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In Production – “Matchbreaker”

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So I’m trying to update this blog as much as I can but I’m terribly bad at it! It’s a habit which requires such discipline, discipline which I clearly lack. We wrapped shooting on Matchbreaker, the pilot I co-created with Lucas Crandles and Tim Nash (Dark Heart Productions – http://darkheartproductions.com) and directed, last month in late Jan. We’re heavily into post-production at the moment, with the offline edit locked off. VFX, music, grading, mixing and ADR fun to come! We’re hoping to get the entire pilot complete by mid-March, about 3 weeks over our initial deadline (we were clearly ambitious in our scheduling).

I’m very pleased with the outcome and we’ve been getting a great response from the small amount of people we’ve tested the pilot on. We were shooting 15 hour days, over the course of 3 days, with a cast of 12, a lot of location changes – it was a hectic shoot and we managed to pull it off with some very nice production value! We shot on the infamous RED camera, I think we shot about 32 shots a day, most of them on a dolly or jib arm (I liked to make things complicated). It was certainly a logistical challenge.

Now that we’re in post-production, we’ve a couple more challenges, namely figuring out the RED post-production workflow. So fingers crossed that we’ll complete the pilot soon and we will have a premiere screening shortly! For now, I’ll leave you with some nice set pictures, courtesy of Alysa. Main credits at the bottom.