The trailer for Legend of OZ is now live for viewing.
Check it out while it still has that new trailer smell.
Please click thumbs up and share wherever you can. It’ll make you feel good.
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Dec 2010
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Aug 2010
This post is a combo recap on Legend of Oz shooting day 20, as well as a Legend of Oz flashback post for SD 12.
August 29, 2009. Shooting Day 12. Three scenes to get done. Uncooperative weather. Cast and crew withdraw to an old brick house to wait for it to clear up a bit but that never happens. The day was lost.
The way scheduling worked out, the soonest we could reschedule that shooting day was August 22, 2010. One year less one week later. Welcome to shooting day 20.
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Jan 2010
UPDATE: Collection for this has ended. Thank you to those of you who contributed.
All right Oz (and Valley Wind) community, we’ve got a job to do. We need to Help Michelle Smile Again. Here’s the story:
The date was September 20, 2009. Twas the last day of shooting on Legend of Oz that year.
It was a showdown between our two remaining witches after Dot’s arrival in Oz kills Ester. We were shooting the fight for the Silver Crescent between Colleen Sutton’s Locasta, and Michelle Leblanc’s Wester. [The Crescent is a weapon of great power.]
What happened was… well, this video can explain better than I can.
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Oct 2009
I’ve been remiss in my blog duties lately, which is unforgivable, but there should be quite a few entries coming up over the next week which might help make up for it.
And the Halloween project (biggest reason for the silence) is going to be something pretty special. But not saying much about that yet.
As of Sunday, July 27th, production on Legend of Oz wrapped. It says “sort of” in the topic up there because, as loyal readers know, we lost a day in August to the weather, and won’t be picking it up until Spring. We’ll also grab a couple of odds and ends around the same time, but for now, and for the most part, production is wrapped.
Here’s an excerpt from the email I sent out to cast and crew yesterday, summing it all up:
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Sep 2009
A little over a week ago, we challenged you, both here on the blog and on Facebook, to bring the Legend of Oz fan count up to 100. You were to invite people, pester people or force people at gun point to fan up.
All of your work paid off and in the last week and a half we’ve gone from 65 to 108 fans so as promised here are some new promo pics of our four leads. Each photo links to a higher quality version.
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Sep 2009
Sorry about the no-post last week. There’s a lot to catch up on so the daily recaps will be Cole’s notes versions but I’ll throw up more detailed summaries later down the road.
Shooting Day 6 (Aug 15, 2009) — Seven marked, for the company, a return to Penguin. The Penguin Picnic Trails in Gatineau park is a great place to shoot, but it gets a lot of hate. The big reason is that from the parking lot to the shooting location there is a hill, about 20-30 feet high, that’s just a little less than this steep: /. Once you get to the top of it, about fifteen feet down the way, there’s a second hill, no different from the first. Once you get to the top of that, there’s a third almost immediately following. … Penguin remains the only shooting location where we almost always break on the way to set.
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Aug 2009
Longer recap for the weekend (SD 6 and 7) coming in tomorrow or Friday, but for now a summary of SD 8.
It was a pickup from shooting day 2. Quick scene. One page. Boq sees Dot on her way. Would that we knew one simple 5-shot scene could cause so much trouble.
The temperature outside at 4 o’clock was 32 degrees (celsius) here in Ottawa. Hot and humid. By 4:30 we were on location where the sky had become mostly overcast and we were experiencing huge wind. The threat of severe thunderstorms, supposedly still hours away, was high. Then, by 4:45 Alison and Celeste arrived (Dot and Portia) it had started to rain. A sprinkle as it were.
It’s a true test of faith for independent filmmakers. When all signs point to messy, windy thunderstorms (and out this way, they get pretty vicious), what do you do?
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Aug 2009
Ladies and gentlemen, friends, blog readers, and fans of Valley Wind Productions, for all of you reading, the moment you’ve been waiting for, the first exclusive look at:
Mike Logan! The legendary former librarian and historian who fell into the roll of freedom fighter when his library was destroyed during the Fall of Oz. Pictured above with his best friend. The beer, not the girl. [The girl's true name remains unknown but rumours persist as to her being present and involved with many of the key moments in recent Oz history.]
Just kidding. Here’s the reveal you were really looking for. The core four in Legend of Oz:
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Aug 2009
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Jul 2009
Some days are inevitably slow. By one, or usually a variety of factors, things start to fall behind, the schedule crumbles, and the day drags on.
Saturday (July 25), AKA Shooting Day 2, was one of those days. Everybody was in good spirits, the weather held out well, but it was a long, slow day.
