It’s over! It’s been a blast! Amazing! I’ll be writing production experience reports later, here’s the (probably randomized) list of snapshots from my phone! Continue
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Perfect filming weather sofar!
Day started wet, but as predicted it got dry around 11. We film for 3 hours until lunch 14h. Then some rain might fall, rest of day is good again.
Filming day 3, Ton’s gallery
Today we had the scenes with Derek de Lint and Sergio Hasselbaink. Great actors to work with! We also had to decide whether or not to film outside tomorrow… and decided to take the risk :) It might rain all day, but the predictions give enough dry periods to do have all shots filmed.
Filming day 2, Ton’s gallery
And here’s the pictures of today’s shoot. We enjoyed working with the actors tremendously! Lots of kudos to Derek de Lint, Rogier Schippers and Jody Bhe! (Sorry, the gallery is unsorted, the silly plugin refuses to work with me :)
Filming Day 1, Ton’s Gallery
Here’s my photographic impression of the first day filming, starting with breakfast at 7.30 until the last shot at 17.45.
Live studio cam!
Live stream url: http://twitcam.livestream.com/9wru3
Actor line-up: Derek de Lint, Sergio Hasselbaink, and more!
It took a while to get everyone confirmed! Here’s the line-up:
- Derek de Lint, “Old Thom”. One of the few Dutch actors with a lot of international film experience
- Sergio Hasselbaink, “Barly”. He’s a new talent here, former dancer/skater, famous for his lead role in “Sonny Boy”.
- Rogier Schippers, “Captain”. Rogier is very well known as theatre & TV series actor in the Netherlands.
- Chris Haley, “Tech Head”. Chris is Pixel Pusher at JEHProductions. He was selected after a wonderful youtube audition!
- Jody Bhe, “Djenghis”. She’s an experienced musical actress, currently doing Miss Saigon.
- Vanja Rukavina, “Thom” and Denise Rebergen, “Celia” were casted via auditions at Kemna Casting. Excellent picks from our casting agent Houdijn Beekhuis!
Extra’s for scientists fighting with robots: Daan van ‘t Einde (Blenderhead audition), Keir Meirle (libmv dev), Campbell Barton (Blender dev). Hippie: Jeremy Davidson.
Weekly – April 27
Just one week left before we’re going to film! This will be on May 7 8 9 in Amsterdam Studios, and on May 10 at a bridge in Amsterdam. If you want to see us in action; then check on the set on thursday – visitors in the studio will be too disruptive and keep us from working.
Above you can see a floorplan of the studio (with 2 limbos), we will add a temp greenscreen in the white limbo for sets as well, so we can film on 1 set while the other is being prepared by the crew.
On location (exact spot will be announced asap) we’ll have a huge crane for the opening shot and some of the dialog break-up scenes.
All will be filmed with Sony F65 – brilliant 4k footage – which generates 250 MB per second. Go figure! Better not to do 48 fps then? ;) Although for slomo shots we will be using it, obviously.
Below video is Jeremy’s crazy awesome robot arm rig.
Location visits with crew
Today we had a near-complete film crew meeting on location and studio with Merle Bos (Assistant Director), Joris Kerbosch (Director of Photography), Eugene Sprik (Gaffer – Light), Romke Faber (Production Design) and Victor Dekker (Sound recording). We will do another meeting with the Grip (crane, dolly) later. Of course Ian (Director) and Sebastian (Match Mover) were there too.
Biggest outcome of the discussion on the bridge was that this location would have a lot of practical issues to solve; we should carefully weight if that’s worth the efforts (and money!).
Tomorrow another exciting visit will be to the former energy museum. I really hope the location is usable for us.
Later more!
Weekly – April 20
This weekly was even streamed live via Google Plus! We have already like 700 followers there. Will do that next time again!
Further; just enjoy the pictures! A full animatic (minus last minute) should have been online already too.
