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On the Set: Allied Fleets Part 4 (Part 2 of 2)Posted on: August 10, 2005 On Monday, we resumed filming of the commercial skits for The Allied Fleets. We did “Governor Asshole,” “The Light Side and The Dark Side,” and “S&M Block.” Governor Asshole took a long time to do. First they had to dress up, all in suits. Then we had to drive around, first looking for supplies to make fake blood (we settled on water and ketchup,) and then to go to our filming spots. The first spot was an abandoned mill in Lowertown Lockport, where we did our shoot, and got the hell out of there, not because of Trespassing (because every other drug user/”hardkore” teen in Lockport has at some point trespassed onto this property,) but because we didn’t want to be the ones in the wrong place/wrong time” scenario of anything collapsing. The we went to Lockport Memorial Hospital and did three shoots there, one in front of the hospital, one in front of the Vetran’s Memorial, and one quick shoot at the parking lot of Washington Hunt Elementary School. The shot at the Vetren’s Memorial took way too long. We had to get everything right, for to end up looking good for the end product. After numerous dry no-record runs and a few recorded runs, we got it done, did the next quick camera angle and got out of there (does a water-ketchup-dirt mixture left on a statue count as vandalism? Would have cleaned it up if the nearby water spicket and hose worked.) “Light Side/Dark Side” went pretty well, after moving the cars needed into position and nearly blocking most of the street for a good half hour, and looked very good on film. Then we moved onto “S&M Block,” to get through that pretty quickly with hilarious end results. We then called it a day, got food and drink, and then went to clean up the back yard that we used to smash up stuff for “We Got Yo’ Shit.” Tuesday and Wednesday are rest days, for some of the guys to head out to Cedar Point, where filming will start again on Thursday (including the huge Intermission smash!) with voiceovers happening on Thursday and Friday. Thursday is the day Kieth says will make or break everything. And he wants as much voiceover work done as possible so he isn’t doing much/any himself. |
On the Set: Allied Fleets Part 4 (Part 1 of 2)Posted on: August 8, 2005 Today, I had an experience. The defining moment of my summer. I helped in the filming of the footage portion of The Allied Fleets Part 4. The Allied Fleets is a miniseries some friends of my brother has been working on since high school. It is very low budget, with the camera being the most expensive thing there, and I assume Lego costs might have been good for the first three episodes (they’re moving to CGI for the fourth installment.) Basically, the premise is that we have the Allied Fleets against the Paklets in war. The Paklets are essentially space retards with amazing battle strategy with “Anomaly Technology,” which allows them to use large amounts of power will litle fuel consumption. But why am I describing this, WATCH IT ALREADY. IT HAS LEGO DESTRUCTION. Now onto Part 4 “behind the scenes” details. We stopped over at a friend’s house to do the filming for the “game show” intermission of “We Got Yo’ Shit,” mocking mostly “The Price is Right” and any other game show, where the contestant had to win back his stuff. Of course, it wouldn’t be right for the contestant to win his stuff back, and it all got smashed to bits. All that remained when we were done was a pile of very well destroyed silicon boards, metal, electronic components and plastic. Also, Xboxes do take quite the beating, but not after a few hits with a sledgehammer and axes. We then moved on to filming “central,” where most of the filming occurs. We worked on various commercials that will appear in the video, such as “Office Enforcer,” “Fleets Home Shopping” and “Brand Lames.” Obviously much destruction occurred. And so did much complaining because the neighbors apparently only had a CD with three songs. And all of them sucked. Especially “Baby Got Back” when played 25 times. I also learned that “Apple Quality” means means shit when encountered with a sledgehammer. I mean, I was I disappointed. Oh well, I should sleep, because I’ve got more filming to do later today. Can’t wait to see the final thing. |
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