We recorded this over the Internet between two states, so please excuse any garbled audio or quiet points. Turn down the lights, crank up the sound, grab some popcorn, and enjoy the commentary!

And now that you’ve finished watching it, what’d you think? Leave a comment and tell us!

 
iSundae II Bloopers Reel from Phantom Moose Films on Vimeo.

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And for those of you waiting for the tower top behind the scenes video, hang in there. I’m working on it!

iSundae II: Attack of the Cones – Part 10 of 10 from Phantom Moose Films on Vimeo.

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Stay tuned! We’ll have outtakes for you later on, and I’m planning on a behind the scenes video on the tower top scene.

Believe me, after twenty minutes of acting under two-thousand watts of light (and more than five yards of velvet) you feel like you’re flying, and it’s not a pleasant sensation.

Staying cheerful and hydrated during the Flying Machine Sequence was one of the hardest and most personally challenging things I did during the production of iSundae II. The staying cheerful part especially. Bad attitudes can spread like wildfire on the best of days, and filming in a tight area just makes them spread faster. I think the extra effort showed as Gwenanda getting steadily crazier. We got quite a few outtakes and “behind the scenes” clips. I guess those made up, in a small way, for the difficulties.

The room we were filming in would have been a great size if we had taken all the furniture out, but that wasn’t really practical. So all seven of us crammed in between the couches, television, speakers, bookcases, recliner, and foosball table. Us, and two of our biggest production lights. When you get that many heat-producing bodies in that size of an area, things warm up really quick. With the lights it was just awful. Oh, and then we lost about three feet off of one end of the room because the weather-balloon of a blue screen had to hang a ways out from the wall. But somehow we all crammed in there and made it to filming.

As soon as you can get over not being able to see much and the vague feeling that you’re in a giant microwave, filming with the big lights isn’t too bad. I’m here to testify that you can get used to it! Just make sure that none of your costume fabrics are flammable.

Acting for this scene was easy. We actually got to sit down almost the entire time! We faced the flying machine left, and said our lines. We faced the machine toward the camera, and said our lines. We turned to the right, and said our lines. You get the basic idea. And you’d think we would know our lines really well by the end of the first two times through, but you’re reckoning without the heat. And it didn’t help that as we got more loopy, things seemed more funny.

All in all it was a . . . good experience. I now know how to survive under all that velvet. You don’t think about it, and try to help everyone else forget that we’re presenting a passable imitation of baked trout. And it did pay off. We got some great footage and ended up having fun.

Here’s a video of some of the craziness from the flying machine filming day:

Behind the Scenes of the Flying Machine from Phantom Moose Films on Vimeo.

iSundae II: Attack of the Cones – Part 9 of 10 from Phantom Moose Films on Vimeo.

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Be sure to stick around for a peek behind the scenes of the flying machine sequence and all the craziness of shooting blue screen all day.

iSundae II: Attack of the Cones – Part 8 of 10 from Phantom Moose Films on Vimeo.

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Stick around! This week, Rebekah will tell you how we worked around needing ten people for a scene, when we only had eight.

The Making of Bob from Phantom Moose Films on Vimeo.

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iSundae II: Attack of the Cones – Part 7 of 10 from Phantom Moose Films on Vimeo.

You can also watch the video on YouTube.

Be sure to stick around. We have a very special behind the scenes video this week!

iSundae II: Attack of the Cones – Part 6 of 10 from Phantom Moose Films on Vimeo. 

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Later this week, Rebekah will show you what went into the creation of the weather machine.

iSundae II: Attack of the Cones – Part 5 of 10 from Phantom Moose Films on Vimeo.

As always, you can watch the video on YouTube, too.