Day One

Production is off to a great start. Today is filming in a residential street which we needed to both lock down and then make look like a bomb zone. Most of the filming today was from the Viper Camera with the Venom pack, mounted on a steadicam – which in turn was mounted on the

Pre-production

Preproduction continues… but not much to blog as I have been sick as a Dog. We shoot SAT-SUN-MON-TUES…. and today & tomorrow (thur-fri) are last minute pre-production… wow it sucks being sick… plus I need to get classes out… anyway sorry for the lack of postings but I will start back tomorrow Mike

Responsibility

I wanted to thank everyone from NAB – but now I am back in Sydney, our attention turns to the Shoot this weekend. We have had a production crew in pre-production while I was in the States and they have done a great job in preparing everything. For those who have heard about the zombie

Tuesday At NAB

Today was a really tough day for the HD film crew as we were shooting loads of material. In brief it ran like this 7am Call time 8.30 show floor 9.30 RED Video interview 11.00 Meetings 12.00 Apple Video Interview 1.30 Foundry – Nuke Video Interview 2.00 Shake – Furnace Video Interview 3.30 General filming

Monday

Monday was a good day.. last night we did the Autodesk user group. There was a huge reaction from the people there. We started podcasting around 7.30 and finished around 9.30 – but of course we were setting up from 5 and we did not finish editing until well after 1am. (see Gary and Tahl

Well, we made it to Vegas, good drive across from LA. We are all set to broadcast each day from NAB for fxguide.com. Tomorrow we will blog here …LIVE from the Apple press conference – 11am-12 midday. This is a shot of John and some very good friends of ours, all senior compositors and facilities

Thurs Part 2

Just a quick post – met up with Ron Brinkman this arvo, had a long chat while I shopped for antiques for my wife back home. Ron is working hard now on his book, and apart from getting all the approvals – the book is progressing really well ! Cross your fingers but Ron may

Thurs before NAB

Sorry to not post for the last couple of days but let me explain.. I posted on Monday, on Tuesday we were shooting and Wed I was flying to LA – today is Thursday and here I am ! OK to recap on Tuesday as this is mainly a blog about production stuff and not