As this blog is kinda my place to post the work stuff we do, I am going to document my next film project here as well. In hopes that you all might find it interesting as well! A departure from just the fabrication posts, but I know some of you are interested in everything that we get up to.
So this will be the first post in my newest film production!
I can't tell the whole script, for obvious reasons, but I will share whats pertinent as we go along.
One of my main characters in the film will span 2 time periods. The first time period is back in the 1870's -ish. He's basically a cowboy, with a twist.
This means a few things for me, one is getting a horse, which I'm pretty sure we have nailed down, and the other is wardrobe for our character. I have tasked a large portion of the wardrobe to my very good friends, Joe Christoff, who was involved in our last project, and Denise Robertson, who is a wiz at sewng the crazy stuff I come up with. She did all the wardrobe for my Endlewood project. That's on Youtube if you haven't watched it yet!
I will be doing bits and pieces of the wardrobe as well.
First things first, a cowboy needs a gun! This is a very good Denix replica I got online. It weighs a ton! I assume it's weight is pretty close to the real one! This one is going to be ported to blow compressed air and powder, to simulate a gunshot. I could certainly add smoke in post-production, but I would WAY rather get it in camera while we're filming.
Now a gun needs bullets as well! To avoid all kinds of grief, everything will be VERY fake indeed!
We need about 50 rounds for what we're doing. I decided to lathe all the bullets from acrylic rod. I stuck a radius cutter in the lathe, and spun the tips that way. It only took about 35 minutes to lathe all 50 pieces.
For the rim of the bullets, I laser engraved, then cut them all from .060 acrylic.
Then I just visually aligned the rims to the casing, and glued them up!
With a quick coat of brass paint, and the tips dipped in Rustoleum's Metallic Accent pewter color, they're lookin sweet!................49 more to go!
The other wardrobe pieces on the workbench were the spurs for our cowboy!
Using the boots as a measurement, I drew them up in corel, and sent them to Joe. He has access to a plasma cutter, and I want these to be durable. So he cut them from steel.
We welded them up, and added 2) 1/4-20 stove bolts for the studs. They got bent to the correct shape, then I treated them with the rust solution, to give them a patina. The far spur has the treatment, and the close one hasn't been done yet!
The next big task for filming is the period room the cowboy goes into.
I totally lucked out, and our friends who let us use their farm for Endlewood, have agreed to let us set up shop in a corner of their barn!
This does mean that we have to build some set walls. We'll be using the door, and the 2 real walls. I'll build two fake walls to make it a room. The nice thing about this, is that the walls can move in and out as we need them to. This will allow us to get the camera gear anywhere we need, without to much restriction in the space!
Stay tuned...................this is gonna be fun!
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JWO
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