labingi

I long ago gave up blogging every shoot of HBM out of sheer exhaustion. But the filming has been going very well. We're almost, almost done with all of our non-prison cell filming, and we're looking forward enormously to settling down in one set with the same 2 or 3 actors and doing nothing but prison scenes.

We have been fortunate in our locations: we got some very nice scenes in our quarry: both desert planet and forested planet, and we got two versions of the rural western Oregon look with two types of weather on different days, so we'll have a nice variety. Pure happenstance gave us a dried up pond that's going to look nice and charred for a crash site. (We have a total of four planets for exterior shots: Manyrock, Besqûn, some Ashtorian planet, and the planet they crash on.)

We have also been fortunate in our cast and crew. In the main, everyone has been very responsible about showing up on time and being prepared. Boy, do we have a lot of actors for this movie... and they've really all been quite responsible and cooperative. The crew bears the brunt of the effort, of course, with most of us having to be at most every shoot. We are now entering a state of terminal exhaustion, and after our last on-location shoot next week, we will take at least two weeks off to collapse (or work, go to school, have a life, etc. as the case may be).

I still don't have any photos to post as my computer is not the one on which the footage is stored. Alack. Hopefully soon.