Battle scenes: day 2

Here some pics of the behind the scenes and also freeze frames from my actual camera.

Got hit by a rock in the head, by a bayonet in the ribs, with a rifle's butt in the hips and felt the blow of a firing rifle near my left leg...and all while shooting hand-held the battle scenes in-between the hundreds of soldiers.

Difficult by definitely and exciting day!! :)
The parts filmed were when the 3ro de Linea took over the Peruvian Ciudadela fort, the charges of Francisco Cornejo with the Cazadores de Pierola and the bravery of Justo Arias y Araguez with his Granaderos de Tacna. The gunfire and fights were awesome.

The energy flowing on the extras and the real soldiers was overwhelming. I could feel the excitement in them while doing this. One thing also was that no matter how much emphasis I put on safety, the soldiers got loose and careless and fired at will. Thank God they didn't harm anybody for real. Just bruises and cuts here and there.

Battle scenes: day 1

Finally, the difficult days of battle scenes started today.
It had a rough start for delays regarding the army were unavoidable...but anyway. Its an everyday thing.
Arias Araguez had his scene today at Ciudadela fort. Tomorrow I'll continue the scene by making the it explode as Maldonado -the young hero- did.

More on-location pics and still frames

Well, after many days of absence here I get to rest at least for a day while the Army does it's sudden schedule changes. I can say it's exciting to work with them and also same time a bit problematic as they have a busy agenda too to fulfill so we have to work things out around their time.

Using massive amounts of soldiers is quite straining and stressful but it's coming along. Just the shooting plan is really prolonging more than I expected. I can say for sure now that I will easily extend into next year but I want to just leave the mild scenes for last. Filming in December is quite a dilemma....too many holidays!

Here are more behind-the-scenes pics and also still frames of the film as captured thru my camera lens.

Filming: steep road uphill but liking the results

So...after posting some behind the scenes pics days ago, here I post some still frames from my camera.
This is exactly what I see in camera so you can get a good idea of how it's being done.
Filming process has a lot of stressful moments but I'm liking the results. And also the faithful team of extras from the war forum coming everyday. I thank them with my heart. :)