“The High Flying Adventures of Sergei, The Salty Sea Dog”
A highflying adventure of epic proportions!
Another of Dan’s ideas and in written collaboration with Ben
Eades a story told through the eyes of a dog and his best friend the radio
operator, saving the world one hot air balloon ride at a time.
This was an epic production for us as filmmakers. We knew
from the start that it was going be some work, and that’s why it was put to
last of our schedule to film. We had live dogs, puppet dog hands, miniatures,
and we shot a in a WWII museum.
This production was also a two day shoot. The first day of
shooting was a night shoot at the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum (Thank you Christy).
We filmed from 5pm-10:30pm in the Quoset Hut. We rented air force uniform from
Acme Costumes in Garden City, Georgia. This is the location where we filmed out
radio announcer character played by Jeremy Lister.
The second day was very fun we were in studio. This is where
we were filming the hot air balloon scenes. Dan’s girlfriend has a dog named
Finn, a long haired Jack Russell Terrier, was our star that day. Rachel created
a hot air balloon basket for Finn to sit in while we filmed him. As feared and
predicted, Finn was camera shy but still a joy to work with! After Finn acting
debut, we began with the miniatures and some beautiful lighting techniques
provided by our other interns, Erin and Taylor. After the miniatures we began
with the puppet dog hands.
It was a fun shoot and as a producer on the team I am so
proud of everyone’s hard work they put in. Throughout the productions everyone
wore multiple job hats and kept the budget in mind. We are moving into post promptly
and I am sure we will have some high quality work come out of this awesome
filming experience.
