For years (four, to be precise) I’ve wondered whether we movie-makers have gotten into the best occupation on earth, or if we’re just gluttons for punishment. Who in their right mind would want to spend a month in the feverish, non-stop, stress-filled, running-around-in-circles activity we call making a movie? That naturally leads to the question, are we in our right minds? But this isn’t about getting personal. The question is, why? [Read more →]
EXT Lydia’s Hut DAY and INT Lydia’s hut DAY. Just two short sentences from the script. As head of the “Phantom Moose Large Props Department,” it was my job to take those lines and convert them into a semi-believable reality. [Read more →]
Throw away your bricks and trowels, your costly cement walls and that old-fashioned “built to last” idea. This is the era of the disposable! Storage saving and penny pinching is in.
Okay. Suffice it to say not all of us can afford to build a real castle for filming purposes. [Read more →]
Well, during the pre-production days of iSundae II, we hardly had any time to post pictures of the many, many props we were working on. But here are some pictures of the room where we store the majority of them. [Read more →]
We didn’t get any filming done this morning, which was a bit of a disappointment. We had planned to do an outdoor scene, but the temperature was so high we were afraid the heat would wear too much on both the crew and the props, which have been known to partially come apart under extreme heat. [Read more →]
