Archive for July, 2009

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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

Today was the first day of one of our biggest effects sequences. Production has had it scheduled to only take two days. We’ve told them we think that it would take more than that. Well, today they learned why we were saying that. They didn’t start shooting with us until 11am. Once we did start [...]

A day off

Monday, July 6th, 2009

I really enjoyed today.
I slept in till 8:50am. That gave me just enough time to shower and get up to the spa to get my free 0ne-hour massage. It was a Swedish massage and it was great. It’s a Thai massage place in the hotel, up on the rooftop with the pool and gym.
After that [...]

8 days straight with no breaks

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

I actually got to sleep in today as I wasn’t being picked up to go to set until 9:30am. Unfortunately I had a lousy night. I finally got my first ever case of the shits while overseas. I kept waking up to “take care of business”! I think it was the pizza I had last [...]

Second major fx sequence

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

These three days were our first with any of the full mechanical puppets. Again, it went well and a lot smoother than I expected. We (the Legacy crew) had various frustrations that we were dealing with. Most of it just differences in the way they shoot, their lack of experince in working with fx and [...]