What is a tech survey you might ask? A tech survey is an opportunity for heads of all departments to understand the realities, possibilities and limitations for their given task.
For example, sound department had some concerns with humming lights, slight traffic noise in background and possible workers off camera, how much dialog was being said at once, how far apart where the actors?. How do we battle these things? This gives Max time to figure out the best way to achieving the highest quality sound possible.
Cine, had a lack of plug ins on one side of the warehouse for lighting. Also had to check breakers to see what lights did what, as well as how he was going to go about achieving mine and Davin's vision. Where was the fight going to be? How narrow was the space? Figuring all this out lets him know what kind of gear he's going to need on the day.
The assistant director had concerns for green rooms, bathrooms and a place for craft services to set up shop to cook food. He also had safety concerns with all the flipping, punching and rolling that's going on cement floor. I did a role on the ground just to see how stiff it was....very.
Visual effects had some big concerns about where explosions are going, what color costumes people are wearing, how we plan on shooting the scene. If we wanted to create new parts of the warehouse digitally, how Bjorn was going to light for the explosions, etc, etc, etc.
Then there's Davin and myself. We had to block out where all the characters were going to be at any given time. This helps everyone else on the crew know what's going on so they can plan better.
Our locations manager Lisa, also was along for the ride. She was our direct contact with the people at the warehouse. She helped negotiate price and times we are aloud to shoot. She got us a few extra hours the evening prior to shooting so Bjorn and art can go in and pre-light and pre-dress. That way in the morning everyone can hit the ground running and not have to sit around and wait for those guys to get their stuff done.
After our tech survey, Bjorn, Davin and I had a meeting to crunch numbers on gear rental. Boy oh boy, it sure is expensive to rent 35mm prime lenses...
We've added another meeting with Bjorn, Nils (3d guy), Davin and myself to really go over the visual effects shot in the film. One screw up here could mean months of extra post work!
Will keep you posted!
I'm off to a meeting with Nemo (one of the art guys) and then fighting all night with Danny and Davin!
Then an hour and a half of Yoga!
Travis
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