I believe Paul wrote in the script “we can shoot this like ‘High Noon’, so locations are refereced without regard for practicality” or something similar. That means green screen time!

Admittedly, we have a much, much better green screen now than we did then. In the photos below, I’ve included a shot from the “Uwe Boll: Decision 2008” shoot so you can see.

On the upside it was a fairly straightforward shoot. Once I figured out how people would be oriented in the room, we just had to line up the shots. The most difficult one was the over-the-shoulder shot of Matt and Morgan, who are both in the same shot, but split-screen so the desk can be arted in between them.

Green screening can be a tough thing to act on because it require a good concept of spatial relations. You’re always moving around to make sure that the screen is filling the shot behind the action, which results in the actors having no real sense of where they are.

After I got the footage home, I built the room in 3D, and set up a series of virtual cameras at roughly the same locations as the real ones were, and went from there. There’s some screencaps from my 3D program below as well.

Anything you would want to know is covered in episode 01 of Loading Time, so check it out! Tim also took most of the photos below.