Behind the Scenes: Getting Our Hands Dirty

As the title implies, this post is all about getting your hands dirty.  In fact, this is a bold-faced celebration of dirty hands – not in the Rod Blagodevich style – but more like this:

Yes, those are honest to goodness dirty hands.   They belong to these people:

The Crew: Chance Qin, Max Baird, Gary Grant, Nick RIghi, Sealii King

And why are their hands dirty?  Because warehouses are dirty.  Why were they in a warehouse?  Because that’s the environment we needed in order to have enough “elbow room” for shooting miniature sets requiring extremely deep backgrounds.  It’s all for a project that plays with  forced perspective shots (among other visual tricks).  This is the team that kindly agreed to participate in the craziness this weekend, willing to sacrifice some of their hard-earned time off for sake of visual experimentation.  It’s what we at Mindclay  call an “incubator” project.   Fun material and definitely a great creative challenge, but also a test of the fortitude of all involved.  Conditions included:

The aforementioned dirt

Oppressive heat and sweltering conditions

Hot lights

A fog machine that wouldn’t play nice

Bald guy making things up as he went along

But it wasn’t all trial and tribulation.  We had some fun along the way.

"I don't know what it is, BUT I LIKE IT!"

Sealii + Fog Machine = Smoke Monster!

"Don't ask, just go with it!"

Can’t wait to share the finished results with you.  But, for the time being, I’ll offer this shout out to our weekend visual effects crew – Nick, Sealii, Chance, Max, Sarah, Suzanne – awesome job everybody!    Next time I promise less dirt and more beverages!

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