The Prison Scene & the Construction of the Set

This blog was supposed to come way before the hiking post, but I was too tired and busy to write a blog entry worthy enough to narrate that hectic and very labor intensive week. It all started on February 15. Angelo arrived here as planned to help me out with the construction of the set, but contrary to what we both hoped, we had to build the set from scratch, that's S-C-R-A-T-C-H. Yeah. I was hoping I'd have started on the set by that time but I was too busy with business too. So the next day, we bought the materials and worked on the set all night, till the next morning actually, and hell it was tiring. We barely even made one wall. Not as easy as we thought. Not easy at all. It's only been one day and I already know that we'll be running out of time. I guess the only one who's got what it takes to do a carpenter's job right is, well... a carpenter!

So the next two days we continued working on the set with the help of a professional carpenter. And during the nights we continued to work overtime, having only 3-4 hours of sleep and lots and lots of Cobra energy drinks (the now Official energy drink of Crimson-Kyroz Productions).The day finally came when Ed was scheduled for the shoot but with us having completed only 70% of the set. Woke up as early as we could and resumed construction. The time came that Ed and Sam arrived at the unfinished set so they ended up helping us complete it.



By 6pm we were finally setting up the chroma colored laser bars, just enough time to start shooting by 8, which left us only 1 hour for filming with Ed. We were only able to film a few cuts but it was worth it. We kinda ran out of time for the script revision, rehearsal and choreography so we accomplished what we can with whatever time & consciousness we had left. The next day we continued filming and this time, we've got Lester with us. It was around 3am before we got to start, and due to physical stress, fatigue, severe lack of sleep and possible cobra overdose, we didn't get to shoot for long. And finally, on the last day, arrived the day which came to be known as the Legendary Mountain Hiking Trip of AngHenyKenSter.

Okay, back to the prison, here are some more pics from the set:



And here are some VFX test shots I've been working on. This is like my 6th version of the laser bars (the previous ones sucked) and I'm still working on improving it. You see its not just the editing itself that takes time, it's the creation, the innovation of your own effects in After Effects. It could take a dozen trials of innovating from hundreds of possibilities just to get one effect right. Well, just wanted to share that thought with you guys. Anyhow, got to get back to work. There's still so much to do, yet so little time, so until next time,... Au Revoir!