The night before I shot some test footage. I have a lot of preparing yet to do, but it was good to see the background with a puppet on camera with some lighting. Each test, I try a few more things and I get a bit closer to being ready to shoot. This time I tried out some moving shots with a slider and that was fun. It is challenging to rack focus and move the camera at the same time.In addition to that, I am continuing to experiment with shooting as the camera normally records, and also using Magic Lantern to shoot in raw format. It is essentially a very cool hack for Canon cameras and there are a few steps involved in the process, but potentially, it can allow for more freedom adjusting the final look, in terms of color afterwards. There are several pieces of software to help with different stages of the process. Essentially, you are pushing the camera to do something it can do, but the on board software does not give access to. So there are these fantastic programmers, reverse engineering the cameras to expose more features. This is quite incredible, but you have to test each step and decide what the reliable limits are as far as shooting settings. It’s good to test these options now and make these kinds of decisions or mistakes during this time. I took the footage into Davinci Resolve Light and started following a few tutorials to begin getting into that. It takes a lot to do all of this, but the knowledge that comes out of each step helps a great deal.In the evening, the wife and I walked over to a pizza place, then wandered through the crazy traffic along mall road to a book shop. Simple pleasures. Afterwards, we hopped on a rickshaw and head back home.