Hopefully
have finished up all the office sequences. We reshot everything
that was scratched on the first day of shooting, and then redid
a couple of the out of focus sequences from the following weekend.
I felt I got some better performances out of Geoff and John
this weekend, so there was something to gain from losing the
first weekends worth of shooting. Johnny especially had a lot
of dialogue to chew through and had no corresponding action
to keep himself busy. (Remember, it's basically a person talking
to a person working a computer, at least Geoff had something
to focus on (the computer screen), Johnny seemed to be having
a hard time giving himself something to focus on.)
[Note to self: when
an actor doesn't know what to do with themselves during long
dialogue sequences...BREAK OUT THE PROPS!]
I had learned a little
trick to do with Johnny, give him something to play with while
he chews through long dialogue. I had noticed that he appeared
more natural when the scene called for him to interact with
an object, so why not make him play with something that would've
been found at the scene. I suppose this isn't a big revelation,
since I was reading an autobiography on Elih Kazan the next
day (directed On The Waterfront and Street Car Named Desire)
and he mentions that giving props to certain actors helps them
to give a more natural performance. Read an autobiography on
Francis Ford Coppola, and HE mentions that Marlon Brando always
loved to hold a prop. A good example of this was the cat he
was holding early in the Godfather movie, Francis threw it into
his lap and Marlon went with it.
Now
I gotta wait for the negative to get transferred and see how
everything came out the past few weeks. THEN I can haul the
stupid office partitions back to the lady at the office furniture
rental place. (And I'm definitely gonna get Johnny to help my
lug those bastards BACK this time.) :-P
Here are some stats:
shot 44 pages of script, took 18 days to do it and have exposed
18 rolls of film. My initial plan was to shoot everything in
6 days and use about 10 rolls of film. (Ha-Ha..so much for that
plan.) I've got 2 rolls of Kodak Vision 320 #7277 left. Time
to bite the bullet and send some money to Kodak. I'll probably
be paying double for film to what I paid that guy on the newsgroup
for his.
Time to seriously
find the last few locations that I need and get the rest of
the footage shot of all the principles. There's been a rash
of e-mails this past week from the crew itching to shoot some
more footage. I've got sick this past week AND was booked for
the corporate gig, so I didn't get the chance to do ANY research
that I wanted to do. I'm hoping to shoot the party sequences
next, which should please "the gang" since THEY want to get
together (with or without filming) and have a party. We'll just
hafta fix that! :-)
Comin down hall |
Feed me! |
Eric lookin' at mess |
Robin wheelbarrow |
Runnin down a dream |
Scene 23 |
Here's some interesting
e-mail that happened recently:
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Cara
O'Shea wrote:
hey kids, phil has suggested a party to celebrate the
mid-way point in filming. despite the fact that i have
yet to even reach the STARTING point, i'm all for the
idea. i'd invite you all down to my place, except that
would be a tad problematic, transportation-wise. but i'd
love to come up to meet everyone! so, whadda ya say, phil?
your place? i'll bring the doritos. who's got the Faces
of Death video? horrigan, i'll bet
cara mystery chick
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John
MacLeod wrote:
It has been suggested that we should celebrate the midway
point of filming.
As a producer I can tell you that we haven't reached
the point where filming is half way over;
as a director I can tell you that your motivation for
this party is that you can get shitfaced and have a good
reason;
as a lighting guy I can tell you you need to backlight
the party to make it more dimentional;
as an actor I can tell you that you need to FEEL the party,
then you'll be there;
as a grip I can tell you if the grub's free, we'll be
chowing;
as a sound guy I think you need to turn up the level;
as a lawyer for the film I'm going to need you to sign
this release before you can come to the party;
as myself I can tell you nothing funny. See.
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Beth
Lahr wrote:
Hey! I wanna be a part of the party and I haven't even
spent a day on the set...and it seems like I have been
missing alot...(err the plastic butt...) Once a party
girl, always a party girl...
Beth, the night club date
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Kimberly
Lannon wrote:
Hey, I am in the same boat as you... I have not been
on set yet either and I know I am missin out!!! : )
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Lauren
(Da) Verge wrote:
Okay, Beth, Kim and Cara.....since you have not been
here ....and will be partying with us soon...you'll need
to get up to speed....here is a synopsis of what we have
all learned so far on this film:
1) Do not leave Juliet
alone with a banana.
2) Do not tell the "banana story" in front of the Globe
reporter
3) Do not leave Johnny alone with a rubber
band...
4) Do not leave Phil
alone.........period..... .because in spite of bragging
about his amazing love life...he still screws chunks
of rubber. The man is like a rabbit....albeit a small
perverted one.
5) Do not say "MOS" in front of me ...I can't help it....I
start channeling Hitler.
6) Do not do a scene where you are supposed to look "shocked"...
when working on a Bickernicks
production...
7) Don't ask Sparky..."Hey,
what's that under your shirt?"
8) Don't ask Phil...what are you.....40?
Ask for details of all these subjects at the party....
Preferably after a large number of cocktails! Hope to
make it there...LV
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