You see, Ruth and Rebekah’s dad made us a fantabulous teleprompter! This is a great little rig that uses an iPad to display the words that Rebekah has to say. We just shoot through the glass and the words don’t show up on the camera. How cool is that? (I’m still geeking out about it!)

And then we just had to share this photo. You see, Ruth and I have exactly the same Zoom H4 recorder. We’re using both for this project, so Ruth made name tags for them. I think they’re adorable!

That’s all for now, though we might have more set photos later. Stay tuned!

 
iSundae Bloopers Reel from Phantom Moose Films on Vimeo.

“He’s right, Somindeo…”

We did this scene on a stool, because Malfhok had to float down from the ceiling. I’m wearing a green box so that I can’t wave my arms around, and so we can key it out for the floating head effect. Well, it’s really hard to step off of a stool with a box that comes down to your knees! Needless to say, the box got the worst of it.

Clocks

This was one of the worst interruptions we had while filming iSundae. Normally, it’s perfectly lovely to have a clock that chimes every quarter hour. But when you are trying to finish a scene ASAP, a chime every fifteen minutes is quite annoying. We learned our lesson and ran the clock down before we started shooting iSundae II. My advice? Think carefully about what makes noise in a location before you decide to shoot there, and if you can, silence them.

Weather Conditions

Man! We had such a hard time on that day. The place where we were filming was right next to the road and right out in the open. Plus, as you can tell, that day was windy. So we shot in between cars going by and gusts of wind. However, it was fun to watch all the people in their cars turning to look at us while they went by.

Sword Belts

This was a recurring trouble. The belts were made of cardboard covered with fabric, so they tended to spring open a lot. For iSundae II, we used real belts.

The Garage Cave

Yes, we know. That scene was shot in a garage. Shocking, isn’t it? Now you know why we darkened the scene so much.

“Have you seen my DVD collection?”

This is what happens when you tell your actors to have a conversation, and then tell them that the audio won’t be used. Consequently, I’m the one with the remark about the DVDs.

And I can’t show you goofy pictures of them without showing a picture of me.

So, based on the other crazy freeze-frames posts, which frame was your favorite?

Here’s your freeze-frames for this week. Have fun!

Fonsuger’s eyes:

Emcracy gapes:

Gwenanda decides to try:

Two lovely heroines:

The badguys’ solemn greeting:

Marelac must have been grouchy that day: