shooting now, and other updates

my home computers hard drive got fried so this is the first update in a long while.

Been going into the tin shed every day with for the duration of the holidays although I haven't been able to get in consecutively at 9. Everybody has been making props because the interior scenes are going to be shot first.

During this week

Me and Jiang (Vince helped a bit) made some polystyrene rocks for a table design that Brandon had made. We didn't have any solid pieces of polystyrene though so they weren't very carvable. I spray painted then with the black spray paint as we didn't have enough bottled paint to properly paint the rocks. They look awful but I'm hoping they'll look fine from far away.

Laura made a baby skull belt buckle for Osseus's chest belt and I made Osseus's
second belt that goes around his hips. I've nicknamed it the moustache belt.

I made the centre piece by doing the same method I used for some of the masks, molding clay and paper macheing over the top of it. I couldn't find clay at the time(we didn't have Vaseline anyway so I wouldn't have been able to have used clay), so I used Jovi/Plasticine. Unfortunately it didn't work as nicely as I'd hoped because it wouldn't seem to dry properly so the paper mache distorted a bit when i took it off the Plasticine. The "moustache" part of the belt was cut out of foam and sewn together. once together I painted the whole thing black.

On the Wednesday I completed Brays belt as Jade had been sick and Brogan was too busy to finish it. The centre panel had been completed by jade already but the outer panels weren't finished. They were painted but the edges were jagged(it's very hard to paint with a brush onto fabric) and the pink and red needed to have more coats as the purple was still visible underneath. So I stuck some more coats on and made the edges crisp, this took a very long time as it is very difficult to get a crisp line onto fabric so I had to be very patient.

Later I also sewed some parts of the belt back together as they'd become loose. I found the most effective way to do this was to hammer a nail through the layers of the belt then thread string through, using a piece of wire as a needle.