Day One: So you’d think that shooting on a stage would liberate us from the oppressive sound delays that happen on location. Not when the Burbank airport flight path is over head. We still managed to leave the gate strong with a whopping 15 pages of script covered today. To facilitate that a teleprompter was hired for a series of dialogue pages that are delivered to camera. Overall, great performances and good looking footage. All while on day four of being sick with a cold. But with every high there is a low and at the end of the day, I found out the my hard drive crashed. I know what you’re asking, “did you back up your drive”. The long and the short of it is, no. I probably didn’t need that data anyways.
Day Two: Inside it’s planes, outside it’s sirens. We managed to finish 11 pages today. I almost screwed the pooch by suggesting a shot that should have taken less time but actually took a little longer than we’d hope. The shot involved two actors talking from either side of a wall. We had planned on shooting it by dollying into a dark space with on actor and with the other actor, starting in a dark place and dollying to them. Well the set has a door and I figured we combine the shots by dollying through the door. After I got Corbin onboard with the shot, came execution. First problem, will the track fit, well 30″ track can be made to fit into a 27 3/4″ frame by collapsing the track slightly and tucking in the dolly wheels to fit. Tic, toc, tic, toc… Next, will the camera fit? With the matte box removed and some finagling, you can get this camera and lens to a length of 28 1/4″ by removing the door jam, you loose an inch or so. Tic, toc, tic, toc… When all is said and done, we ended up with about a 4mm clearance in front of the lens and about 2mm in the back. Have I had a chance to mention that it’s a really great shot!? Well the delay led to some tension on the set. The tension led to the AD raising his voice and to the credit of the crew, things ran with military precision and every one ended the evening on a good note. I truly can’t say “thank you” enough to the camera, grip and electric crew for stepping up to the challenge of making the lighting and camera work so well. Thanks guys.
One last a silly note to the day happened after hours while the director and producer were discussing the next day’s logistics. We have some extras that need to come in and they’re slated to dress like “nerds”. We also have a scene with a detective called Dicks. As I remember the discussion, it had to do with arranging where the nerds needed to be in relation to the “scenes” with Detective Dicks. Here’s what I heard and you can decide if it was worth a laugh.
- “We’ll need to take out the Dicks.”
- “But we’ll still need the nerds with Dicks, right?”
Potty humor, I know, but it’s still funny.
: : Nice.
: : Corbin directs actor Adrienne Frantz.
: : 12 feet high and looking down.
: : Koji (1st AC) & Marvin (2nd AC) prep the camera.
: : One of my favorite shots – Corbin blocks some action.
: : Corbin & Gary (1st AD) plan a scene.
: : The Colts win… HA!
: : Josh (CLT) takes an early holiday.
: : Corbin blocks the scene with Susan.
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