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Three pages of shot list from a particularly difficult shoot. #PoPS10

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Organizing our new place and I’m finally tossing a bunch of stuff from PoPS production. Gotta Instagram some of it first though... So, what do hipster peasants like? #PoPS8

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Before and after on the cracking coffins shot, explored in this week’s video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edgdSvSoWfU

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For the conveyor system in the back, we actually hung Chris from that strap wearing different shirts in front of a green screen. The strap was attached to a hook that would move across the room, so the motion is real. It’s so uncomfortable to hang from under your arms by a strap that we could only keep him aloft for about 10 seconds at a time. I tried it too. It was awful, but it looks great.

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Part of Craig’s intense expression probably has to do with the fact that there is a pretty heavy LED light hanging from his neck. It projected light from his back in a cool way, but it also quickly choked him the more he moved. Dude’s a pro.

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Shocking.

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Badass.

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One last shot.

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Virginia’s a badass.

By the time we shot this it was after 3 in the morning and we’d been shooting the fight in 90-degree heat for hours. One of the most exhausting shoots. But totally worth it.

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My favorite VFX shot of the series. 

I just love how it looks like I almost drop the table on Craig, how the table blast turned out, and our simultaneous flinch away. 

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Dude!

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Active ingredient.

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Brian's smooth exit as bullets rain into the living room always had a stylish Michael J. Fox level of panache to me.

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For #NationalSuperheroDay, let’s recognize the guy who’s always trying his hardest: Donald Kincaid, aka Mr. Dr. Electricon.