Its that time of the pre-production process, preparing a preliminary budget for the forthcoming budget meeting to be held on Sunday the 8th April. The budget needs to cover things like software (Shake and Vue 6 allready purchased), hardware, camera, lighting, sets, wardrobe, makeup to name a few. Invites to this meeting will be sent out over the coming days for those who need to attend.
Jenny Wood attended tonights Production Meeting, the focus was on the costumes. Each characters personality was outlined to give an overall picture of what type of look is required. By the end of the meeting we had fleshed out costumes for every character. Thankyou Jenny for the experience you bring in this area and the time commitment to make the costumes.
Shake, is used to create visual effects, it is compositing software that contains a complete toolset for both single artists and visual effects facilities.
With Shake, the editors can leverage the creative work they are producing in Final Cut Studio, extending it with an integrated workflow that puts a wide range of tools, (sophisticated 3D multi-plane compositing, 32-bit Keylight and Primatte keying, cutting-edge Optical Flow image processing, smooth stabilization, image tracking, and an open, extensible scripting program) at their fingertips. Shake will be used by Thorn Productions on Elindil’s Secret.
Vue 6, is an efficient and advanced solution for creating, animating and rendering natural 3D environments! This software will be used for scenes that can only be achieved through visual effects. Vue 6 will be used by Thorn Productions on Elindil’s Secret.
Pirates of the Caribbean – Dead Man’s Chest was the first Feature film to use the new Vue 6 technology for some of the exterior shots. Needless to say the results were spectacular. It is also rumored that they used the software even more in, Pirates of the Caribbean – At Worlds End.
There have been more fantastic responses of interest and support about the movie in the past week. The Elindil’s Secret website continues to receive updates, especially the calendar, so if you are interested please check out what is happening.
The Pre-Production meetings have commenced and are held every Sunday evening. These meetings are attended by Luke Oliver, David Hindby and Mark Snell. The meetings are either organised at someones house or conducted over the internet using iChat or Skype. Invites are sent to individuals based on the agenda for the meeting.
The 1st round of auditions will be held on the 21st April 2007 for the central characters.
The 2nd round of auditions will be held on the 12th May for the rest of the characters.
And off we go. Pre-production has started for the feature film Elindil’s Secret. The Launch occured and the turn out was fantastic. A synopsis of the the script was given and the key production crew introduced. If you would like to know more check out the links to the right. Just a quick note to actors…. auditions are not far away now!! What has the picture of the city got to do with it? Nothing.
The making of this independent film will be documented from start to finish on this blog. So keep coming back to find out what is going on, you may even gain an insight into what is required to put a project like this together.