Alone: Movie Pics (Part II)

Some more pics from behind the scenes of our shoot:

Alone: Movie Pics

We wrapped our 16mm project Alone yesterday and after 2 1/2 months of work preparing for our film we completed the journey and sent the film off to be processed. It was an incredible experience, and although there were some issues on set, like a family we all came together and got this project done.

Here are a few pics taken on set during the filming. More to come soon:

Morning Solaris

Spending too much time on something can often times lead to burnout. Today's lesson; stress relief.

After spending most of the past month helping construct our set for 16mm, hardly sleeping and working often times until 4am, I decided to go to the beach to get away from the constant pressure of practically living at Full Sail. After working through the night, a few of us decided to take in the sunrise over at Cocoa and shoot some pictures.

There's nothing like getting away from reality and spending a few moments lost adrift in the majestic beauty of a morning sunrise.

Stress, gone. Mission: completed.

35mm Project: "God Speed, John Glenn"

So it's about that time to unveil the secret shroud of mystery that's been surrounding my idea for my final project. [NOTE: this is NOT the side project I mentioned earlier - that one is a professional gig] Originally my intention was to write a script about the Constellation Program that NASA's been working on re manned missions back to the moon and eventually Mars. However, I ran into a small problem along the way - and that was I got way too complex with the story. Not so much in the storyline itself, but the details to explain things kept getting to the point that it became absurd to try and write a 15-page script on it.

So instead I have shifted course yet again, and after a week spent trying to sort through various ideas, I finally stumbled upon what I am going to stick with - and it will work too. The screenplay is entitled, "God Speed, John Glenn" based on the immortalized words of Scott Carpenter as Glenn's rocket hurled itself into the cosmos.

The whole story is going to revolve around the problems that occurred to Friendship 7 through the eyes of Mercury Control during John Glenn's orbital flight. The main issue of course will deal with "Segment 51" but there are several other stumbling blocks that will come into play - like Chris Kraft fighting with the engineers, Alan Shepard expressing his angst about keeping the truth of the situation from Glenn, and the climatic ending in which Glenn returned safely to Earth - a hero.

As of right now I've begun writing this script, although changes will definitely be made over the course of the next 2-months. I don't believe I have to pitch the script until late April, but I am already putting together a crew to help me on this should my script be chosen among all of ours. Regardless of whether we go with my idea or not - I'm really excited to begin work on this and see where life takes me next!

Set Construction - Alone

We're now in our second week of construction for our set on Alone. We've only had the benefit of three labs (roughly 20-hours worth of time) to work as a team to build what started out as a concept. It all began as a sketch on a piece of paper, and after many meetings, arguments and brain storming sessions we set out on something that we've been told is as ambitious as any project in 16mm.

Below are a few pics from our set thus far. Although there's still a lot of things we need to do before it's a finished and working set - and believe me when you see the movie the set will blow your mind - the entire crew is working tirelessly and cohesively to aide in putting together something that's turning out absolutely brilliant!

And yes, most of my crew had little or no construction experience...just goes to show you how motivated everyone is!!