On Guard (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} onguard) wrote,@ 2003-05-26 09:13:00 |
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Home stretch
Friday was sort of an off day -- doing odds and ends, continuing to work on securing supporting cast, but really a day to celebrate my wife's graduation. Saturday we auditioned a dozen people for smaller speaking roles. Unfortunately I missed about half of them as I got myself locked in the fire escape when I took a wrong turn from the bathroom. Good that it happened that day instead of the day of shooting -- we'll be much more careful.
Will is now in charge of hiring extras and getting our cast list finalized. Once that's done he'll give it to one of our friends who may be serving as 2nd AD since we can't seem to hire one. This person will be managing our extensive list of extras as they come in over the course of the 2 days.
After auditions on Saturday Will and I came up with a shooting schedule. We didn't have one up til now because we wanted to have our shot list down first, but that's still not finished (hopefully it will be by end of today). But we still needed some kind of schedule in order to set call times for our cast... so we just went ahead and drafted a provisional one. After discussing it with Karin yesterday it looks like it could hold up.
Saturday evening I picked up Kevin Jackson from the airport. He came brimming with ideas -- it was a real pleasure talking and listening to him. The next day Will and I met up with him at the set and went through half the script -- again, hearing him talk through each scene really reinforced the logical flow of the narrative, esp. in what his character goes through. It was the first time in a while that I really felt like I was reacquainting myself to the story, after all the weeks of plotting and planning I've done. This week should be refreshing, working with the actors should bring my focus back to the film's content.
Karin, Will and I had perhaps our most positive status meeting to date -- it seems that everything is pretty much under control. Our crew is set, Will's continuing to work on casting and that's coming along fine... I am working on getting our post production arranged and finalizing an equipment and shotlist with Leland. Leland has also been helpful in suggesting postproduction options. Currently I'm looking at two friends who each have G4 laptops they can bring to the set and log footage there while we're shooting... and also Leland's friend who has an editing suite which we can log footage during evenings and put the film together. Just need to figure out how this will all fit together...
Today we've got a readthrough from 11-1 with the principal cast, and then rehearsals with Kevin J and Dave in the afternoon. Leland will be there as well to visualize the shots we've mapped out to see how well they fit, and hopefully we'll have our shot list finalized by tonight. Then we can start renting equipment, finalizing call times...
Friday was sort of an off day -- doing odds and ends, continuing to work on securing supporting cast, but really a day to celebrate my wife's graduation. Saturday we auditioned a dozen people for smaller speaking roles. Unfortunately I missed about half of them as I got myself locked in the fire escape when I took a wrong turn from the bathroom. Good that it happened that day instead of the day of shooting -- we'll be much more careful.
Will is now in charge of hiring extras and getting our cast list finalized. Once that's done he'll give it to one of our friends who may be serving as 2nd AD since we can't seem to hire one. This person will be managing our extensive list of extras as they come in over the course of the 2 days.
After auditions on Saturday Will and I came up with a shooting schedule. We didn't have one up til now because we wanted to have our shot list down first, but that's still not finished (hopefully it will be by end of today). But we still needed some kind of schedule in order to set call times for our cast... so we just went ahead and drafted a provisional one. After discussing it with Karin yesterday it looks like it could hold up.
Saturday evening I picked up Kevin Jackson from the airport. He came brimming with ideas -- it was a real pleasure talking and listening to him. The next day Will and I met up with him at the set and went through half the script -- again, hearing him talk through each scene really reinforced the logical flow of the narrative, esp. in what his character goes through. It was the first time in a while that I really felt like I was reacquainting myself to the story, after all the weeks of plotting and planning I've done. This week should be refreshing, working with the actors should bring my focus back to the film's content.
Karin, Will and I had perhaps our most positive status meeting to date -- it seems that everything is pretty much under control. Our crew is set, Will's continuing to work on casting and that's coming along fine... I am working on getting our post production arranged and finalizing an equipment and shotlist with Leland. Leland has also been helpful in suggesting postproduction options. Currently I'm looking at two friends who each have G4 laptops they can bring to the set and log footage there while we're shooting... and also Leland's friend who has an editing suite which we can log footage during evenings and put the film together. Just need to figure out how this will all fit together...
Today we've got a readthrough from 11-1 with the principal cast, and then rehearsals with Kevin J and Dave in the afternoon. Leland will be there as well to visualize the shots we've mapped out to see how well they fit, and hopefully we'll have our shot list finalized by tonight. Then we can start renting equipment, finalizing call times...
