What's up?

I'm now entering the third week of the semester, a traditional slow period for the film. Unfortunately, we've been working on this thing so long that it's become a seasonal event. This December makes two years of work. On Friday we finished with new pre-vis shots so by this coming week the entire film should be either shot or previsualized with the new middle and new ending. In a discussion on Friday I wondered aloud whether we could get by with fewer sets. Ben argued correctly, I think, that our character has to live in a normal house and not be a "unabomber" style loner who lives in a garage. So that took care of that--we can't get by with collapsing some of the scenes into the garage workroom. I also showed Ben and Erik the slightly redsigned workshop set which is now by a window which makes it much for photogenic and allows for more possibilities for lighting, etc. We've been looking at the church footage and we seem to think that it will work if the glass looks more cracked or shattered. So we'll see if plexiglass shatters or not.