Why not one more?

Sunday we shot three different scenes. Two were fairly quick and one took most of the day, as budgeted. It was one of those mysterious scenes that seems like it should be quick on paper, but when you break it down it has enough details and changes within it to eat up a number of camera setups and that sort of thing.

Yara looked fab in her outfit put together by our costume mavens. Said costume led to one of the more unexpected events of the day, and frankly within my entire film production career. Piers noted that the earrings were making too much noise, forcing us to create an earring silencing solution in order to avoid clanging metal ruining the dialogue. Kelly helpfully did one earring and I did the other. Yes, manual labor is normally far beneath the dignity of a director, but the rest of the crew had either panicked or quit by that point, so what was I to do? (Okay, Mike did have a gun out ready to shoot the earrings, which seemed quite sensible, but Nicholas was concerned it might dull the gold)

Man of the Day?
Jimmy the Pineapple
yeeeaaahhhh


Today marked a minor milestone in the production, but I guess I'll get into that tomorrow.