Jordan and I have worked together for a long time, on a wide variety of film projects. Growing up in high school and college, we made various short films, and post college, we’ve made a wide variety of commercial stuff, always expanding the possibilities of what’s doable within our often limited budgets and making do with less than optimal resources. On the first volume of The Third Age, you’ll notice that we’re both credited as both director and DP, but how does that work? Who does what?
This is the webseries that just keeps on going and with episode ten premiering tomorrow you may be assuming that The Third Age’s epic story will continue forever. Well, that won’t quite be the case unless we can get some more days of shooting / production in. In fact, there is quite a good deal of shooting left in the Third Age, with not a single episode in volume two being completely finished at this point. But fear not loyal fans, this upcoming Sunday we will be diving back into action on the production end of things after a two month hiatus.
Now that a large chunk of The Third Age is available, I can talk a little bit about the large scale planning and structuring of the season. Laying out the events of the series, and fitting it all together was a process both precise and improvisational. The first season is structured in four major chunks, loosely broken down like this: