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Here's a picture of my entire crew and company right after we got off our last shot in San Diego's airport. Me and Tarin and Mike, our insanely awesome grip (who is soon off to USC to become the next great games designer and was running Earthquake simulators for UCSD's supercomputer) are showing off the farmer tans we got shooting on the cliff in La Jolla.
This is a picture which shows that filmmaking requires a lot of sweat and dirt and grime. This is on the cockroach ridden sidewalk outside the Turf Club.
So day two: again it's all a hazy adreanline filled blur. We thought we could cruise a little on day two because we had a three hour chunk from the day before we didn't repeat. But the silly thing was this: we needed to repeat every single shot we had taken the day before, but at different times of day with a different actor. The same background extras needed to show up, too, wearing the same clothing. It was like self imposed deja vu.
Other than that it went fairly ok until due to some accidents we lost two hours of our shooting day and once again had to move to beat the sun. We fucking booked. Drive to location, jump out grab shot, and jump back to the next.
And finally we got to shoot in the airport... After Kyle brilliantly dealt with securing a permit over two weeks and all sorts of beauracratical jumping around and our hotel nearly losing our shooting permit... We rolled up to the airport tense and wary. A cop asked us what we were doing. We said we had a permit to shoot, but Kyle wasn't there yet and we didn't have it. Cop shrugged and walked off.
We continued to shoot in the airport without anyone saying a single word to us. We almost wanted to get busted so we could pull out our permit and smile proudly. But no. Not in the cards. I think the airport shots are the most beautiful we got, though.
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That was wrap. I bought the crew dinner and Tarin and I shot closeups of clock faces in the hotel room until 3 am. Tarin works harder than anyone I know. And then comic con began. That's a whole other story...
When I got back to New York I was expecting to crash for a day or two but such is production that I ended up working Monday after getting back on a redeye. We're doing great though. Rob is cutting away.
So I've finally written about day two. Comic Con next.
This is a picture which shows that filmmaking requires a lot of sweat and dirt and grime. This is on the cockroach ridden sidewalk outside the Turf Club.
So day two: again it's all a hazy adreanline filled blur. We thought we could cruise a little on day two because we had a three hour chunk from the day before we didn't repeat. But the silly thing was this: we needed to repeat every single shot we had taken the day before, but at different times of day with a different actor. The same background extras needed to show up, too, wearing the same clothing. It was like self imposed deja vu.
Other than that it went fairly ok until due to some accidents we lost two hours of our shooting day and once again had to move to beat the sun. We fucking booked. Drive to location, jump out grab shot, and jump back to the next.
And finally we got to shoot in the airport... After Kyle brilliantly dealt with securing a permit over two weeks and all sorts of beauracratical jumping around and our hotel nearly losing our shooting permit... We rolled up to the airport tense and wary. A cop asked us what we were doing. We said we had a permit to shoot, but Kyle wasn't there yet and we didn't have it. Cop shrugged and walked off.
We continued to shoot in the airport without anyone saying a single word to us. We almost wanted to get busted so we could pull out our permit and smile proudly. But no. Not in the cards. I think the airport shots are the most beautiful we got, though.
_
That was wrap. I bought the crew dinner and Tarin and I shot closeups of clock faces in the hotel room until 3 am. Tarin works harder than anyone I know. And then comic con began. That's a whole other story...
When I got back to New York I was expecting to crash for a day or two but such is production that I ended up working Monday after getting back on a redeye. We're doing great though. Rob is cutting away.
So I've finally written about day two. Comic Con next.
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Looks like good times were had.
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