A Banshee’s First Year
A year ago, The Babbling Banshee was still in post-production. This post outlines where the film stands as we enter 2010.
Tape capturing and logging of the Banshee
“Did I ever tell ya of the time I saw a banshee in my DV camera?” Wait, that’s not quite right. It could be true though, Tape 14 was a banshee in and of itself; the other 27 tapes behaved properly. Yes, you read that right, there are 28 mini DV tapes in total for [...]
Banshee Caption Contest, Take 1
Yvonne has a talent for capturing critical moments in the creative process. Your job is to caption this image. This is Writer/Director Russ McGee and Director of Photography Jason Harris on location filming “The Babbling Banshee”. What’s YOUR caption?
On location lighting; drunkards and Banshees on bridges
Our second to last day of filming was definitely a challenge. Our first two shots were on location in Gosport and an abandoned railroad bridge in far southern Owen County. First Gosport. We had cooperation from the local police and were able to tap the community gazebo for power. We lit a drunk Ryan O’Brien [...]
Things Overheard About Yesterday’s Filming
While not directly involved with yesterday’s filming, I manage to hear quite a bit. I’ll list some things here and perhaps others can jump in and clarify or correct me. Locations (all Southern Indiana): town of Gosport, bridge on private property near Johnstown, Rose Hill Cemetery, and Jug Rock in Shoals. Some local color happened [...]
How to Repurpose Your Models, or, Green Screen and Philodendrons in the Faery Wells
I know very little about the green screen process or doing animation from live capture. I DO know that I’ve been preparing food, balancing the checkbook and generally skirting around two models for the last three weeks. Yesterday, these babies were finally packed up and hauled out to where the green screen work was being [...]
Guerilla Gaffering in southern Indiana!
Well, I’m not sure how else you’d classify what we’re going to attempt to do with regard to lighting in the wee hours of Saturday morning down in New Harmony. We’re planning on using available light plus one or two 300w parcans driven from an inverter plugged into Russ’ car’s lighter outlet. Oh, and some [...]
An American in Dublin
One name will appear in the credits under “Dublin Unit:” Ryan Powell. The tape survived security scans and Russell seemed happy with the footage. Many thanks to Ryan for doing a little filming for us while he was vacationing in Dublin!
Existential Jessie, signing in…
I wonder how the “big boys” do it? Are all films done in this way? By that I mean, are the people involved in big, professional films emailing each other 80 times a day, rescheduling shoots due to weather and illness, eating donuts at 3 AM, pinning actors into their costumes, and generally running around [...]
Lighting a Church and a Castle, Wow!
Well, weekend #2 had a wild plan and we actually stuck to most of it. It began with a castle in Loveland, Ohio and ended with a church in Bloomington. We would have capped it all off with a cemetery in Bloomington if not for a few circumstance out of our control. The [...]