Sunday, February 12, 2012

The Gate that Lets You In

The first surprise of the day was that rather than thinning out - the snow just got thicker and thicker ...

Deciding once again to embrace this strange phenomenon, we continued the next stage of shooting where the boys actually made it to the back gate of the Area 51 base just a few miles away from Rachel, Nevada.

Before we began, we prepared the location, careful not to leave visable footprints in the fresh snow, this being a difficult shoot strategically as our set could only be accessed a few times before there would be too many prints in the supposedly 'isolated' area.

After several hours at the location, the snow eased up leaving a heavy and spectacular carpet of mist across the desert floor.

Gradually, as we shot the later scenes the mist cleared until, by the late afternoon, we were in brilliant sunshine for the first time in Rachel.

We shot for the whole day by the old windmill and then headed back to the Ale'Inn for a bit of a room reshuffle and the first production meeting in Rachel.

Then it was sleepy time. Or so we thought.....

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