A Big Day
What’s so big you might ask?
Well, later today if the weather stays nice I plan to get my head and shoulders life-cast. I have never had it done before but it is something that I am very much looking forward to, even if I am a little nervous about it. I am a firm believer in the idea that if you want to do this (for a living) you have to have had it done yourself… how can you know what it is like if you haven’t experienced it yourself?
I think that we have everything in place… it’s almost 7:30 in the a.m. I have about 3 or 4 hours until my friend Will gets here and we will be sitting down and going over everything and then around lunchtime we’ll do it and by this time tonight I should have an Ultracal bust of my head!
From there it might take a few weeks but we will make a negative mother mold of it into which I can pour some latex and make a dummy head for finishing the FX shots of Roadkill.
Speaking of that here is an update on our progress with the DVD… I have a mostly finished Cover laid out, I just need to tinker with it a little bit I think… I may do a different design so that I have a couple to choose from and Richard Cabrera who acted in the film and is a film maker and graphic artist in his own right has offered to take a crack at it too. So we shall see how that goes.
I ended up capturing about 60gig of footage for the behind the scenes videos and bloopers ect. I am going to be trying to put as many extras on the disc as I can, but I think I will wait to reveal exactly what until a little closer to the time.
Let’s see, what else? I have started putting together the blooper/gag reel, it should end up somewhere in the 8 to 10 minute range which is good. I was worried that I wouldn’t have enough footage because everyone was very professional and remembered their lines pretty well and even when they did flub a line they didn’t break character… luckily there where a few times when we had to let the camera roll and people goofed off a bit. I think that that is a drawback of making movies the way I do on such a small scale in such short time frames, on “normal” sets there are a lot more people standing around and they shoot for months so they have a lot longer time to get to know each other and joke around.
Sigh. ok I have wasted enough time here, I’ll be back, probably in February at this point and I will hopefully have pictures… which reminds me I need to put up pictures of the fangs I have made too.
as always… wish me luck!