Valuation.

The first question that need to decide how to shoot everything and fit to the original amount. We have two actors, DP and sound designer. The minimum group. Each of them has become a partner in the investment of the project and will receive 10% of our total revenue. We decided not to rent, but to buy equipment. So the shooting schedule could remain tight, but flexible. People should continue to make money their way, because our work is only contribution so far.

Camera. We did not shoot on DSLR, because of moire, aliasing and 8 bit 4:2:0 output. Story of a space adventure is doomed without good dinamic range and clean green screen footage. We need images worthy inspired of classic movies: "Space Odyssey", "Star Wars" and "Alien". At the beginning of 2012 the most affordable and cinematic image had only Sony PMW-F3 with S-LOG. Alexa was to expensive, RED Scarlet delayed and delayed, Canon was silent (even today outputs of C300 worse anyway).

So we bought F3 with S-Log option, and it was the biggest waste. But the camera does not record its best 10bit 4:4:4. Needs to be used with an external box. Much of the movie is to be shot in indoors and we just put in a MacPro 1.1 BM DeckLink HD Extreme 3D card and 260GB SSD. Every 15 minutes, the material had to be transferred to a WD MyBook Studio raid1. It was like a reloading of film cassettes.

Andrew Krokhalev DP has provided its own set of Zeiss ZE (21,28,35,50,80) and Canon zoom F2.8 70-200. Iris we exposed through the body of 5D McII, we did not use it beyond that. He also brought Sachtler and Vinten two tripods and two Dedolight DLH4 Tungsten Light Heads. Later I has made the two soft boxes for green screen and bought one halogen floodlight for additional fill light.

Next week I'll write about the cockpit and set. Set without Set.

Nearly a year ago.

On the eve of the new year, I decided it was time to leave the search for interesting projects in the Russian TV and film industry and come up with something of my own. Because in the last 12 (actually 95) years, our national culture is so badly degraded that almost all what producers offer to filmmakers and writers that is "banditry as a worldview." When it becomes a national idea, not only culture, but also the very existence of people run into degeneracy.

This is about what my wife and I decided to make a movie. But make it entertaining, fun and, most importantly, easy understandable for the world. Only if our film will see and love throughout the world, we have a chance to be heard in the Homeland. Because the main lies of our authorities for many centuries, is that the rest of the world is hostile to Russian.

We do not know much English, as our main character. And the story will develop more through action, not talk. We have limited financial resources so we have to make money by our unfinished work to complete it. 

However I have accumulated enough to finish the script, build a compact dark cockpit of space shuttle interior, prepare costumes, lights ... And refuse to employers because of my personal business. 

Now, as I write this, we have already finished shooting and spent about $ 25,000. I have no savings now and we edit movie combined with any income. Money still will need for dubbing and the shooting day on location in the spring.

But the film can be viewed for free. As we decided from the beginning. We hope that the audience will donate us as gratitude for how much quality work we do with so small team. 

We will share a new episode every week for a year after complete post-production.

But so far no one has seen the movie, I will post a description of what we have already done. For a possible future.