Hi everybody, I promised a few pictures of the fancy-schmancy mic and mixingboard setup we used to record today’s LRRcast, So here they are.  Let it not be said that I don’t keep my promises….  Promise to avoid using double negatives notwithstanding.

The main challenge with this video, as it is frequently, was finding the location.

We had a place in mind, but it didn’t pan out, so we had to revert to our standard procedure of “wander aimlessly around the university until we find something”, which we do all too often.We left Matt guarding all the equipment while we did this, and he fell asleep while doing so.

Once we found the place, we rearranged some desks in the middle of a hallway (you can see some more of the desks in the background, oops). I believe I had an astronomy class in that building at one point.

The actual shoot was very straightforward: Matt on camera, Paul and Tim swapping out boom duties, and all the lines going quickly and easily. I think we shot less than half-an-hour of footage in the end, which made editing even easier. It was a short video, and a good shoot.

Paul and I shot the merch ad in my laundry room, later in the week.

And now: photos!

Another full week of shooting for another full episode of commodoreHUSTLE!

It started on Saturday, a week before the video went live. Due to a strange confluence of scheduling, it was the only day that we would be able to have both Kathleen and James available for shooting, and James’ only shooting day before the video went up. We also had to be in Nanaimo (a 2-hour drive away) by 6:30 for the VISFF.

So, after breakfast and a quick read through the whole episode, we started with the first scene to take place at The Moonbase (Paul, James & myself). Doing it in only two long takes took us more takes than it probably should have, but it was worth it in the end. Following that we quickly moved to shooting the main bulk of the episode: the big argument scene.

To make things easier all around and avoid handing the camera between several different people, Tim shot the whole thing. In deference to standard shooting practices, the whole scene was shot largely in chronological screen order, rather than all of a given person’s lines one at a time. As the scene was broken up essentially line-by-line, shooting went quickly. And then it was on to the silly costumes.

James and I had bought a bunch of blue accent clothing from the second-hand store on Friday, and we had all put some prior thought into our individual outifts, but most of them came together right there. Tim stayed on camera so we could all be in the shot, and the entire montage was shot largely as a jumble of random footage in under 35 minutes. It was also really, really cold, which proved irritating for some of our more revealing costumes. When that was done, it was us bundling into a car, and away to the film festival. In costume, no less. Thank god we won something, it meant I could explain to the audience why we all looked so stupid.

The rest of shooting was really broken up, but luckily the majority had been taken care of. Jer’s horn flashback was done on Monday, Bill and Morgan’s 2Pac scene on Wednesday, the transformers/light gun scene on Thursday night.

The following Saturday we not only shot Matt’s toy shop flashback in the afternoon, but also Geoff’s introduction scene that evening, while shooting the following week’s video in between those things.

The last thing to be shot, was, of course, the first scene in the video. It was shot Sunday night, and plugged immediately into the already edited video.

Good times all around. Now, please enjoy these pictures of The Runners. More information on that whole thing coming soon.

Just wanted to take a second to let you guys know that the LoadingReadyRun twitter account WHICH CAN BE FOUND HERE is going to see more activity than it has in the past year.

Over the past couple weeks Myself, Matt, Jeremy and Graham have all been getting more and more into this twitter thing. Matt just realized LRR had twitter account so we might as well be using it (especially because we can all update it from our phones)

So expect to see that thing updated with every new video, podcast, and blog post (minus this one, that would just be kinda silly) As well we will do our best to twitter during Saturdays while we are doing all that is LRR.

Also a reminder that Grahams Life (Yes he knows about it, but doesn’t mean we can’t make it funny) is back!!!