Sunday, August 30, 2009

Location, Location, Location!

Today Director Stig, Location Manager Jeremy, and myself met to review and talk about location photos that Jeremy took on his recent scouts. The location that we shoot at is important for many reasons. One of the biggest reasons being that it plays a huge role in the over all look and feel of the film. Finding the right location is extremely important and something we will be taking much time on to be certain we have exactly what we need!


Reviewing The Locations

One thing that some people don't realize is that a location represented in a movie is generally a combination of many real locations that are stitched together by editing and art direction to create a unified overall feel that reflects the vision of the Director. As such, we have been scouting many locations and will most likely end up taking certain barns or fields from various ones.


The Director's Vision


Checking Every Aspect

Half way through our meeting we became inspired to actually go out and visit some of the locations first hand and talk about certain details. We quickly packed up our stuff and hit the highway to visit a couple historical museums in state before they closed.


Old Kitchen Stove


Every Farm Needs Some Chickens

On our trip we found some places that would be perfect to shoot and quickly went to gather the contact information for them. In some places we were greeted with friendly people looking to help tell a great story, while others we were stopped and escorted off the premises by unfriendly anti film making historians uninterested in even hearing our ideas.


Discussing Terms

As the search for locations goes on, our time grows short, but with great people on board like Jeremy Gee, we are sure to have the perfect setting for our tale of heroism, brotherly love, and pumpkin massacring!


Location Manager Jeremy Gee

Signed,
Nathan Rigaud
First Assistant Director for "Harvest of Horrors"

Friday, August 28, 2009

The Harvest Diaries

Today Stig and myself met with two new crew members,John Potter, who will be coming on as puppet master, and Chris Dodge who will be assistant production manager.We are very excited to have them both on board for this wild ride of a movie that we will be making!

You can learn more about what John and Chris will be helping us on by checking out our first "Harvest of Horrors" video Diary entry! We will be making more video diary entries as we work so you all can get a sneak peek into what goes on behind the scenes to bring this movie to life!





Make sure to check back to the site often for more video,web,and blog updates!

Signed,

Nathan Rigaud
First Assistant Director of "Harvest of Horrors"

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Making some Pumkins

Recently, for Director Stig's Birthday, we got a few crew members and friends together to begin work on some of the pumpkins that will be part of the film.

Just getting started

We began by placing clay onto carved foam cores that Stig cut out.We then smoothed out the clay to form the basic shape for the characters.

Bob Working On His Pumkin

Stig Carving Out The Character


It took many hours to complete the smoothing process, but with it complete the pumpkins are ready for sculpting.

Prepped For The Hard Part


Even with all the work we were able to complete we still have massive amounts of art work and characters to build for the film! Its a time consuming, but ultimate rewarding, task that will help bring to life the grand vision of the film.

Job Well Done

Make sure to keep checking back for more updates on the progress of "Harvest of Horrors"!

See yalls around!

Nathan Rigaud
First Assistant Director for "Harvest of Horrors"

Website Updates

I recently added a few things to the website: http://harvestofhorrors-themovie.com/, the most important of which is a direct feed to the blog. You will now be able to view any and all updates to this blog from the comfort of our new "News" page on the website, which should be up and running shortly.

I have a few more things planned to make our website the best it can possibly be. Stay tuned for that.

If you notice any problems with the website (missing or malfunctioning links, missing images, ect.), or have a suggestion for how I might make it better, feel free to email me at joe.fallenangel@gmail.com.

Joe Unrein
Webmaster, harvestofhorrors-themovie.com/

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Under Construction

Welcome to the Harvest of Horrors Blog! I'm currently working to get the blog set up and looking great, to be posted onto the Harvest of Horrors website!

www.Harvestofhorrors-themovie.com

Once this blog is up and running, it will be your source for current news on the progress of the films pre production, production, and post phases, with updates from various crew members!

We are looking forward to sharing all the exciting news about the film with you and hope that you all will check in often to see what we are up too! Let the "Action-Packed, Six-Gun-Slingin', Samurai-Sword Swingin', Orange Goo splattered, Punk-a-Billy romp through the pumpkin patch" begin!

Signed,
Nathan Rigaud
First Assistant Director for "Harvest of Horrors"