Update

Man, these past two weeks have flown by.  We had a potential opportunity (because there are no such thing as problems on the mercury cycle, only opportunities) early on in the NY shoot.  I had noticed that a conversation scene we had shot had potentially not past the 180 degree rule of continuity.  Both Jessica and Greg had both been framed on the same side which would have been a problem that potentially would have needed to be re-shot.  Thankfully, Justin Whitkin strolled through and said "call me crazy, but wouldn't it work if you just mirrored the footage?"  By mirroring the footage it flops everything on the left side of the frame to the right, and greg being framed originally on the right, now appears on the left.  Normally this effect doesn't work because if there is any sort of writing on someone's clothing or in the background of the frame, it appears backwards and is blatantly jarring.  The mirror effect, which 99% of the time never works, by some stroke of god did work this time and solved the opportunity and we were able to rest easy. Thank you Justin.

This past weekend Zach's parents were nice enough to drive down from Massachusetts with a power generator and help us shoot some night shots on a creepy dead end road.  Without them the whole night would not have even been possible.  Despite some surrounding opportunities and confusion with wardrobe and locations, we were able to get some decent work done.  It was a very cold and dark night and i think set up times suffered due to the circumstances (baring i mind that they were very tough lighting setups).  I think since our set backs limited what we were able to shoot on top of the cold conditions, a leisurely work flow resulted and shooting was not as efficient as it could have been.

Sunday was a good short shooting day.  I made my first cameo of the film and my friends Joe, Kevin, Katie, and Michele were nice enough to help us out as extras.  Little did they know their roles in the film would turn from background extras to having their own dolly close ups with lines! Haha this is why we hire the best talent around.  I will make sure to buy them all drinks  for their services.  On top of that i think our Crane set up and break down was the most efficient yet.  Everyone out shooting at CLA on sunday was very focused and efficient and resulted in good teamwork all around.

5am graveyards

So the blog is finally up, and it is currently the second NY shooting session on the Mercury Cycle.  We all were up at 5am shooting a lot of nice graveyard footage and followed it up by beasting plates at the King Buffet.  Everyone worked real well together this morning battling the ice, and cold to make sure we could get the shots that we need.  The footage looks real nice and the early morning natural sunlight was worth get up for.

There's a bit of chill time now before we begin filming again in about an hour or so and we just discovered Bobby's hidden talent as a rapper, and he's actually pretty sick.  Zach and I are now doing what we can to maybe use one of his self produced beats for a trailer which we are now starting to put together, so be on the look out for the first real peek at footage from The Mercury Cycle.

Time to go set up for tonights shoot.  Hopefully everything goes smoothly.  I am considering wearing three pairs of sox, with toe warmers...