Yesterday we shot our first day at the Warner studios in Gold Coast, at Stage 5. We started out with quite a complicated zero-1/6th-1-g -gravity sequence, which did take a bit to be thought through and shot so that it actually works. Luckily we have a great stunt coordinator – Darko Tuskan – with us here, and he’d been rehearsing with both stunts and actors the scenes beforehand. Still, when there are people hanging on harnesses – it’s never easy, not even with the most experienced people.
The studio is a wonderful place to work. Everything is so peaceful, close and it’s nice and air-conditioned inside there. We have erected a huge greenscreen surrounding most of the studio, and it’s making me a bit sick – everywhere I look is just plain green. It’s like being greenscreenblinded.
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I song for the studio shootings:
”I see I studios of green… RED cameras too
I see the them clip, for annoyance’s sake and for you
And I think to myself… what a faked world
I see roofs of gray… rigs with light
Bright tungsten white… a stressed plight
And I think to myself… what a faked world
The colors of the gels… so pretty and high
But so disturbing for crew passing by
I see the director thinking… what to do?
But that doesn’t matter… this situation is new
I see characters dying… with lots of fake blood
I’m making a true movie… it feels so darn good
And I think to myself… what a faked world”
If somebody wants to sing and record this, be my quest! ;)
Btw, Tim Burton wore colored glasses on the set of Alice in Wonderland to prevent the green driving him crazy. Idea?
Break a leg everyone! (not literally, guys!)
Nice song, Jaap!
And colored glasses sounds like fun – pink screen should be real trippy :)
Soo… Filming low-gravity didn’t appear too expensive or difficult after all? It takes a big hall and lots of green screen, plus cranes, ropes and stunts – but it was arrangeable. Gotta say I’m looking forward to seeing the results of these sequences on the film. I guess it was worth pressing on Samuli a bit for this to happen. :D