Lewis Pictures

On Saturday, my dream for shooting the speech scene in the snow came true, though it did come at a price-wet equipment, and freezing to death. I would say the picture titled "Solemn Andrew" says it all about how warm it was out there. We actually got some good stuff. The problem is, it's taking hours to edit the footage. Ya see the idea was that 10-15 airsoft players in full gear were going to come up the mountain with us and help. Sadly, these people did not show up, but I didn't expect that they would due to the fact that the person who contacted them seems to extremely unreliable. What did you do then? Well, thankfully, Niki (our web designer for I am Jedi) and Luke were there. So, Andrew and them went running up a hill several times, and we ended up duplicating them. This is why the editing process is taking sooo long. I have to rotoscope each frame witch takes about 10-30seconds. Here's the catch, there are 30 frames in one second, so if the shot is 6 seconds long thats about 30-90min. Now that would be an extremely easy shot, I was working on that one yesterday. Today I was working on a shot that takes about 60 seconds to rotoscope per frame, and is about 5 seconds long. THATS 2.5HRS!!!!!!!!!!!! FOR FIVE SECONDS!!!! THATS NUTS!!!! But the final shot does look good, the point is, it really would have been a lot easer to have the airsoft team there.

Pictures from the shoot:

Solemn Andrew


Erik, Luke and Niki


Panorama of Shoot


Other Photo's Courtesy of Niki Liu
(Niki Liu' Blog SimplyCore)



Not much of a camera, but it gets the job done.






It was so bright, you couldn't keep your eyes open.



Sincerely,
Jack Simmons