Greatest and longest blog ever

So many updates, so little time. I told you guys I'd be concentrating more on production and less on updates. Anyway, after almost 2 months, I think its about time I let the world know what we've been doing. How well you say? Better than ever. Alright, don't have much time so I'll make this quick.

March 18
Intramuros rehearsal
The purpose of this day was to rehearse the Leo vs. Ethan fightscene and to train Eduardo as a cameraman, since I'll be acting throughout that whole scene. Not much, these pics should give you an idea.


March 27
Rebuilding of the set and the harness pulley test
The studio had considerably changed since the first time we shot, which called for a few modifications to the studio. The floor was tiled now so we had to cover the whole house with gray vinyl flooring just to make it look like concrete. The wooden walls were repainted to the same effect. Filming was still hard considering we had airconditioning and controlled lighting allowing us to shoot 24 hours on any day. After some renovation, time to test our new harness. For the first volunteer, me. Results, well, we learned that climbing harnesses dont really work well for flying. It was a pain in the ass, well, actually in the crotch and chest too. Did a few tests, failed a few times, some of them painful. In the end we were able to use a working pulley system that allowed us to cast guys in the air. Fun.




March 29 to April 29 (that's a whole month)
Prison Scene - 90% Complete
Whew never knew this one would take that long. Prison scene started at March 29. It kinda takes more time and effort creating the set than shooting in it, but then again we never guessed that this scene would take a month to film. 15 days to be exact, we filmed around 3 days each week, sometimes more. Anyway at 90% I would say its almost fully complete since all it needs are the flashback scenes and other stuff to be filmed somewhere else. Ok, don't have much time to discuss all the details so I'll let the pictures do the talking:





After 1 month of filming its finally time to destroy the prison set, which in my opinion was and will be the hardest set to build and maintain throughout our production. Just keeping those bars straight was a pain in the ass. We had to use about half of the greenscreen paper just to cover each bar and make them look green. Ah well, I'm glad that's over with. Moving on.

May 4-6
Gunman Battle - 97% Complete
Last May 3 we had news that the Gunman area had already been purchased by an unknown bidder and it set to be demolished soon. So the day immediately after that we started shooting the long forgotten gunman fightscene.



Filming went on for three straight days, I didn't even care to celebrate my birthday. But eventually we did right after the last day of filming. We even planned to film the next day but we were already too drunk and tired to go on. Today (May 12), we planned to complete it 100% but I woke up late, so we'll need to shoot just a couple more shots and we're all done. But anyway, before that...

May 9
Crimson-Kyroz Night Swimming Party
Woohoo! Yay! So fun, so jolly, so... enchanting. Hehe a little exaggerated there but yeah, it was fun. Almost the whole crew, Me, Matt, Ed, Sam, Chris, Neil, Joel and Vanessa, the only babe in the group. We went to Noah's Park in Montalban, big resort, nice place, had fun till 7am. Its really sad that I don't have any pics to show you guys right now, but I will soon.

May 11
Edward's new sword.
Two of 'em too! Buster sword v3.0 Our third attempt to make a buster sword. Reason? First was too heavy, second was too fragile, so we needed something that is both lightweight and sturdy at the same time. That left me with one last option for its material. Aluminum. A buster sword made of 100% metal. Stronger and lighter than ever. This sword can handle any damage, slash or impact. Very shiny too. And with the help of a carpenter friend, we were even able to contruct a second sword which Edward can use for two-handed sword combos. You'll find some comparison pics between the new and old swords in the pics below. Pretty soon, you'll be seeing this shining new slasher in action.


Okay, I decided to postpone all editing until after May coz this month is the only time when Ed's totally free. After this month I can go full force, full time editing all the way till December or something like that. Right now, filming is our first priority above anything else. Scenes scheduled to be filmed this month are:

Scene 3,5 Office life
Scene 7 Ethan first encounter (Museum)
Scene 4,6 Edward Jenny at the bridge
Scene 15 NPC Encounter (Grasslands)
Scene 17 Hospital
Scene 25 Ethan's revelation (Mountains)
Scene 27 Final Showdown
Scene 29 Ending (3rd Life)

Anyway, in the unlikely case that we do finish all the scenes above, then we would already have finished 50% of the movie! Not a big figure for others out there but considering the time we've spent filming, this is a huge step forward in our production. I'm proud to say that these past two months have been the most productive ever. A big thanks to everyone who cooperated and helped me out through those stressful days. Thanks y'all. So, keepin the flow going, we're gonna have 3 major shoots tomorrow and on Thursday, all of which involving Jenny including the controversial Scene 14, which had been significantly reduced to PG-13. Hope everything goes well as planned. Everyone please pray real hard it won't rain tomorrow. Oh well, still got a lot of stuff to prepare, I'll update you guys soon on the next shoots. Till next time, ta ta...