State of the Project

We're on a hiatus for the moment since our Director of Photography skipped town to visit the Motherland. I thought I'd take a moment to provide status on the overall project. I had expected to be more effusive along the way, but perhaps not surprisingly that has been difficult.

Overall, we've done pretty well. We're about two weeks behind by the calendar, but really about 4 actual shooting days over the planned schedule. Time-wise we should have been fine, but there were just some locations we couldn't
synchronize into the schedule as planned which led to the overshoot.

I've been pleased that for the most part we've been able to fit our shooting
into the tight time constraints we've worked with. We make a tradeoff in trying
to shoot quickly versus longer shooting schedules, but I think it provides
better value for our effort in the grand scheme of things. Overall, I've been
pleased with the footage I've reviewed. My only wish is we had gotten all the
non-space shots before Nicholas left so we could focus solely on orbit. We'll
just have to take a day to wrap all the leftovers.

I've been focusing on two things in our cameraman's absence: finalizing our
plans for the space sequences and deciding on editing software. That's a whole
other post though. My goal is still to wrap all shooting in July, so we'll be
making every effort to do so in the next month.