The First Trailer is Out!

The first trailer is ready to go! We'll be showing this at the new-media/social-media booth at the Great Lakes Aviation Conference in Ypsilanti, Michigan this Saturday 8 January. If you'll be in the neighborhood, please stop by, say hello, and find out more about the film!

Soundtrack Session with Barry and Don

Barry, Don, and I went into the studio last night to record for the soundtrack. Full blog post over at the Airspeed website.

Marketing . . .

So I'm listening to Studio 360 from December 3 and I hear this audio skit about a couple of guys who have market a movie so aggressively that they realize two weeks prior to opening that . . . they forgot to shoot the movie.

Not the case with Acro Camp, but sometimes it's good to be reminded that, although the marketing is cool, it's the movie that matters.
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The biggest release of this holiday movie season is in trouble: nobody remembered to shoot it. A satire by Scott Blaszak, performed by James Babson and Jake Newton.

The (Nearly) Last of the B-Roll

I'm just about done with shooting B-roll for the movie. For many reasons, not the least of which is that the leaves are changing color and are actually about to depart the trees. I got this really nice sequence on Monday after setting up a camera while I preflighted the aircraft for my CAP Form 5.

Here's a time-lapse treatment of the footage.

What -2.5G Looks Like

On Lynda's last flight in the Pitts, Don demonstrated advanced maneuvers. Here's a frame grab from an outside half loop (from inverted, push to upright). If Lynda's hair was up on the canopy in here -1G inverted flight, it was plastered there in this maneuver. Don also did an outside recovery from a hammerhead with Michelle, which I think was the maneuver during which Michelle experienced the max negative G of Acro Camp. I think I took a picture of the G meter just for posterity.

The cataloging of Day 4 (17 May) is almost complete. Then I start watching the ground footage, which will be a little more straightforward than the aerial footage has been so far.

Crowdsourcing A Piece of the Music

Check out the current episode of Airspeed for information about how we’re crowdsourcing some of the music for Acro Camp! Listen to the episode, download the guide tracks, play or sing, and you might find yourself in the soundtrack of an independent film!

Wing Cam footage of Jim's Botched Hammerhead

More slaving over a hot Mac this evening. But eminently worth it. I think I'm about 80% of the way through cataloging the aerial footage.

I found the wing camera version of Jim's botched hammerhead. About the same level of drama as the cockpit camera, but a different angle.

Here's a pretty good frame grab of Michelle and Don in the vertical. The footage is becoming much more Pitts and Super-D heavy with the Citabria only doing two flights on Day 3.