When we last left our story, Rachel had realized that she was missing a transition shot of Marissa waking up in the morning, showing her fake ponytail not on her head.
Audience reaction to avoid: "What? Why does she have short hair all of a sudden? Hey wait - why is her hair long again?! Ha ha! They f*ed up!"
Hmm.
She-- er, *I* asked Christine (who may or may not actually go by "Vitta" now - I can't decide) if she could get someone to shoot a short clip her (yes, ten years later - it'll be a dark room - it's pre-dawn) waking up and looking over toward an unseen clock, and then I could stick in a POV shot of the ponytail by the clock with it. Horrible sentence, but you get the idea, yeah? Christine, however, knows no one with a video camera, so she diligently set up her digital still camera and did it all by her resourceful lonesome, sending it to me via Drop Box. Unfortunately, the camera tells her it's 16x9, but it ain't. However, "ridiculous ice cream" and all that -- the show must go on!! -- I decided not to care (very much) (or at least to let it be, caring notwithstanding). But then I still had to get a new ponytail that would match the one from the shoot -- match it well enough for five-second shot in a pre-dawn room.
I looked online -- and they were like $20-100. Well, I'm unemployed, so I'm not spending no $20 on a ponytail for a 5-second shot. Christine/Vitta suggested eBay, but after considering shipping costs, I decided to poke around local wig stores and see what was what.
Lo and behold! I got a cheap cheap cheap thing for $1.99 (!!!!!) at Venus on Prospect Street in Central Square, Cambridge. Yay! No shipping! Nice shop owner named Shirley! Yay!
Here it is:
So now I have to look at the video a little more closely and try to "age" this one similarly and then shoot some video of it on my dresser, next to a clock that says 4:22 or some such thing. Fortunately the apartment I'm living in now has that older moulding that Jenny & Mark's house had, so I think it will look like a dresser in that house. We shall see! I don't have that nice Sony Whatsit that Greg shot the movie on, but my little Panasonic will do Just Fine.
So there you have it.
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