Making movies

[Thorsten]

So far the mother of all special effects - a ~15 second sequence in which Cliodhna's astral body falls tumbling through otherworldly clouds.



Took us three days of trying out and me an unholy amount of time to arrive at a viable workflow, which in the end involves four consecutive rendering passes.

[Thorsten]

Cast and crew (except yours truly behind the camera) for the summer scenes of 'Cliodhna 2 - Truth from Beyond' after shooting a somewhat tricky scene involving coordinated efforts of 2 adults, 3 kids and one horse.



Three month of training finally paid off a bit later - the scene where the panicked pack animal runs alone through the forest worked perfectly on the first take.

[wlbragg]

I was going to mention that the easiest part to coordinate was probably the animals, they are already used to taking direction.

[Thorsten]

You know what the supposedly panicky horse did the first time we tried as a test run to bring it into trot and then let go of the reins? It stopped immediately to have a snack...

[Thorsten]

There we were, driving to a set I had scouted out a while ago - a beautiful patch of really old forest with a decent road to enable the camera operator to move backwards at decent speed...

Then, actually arriving there, it looked like this:



Can't have been older than a few days... and judging from the diameter of the logs, this really was a very old patch...

Things you don't really anticipate.

[Johan G]

Ouch.

[wkitty42]

man, that really bites

[Thorsten]

Yeah.., Katharina looks at me like WTF, and I just say 'I swear it was forest last time I checked...'

It's a sad fact of forestry that they always cut the nice old patches down... But well, it's practically all forest around us, so we did find some alternative set,

Of course then it started raining...

[GinGin]

I want to go there for my next holiday, it looks so peacefull and far from civilisation stress

[Thorsten]

Make sure you don't come in November/December - it's quite awful, rainy and dark all the time... Winter is generally dark, but really most of the time like a story-book winter, and summer is just awesome (but won't last much longer for this year...)

[Thorsten]

Post-processing for the second episode is done, DVD cover artwork is done, all that remains is DVD menu structure and subtitle translations. Thus... we have a release date!

[Thorsten]

And - here it is.

Full house on the premiere showing with the local press interviewing us.

About five times the cast of the first episode, more experience in cutting and post-processing, some 38 minutes in length - a better movie altogether.

Enjoy!

[wlbragg]

Outstanding, this episode really held my interest. Somehow I didn't see this "new post". I didn't know this was released until I saw your post about AI and went to the website.

Anyway, great job. It was really enjoyable to watch! Left me wanting more.

[Thorsten]

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[Thorsten]

The advantage of having time, but no serious budget - we can wait till there's real fog and the light is like we need it. This morning in the swamp - terrific footage for the 4th part of the series.