Go Petey, It’s Your Birthday

By Peter

Today’s the 12th of April, which means I’m 24 today. Shocking. Anyway, having prised myself away from the parties for a little while, I figured I’d update you properly, as I promised I would…

The status of the film so far is that we’re still pressing ahead with a goal for a September shoot start. Having had a good go at updating the cast and crew page, you can see we’re recruiting people at a rate of knots – and there’s plenty of names on there who I need to correctly assign and/or confirm names before adding. Crikey…

Right now, I have the groups of prop builders broken down into three – the prop builders in the UK (primarily armour and suit construction), the prop builders in the US (primarily weapons construction), and the prop builders dealing directly with the construction of the Warthog at Props Studios on the South coast. Our current tasks prop-wise, excluding the Warthog, are the construction of Marine armour, M7 SMGs, M6 Magnums, MA5C Assault Rifles, Covenant Carbines, Spike Grenades and Spikers, all to the full in-game scale (i.e. big). The Warthog is plodding along fine, and no doubt Dan will provide another update to his blog soon.

The “final” draft of the script is almost done now. The feedback on the last draft was very positive, so I am confident that this draft will be the final draft that we will work to. Fingers crossed, it will be sent out Monday evening. Another tick on the sheet!

I was pleased to sign on two new artists this week. Kevin Ivers and Adam Burn have both agreed to do artwork for Operation Chastity, the former doing storyboarding while the latter will hopefully be doing a couple of conceptual pieces – and I’m looking forward to seeing all that they create!

I also got a fantastic box of tricks through the mail. Two SPH-4 helicopter helmets, which are to be repaired for use by our Pelican air crew and are as good as a perfect match for the Halo: Combat Evolved/Halo 2 Pelican dropship pilot helmets. A fun little prop building side-project!