Television: May 2006 Archives
Finally. After close to eight weeks down here, some of my shots have entered the finals phase. It's a great relief to get a final after numerous changes and close scrutiny. It's all part of the process, but the supervisors are quite diligent about the shots going out, and everything is perfect.
There have been a bunch of updates on this site over the past two weeks, as I'm just getting settled back into the swing of things. I've received some more Emmy DVDs, and the shows are slowly piling up. Recently I just started watching Sleeper Cell, starring Michael Ealy and Oded Fehr. This 10 episode miniseries is pretty good so far, we're on episode six at the moment. It seems to have been popular enough to warrant another eight hour miniseries this year as well. The show reminds of the 2003 Kingpin miniseries with Yancey Arias. The brief TV.com synopis of the show:
Showtime™'s new drama unveils the war on terrorism to reveal a riveting and unfiltered view. Sleeper Cell™ stars Michael Ealy as an African-American undercover F.B.I. agent who is seduced into joining an Islamic sleeper terrorist cell in the United States by the cells ruthless leader played by Oded Fehr.
Yep, that's right, more fancy boxes arrived in the past couple of days. A full season of Monk, some Mind of Mencia, Showtime's second boxed set and more! Check out the pictures in the extended. I should be getting a primary list in the near future of possible voting categories, and now that I'm in the LA area, I might be able to actually vote in my peer group for once! Every year it's always tough to get to LA, but now I think it might be possible.
If you haven't read it yet, check out a fellow Vancouverite and Emmy nominee, Bruce Woloshyn. He's one of the many VFX artists featured in this quarters Cinefex #105 roundtable, showcasing TV visual effects. We were nominated together back in 2000 for Stargate, and he's continued the trend of getting nominated every year since then, except 2003.
It's nice to relax on a weekend. We're all moved in, all the rooms are pretty much done, in terms of being unpacked, and I don't have any worries.
The weeks at Digital Domain have been flying by, actually. I think I've been there around six weeks now? I received my first final last week, which was good news! I was wondering when it would get finalled. The director of the show was in the studio yesterday, but I just missed him when he walked around to all the desks in our area. Yesterday was also the annual Cinco de Mayo celebration at DD, which I missed, but am celebrating today with some displaced Canadian friends!
I'm in the midst of things these days, hence the reason why there hasn't been a copious amount of updates! As soon as the weekend comes, I promise I will update you all on the situation. Last Friday was another DD monthlies screening, which I unfortunately missed. Things have been so hectic, from learning nuke, getting acclimated to the LA area, and in general, moving from one big city to another, that I am so tired at the end of the day that I just want to crash.
