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a man in a green striped shirt is sitting on a red railing in front of a group of people .

Jim Lapage 🇨🇦 @jimtsf.bsky.social · 1d

I need everyone to know that Dylan from @playtowinmtg.bsky.social and @mischa.thatsnotcedh.com are 1000% correct about this card. It is the real deal.

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Jim Lapage 🇨🇦 @jimtsf.bsky.social · 1d

Riding real high after today's filming session. Game 1 today (casual) might be in my top 3 most fun games I have ever played.

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Jim Lapage 🇨🇦 @jimtsf.bsky.social · 1d

We use this mount for all of our overhead lights and the overhead camera. It is mounted to the rafters above the drop ceiling.

Attached to the end we just have a SmallRig mini ballhead.

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Jim Lapage 🇨🇦 @jimtsf.bsky.social · 1d

We use a Sony ZV-E10 for each of the face cam shots with a circular polarizing filter on the kit 16-50mm lens that they come with. For the overhead, same camera and lens but no filter.

Jim Lapage 🇨🇦 @jimtsf.bsky.social · 1d

God they drop off so many when they do. I'm not exaggerating when I say we normally have 5 people here on a filming day and they'll drop off 10 burritos, 3 bags of chips, and a half quart container each of guac, green salsa, and queso.

I eat half a burrito for lunch.

Jim Lapage 🇨🇦 @jimtsf.bsky.social · 1d

It's added a step -- Shan and I show up the night before to tidy everything up and get it ready for filming the next day. Aside from that though it's nice to just be able to walk away when we're done at the end of the day.

It's also nice freeing her up to do whatever she wants on filming days.

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Jim Lapage 🇨🇦 @jimtsf.bsky.social · 1d

Is it really? I need to cast that more.

Jim Lapage 🇨🇦 @jimtsf.bsky.social · 1d

I think it's whatever the opposite is. When they drop off food we're all in food comas after lunch.

Jim Lapage 🇨🇦 @jimtsf.bsky.social · 1d

He actually didn't always wear such colourful shirts but after getting such good feedback from people in the comments he bought a bunch more. I think it really suits him!

Jim Lapage 🇨🇦 @jimtsf.bsky.social · 1d

We try to avoid hard resource denial, but even that has a time and a place. We're mostly just looking for the games to go between 50 and 90 minutes.

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Jim Lapage 🇨🇦 @jimtsf.bsky.social · 1d

Hell yes!

Jim Lapage 🇨🇦 @jimtsf.bsky.social · 1d

We use two sets of Deity Theos wireless lav mics:

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Jim Lapage 🇨🇦 @jimtsf.bsky.social · 1d

I think the closest we've come is catching my dog staring at us from the top of the stairs!

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Jim Lapage 🇨🇦 @jimtsf.bsky.social · 1d

This is something we're working on for the new studio because we're anticipating having more filming sessions where I'm not there to personally oversee. I want to have a manual that's heavy on pictures so in theory anyone could fire up a filming day.

Jim Lapage 🇨🇦 @jimtsf.bsky.social · 1d

This might be a cop-out answer but it's kinda both at the same time. When we do a filming weekend I'll have 3 consecutive 16 hour days where I'm at 0% at the end of the day, but it's offset by getting do to incredibly cool stuff with incredibly cool people.

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Jim Lapage 🇨🇦 @jimtsf.bsky.social · 1d

Our games on camera are nearly identical to our games off camera, but there might be a little less exposition about what cards do and we aren't as anal about takebacks.

Jim Lapage 🇨🇦 @jimtsf.bsky.social · 1d

Normally call time is 9:30am and we're wrapped by 4:30pm for 4 games.

It's pretty rare that we reshoot an entire game unless there are major tech issues, but during a game we'll ask people to re-take a sequence if we think they can describe what they're doing a little clearer for the audience.

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Jim Lapage 🇨🇦 @jimtsf.bsky.social · 1d

Ha, normally we just wrap early because inevitably it ends up being exactly what you describe. Sometimes if nobody has any commitments in the evening we'll plan a bonus 5th game that we only do if we're way ahead of schedule by game 3.

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Jim Lapage 🇨🇦 @jimtsf.bsky.social · 1d

Tough one. Probably Marath, even though it wasn't that old when I started playing. I think it still counts because it is like 12 years old right now.

If you wanna say ACTUALLY old, it's for sure Lord of Tresserhorn.

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Jim Lapage 🇨🇦 @jimtsf.bsky.social · 1d

I think it is pretty tough to beat BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!

I don't actually know anyone else's game day ritual but Shan and I get bagel breakfast sammies and it rules.

Jim Lapage 🇨🇦 @jimtsf.bsky.social · 1d

Hi Edgar! I'm doing great today, how are you?

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Jim Lapage 🇨🇦 @jimtsf.bsky.social · 1d

We film 4 games in a typical day and if they go mega long we will axe the 4th. I'd say that happens maybe 20% of the time. We generally release the long games though. I don't think we have had one over 2.5hrs raw that I can remember.