Well, Scene 21 is done! CHECK
This is the scene we shot near Carson Beach at dawn -- where we put coffee in RJ's hair to make it look sweaty because he'd been jogging -- as I recall, he preferred coffee to the bay water as likely to be more sanitary. :)
RJ/Larry is carrying a CD Walkman on his run. How quaint. And what a pain in the butt to have had to run with such a thing.
Marissa is wearing blue, which I think she shouldn't be, symbollically (it's an Amy color - oops), but it looks good in the dawn light.
Continuity nightmare # 29: shooting at dawn's magic minute. Some of the shots are really lovely. Greg did a great job with the dawn light. Unfortunately, the scene diagetically takes about 3-4 mins, but we shot it over about an hour, I think. So the light, er, changes. I remember trying to go fast, trying to keep it as close to the crack of dawn as we could -- but there's only so much you can do -- especially when it's July fifth and there are still July 4th drunken revelers on the pier (remember that?). I've tried to fix some of the exposure with color correction -- I definitely helped it look less egregiously different, one shot to the next, but the sky is a tough one (especially given that Marissa's shirt is the same color). I can hardly imagine what filming was like on Days of Heaven when they shot almost exclusively at "magic hour" (near sunset), so they had only like 20 minutes of actual filming time per shoot day. Looks fantastic, though. Gorgeous movie.
"The kid with the veiny eyelids?"
Now to the kitchen...
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You mean you didn't want drunken/hungover 4th of July celebrators as extras in your movie? I don't understand... :) Will I get to see this? Will you do a screening in Mpls?? Happy for your progress, friend!
The whole thing with the drunken revelers was sort of funny because I was in such a "J"/leader/fighting against the creeping light mode that I didn't really hesitate to run over to them and ask them to leave. Ha ha! Greg kept the camera running on the whole thing, and there's footage of me doing this (from afar) while you hear the crew sort of marveling at the whole thing, back on set. :)
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