The Town of Figure 8 - The Rescue

"Huston we have a problem"

This is JON - JON is lost in space.

So to re-cap The Town of Figure 8 (or 'Fig 8') pilot program is well into the production phase now. We shot the train exterior section way back in late 2010 and some examples of that can be seen here http://www.facebook.com/Lalacuna (also earlier posts on this blog). We have also completed the overall script, clearing up some issues to do with the core meaning of the pilot program. The central theme is to do with connection and its various forms - for this pilot episode we follow a character called Mickels and his experience of connection with the town.

The Rescue is the first of the four short film sections that feature in the pilot episode of Fig 8 to be filmed. We shot the main bulk of the film over the weekend of the 2nd and 3rd of April 2011 in the AVA immersion Space (studio) at the University of East London (UEL). We also went back to UEL two weeks later to achieve firstly the tricky opening sequence shots of the character JON (Tai) and also some pick up shots from the main shoot which saw the introduction of SAM (. A minimal crew was used for these shots in comparison to the main shoot which saw fifteen plus crew.

So as things currently stand we are pre-pairing to shoot the remainder of the short films that will feature in Fig 8 - 'Mickels', 'Showetime' and 'The Marching Band'. It has been discussed that we may shoot all of these in one block but this is still to be confirmed. We will then capture the parts that feature Scott, the narrator style character that is traveling around Fig 8 on the back of a train. These will be shot on a set using back projections of the railway line footage we captured at Chinnor using the GoPro HD Hero http://gopro.com/ (Examples can also be found on the Lalacuna Digest Facebook page).