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24: It’s All About the Lighting

Continuing Mission: A Star Trek Fan Films Podcast

Release Date: 10/07/2014

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Continuing Mission: A Star Trek Fan Films Podcast

Chronicle: A Star Trek Audio Adventure. David McDowell Blue is an actor, writer, and director. Since graduating from the National Shakespeare Conservatory in New York, he has played such iconic roles as Jacques in As You LIke It, Stephen Undershaft in Major Barbara, the fool in King Lear, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Goldberg in The Birthday Party, among others. His directing credits include Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw, The Public Eye by Peter Shaffer, his own edit of William Shakespeare’s Richard III, and, most recently, the original Masoch and DeSade by Omen Kaine. He was born...

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Continuing Mission: A Star Trek Fan Films Podcast

Sam Cockings talks about his fan film. We talk to the co-host of Trekyards about his latest project and what happened with his previous one went head to head with CBS.

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Mike Schmidt Talks Renegades. We catch up with an über fan who landed a role as a hitman in the well-known Star Trek fan series to learn more about the experience.

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Ray Tesi talks Stage Nine Studios. We talk to the creator of Starship Republic about his passion for filmmaking and his acquisition of the facility and sets used the film Star Trek Continues.

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Mark Naccarato Talks The Romulan War. We discuss this fan film set in the 22nd-century with its creator, talk about the historical events it chronicles, and how fans can help see it through to completion.

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Gary O'Brien Talks The Holy Core. We talk about Gary's new TNG-era project, what he has learned since Chance Encounter, and learn about his Kickstarter campaign.

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Sam Cockings Talks Temporal Anomaly. We're joined by Sam to discuss his passion for and background in CGI and visual effects.

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Vic Mignogna Talks Star Trek and When the Train Stops. We’re joined by the captain of Star Trek Continues—Vic Mignogna—to look back at his time aboard the Enterprise and ahead to his next fan-funded project.

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Needs of the Many and The Derelict. We’re joined by Australian filmmaker Aaron Vanderkley to learn about his award-winning Star Trek fan films.

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John Carrigan Talks Life in the Empire. We talk to the Klingon Captain Kargh actor about his encounter with Gene Roddenberry and his acting career.

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Star Trek: Horizon Virtual Set Design and Video Production.

On a previous show we talked with Star Trek: Horizon creator Tommy Kraft in broad terms about shooting and processing video, working with green screens, and creating visual effects. In this epsiode of Continuing Mission we're joined once again by Tommy to talk about how these techniques apply to creating an actual Star Trek film, including building virtual sets on the NX-04 Discovery, integrating the Discovery crew with these environments, and the importance of sound design and capture in making the visuals believable.

 

Host

Christopher Jones

 

Guest

Tommy Kraft

 

Editor and Producer

Christopher Jones

 

Associate Producer

Michael Frisbee

 

Chapters

Reasons for Going Virtual (1:47)

Build the NX-04 Virtual Sets (7:17)

Integrating Actors Into Virtual Sets (20:23)

Sound Design and Capture (34:21)

The Single Biggest Challenge (40:42)

Horizon Production Update (44:55)

Closing (46:51)

 

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