Marculations

A second draft of the poster, courtesy of our poster guru Keenan.

Adorable!

Day six was not the final day.

The schedule called for quite a few scenes to be shot today, most noticably the infamous “Scene 5″, which takes up nearly 50% of the script (and a great majority of all of the dialogue,) and Scene 6, which includes the rest of the dialogue.

It just didn’t happen.

We were out until very, very late last night shooting. I personally got about three hours of sleep after putting together the shooting schedule for the 21st and doing some other work that I had to take care of. The schedule called for the sets to be put together and made ready to shoot between 3pm and 6pm, with cameras rolling at 7:00pm.

At 2pm, I still couldn’t reach our production assistant.

Finally, after an arduous few hours of wondering what might have happened, I got the call. Family emergency — her grandfather is in the hospital. All of us on the production wish her and her family the best as they go through this tough time.

It was shortly afterwards that I realized I had still not heard from Michelle.

I put the sets together myself (with help from Lalo, of course) and shot the two scenes I had scheduled to do without either Lalo or Michelle — just a few inserts that we needed.

The call came in shortly after — Michelle has no ride to the set. We have to go pick her up.

After a few minutes of being on set it became generally known that Michelle wasn’t feeling well. Unfortunately, she was getting sick. She felt like crap, and her head just wasn’t together. After some rehearsals, it was apparant that we weren’t going to be able to shoot any dialogue.

We took care of all of the other scenes that didn’t involve dialogue, leaving just the ominous Scenes 5A through 5F and Scenes 6A and 6B. Of the ones we did shoot, they all came out very well, as all of our shots have up to this point. We just couldn’t get 5 and 6 in the can.

We’re going to schedule those scenes for a few days after Christmas, when everybody is settling back in. Hopefully, we’ll be able to get them knocked out before the new year.

Continuity is a constant battle.

And, of course, the money shot.

Yes, it was becoming a problem.

What a nightmarish, hectic day it’s turning in to. I can see it already.

Will we finish on time?

Tune in to find out!

Tonight’s shooting finished at four a.m.

It was all outdoor shots and inserts. Tomorrow (well, today) is when all the real magic is going to happen — the interior dialogue shots.

For now, as always, stills from the set.

See you tomorrow!

Here’s the first draft of our poster design, courtesy of Keenan.

I love this picture.

Photography wrapped at around twelve thirty in the morning.

Tonight we were shooting MOS inserts, but it went great, and I’m clinging to that. Everybody got along very well, and although there were some minor scheduling problems, we’re on track to finish before the end of the week.

I’ll leave you with a few stills from the set.

Until next time!