'shattered' - how to?

the last shot of the short film has not been shot yet...why?
there was no way in hell the glass was going to shatter properly!
so instead, a few solutions came to mind

-sugar glass
-substitute/re-modelling
-ice


sugarglass - most people will know, is not extremely hard to make but very hard to mould into specific shape

subsitute - the idea being i'll smash some random glass and pick up bits that looks like it could be part of the rose and glue them all together - then i let the real rose drop onto a cushion(obviously not filming the rose) then thru editing intercut it into the fake rose falling and hitting the floor.

ice - baking playdoh mould made frm pressing the rose into the playdoh, and making ice with the mould - so it shatters easily!

still contemplating between substitute and ice...but....shall experiment soon!

ready - set - shoot

24th Feb 2009 - the day I dreaded - my shooting day.

Prior to shoot, I prepared everything I possibly could - on set I had child release, schedule, productiong brief, the script, the shooting script, the storyboard(framforge), risk assessments...the list goes on!

The crew consisted of Danny Peachey(sound and general assistant), Adam Sumner(director), Jack Boyles(Director of photography) and Jason Bickers(Light) and myself, producing and doing production stills.

I had a really good day filming - early start and a little stressful, but everything went perfect and exactly how i imagined and planned - the schedule was really useful and fortunately we were able to stick to it extremely well - we were even ahead of schedule by 2 maybe 3 hours and wrapped everything up abotu 5pm (as suppose to 8pm in the original schedule).

I owe a big thank you to everybody who's helped me with this project - the editing war will begin soon enough.

now i'm realllllly shattered

days on end runing back and forth

I have all three locations 'sorted' - still awaiting for the person in charge of the park to get back to me regarding location release. Other than that, all I have left now is cast the few actors and book the hotel room for shoot, book the equipments and get the right forms signed, we're good to go!

hotel room - Hotel Ibis



Park - Victoria Park




Frameforge completed - awaiting park manager to sign my form - risk assessment completed - script completed - casting still in progress, one more actor to go and i'd have finished casting, meeting with make-up artist to discuss my needs. It's all good.

frameforge rendered avi - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtJ1W8OOvME

"Play Parade"

I went and gave a hand to a thrid year audiovisual student Bindni Karia.
She is currently doing her client project for her final year project - it sure is a lot of work - but she is very organised and we had a great half day with the kids.
her final year project is based on a company called Playworks - basically the company promotes the idea of 'play' - whilst growing up somewhere along the line we all forgot how once the world was just one big playgroud - children are then encouraged to play within this working shop, maximizing their imagination far beyond our imagination.

frameforge 3d studio

story goes, script goes, there's no better way to show what you're trying to make but a storyboard.

A good storyboard should contain all shots in prototype so whoever reads it should be able to visualise completely what it is the writer is trying to portraite.

In order to aid my storyboard, I've opted for a shooting script first - and now that it's done, all I'm doing now is frameforging the storyingboard.

Feels like I'm playing the Sims.