A few days ago I rediscovered an old DVD I wrote with various backup files. Making movies also comes with the usual paranoia of “Oh my God, what if the computer blows up?” Scanning through them out of curiosity, I stumbled upon a text file. Not a word document but a single text file, its […]
Day 1 Ohhhh, I’m the cutest little thing that was ever spawned! Ohhh, look at me, I’m so little and tiny and small and cutsey I could just hug myself to death! Day 1 Me grow. Me eat other things. Me grow bigger! Day 1 Nature is fascinating – I grew and grew and now […]
If you happened to take a glimpse at behind-the-scenes features on a dvd, you most likely have seen the famous greenscreen used for effects in various movies. Maybe you’ve even seen its “brother”, the bluescreen, used for the same things. It is not an unknown concept to most people – the idea of filming someone […]
August 15th 2508 This is awesome, this is awesome! I’m a spaceman, I’m a spaceman! In a space ship, in a spaceship! Dum-dee-dum, pew pew pew! This is so awesome! August 15th 2508 – 5 minutes later All my friends are DEAD! My space ship is DEAD! Everyone is DEAD! This is horrible! There’s like […]
It was a super sunny day, as I read the little note in the script that said: “The scene is dark and gloomy.” We rarely depended on the weather on greenscreen shoots and I usually was able to adapt the scene and script to whatever nature threw at us, usually for the better. In this particular […]
10th of January Where am I? What is this place? What is that? What’s this? What the hell? What is going on? What do I do with this? Why is that there? What?! 10th of January – Night Oh God Oh God Oh God Oh God Oh God Oh God oh no I’m okay. All […]