Progress update

This past week we decided to get some extra coverage of Brady. The shots that we ended up getting was just of him hanging out at his apartment, playing video games...being a normal college student. The idea behind this to make him even more relatable to the audience. The shoot went well, and the footage is definitely going to make it in the final cut. As far as editing goes, we've went through the interviews and cut them down to the questions that we're going to be using in the film, and we're slowly creating arks for the questions to follow. other than that everything is coming together well.

Update: week of the Con

So this week was the week of the con. we ended up getting enough coverage of brady, so on Tursday we were able to get an expert interview with him. Friday we went to the con as planned and shot for about seven hours, getting Brady's and Crystals reactions to the con and their interactions with other people, and some broll of the con. on Saturday, we mainly focussed on broll and vox-pops of people at the con and we also got follow up interviews with Crystal and Brady. We ended up getting enough footage so we decided to come home on Saturday night and got back in town on sunday morning at about 2. overall it was a super fun trip.

Update: a problem with Brady

So things were going great but we found out that Brady, our second subject has decided to go home for almost all of spring break. we have come to an arrangement, that i think can end up working, where we will end up shooting him making most of the costume but we will miss out on seeing him making the sword. our plan is to then shoot his main interview on Thursday. hopefully it all works out because we leave Friday for the convention.

Update: a big next two weeks

Things are going great with Crystal, the spear is done and she has even decided to dye her hair so that her character can be as realistic as possible, We are still waiting to hear back from Brady. We have plans to to go to the con on March 13th and come back on the 15th. We have permission from the con to shoot as well a place to stay while we're there so things are looking pretty good.

update Broll almost done

So this for week five we've almost finished up Crystals broll. as said last week, her interview came out great. All we have to do with Crystal is get her to finish her staff. We are waiting to hear back from Brady but he should be getting back in tough with us in the next day or so. other than that everything is going as planned.

Update: One Interview Down

So the big accomplishment for this week was getting Memory Lane Comics to allow us to get in and shoot our expert interview with Crystal in their shop. All in all, the interview took about an hour and a half to do. The footage was great, and Crystal had alot of great things to say about the subjects that we talked about, specifically, when she talked about why she has such a special connection to her favorite character Laura Croft. We plan on getting the rest of Crystals costume footage in the can by spring break, and hopefully will be starting on Brady's costume this week, trying to schedule his interview as well. Other than that we are Keeping a pretty good pace with the schedule we set, and are trying to stay on track.

update: Finding a second subject

So this past Sunday when we all met, we interviewed two people to be possible subjects for the person who has never done cosplay before. After interviewing both of  them, we decided to go with the male interviewee, because I felt that it gave the two subjects more diversity. we are in talks with him to see when we can start shooting him building his costume. Other than that we have continued to shoot some b-roll of Crystal, and everyone is doing great.