Thursday, September 23, 2010

Now on to a great Interior Exterior Building location

This location is a short move from our main location but a Favourite of mine ,,,,,,, Have shot here a few times ,,,,, You can get shots here that would take a High tower or a crane to get in other places ,,,,,, It would be great for a Feature Film location ,,,,,,,,,,,

Andre getting the camera in position ,,,,,,, We were moving fast ,,, so it is just a hand rested shot ,,, It worked bloody well again ...

It is a top spot ,,,,,, Lots more to do there some day ...

We are out of there pretty quickly ,,,,,, as we have lots more to do on our last night shoot ,,,,


Actually the location is also a great day location if you pick your time of day right ,,,,


Back to our main location to pick up a couple of Background Plates for baby in Car Shots ,,,, Not waving this time ,,, He He .

Then a Car landing shot with the car and without the car ,,,, Try and match up that tracking shot in post Joey ....... Actually we did good ,,, and it worked .
If we used motion control for this shot we would have been way over budget and into another night ,,,,,,,,,,,

A Show of Hands ,,,,,,, NO not Gay ! ,,, just lived in The Italian area of Sydney for 18 years & cant stop waving hands around He He He

Pratap is thinking " That a bit of a gay hand wave Gribs has got there "

Gribs is thinking " The car is going to fly past the the Baby will wave like this "

Joey is thinking " I didnt quote for a baby waving shot"

Pratap is thinking " Wow is doing another gay hand wave ,,, maybe he is gay "

Shivaaji is Thinking "Maybe Pratap is right ,,,, He does wear those weird ties all the time "

Gribs is thinking " The baby is going to fly past in the car and Wave like THIS "

Pratap is Thinking "Oh my Gosh Shivaaji is right ,,, its those ties ,,,"

Gribs is Thinking "I am going to stop waving my hans around like I live in the Italian area of Sydney ,,, Pratap and Shivaaji are giving me some weird looks "

That just about wraps up the Night Shoot ,,,, PUTRAJAYA had done it Again


Up on top of the tracking vehicle for the Car flying low through the Bridge Background Plate ..


It was a suprisingly bumpy ride on the bridge ,,,,,,, But it was a very short shot and we found a smooth bit ,,, ONLY Just .

We just had one last very low profile tyre rig tracking plate to do and it was Wrap beers and Bed ,,,,,,,,,

The Good old Super Speeds ,,,,,, don't you love what they can do Wide open with Kodak 500T

That was it ,,,, Night shoot done and Dusted ,,,, Pratap and I were happy chappies ... Now where were those Cold Bottled beers Hiding ?
Now ALL we had to do was shoot the BABY on greenscreen and matching his actions up to ALL the Plate shots we had done ,,,,,,, That ALL ...
PUTRAJAYA HAD DONE IT AGAIN ,,,,,,, The UNIVERSAL Back lot of KL .

The Silver Screens Studio we were going to shoot the greenscreen shots in was the Best I had seen in KL

It had a very useful Client room and clean bathrooms and Makeup etc etc ,,,, Plus a good open eating ,,lunch area with a Pool table for Bored Clients ,,,,He he ,

It had a Quite good Grid set up for lighting ,,,, and Nice and Clean ,,,

A medium size studio ,,,,,,, Small to Medium sets could be built there ,,, A nice experience ,,


Sometimes it is best to start with the Most Difficult shot first ,,, Its all downhill after that

We had our baby stand in ,,,,,,, How much can a Teddy Bear ,,,,,,,,,

We had Joey to make us put more tracking marks on the greenscreen ,,,

Joey is thinking ,,,,,,, " I dont think I allowed for this camera move in the Quote "
What are the Director/producer/1st Assistant Director saying to me ,,,,,,,,, GRIBS ,,, just leave that Teddy bear alone and go do something else ,,,,,,,,,,, So I did .

So I went and measured a car ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, It was Good to have the Real CAR on set to go measure it exactly ,,,, So we could design out shots for the PLASMA car .......


Some one Please call Lunch ,,,,,,,,, LUNCH ,,,,,,, LUNCH ,,,,,,,

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Sometimes it is good to use the Video on the Leica to show everyone the shot we are doing

Joey hangs up his phone ,,,, and get in for a closer look ,,,,,,, He IS Thinking ,,,( I hope my tyres look better than the cardboard cut outs ,,,,,,, I hope they dont ask me to make the Teddy Bear into a Baby ,,,, I think I will make them put more tracking marks on the Green Screen )

More of the same ,,, Take a break while the boys mark up the greenscreen

Its about now we realized that we wouldnt have the promised greenscreen overlay capabilitys we thought we would have ,,,,,,,,,

Pratap is thinking " I am glad I changed it from 3 babies to 1 baby ,,,, This is going to take forever "

Zac is Thinking " Oh boy this will send us over budget "

Gribs is thinking "Better get on with it instead of looking at the Guy with the red shirt ,,, listening to the computer "

Shivaaji is thinking " Is that guy in the red shirt listening to the computer ? "


Pratap is thinking " Wow I am glad I changed it from 3 kids to 1 "

We are all thinking ,,,,,,,,, This could take all night ,,, better start shooting ,,,"



Shivaaji it trying to show us how the Teddy Bear should sit ,,,,,, instead of having the computer overlay ,,,, He he
The Greenscreen shooting is always so Exciting ,,, isnt it ?

OHHH Now we will actually have to shoot something ,,,,,