Some preview Images for everyone to enjoy (be sure to click Read More below!)

Jon at the controls

We're filming again!!

Okay, so with Can't Stop the Serenity upon us, we decided to buckle down, and get the cockpit finished so that we could film a short piece for the local CSTS screening.

Last Saturday (June 19th) we all gathered together and made it happen.

So here's some pictures - all but one of which were taken by Miranda. (remember to click Read More at the bottom)

Miranda and I shortly after I arrived at the set

Matt Campbell (our DOP and Cameraman) and Jason hanging out while the set is being finished inside

All righty, well I was able to get out to the cockpit today, and take a look. I gotta say, it looks awesome! When the lights got turned on, well...I felt like I was finally back on Samsara. The old excitement for ItB has crept back in. Thought I'd share some pictures with all of you. (Remember to click "read more" to see them all)

The exterior:

Looking down from where the bunks will be towards the cockpit:

So first off, I want to apologize to the handful of you who have stuck around, about our lack of communication and progress. Truth be known, things just kept happening to cause delay after delay. All of the spaces where we had our sets built, or were building them got sold, and we had to scramble to dismantle the sets and find a place to either rebuild or store them, until such time as we could find a place to rebuild.

But the good news is, our cockpit set, which was what we most needed to have in order to finish filming, has found a new home, and is being rebuilt. It's been reassembled, tomorrow our electronics guys are going in to do all the wiring for the lights, and monitors and blinky things, because as we all know, blinking lights means technology.

Due to circumstances beyond our control, we were forced to move our cockpit set today. So, Aaron and I dismantled everything, loaded it all up in a cube van, and drove it out to his boss' FX shop in Langley.

Laura met us there, and the 3 of us offloaded it. If Aaron has some time off this week (he's been doing a lot of work on a super top secret movie that's filming here), then he's going to get to putting it back together, and along with his co-workers, get it all rigged up, and looking super awesome - very exciting stuff.

We were also able to see some of the cut together footage last weekend - and everyone's excited to get it all done and out there for everyone to see. Seems y'all have been waitin' a spell for it ;)

All right, so this past week, Aaron, Sean and I have been working our butts off, trying to finally get the cockpit set finished, so we can get in there and film the remaining scenes.

We're not finished, but we're starting to get really close - and it's pretty exciting!

Here's a few teaser photos - now keep in mind that these pieces are just roughed in, and EVERYTHING is going to end up getting painted and there will be lights, so pay no attention the colour anything is at the moment :)

Pics:

A locally produced TV show is in the process of getting rid of all of their stuff now that the show has ended, so Aaron and I went down there today, and acquired a whole bunch of great stuff.

This is all going to be used in the completion of our cockpit. Things are really shaping up nicely!

Anyone know where we could get a couple of airplane yokes? :)

Yes it's true, the cameras were once again rolling this weekend.

Earlier in the week, Damien surprised me with a call telling me that he had set up a shoot for the weekend, in order to complete some of our remaining (non cockpit related) scenes.

So after a few days of furious planning and phone calls, we got the people arranged, and figured out the elements we needed. A quick plundering of a popular TV show's wardrobe lock-up provided the requisite costumes for our cast, as well as a little advice from the prop's department regarding an important element, and we were good to go.

A small group of us (Me, Miranda, Damien, Dennis and his son Jake) gathered at Damien's house Saturday morning, where we had the actors try on their costumes (yay, they fit perfectly!), and Miranda did their make-up. We then loaded up our people and stuff, and off to Aaron's!

Yes, it is actually happening. Last week, we spent a couple of days in Aaron's garage with power tools and bits of wood and stuff. We managed to use the power tools to fashion the bits of wood and stuff into a cockpit shaped thingy.

We got all of the walls framed and put up, we skinned them, and started attaching the vacuform panels to them. The drive controls are roughed in, but we still have to wire in the electronics. We also have to form and install the window panels, and paint everything. But some of the hardest stuff is behind us. It's great to see it finally coming together.