The Airplane Opening Sequence

The opening of the film is of an airplane landing on Moosehead Lake, Maine.  Sounds simple.  But in fact you really need to watch the videos to trully value what this sequence is.  To really make the best of this concept we are creating the entire sequence as animation.  But the final product will be so photo-realistic that the audience will believe it was shot "in-camera".  The first stage was to create a pre-viz of the scene where you layout the action and camera movement.  This cuts down time and gives us the freedom of adjusting without being time consuming.

Step #: Pre-viz



Step #2:  Redeveloping the Pre-viz

After discussions between the director and the VFX designer some changes were made to certain shots in the sequence.  One of the was the reflection shot which we thought needed a different angle in order for us to really see the beauty of the shot.



Step #3 the VFX designer is adding camera shake and extending the cloud part of the first shot to allow us more time to add more titles before the plane flies by the camera.

People Are Fragile

Anne Marie (Jepson) Peterson

Character Profile

"People are fragile," that is what Anne's mom use to tell her when she was growing up as a kid. They can be easily broken like pottery or like her grandmother's expensive china set. Anne didn't really understand the relevance to the statement until her mom was diagnosed with cancer.

Life isn't fair, but it does teach it's lessons. Anne used the loss of her mother to inspire her to go to school to be a nurse. She knew she couldn't save everyone but she could make a difference.

"Try to see the best in someone" is something she always heard from her grandmother, and it was statement her grandmother lived by. Her grandmother would give the shirt of her back, if someone needed it. Anne was born in New Sweden, Maine, but after her mom died she sent to be raised by her grandmother in Greenville, Maine.





Meeting Jack Peterson was one of the magical moments in her life. He seemed sad and yet his eyes sparkled with hope. "What was it about him that I can't keep my eyes away from him?", she kept asking herself. Like a magnet she found herself drawn to him, wanting to know who he was and who he wanted to be.



"We all have pain," Anne Peterson found herself always saying, "it's what we do with it that matters. We can hide it or heal, it's doesn't magically go away on it own."



How do you deal with pain and loss?


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