The Troll Bridge

Last week I had the privileged experience of working with an amazing group of people on an amazing film shoot. The film was Troll Bridge and I encourage anyone that can to seek it out once it's done. The story of this film began about 9 years ago when the director Daniel wrote an adaptation of Terry Pratchett's short story 'Troll Bridge' It's set in Discworld as many of his books are. Personally, I'm not a fan of his work but the great thing about Troll Bridge is that it is actually just an amazing story that doesn't require any knowledge of Discworld or Pratchett's work. I won't go into a synopsis of the film here but I do encourage you to look at this link which includes a synopsis and tells you all about the film itself:  http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/snowgumfilms/terry-pratchetts-troll-bridge (yes, it's a kickstarter page, no I'm not posting it here so people will donate - it's just a good overview of the film and the story, donations have closed.)

Last week we shot the bridge scene. The main part of the actually-quite-long short. It was amazing for a number of reasons. For a few of us it was an ending to 9 years of watching this film grow into something amazing. For others it was the first film set they'd been on, or for others their first time working with Snowgum Films. It didn't matter who had done what before though, because we all came together and worked towards the same goal and from what I have seen so far - it is amazing. Seriously.

For this shoot my job was flicking light switches. Literally, that was pretty much it. But then I was given another job - writing down measurements for each shot to help effects guys when they are adding in trolls and whatnot. I also helped move lights and the green screen around. To me it didn't really matter what job I had, I just wanted to be a part of the shoot since I had been on most of the shoots for the film (I didn't get to go to New Zealand) - in the first shoot for this film I was an actor (well, an extra).

The shoot went for 5 days, there are plenty of photos of it here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/snowgumfilms/sets/72157629473394444/

Do check it out when it's done.

A sneak preview of what the final shot might look like: