Long days at the office (Emperor shoot and Takara commercial)

What a busy weekend! Saturday I spent shooting emperor and Sunday I spent on a Japanese Commercial.

Saturday; Emperor.

We shot Emperor at Whenuapai Airfield this weekend for what will serve as Atsugi Airport, here are a couple pics that the NZ herald took when they visited the first bit of the shoot. In the first photo take notice of the truck at the very back, when that shoots in the movie I will be in the passenger side with my arm out when the film shows those convoy scenes. That pic was taken during second unit shooting when I wasn't there. It was a really fun day apart from the biting wind, but to see that many people in army gear was cool. And I look forward to tomorrow :)

Go Team America ;)

Seeing those cam's move across the tracks is cool, so much better than
our Run-with-the-camera-like-a-crab shots ;)

The Man in all green with the hand on the head is Our Sgt, the military advisor for the film. Really nice guy, told me he only had an hour of sleep before they started work. But it's paying off, all of us look the part :)

(link to article is http://www.nzherald.co.nz/defence/news/image.cfm?c_id=32&gal_objectid=10792850&gallery_id=124577#8745253 )

Sunday; Takara commercial.

When I got home from shooting Emperor on Saturday Night I had a text from my agent wondering if I was keen to take part as en extra for a Japanese commercial and being in a crowd. Of course, up for any opportunity to see the film game work and get my experience up. It wasn't hard material, just cheering, gasping and clapping on cue. But very interesting to see how a Japanese crew and a largely freelance NZ crew get along and communicate. I had alot of ideas how to shoot my film come May from working with these guys.

I was told it would be a 3.30pm to 11.30 pm shoot, but we ended up finishing at 5.30 in the morning. So the first 7 hours was just waiting around. I finished my George clooney book and played through my MP3 playlist twice. I got good at my cellphone game too lol. Anyway after a long shoot and a run home at 6 am in the wet I got home at 6.20am and chilled on the internet till wife was ready to work and take her to the train station, so today (Monday) has been basically about catching up on the missed sleep of the weekend. Haven't done a 14 hour shoot in a while, I have got to shoot tomorrow at the studio set for Emperor so the week doesn't stop just yet :) Shootings due to finish March 24 so then after that I can try hunt for a paying job to fund my lifestyle and my own movie :)

On wife's payday I can print off the DVD/DVD covers for Timefish so my next post will be the Timefish movie :) I have seen other films from my class which were pretty good but none with action yet so I hope they like mine ;)