Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Blood and Auditions |9:41 AM| We're getting down to the wire for various movie related deadlines. Filming can't start (by contest rules) until 7pm Friday, but we still have preparations to do.
We had some auditions/screentests the past two nights, and we have some folks that show promise. We're still hauling a couple more people in front of the camera tonight (with any luck).
Location scouting is pretty much complete, we've got some extremely interesting places to film. We've got creepy houses, an enclosed boiler room, unusual forest areas, and this frightening basement with stone walls, and a hole that goes...somewhere. (A side note, a basement in central Texas would have required such incredible labor, dynamite most likely, they're quite rare due to the granite/clay makeup of the earth around here)
Right about now I'm working on script outlines based on the crew's ideas. I'm miserable at dialog, but I can give a skeleton to the stories and we can flesh them out when we know our sub-genre. After auditions we were going to kick some ideas around, but I missed out on that meeting. I should be getting the notes later today. I wanted to stay last night a little later, but obligations (work, etc) took priority. Some crazed film maker I am.
Today is final testing of the blood sprayer I've designed/built/purchased. This consists of a 10 gallon air tank pumped to 80 PSI with a lead in hose coming off of the valve. A pushbutton valve at the other end is the control, and from there a funnel or length of surgical tubing is the resevoir for blood/gore. Later this afternoon I'm going to try adding diced jellow to the mix, to see if it can give some much needed density in the tube, without clogging or making overly visible "chunks". So far I've been proud of that bit of technical work. If I can video capture blasting Joe with it for the first time, I'll share it with you blog readers.
Blood and Auditions |9:41 AM| We're getting down to the wire for various movie related deadlines. Filming can't start (by contest rules) until 7pm Friday, but we still have preparations to do.
We had some auditions/screentests the past two nights, and we have some folks that show promise. We're still hauling a couple more people in front of the camera tonight (with any luck).
Location scouting is pretty much complete, we've got some extremely interesting places to film. We've got creepy houses, an enclosed boiler room, unusual forest areas, and this frightening basement with stone walls, and a hole that goes...somewhere. (A side note, a basement in central Texas would have required such incredible labor, dynamite most likely, they're quite rare due to the granite/clay makeup of the earth around here)
Right about now I'm working on script outlines based on the crew's ideas. I'm miserable at dialog, but I can give a skeleton to the stories and we can flesh them out when we know our sub-genre. After auditions we were going to kick some ideas around, but I missed out on that meeting. I should be getting the notes later today. I wanted to stay last night a little later, but obligations (work, etc) took priority. Some crazed film maker I am.
Today is final testing of the blood sprayer I've designed/built/purchased. This consists of a 10 gallon air tank pumped to 80 PSI with a lead in hose coming off of the valve. A pushbutton valve at the other end is the control, and from there a funnel or length of surgical tubing is the resevoir for blood/gore. Later this afternoon I'm going to try adding diced jellow to the mix, to see if it can give some much needed density in the tube, without clogging or making overly visible "chunks". So far I've been proud of that bit of technical work. If I can video capture blasting Joe with it for the first time, I'll share it with you blog readers.
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