Ha,ha.. Thank you so much for your interest guys!!! It really makes our work worthwhile..
I'm sorry for rare updates, but job gets in the way and this damn weeks go by so fast! :behave
But anyway, today I have something different for you: "Production diary No.3" about filming the commercial for our cigarettes!!!
The ad will be featured in the movie, and (as well as the cigarettes) is important part of the story.
Figuring out the style for the ad was
really hard. We wanted it to feature a beautiful woman, and obviously we wanted it to feel very 80's, but at the same time it had to fit with the rest of the movie, and feel like it's the part of the same universe.
We watched many 80's commercials, and all ads from Blade Runner that we could find across the web, especially those geisha ads.. The 80's ads were visually too rich, and BR ads were too poor for our needs (because they obviously did not have much time and money to make them), but we somehow blended best of both worlds together.
So, we did a couple of tests some time ago and decided we will use some kind of sea setting to contrast the coldness of BR universe, but soon we realized that palms and sand don't fit too good because those elements are too warm. The water/sea by itself is a good neutral element. So we settled on a bit colder visuals, and artificial pool in the front with large sea in the background.
But, enough of my blabber, here's the video:
It is also worth noting that I stumbled on this picture a couple of years ago and I always thought that this swimsuit is so mofo:
And naturally, we wanted this exact bikini in our film, but you can't buy that anywhere.. So my fashion designer friend made us the exact replica of that bikini! (is that the first replica of a bikini on RPF maybe?) :lol
The shooting of the commercial lasted for about 14 hours.. Here are Anton and Dino filming some of last shots very late in the night:
By that point I had a couple of glasses of wine so I was of no use anymore.. What can I say.. making movies is a stressful business.
That's about it for now.. I must upgrade my computer during the next month so I could start compositing the ad.. I bought this pc two years ago and now it's barely coping with 4K resolution, so I'll need a new motherboard, processor, SSD discs and other expensive stuff that I don't know that much about.
So until then here's one teaser frame for you guys, and a salutation from Slice team! :thumbsup