Spirit Press: FX Podcast

Mike Seymour of fxguide interviewed me for their terrific FX Podcast.

Comments

[Brian]

Stu, just wanted to take a momentary break from my grumpiness to kiss your hiney. Thank you so much for the generosity to take the time to share you experiences and teach us how all this is done. That podcast was great. In an internet overflowing with people yapping and blogging and vlogging just to hear themselves talk, or worse, to just try to get known, it's nice to hear from someone who is there and HAS the real experience and can take the time to share with us.

At times I wish there were more ProLost posts, but in the end, I am much more pleased that they are far between as it reinforces that what you have to say is specific and thought out and not just yapping for yapping's sake.

Thanks, dude.

[Jeff]

Hey Stu,
in the interview you made a point of saying that you told all your houses that "Spill is your friend". So when mike asked you about all the reflective surfaces and what you did about those-did you just use those as Mattes for the background reflections and such? Did you do that doing anything special, other than what might seem a straight forward method (Oversimplifying i know-but an example being a "flip and-distort as needed"-Not the magic keying button of course-but hopefully you get what i'm asking)? Has any of this process been posted anywhere? is any of that Techy stuff in the Spirit Book? thanks for all the info from the podcast. i already saw the movie and am looking forward to a "DVRebel" section on the DVD!

[Stu]

You're right on Jeff, and believe it or not I detailed the spill-is-your-friend philosophy in The DV Rebels' Guide.

[Stu]

Getting my replies out of order here, but thanks Brian, I really appreciate the kind words.

[Jeff]

Thanks Stu,
i'm going to search that section out in my copy DVR-thanks for pointing that out.

i read the entire Spirit Visual Companion yesterday. You were right, it is a very interesting book. Not only did i enjoy all the backstory of Will Eisner and the origins of the Spirit-i also picked up some great tech/production ideas.

it mentioned that it was still a little confusing to people on set when to do Green, white, Black (incidentally i really liked the Muzzle flash gag on black). i too, am still a little unclear on some rules of thumb for when you chose one color over another?

An one other question? on pages 174-75 there is a 2page photo of the Spirit running on the green stage. The wall is So evenly lit-(and incidentally, not very bright), but i can't tell What kind of lights were used and-Where it is lit From--Rear, those panels below, Above-to get it So even?...i'm trying to find any DV Rebel tricks that can be gleaned from this.

thanks a lot Stu-i'm really enjoying finding out so much about your whole experience on this.
Jeff