Friday the 15 is when we started putting up the green screen in the dance studio, which is now a drawing studio. We got permission from Karl to fix it up against the wall where the windows are. I volunteered to help out with that and got on the ladder drill in hand and we managed quit well with a small team of people. With Thai (Luke Page) waking up on the crash site we got needed to visually show that in front of the green screen. So some us went to the beach and dug sand in buckets. And filled up the trailer we got on loan from Gordon. Tarps on the ground and old sheets been stacked together as a base. It was quit a mission to get the sand upstairs in the studio without it spilling everywhere. And evenly putting it into its place.
Saturday the 16 first day of shooting in both the SIT pro studio and our improvised green screen studio. I was glad that the screws were still attached to the wall and the supporting the green screen. In the SIT pro studio Virat had managed to set the light up the day before as he could not make it due to work. So Aman was my DOP and Kim first AC. They both managed it quit well and I was pretty proud of the commitment during those 2 days. With green screen it is pivotal that the markers are on the screen when you move the camera. This I sometimes forgot but Sarah (my first AD) was pretty onto it. When I see a good frame I just want to get the camera and shoot it. But sticking to the pre-vis and storyboarding makes that not so easy. Luke Page who plays Thai did not feel that well, the flu virus, so I felt quit sorry for him to go through the motions each and every time. More than a few people weren't available for the 2 days so we got behind schedule pretty fast. The other issue was that we had to evacuate the building by 9PM so that deadline was creeping up closely. In the end everybody pulled their weight and i was quit impressed with how it all went.
Sunday the 17 and I wanted to try another approach towards my actors or at least try. We have Meadow coming in Luke, Gabby and Marcus. The shots we got on Saturday from Marcus with the headgear looked quit impressive. But I am a bit insecure if the antlers will fit the green screen. So we had to take out the small butterfly and attached the additional green screen. Just so we could get more of Marcus in shot. Luke and Meadow had a great chemistry together and she is very talented. We had a mishap with The F55 and tri-pod. The trouble was that it could not come of the camera. Kyle, our sound person, fixed it in the meantime but it was not the best. Now I got news from Callum that the tri-pod is going to get fixed but will be out of service for a month. We'll need to get some pick ups done so that might cause some issues. It is not been an easy road but we are slowly getting there.
Okay - thank you, Dan.
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