Post by LiAnakin Skywalker on Sept 19, 2007 19:12:26 GMT -5
Hi everybody....
Sorry I've been absent recently....I've been racing to get the costume upgrades finished in time to do a photo shoot and start working on the film project. It's taken all my free time outside of work, and I hadn't logged on here for the past three weeks until today.
Saber training is coming along nicely, and I've gotten a lot better. Haven't swashbuckled any more car bumpers, thank the Force.
(I am however very glad that my prop saber is just made of pvc pipe, because while trying to spin the saber into the air and catch it I have many times ended up with the blade coming down "upside-my-head" instead. Or, catching it after the toss but catching it BY the blade.) (can you say "new mechanical hand"? LOL!)
But, anyway, I'm getting alot more confident with the saber. I've so far learned the choreography of first 30 seconds or so of the Mustafar duel. Several more scenes to go. The next challenge is to learn how to do a backflip on a wire and harness so I can start off the attack the way it's done in the film. Wheee!
(this from a girl who could not even do a cartwheel in grade school and was too chicken to try gymnastics)
How in the heck we're going to afford a wire and crane rig to film that shot I don't know, but, I will let the Force work that miracle out.
All I know is I'm gonna do that Anakin backflip one way or another. On film. Without ending up in a bodycast or a Darth vader suit.
;D
Sorry I've been absent recently....I've been racing to get the costume upgrades finished in time to do a photo shoot and start working on the film project. It's taken all my free time outside of work, and I hadn't logged on here for the past three weeks until today.
Saber training is coming along nicely, and I've gotten a lot better. Haven't swashbuckled any more car bumpers, thank the Force.
(I am however very glad that my prop saber is just made of pvc pipe, because while trying to spin the saber into the air and catch it I have many times ended up with the blade coming down "upside-my-head" instead. Or, catching it after the toss but catching it BY the blade.) (can you say "new mechanical hand"? LOL!)
But, anyway, I'm getting alot more confident with the saber. I've so far learned the choreography of first 30 seconds or so of the Mustafar duel. Several more scenes to go. The next challenge is to learn how to do a backflip on a wire and harness so I can start off the attack the way it's done in the film. Wheee!
(this from a girl who could not even do a cartwheel in grade school and was too chicken to try gymnastics)
How in the heck we're going to afford a wire and crane rig to film that shot I don't know, but, I will let the Force work that miracle out.
All I know is I'm gonna do that Anakin backflip one way or another. On film. Without ending up in a bodycast or a Darth vader suit.
;D
