Lots of things have been going on. I've been shooting for a new crew (well, new to me)...did a mixed martial arts (MMA) event in Lancaster which was pretty cool, and a two day music festival in the woods in NJ this past weekend. That was also pretty cool. Tomorrow and Tuesday it's out to Philly to shoot a Def Comedy Jam showcase, or so I'm told. We'll see how that goes.
Anyway, back to the current (non "real job" related) projects. Chrononauts is still being written. What's the hold up? Lots of things I guess, but I've been trying to push forward a lot on Preservation so that's taken up a lot of my free time. I'm still plugging away on it though. More updates on that when there is something interesting to write about.
Preservation rolls onward. Or, maybe the word is wobbles.....I don't know. In any event I've been knocking VFX shots off here and there since my last post. But they take time...case in point:
Sometimes when you do night shoots and it rolls around to, oh, say 4am and you're still shooting the big fight scene of the film - lack of sleep can lead to a lack of attention to certain details. Like, clearly visible light reflections on windows in scenes that are supposed to have no lights on at all for story reasons. You generally pick those little details up once you are comfortably back in your edit suite with a few hours of sleep under your belt.
What do you do? Well, you could leave it alone, reshoot.....or, you just paint out the reflections:
It's a time consuming process - especially for a project that is low budget to begin with, and who knows if anyone will ever see it. So, yeah, I guess I didn't HAVE to do it. But it's one of those things that would bother the heck out of me forever, so there.
More in a bit.
Catch ya later!
Rob
