Millions of things to build!
Work on the movie “Millions long” is far in the works and I’ve yet to post so here’s a slightly abbreviated of our progress.
Kirsten Fletcher, Bryan Crotaz, Eugenio Triana, Ash, Ed and myself have been doing the physical planning for the filmshoot. The result of meetings is that we’re going to make this in as large scale as we can handle in our limited time and with our equipment. To start with, our equipment being our bodies, there is only so far over a table that we can stretch to play with the landscape and so the table is 6ft wide. And at six feet wide the camera can be as far as 8ft from the table and still capture the width and nothing but the width of the table. So 8ft up means an 8ft radius, which is a 16ft diameter, and so to give us some room to get the camera past the edge of the table on each end, the table is going to be 15ft long. A 15ft long, 6ft wide table with a 8ft radius arc spanning the length of it!
The most difficult part is making the camera move in 4mm increments to give us 1200 shots around the circumference of the arch. So Bryan is procuring a stepper motor which can be set to move in very precise increments and the motor will be axled out to cogs on either side and the cogs will fit into roller chain (bike chain) fitted over plastic pipe fixed into a constant arch of 8ft radius. And the cart has a wheel system that rolls on the plastic pipe and keeps it moving steadily. Whew! A lot and technical and a lot less room for error than it would be good to have when working on these tight time frames. But the materials are on their way and the arch is in the process of construction. I’ve also built the spidery looking cart to run over the pipes.
I won’t go on with too many other details tonight. But I’ll write more later and as more of the construction gets completed.
