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I’ll tell you how a normal day of shooting goes. It consists of putting the equipment up and taking it down everyday because the studio space is also living space.
I really enjoy being cast and crew at the same time. I love the challenge of balancing the creative side and the technical side and hallucinating do to lack of sleep. Everyday I have to place the lights, set up the camera, get into character and start shooting. And everyday I feel like it takes a piece of my soul…
When that’s done I take it all down, then go through the footage and write some notes for post production. While I’m shooting I also think about post production. You want to shoot it right and avoid the “We’ll fix it in post” because sometimes what you could of fixed on set in less an a minute will take you weeks to fix in post production. Which can cause you to feel just a bit homicidal.
When I am editing and throwing down some VFX madness I use a combination of random ideas I have in my head and the story board and some hardcore drugs. Since almost anything is possible with the software; I love to improvise and let my creative side go insane in all the stages of production. Sometimes I just plane ol’ go insane but I have meds now.
I’m also a sucker for tedious precise planning and knowing exactly what I want. Since I’ve learned what can happen if you don’t keep those two sides in balance. If you get too creative you’ll end up re-doing and re-doing and not ever finishing. Plummeting into creative madness without any sign of a deadline. If you stick to close to the plan it tends to drain the creativity like a hungry vampire… except it’s not so kinky.
When I think it’s finished I pass it on to everyone else for a critique session. I don’t settle for “it’s perfect” and that drives them up the walls crazy. I think they’ve started putting rat poison in my coffee. Thankfully their brutally honest (and don’t have a place to hide the body) so I always have a few things to fix. I run through it again and again and have them review it one final time. When we all agree it’s finished I encode it and upload it onto the wide wide webs.
Were I wait for spiteful comments from slackers living in their parents garage thinking they can convince me to commit suicide, messages and friend adds from weird greasy hairless men posing as fourteen year old girls who want to “go shopping” with me.
At the end of the day it’s exhausting and leaves you kinda cranky with the “after project blues” but it’s damn worth it because now it’s done and it’s awesome. And you really didn’t have anything better do to for those two whole weeks.
That’s how I roll. None stop till it’s done. No excuses and no half awesome. With plenty of cynical jokes along the way.
Now I’m taking a break and working on some games. With the creature that sits next to me all day. The Nathalie. She will eat your brains and make little patties out of your liver. That’s why she’s the captain.