Return from the south
The sign for Calico Ghost town after sundown
Hello, I am Forest Gibson and I am the co-creator/director of photography of Night Zero. I will be posting some of the blogs with how the project is coming along as well as fun behind the scenes photos and stories!
I just recently got back from my Night Zero promotional trip down through Oregon, California and Nevada. On the way to Las Vegas I stayed a night in a tiny little cabin in Calico Ghost Town, which was less real ghost town and more Disney’s Frontier Land (but in the Mojave desert and with no rides). It did make me thankful for the mild temperatures of the Pacific Northwest though– if there wasn’t electricity to power the little air conditioner attached to the side of my cabin, I don’t know how I would have (comfortably) survived the 110 degree weather! It just makes me remember how thin the veil of our high technology society is and how the loss of electricity would send things back to the way they were when this mining town was first founded: sweaty.
All in all things on the trip went well. Alexandra Larsson, our production manager, was with me for part of the trip and we ended up going to many different comic shops in Nevada and California. Some shops were extremely excited to hear about a new Photographic novel coming out, others told us to put our promotional material by the door and get out. The best experience we had was at a place we (randomly) found called Alternate Reality Comics. We went in and as soon as we mentioned we were producing a photographic novel, the owner perked up with attention and start chatting with us about it. On top of that, we attracted the attention of one of the regulars who likes to follow photographic novels. We talked with both of them for a while and ended up leaving the shop with both of their cards and photographic novel called Dorothy, which we hadn’t heard of before.
Because of the trip, it has been awhile since I have been able to focus on the production side of Episode One. Now that I am back, Anthony and I are going to grab some energy drinks, link up our computers, and start the long and arduous job of editing. For Night Zero, even some of the simplest photo editing can be time consuming. We are dealing with huge files that push our computers to the limit: the fact that we consider Photoshop’s limit of 4 gigs of RAM a major limitation, should give you a good idea of what I am talking about.