The Near-Future Agenda


We've got quite a to-do list to get through before we can shoot something that has a chance of being finished footage.

We have to:

Finish the set: put the last little bit of moss on the sucker, finish painting/staining the foliage, finish the finishing on the right facade of the house, install/work on a big tree that'll go on top of the hill, etc.

Shoot test frames of the set: on our previous project, 'The Masque of the Red Death', we blew it with set coloration - everything was far too monochromatic, and looked flat in the final project. We should have tested it, but we were in too much of a hurry. Now, we know better; we take shots of the set and see how it translates to a computer screen.

Finish the bluescreen, i.e. buy more canvas and paint it up.

Finish our first puppet; we've aquired one 10" armature, and it's costume is almost finished, courtesy of Mandy Wold; this puppet will be 'Johannes', the narrator in his youth, and apprentice to Cornelisz, the wayward painter. Then, we have to fashion the hands, head, and feet. We also have a large stumbling block to overcome; the resolution of our face-replacement issues. We've got some digital-big-head-transposed-on-a-small-puppet ideas, but we've got a lot of work to do before we can confirm it's workability.