For most of the 2000s there was a movie studio in Asheville known as Blue Ridge Motion Pictures. The studio building was a huge converted textile mill that also was home to Highland Brewery. Part of the building once served as an enormous indoor set for The Last of the Mohicans. During its operation the studio featured a small film school and housed an indoor street set, screening room, grip and lighting dept. and several sound stages. It was home to the production offices of The Clearing and All the Real Girls, and it was host to many smaller commercial shoots before closing around 2009.
I kept an office at the studio for a few years and taught the Teen Advanced Filmmaking Class one summer. It was a two week intensive production class where a small group of teens wrote, directed and edited a short film. With a 30 foot bluescreen available to us, we landed on a superhero story about 3 inch high heroes fighting a mad scientist seeking to destroy the world (or something like that). Here's an early bluescreen test that we did as a proof of concept.
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