Another day in the sun but the forecast is a little milder (still, a high of 70 all week here in Abq). Shooting pace was a bit slower as we were now dealing with special fx (amputated limbs squirting blood, etc – fun stuff). Still had a little dialogue to shoot though. All was going smoothly until about 3:30 when out of nowhere up comes a dust storm. Wooooeeeee. To try to paint a picture, the crew was stationed underneath a culvert (almost a tunnel) in the middle of a deserty-landscape. In fact, from the looks of it, the set had been dressed with more sand & dirt to make it properly emulate a “post-appocolyptic wasteland.” Anyway, as you can imagine, the tunnel channeled the wind & dust strait through it and, with the same suddeness that a real appocolypse occurs, transformed the set into a man vs. nature scene. Quickly, those prepared donned goggles (& some masks) and commenced to assisting those without. Pretty intense, especially thinking that in all likelyhood we’ll be seeing a lot of this weather.
Still, we pulled off a couple good shots that, thanks to the dust & wind, really captured the landscape the movie is attempting to portray.
Oh yeah, the pix:
- an attempt to show how close aircraft were flying (in this one – a huey)
- the tunnel itself
- my dirt covered mug
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