Phew. First “full day” of production today.
With a schedule this tight, there’s none of that “we set up at the location, we stay all day, and maybe, we can come back tomorrow to finish.” It’s more like, we scream up to the set in the trucks, open the doors, let all the shit fall out, throw up our flimsy tent, run power from the nearest outlet, and start barking and screaming at each other.
And then, it’s off to the next location.
Four times.
Yeah, we hit four locations today.
The first location was one that we’d been to before. We needed a generic exterior, and we realized there was part of that exterior we hadn’t seen, so why not go back? I’m pretty sure that before it’s over, we’ll have dressed up every side of that house as a different place. You can’t tell, though, so it works out well.
Next, it was off to the desert, and I’m really, really sunburned right now, so that went great.
One of them involved shooting a highly choreographed “skirmish” in a parking lot with 30 extras and tons of camera angles, shot on a single camera, at dusk.
We got it. Dear god, I don’t know how we got it, but something went so, so right, and we got it. Everybody hit their mark, the extras cooperated, the weather cooperated, the actors knew their lines, and by god, we wrapped about sixteen seconds before the sun dropped behind the mountains.
And then, it was off to the next location. Some park, somewhere — I don’t even know where it was. It doesn’t matter. Whatever the scene was, it got shot, and it’s done now. The main thing is that everybody is constantly laughing their asses off during production. That’s always nice when you’re shooting comedy! We got some really hilarious stuff today.
So ended the first day of shooting. We shot everything on the schedule. We made it to each location within an hour of the time listed on the schedule.
Back at it tomorrow. We’re in the groove, now.
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