Back!

Yeah! Reporting from the sound stage, I am back to shooting! It's great to be back. I had been making little objects and clothes for the past month, now it's great to get back to seeing everything come together again! I'm almost done (I can't believe it!) with a whole scene, the most complicated one in the picture. Sort of a Sky Captain-like deal where there are at least two passes for every shot. One for the background, one for the foreground, all put together with the help of green screen. Fun stuff. To add to the complexity, I'm sick this week! But I think it's been a good thing. Because I'm so energy-less and sluggish, I really haven't been able to think of all the extra directions I could go, or do of all the extra things I think I need to do. It's really been a good object lesson in leaning on the Lord. Very much that, "When I am weak, then I am strong." thing. Because I can't be Mr. Energy, I've had to relax and take things one step at a time, and rely on God that it will all come out awesome. And it is! Especially without my effort. (!) Thankfully, I am feeling better today. I'm going to have to remember that I don't have to be super-production guy, and just stay in this weak state. I think it's called "meekness," choosing to be weak, when you can be strong in your own power.

Continuity note: At least in Indiana Jones, which I'm trying to use as a style guide for composition and cutting, whenever one makes several quick cuts between close-ups on the same character (i.e. Indiana's whip crack, c-u bringing it back behind his head, cut, c-u bringing it forward in front...) it seems that it's good to keep the same camera position. Don't go gettin' crazy with movin' the camera to the front or top of the character during these quick cuts! It just gets confusing. This is most of the time, there are of course, as with any artistic "rules", variations. I just had to learn this with the Robot jumping.