Long time no post...

Here's a couple of composites I've been working on - still rough as - and would benefit from some good colour grading - but I think you can start to see where we're heading...

Mars CG style

Here's an early attempt at creating Martian sunrise in Vue 7, a 3D software package I've been playing with. Not anywhere in the ballpark of Zane's stuff, but fun anyway, and kind of promising. I'd like to use it for creating some of the backgrounds we need for Last Flight. They'd be cleaned up in Photoshop and then imported into Final Cut for the green screen shots. And that's even before they go to Zane for further work! Crikey!

Still working...

In Wellies with LF producer, Sarah B, checking the budget and thrashing out our plan moving forward... What is left to do, how much $$ we have, and how we're going to distribute this puppy!

Dusting off the flightplan...

Zane, Richy and I popped back to the Studio the other night and filmed dust. That is, we set up a black curtain, a red head and a camera and blew dust into the light while we filmed it (when I say “we” I mostly mean Zane – I just stood and watched!).

We got some wild footage and also managed to use up a whole half hour of tape, but the upshot is some cool dust effects that we will be able to blow through the landscapes of the movie – making it look a lot dustier and windswept than it actually was.

Meanwhile, scene 1, 3 and 5 are now mostly edited (in rough form). And parts of the other scenes are also complete.

Now if we could just get some sunny weather we could get out to Bethells and knock the bugger off!

Awesome.

A moon-orbiting satellite has just photographed the Apollo landing sites for the first time. I don't imagine it will shut up the moon hoax crowd, but evidence was never very high on their list of concerns anyway.

Forget them, this is just flipping cool.

Puss in boots

This cat not only has a wrist display unit, it has a transmitter, just like our astronaut. I guess this is what Last Flight would have looked like if we'd filmed it with cats.

Some shots from our shoot!

Kassie's other green screen work...

Our star actor, Kassie Watson, makes an appearance on TV1 Business news here!

Green machine!

Another great day of filming at Sunset Studios! Our filming now stands at 80% complete! WAHOO!!

I will review the footage and let you know how it’s looking. Meanwhile, the crew of Last Flight is invited to Moon this Sat! Get back to me today if you want to come!

A quick reminder...

A nice bright and early start of 8:30 on Sunday! Our main focus for
the day will be scene 5. See you there!