, even when we had to re-shoot. I hope to work with all of you again!
EDIT: For shooting indoors with the Redrock, we usually had about 3.5-4.5k of light going. The Redrock doesn't require this much for exposure under normal circumstances, but there was a lot of diffusion, etc, going on to get the look Ryan wanted, and a lot more light was required.
So yesterday call time was 7:00am. I woke up several times in the middle of the night to hear it pouring rain. I was hoping and praying that it would clear up by call time. And it did for the most part. By the time we wrapped at the outdoor location, it was a beautiful day.
The first real complication of the day was the glidecam (can't remember the model). We had and HVX, Redrock, lens, and Marshall monitor on it. The glidecam couldn't support all the weight. So Patrick couldn't really "fly" it. He just used it to relieve his arms of part of the weight (and that sucker was HEAVY). Even with the weight problem, we managed to get some really good footage. We didn't have the follow focus for the outdoor location, and trying to rack focus while the camera was moving quickly on the glidecam was a really fun challenge.
I also learned that dry erase markers don't work when your slate gets wet.
We got a few weird looks from people driving by when we had the guns out, which was mildly amusing.
At this location, Ryan decided to cut a few shots to keep us on schedule. We got out of there only ten minutes late. Then it was on to Ryan's house (only about 2 minutes away) for lunch and the set in the garage. Brandi had awesome craft services going for us all day.
In the afternoon, disaster struck. We'd shot several scenes (about 12-16Gb of footage). Performances were good, and the visuals were fantastic. Then I went to offload the P2 cards. Long story short, don't switch back and forth between external and internal hard drives while capturing with P2 Genie. We ended up losing 12GB of footage (we had Genie set to erase cards at the end of the copy operation). An attempt at data recovery yielded nothing but thumbnails. We were, however, actually able to recover the data from one card, that was actually hiding somewhere on the hard drive. But we still had to reshoot. Counting the time lost trying to recover the data, as well as the time lost by losing all that footage, we were 6 hours behind when we started re-shooting. We didn't have time to tweak the lighting to the degree that we had before, but some of the performances were better during the re-shoot, so it kinda turned out to be a good thing.
We got caught up to where we had been, and moved on to new material. Norm had "fun" learning some of the more interesting points of using a Mac (Semele uses one in one scene). I had a couple of fairly complex (for my skill level) focus pulls. Can't wait to see if they hold up on a larger screen.
The wall that Evin built was fantastic. We moved and redecorated it for two scenes where we see the fourth wall of the room. And it was just fun to say "Wall, flying in!"
Wrapped at about 1:30am. We were all super tired, so after we took the obligatory cast and crew shot, we just left all our gear lying around, and went home. Went back and picked it up this afternoon.
Now we move into post. Ryan will be editing this week, and we'll have a locked edit hopefully by the ADR session next Monday night. Then the requisite materials will go out to FX, Music, and Sound Design.
As far as sound design goes, we have some pretty special stuff planned, and will be posting details as they emerge. Stay tuned!
I'd also like to say that it was a blast to work with everyone involved. Everyone was highly skilled, and very professional. Positive attitudes were maintained, even when we had to re-shoot. I hope to work with all of you again!
EDIT: For shooting indoors with the Redrock, we usually had about 3.5-4.5k of light going. The Redrock doesn't require this much for exposure under normal circumstances, but there was a lot of diffusion, etc, going on to get the look Ryan wanted, and a lot more light was required.
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Norm Sanders
Script Wrangler
Hey Jerry, if you get a chance, can you post the picture you guys used on the table? I think Ryan's got the "Soap Opera Advertisement" pic, but the one you took at the park looked pretty good too ... and any chance to redeem myself from the retard look a couple pages back is fine by me.
The most frusterating part about going as late/long as we did was my mind just going to mush. Simple lines that I had just fine before started getting jumbled up with me saying stupid things like 'Did you have me killed?!". Um, Duh, Einstein ... the answer would be "NO", if you're able to ask her. It was a funny blooper, to say the least.
The most frusterating part about going as late/long as we did was my mind just going to mush. Simple lines that I had just fine before started getting jumbled up with me saying stupid things like 'Did you have me killed?!". Um, Duh, Einstein ... the answer would be "NO", if you're able to ask her. It was a funny blooper, to say the least.
fixitinpost
Well-known member
I'm not sure which pic Ryan ended up using (I sent him three variations). So this is my best guess as to the one he used:
Having that moveable wall was great, as was shooting in a garage. As key grip, it allowed me to screw a baby plate into the cieling/wall a couple times to get a light in a spot that a stand wouldn't/couldn't go. Also, the craft service was excellent, and at one point during the night I kept eating not because I was hungry, but just because it was so good! Using the steadicam was interesting for me. That was the biggest rig I have ever flown on a steadicam, but it wasn't too bad. Oh how I wish we would have had a wireless follow focus and monitor! I think the biggest problem with me having such a long day is that I tend to get a really sarcastic sense of humor, it's totally harmless, I just hope I didn't make Norm mad with my repeated comments about the so called "multi-spectrum" light on REM.....(inside joke, sort of....)
235 Studios
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235 Studios said:
LOL!!! Nice post Partick (PDX_DVX)! :beer: You did do a great job on set, thanks!
(For those of you not on set, one of the props was my laptop, which durring a break Patrick used to log in to DVXuser - I have it set to automatically log in - and he wrote up a post. I read the post before he submitted it, of course.)
235 Studios
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shawneous said:
LOL!!!! :beer:
shawneous said:
I much appreciate your help with the weapons, as well as your willingness to help out with the sound- since my audio guy bailed on me last minute. Thanks for helping out how / where every you could.
shawneous said:
Congrats! I'm glad that everything went well. :beer: Hopefully we'll be able to work together more closely soon.
shawneous said:
LOL!!!!
Brandon Rice
Distributed Producer
Hey Ryan.. how about some BTS pics or grabs?
235 Studios
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fixitinpost said:
Thanks for posting that detailed update- yesterday I drove to Salem to drop off the Steadicam and the weapons, returned and finsished wrapping the set. Everyones gear has been fully wrapped and is organized into their seperate piles.
NOTE TO ALL P2 GENIE USERS ON A MAC:
DO NOT CAPTURE / TRANSFER FOOTAGE TO AN EXTERNAL DRIVE!!!!!
P2 Genie will off load your footage to the "drive" regardless of if the drive is connected or not. Which is a HUGE problem if it is not connected. Using the terminal and some basic commands that I know I was able to rescue some of the files form the ghost drive, but not all of them.
235 Studios
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Brandon Rice said:
They will be coming ASAP. Tung took some Stills as he was able to, and I've set him up with FTP access to my site. As soon as he is able, he'll be transferring the pictures, and I'll post them.
Brandon Rice
Distributed Producer
Cool. Can't wait man! Sounds like it was a good (though hectic) shoot!
Norm Sanders
Script Wrangler
PDX_DVX said:
Dude, you're fine. You had me at 'Ribs...' (inside joke, sort of....) :beer:
RebeccaD
Well-known member
We had a great time, Ryan. I was definitely beat by the end, but was feeling more sorry for all of you that had been going since the crack of dawn. My call time being at noon was generous of you and worked well since I'd had a party at my house the night before. :dankk2:
235 Studios
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RebeccaD said:
No problem - I thought it didn't make much sense having you show up earilier since your scenes were not going to be shot until the afternoon. Glad you had a good time. :Beer:
