Monday, July 16, 2007

I've been waiting for this

Too excited to explain it in my words, here's the email peppered with my explainations [in brackets]:

Here's the deal, we got a pretty big epic film that's happening in Michigan for 2 weeks in August, called "Ice Shield of Alethia." Stephen Allison (Robin Hood) is directing it and I'm [Peter Borrud] shooting it. I just got back tonight from weekend trip in Michigan for tech scouting with the film and it looks like the film is gonna come together. However, we're still in need of some more crew.

First though, here's some more details about the film.
- Current Bud get $30,000 (not prospective, but current).
- We're shooting on HD, with 2 F900's, including 2 Fujinon zoom lenses (one is an E series which was used on Star Wars Episode III, and Sin City).
- Wherever you are in the U.S., we'll fly you out to Michigan and back. You will also have a place to stay and will get free food of course. So its sort of like a vacation, depending on how you look at it I suppose.

- The story is a fantasy film, and will not be owned by Biola, so it does have a potential to make a profit and go elsewhere (maybe even Blockbuster someday).
- We have a professional fight choreographer working on several of the action scenes in the film, involving things like: swordfighting, setting someone on fire, cable fighting, horse wrangling, and pretty much a lot of other things I probably don't even know about yet (he knows a lot basically).

- And we hope that this will be a dang fun project to work on. There's already several other cool people working on it. Some of them include: Abe Sherman, Melissa Cobb, Aaron Smith, Ricky Norris, Dan Parris, and a few other possible people right now. And yes, we will have a 2nd unit director as well.

- Dates: From Shoot to Wrap 8/4-8/17 (before school starts of course).

Here's What we need still:

- Key Grip
- 2nd Unit Gaffer/Key Grip
- Best Boy
- A and B Camera Operators
- B Camera - First Assistant Camera [<--- me]
- 2nd Assistant Camera [<--- or me]

I'll talk more about this later. Just thought you all should know.

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