The Sky Has Fallen
Monday, February 12, 2007

Audio Concerns

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Nervous about finding a composer. Music is so important in a film. We can't have a bad score. That would kill the movie. The production ...
Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Fatal Exception Error

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Never trust an editing program. Save, save, save. This one can't quite handle HD footage (despite claiming otherwise) so it likes to go ...
Wednesday, July 5, 2006

Editing Begins

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18 hours of raw footage. Do you think we shot enough? Cue exploding head (love me some Scanners ). That takes some time to sort through (a l...
Sunday, July 2, 2006

Final Week

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The light is best in the morning. Overexposure plagues digital (even HD), but it's easier that time of day. You can’t shoot in certain a...
Monday, June 26, 2006

Who puts a katana in their movie anyway?

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Catching a sword was never going to be easy. I knew that when I wrote it, and I still wrote it. What an idiot. So how do you do it when it...
Wednesday, June 21, 2006

There ain't no coming back...

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The last conversation was today. Really fuckin important to the movie. If this sucks, everything is ruined. Both Laurel and Carey were extre...
Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Costume "Issues"

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The figures look awful in bright sunlight, and by "awful," I mean fucking awful. Your-eyes-are-going-to-explode-out-of-your-head a...
Monday, June 19, 2006

Who doesn't love bad weather?

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Rained out tonight. Gave us a chance to relax. Still got plenty done during the day. Working around the clock. One or two days off each we...
Saturday, June 17, 2006

P2 Limits

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We just did nearly 60% of the dialogue. Unfortunately, a lot of downtime comes from switching out memory cards and uploading them to a hard ...
Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Mmmm... Monsters

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Extras... you get to be in a movie! Is it going to be in theaters? Well, uh... uhm... you get to have smelly crap glued to your face! Is T...
Sunday, June 11, 2006

Scheduling

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We've been trying to space out the day and night scenes so the actors and crew don't melt into radioactive space moles (damn moles),...
Wednesday, June 7, 2006

One Week Down

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We put all the fight scenes later in the shoot to give us more time to rehearse (and so I can figure out how the hell we're going to pul...
Monday, June 5, 2006

Watch Your Step

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We got a small crew, and by "small," I mean like two people. Aaron has been rocking the boom. It's no fun holding that for 12 ...
Saturday, June 3, 2006

First Day: Principle Photography

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Ticks. Fat, deer ticks. We have to constantly pick them off and check our clothes. At least, the big ones are easy to see. It's the litt...
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Writer, Producer, Director, Editor, and FX Artist. I love horror movies and practical FX. Favorites include: Aliens, Scanners, Godzilla 1984, Seven, The Exorcist, John Carpenter's The Thing, RoboCop, Edward Scissorhands, David Cronenberg's The Fly, Oldboy, Unforgiven, Ninja Scroll, etc.
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