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Murphy’s Law

It seems that this week is ruled by Murphy’s Law : “Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong”.

While many of our team members have to write their bachelor thesis and therefore have little time for working on our film, the worst mishaps are happening right now. First, a third 500Watt spot burned through. Then, in the middle of a shoot, the camera shut down, which didn’t seem too much of a problem at first, since it continued working after switching it off and on again. However, after the shoot we found out that one of the pictures was distorted due to the breakdown. We spent the rest of the afternoon trying to replicate the picture with the help of Stop Motion Pro, but there’s still a little glitch in the animation.

Today an even bigger accident happened: While I moved one of the coyotes eyes with a pointed dental tool, a big chip broke off. Fortunately the next few scenes involve the coyote looking through a pair of binoculars, so we can postpone the repair work on the eye.

Despite the delays we managed to shoot another 6 seconds of footage. It’s not very much, but well, Rome wasn’t built in a day.