So we worked Friday and Saturday on the DC3 shoot. Incredible sky perfect weather. It was my first day on first unit as an VFX assistant, well it was tough for me. All the old geezers know all the slang and have enough on a single gesture. I have to ask 5 times what the…

Some nice action this morning. A DC3 landed on the very small airstrip in PSJ, 2nd Unit was ready for this. Suddenly we where hearing a noise, the plain was 40 minutes early. It did a, fly over. It came to us the second time and landed, we saw that he shifted suddenly it looked…

Did some shopping for post production. A 8 core 2.8 4Tb HD sweet monster system with 2×23″ screens, in the mean while I use it to practice Shake and FCP. Weather is still bad here so I hugg the 2 screens and see a nice movie. 🙂 ps sorry for the bad pic

It is Sunday now, yesterday we had a great evening. Thea cooked Oxtail for us and asked me to invite some people because she had enough food. I invited Esna van Zyl from accounts and she asked if she could invite the 2 Kates, Kate Higgs & Kate Tee. Esna was in the kitchen before…

Sorry to see this morning, VooDoo died last night that he may rest in peace. when I was here he want to drive the car. Always farting at Richards feet. Then you wake up in the middle of the night “I was not snoring it was voodoo”

The next two days there will be a night shoot. For us (2nd unit) we have to be at a 1st unit shoot, there is a stunt involved, so they need all the hands they can get. Multiple cameras etc. It is going to be a long night and it it pretty cold here at…

Every morning before sunrise (6:20 at the moment) My boss Jeremy Hattingh is hunting for the perfect sunrise which he is shooting with his Canon D20. He makes a time-laps with raw images so he can put it together for the movie. Not every morning is a good one so he is there every day…

Second Unit The last 3 days I am running and driving around as a double. Our team second unit has to make the shots where first unit do does have time for. For example: main character drives trough the forrest, main character approach in distance cloud of red dust, etc. Well as it always happens…

Picture this, waking up sunday morning, had some breakfast, what to do? Claus monster, Peter Adam the editor and myself went to 2nd beach to hunt for crayfish (langustines).Lucky for us you can buy big ones for 10 rand (illegal to transport). But a bit much for 10 people to eat, we made a bisque…

Early call, lost of things to do VFX on the set, a restaurant scene.We had a nice and fruitful day, everything we planned worked, time flies when your working.So much to say so little time, today day two no VFX needed on set but I took a peek, big crew, big camera’s lots of extra’s.