Satellite POV

A little more grunge, and this will probably be seen in the first scene. ;)

Just before collision, the asteroid is shooting towards the satellite...

I like this effect for the satellite POV

Edit:

Looking back, I really need to turn on dithering next time I render that!

Scene one test, now with sound!

I've been playing around with some ideas for the first scene soundtrack and the first set of credits. Here's what I've got right now. Let me know what you think!

First Scene Location Scouting

Location scouting; Right now, I'm looking for a place to shoot the first scene. We have three houses right now that we can pick from (ours), but there's a catch. What I want to do is to have a room with some chairs / sofa and a window to the backyard. One of our houses doesn't have a backyard that I know of. Our house has a room that might work, except that the view from the room is of our deck, not the ground. It might work, but would be less than ideal. The other house I haven't seen the backyard. 

So...

Daniel, does your house have any rooms with windows not very far off the ground in the back, and if so, could you send or post some photos?

We also have two other options. One is to greenscreen the window, for the video of the impact. I don't want to do this, as that means we will have to shoot locked down, which won't look as good, or use motion tracking, which I think we're going to be doing enough of already. The other is to have the satellite fall into the front yard. This is worth considering, especially for the last scene, when Zeke has a bunch of his friends around it, telling them what happened.

So, what do you think? What should we try? We have to decide soon, because we want to shoot the trailer soon.

I think we should shoot it so that the satellite falls in the front yard. If people agree, I'll change the script.

If we did this, we would preferably shoot it at your house, Daniel. Are there any rooms that would work for this?

First post! A little bit of background

Well, late February, and we are underway! Script is being written, ideas are coming out of the woodwork, and I'm pretty excited about this.
I suppose I should give a little background here, there are four of us currently working on this movie. Right now I'm writing the script, and learning as I go. This is the first time I've done something like this, so I don't know a lot of particulars yet, not even how long the film will aim to be! I won't publish names yet, and I think we will have a minimum of actors. So; if we have four people, and two people don't want to act, what do you think we can do with that? Actually, we can do a lot with that, but we will recruit some more people at some point. We are going to break the work up, so once the script and filming is finished, we can each work on sections, and then get together and compile them. I'll try to keep posts reasonably short, so here is Blenderfan signing off! 'Till next time!