Adrienne at Intercity

This was shot the same day as the Golf Dome and Vicker’s Park. Adrienne asked for a couple minutes to figure oot what she wanted to say then went with it and always came up with something different each take. The major problem with this shooting was the wind noise. We did quite a few takes and this one was the cleanest as well as the best improv. Adrienne, and all performers in this series actually, was a delight to work with especially in the minimalistic conditions she was given.

The phenomenon discussed here isn’t city wide or province wide, but country wide. I don’t know anywhere with a moderate to large population that isn’t infested with big box stores and little price stores. It’s an amazing marketing technique and I’m always flabbergasted at the fact that they make money.

We have two cameos in this one. The first is the old building in the background. I don’t recall it’s origin, but it’s somewhat surrounded by a residential zone and cannot be demolished. Or at least, that’s what I’ve heard. The other cameo is my van. It’s at the end shot. I needed to get more scenery and shot it quickly to avoid possible confrontations.

We should have the new project details up soon. I just have to procure the audio equipment and secure the casting. If you live in the neighbourhood and want to do some free voice acting, then leave me some contact info.

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Meghan and the Berlin Wall Tribute Wall

Again, it’s a stumper. Why is this wall here ? Why would they do this ? What’s going on ? Where are my pants ? All relevant questions. If you have answers, PLEASE enlighten us. I am certainly greatful for last time.

Again, if we didn’t have Mike, we probably wouldn’t have gotten the panning shots or the zooms, which were done repeatedly by hand until it looked alright. At this point, we had wished for a tripod that wasn’t made for normal cameras and more for the motion picture kind and also a zoom that wasn’t incredibly over sensitive. Mix that into the fact that we were all sinking into the mud, and you have a fun part of the day.

This was actually a great day as we got to discuss what the serious project was going to be once this one was all done and stuff. I’m looking forward to getting to that one day once the script gets approved by the people I’m roping in to help me and the storyboards get done, which is something new that did not happen in this project. Who needs details and planning when you have improv, right ?

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Elizabeth vs Libertia

We had a lot of fun filming this because it was early in the day and we were full of energy and possibly hot chocolate. The bell featured in this clip is located at Hillcrest Park. I am completely uncertain of it’s history. I highly recommend a google of this to find oot more as for the first time in this series, I too am stumped on why this is there. Please feel free to enlighten me in the comments.

The audio again was redone once to try to clean out the wind noise. I don’t like the volume limitation I seem to get once I put it through a low/high end tunnel like this but it’s actually a lot better than the garbled huff of wind that it used to be.

Mike, again, was present and made the suggestion on this day that maybe we should get shots of other things as well and took a shot of that flag as a demonstration. In the ‘biz’, they call this b-roll that they use for filler and for patching segments or crossfades. As soon as you hit the editing process, you realize that this is the easy stuff.

This is also another segment where I mention someone famous. Little did I realize that there are no pictures of famous people that aren’t copyrighted. Even Paul Shaffer who, since this is the town of his birth, is getting a good ribbing later on.

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