Production: Shooting

Ok. I kinda have a problem.

Before shooting, I ordered a backdrop frame and curtain, both were ordered separately. The frame and curtain was supposed to be the main background of my space scenes.

The frame came but the curtain didn't. And stupidly, I didn't notice I was missing the curtain until I began building the frame. Apparently my curtain got lost or was sent to the wrong address. Whether or not I get a refund, it is not going to come in time for shooting. 

I do have a solution. I have a backdrop made from black painted cardboard, and I also have a roll of black paper to use. But I have no idea if these will look as good as the curtain. So this might mean that I am going to have to reshoot some scenes in post production (Sounds very bad I know). Hopefully the darkness will conceal the cardboard background. 

But I can't do anything else except just go with the flow, so that is what I'm going to do. 

I tried using the cardboard backdrop but it was too heavy and was not clinging onto the frame well. Afterall it is two years old and barely being held together with duct tape. So I went with the other option of using the black wrapping paper roll I had, which came out surprisingly well. My only concern is that the paper is a bit reflective, so I hope that it does not interfere with the light that much. 

Timelapses

Because I was shooting mainly in pitch darkness, most of the timelapses I shot were too dark to see anything happening, even when I cranked the brightness all the way up. So only two timelapses that one can see something happening is me animating the cockpit scenes. 

Shaking scene from inside the cockpit

Wide shot of the windows and control panel