Today was a good day - as far as I can tell. When shooting film it can be tough to tell until you get the print back and get to see whether you metered wisely or F'd the whole thing up and have to try it again. In any case, it was a fun and worthwhile day of arranging the set and positioning the lights to capture the angles and images just so. I had a lot of help - very valuable help in the "crew" that I have. These guys are amazing at what they do and fun to work with to boot. The purpose of today was to test out the lighting conditions and a few of the actual scene setups using the camera and film stock that I am going to shoot. In addition, we recorded audio using an Edirol R-09 digital recorded and wireless lavaliere microphone. The plan is to examine the footage and work on syncing the film footage with the captured audio. It can be a tricky process especially since the film speed can vary and the digital audio speed remains constant.
I received all of the film stock today for the film; 30 rolls of Kodak Tri-X Reversal. That's 2:30 min of footage per roll (50 ft) when running at 24 frames per second. That gives a total of 75 minutes of footage for, what is to be, a 20 minute film.
Today I am officially announcing the main cast of The Good Soldier:
The Soldier - Brian Gililland
The Commander - Jack Hays
Miss June - Leah Trafford
Soldier 1596 - Erik Schultz
I haven't nailed down all of the "Extras" just yet - there are about 4 or 5.
I need to give a big thanks to Magna Talent Agency in Oklahoma City for helping us out and sending us some great actors for the audition. The two main characters, Brian and Jack, are both represented by Magna.
So what's the next step? Get the test footage processed - make sure it looks good. Then rehearsals. Then the first day of shooting.
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