From Below Days 2-4

So it's been a few days since we been able to post our progress, but the production is still going strong.  We've finished several scenes and things are moving along really well.

Day 4 was by far the most interesting.  It all started off with a visit from the Siloam Springs Police Department.  Apparently a white Tahoe backed up to an empty store front taking video equipment inside prompts a concerned citizen to believe that one would be stealing from an empty building. We got it all sorted out in the end and our production day began.  

Photo Trent Chopski

While the art department started dressing the set, Tyson and I scouted on the underside of the store for possible locations.  The tunnels were about three feet tall and about three feet wide, and while the crouching to moving around was almost painful the tunnels down there we awesome and we were able to get some shots down there.

"I survived" - Photo Trent Chopski

  The couple of weeks will be the most hectic but also the most fun.  We're moving on to our key dialogue scenes and staying in the store.  So even more interesting shots to come, but check out some of hte other photos from this week.

Photo Trent Chopski

Photo Trent Chopski

Photo Trent Chopski

Photo Trent Chopski

From Below - Day 1

Photo - Josh Adams

 Principal Photography 

 of "From Below"

 has begun!

     Saturday marked our first production day on our senior project, "From Below."  We are excited to be making a film that is a science fiction re-telling of Plato's Cave analogy, and we're even more excited about the wonderful crew and cast to be working on our film.

Photo - Josh Adams

     The first day on a student project is most nerve racking because you've been working on all the tiny details you start to wonder if you made everything clear, but I have to say here that everything went extremely well.  Sure a few things went array, but we had so many people helping on the crew that things recovered quickly.  We started the morning out attempting out first dolly shot, after awhile we really started clicking in as a team and moving things along nicely.  The dolly shot as expect was the toughest part of our day, but that mostly had to do with equipment and terrain issues.  Our other large issue of the day was the JBU rugby game that started up after we had lunch.  We didn't know it was going to happen and the timing feel right as we were doing dialogue coverage.  So we have to schedule a new day for that and new dolly, but the practical side of the crew was awesome.

Photo - Josh Adams

     As a student director you really do most things by yourself or a few others and share the work load, but here we have a crew near 15 people all willing to work hard for a great film.  I couldn't be more happy to have such a great team and for them making it possible to really focus in on what I need to tell a story.  The next few production days should be a blast.  Check back for more production updates!

Still Frame from our Footage - Tyson Bank - DP