Sunday, April 27, 2008

Tuesday - Day 6

Filmmaking always has its challenges. Tuesday had a couple. Mostly it was a tough night because we had a lot of complicated dialogue spoken by multiple people. I'm impressed at our actors' ability to roll through challenging lines. As is becoming habit, we spent quite a bit of time going over this scene. It's tough because it helps Mike and I to settle in and find where we want to be, but I like to keep our other performers fresh. Sometimes the repetition helps calm down tendencies to 'act' with some people (not really necessary with this cast), but it can also take the edge off the focus, so there's definitely a line there.

Once we started rolling, things moved along fairly well. Mike and Patrick stepped up with some creative light work to help lock down our last shots of the night. Mike actually pulled off some great laughs inside that he didn't get to soak up. It's not common to see someone do impressions with a two-headed worklight. I suppose it's also interesting how many different movie associations we can call up for lights streaming in a window.

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