Kiery Geek Episode Two: Art Journaling and Filmmaking and CATS
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Introducing my new vimeo channel (and, subsequently, web-series!): KieryGeek.
Pictures
I realized that I haven’t put up any pictures this week. I took some nice shots of one of our “sets” while we were filming last weekend, and I also painted another piece for my room. So I figured instead of waiting and writing a post on each, and forgetting again, that I’d just put up some of the pictures from this week.
New painting for my room: Feathery dream catcher
Break
"Set"
We eventually had the brilliant idea to bring down tea to sip between takes
Last night: Cupcakes!
Other things I did this week included a mad rage to move the Kurig off the Wobbly Table ™ and on to the nightstand that used to be in our room that I moved to the kitchen but that failed (it doesn’t work well for coffee in the morning apparently) because it was too short (I thought it was the perfect height…). So I’ll be moving that back somewhere today which is happy and sad. Happy I get my nightstand back, sad the coffee mess is back on the table and my pretty tablecloth that I made. 
Also, Valentines, cooking, menu planning (ew!), moving pictures around, and attempting to make the next scene of Living Memoir completely in Fireworks CS5 (work in progress today, we’ll see how that turns out).
Hair and Makeup
We’ve been loosely taking behind the scenes footage of our filmmaking process on our iphones. I’ve been mostly taking pictures. Over the last couple weeks I’ve sewn three cloaks, a bag, and a sheath.
Aside from making costume accessories, the other thing that we’ve been doing that we realized is kind of invaluable for filming is hair and makeup. We’re learning that we need to start on that earlier though, because it does take a bit, and I need to update my makeup collection.
I forgot my makeup the first week we filmed (and my mother in law was lovely enough to give us some of hers that she wasn’t using), but last weekend I brought it and laid it all out.
Face, lips, and eyes. I decided that liquid concealer is what we’ll be sticking with, and we’re keeping the makeup simple (the story takes place outside, so it’s not like they’d really have time to look extravagant). I need to get another bottle of foundation or two, eyeliner, and maybe some long lasting lipstick. Updating my mascara might be a good idea too though, as my go-to is getting a little clumpy.
Amanda designed our hair styles, and she does those for us and they look really great. The trick is getting this done before the sun starts to fade, because it always seems to take longer than we anticipated. Though, with the time it takes us to get ready, Alex can go plan where we’re all going to be standing, so even with that it works out well.
Lesson Learned: taking your time with props/accessories/costumes and makeup is well worth it when you look at it on camera.
Footage
Saturday we did some wrap up of basic pre-production stuff, and then went outside and started filming. We didn’t stay out too long, because we were freezing, but we managed to finish a scene in 30-40 takes, and get some fun behind-the-scenes footage of costumes/hair and make up, and I managed to grab a couple screenshots of the footage of the cast in character.
Basically, we just walked in the cold.
And somehow managed to look really good and remarkably un-frostbitten in the process.
The script is a work in progress – we only have a few scenes done, but since we can only film on the weekends, we can write and finish whatever props that we need to work on during the week. Thankfully, the costumes are done (we were worried about mine until we raided the closet and found something perfect) so really all that’s left are actual props that won’t come in until later.