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Friday, January 4, 2013

Building the set.


Renting of stage for 6 months is expensive. First we have to building the set about 45 days, then shooting for 4-5 months. And take breaks every week for 3 days minimum for regular life.
At the same time we have to eat, dress, wash, surf the Internet. To sit or even lie down, waiting for the next scene. Feel comfortable for the painstaking creative work. This had to be remembered at the stage of development of the script.

What we had no doubt for free in half of the year? Only our small room 4x4 meters, kitchen, bathroom, restroom.

It was a crazy idea, if we started to consult and doubt. But we just shove the space between the Earth and the Moon in a typical Russian apartment on the 16th floor.
The problem was solved by the principle of modularity of the working area and scenery. Spreading the sofa into a bed for the night and the cockpit as takes only half of the room.

For an overview of the cockpit from every possible angle, I set it on a specially welded ring rails and square dolly for a spin.

Month I marked, cut and join a foundation of the structure of girder and plywood. Every day, half of one of the modules. It was not difficult, if you work with blueprint and not try to do everything at once.



By early summer, the wooden box was ready and the first time we invited our DP Andrew to decide how to place the light inside the cockpit. We recently completed three documentaries together. He's got a good lens, I got a camera and storage - a crazy idea turned into an interesting experiment.



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