Odd Bird, That One

Hi -

Well, "Frazzled" is DONE.

Yay!!!

That scene made me really nervous because, as I"ve said 3,000 times, we had to shoot it over two days and it was really emotionally intense. That was the one I had even tried to farm out to someone else, but now I have DONE IT!  Woo-hoo!

And what's more, I also have done Scene 47.

In Scene 47, Marissa is wearing almost all red, indicating that she is now feeling good and open and powerful.  She's getting it together!  She's also writing and she doesn't look like a something the cat wouldn't even drag in.  Bill comes in behind her, as he does in an earlier scene, but unlike in the earlier scene, he does not startle her.  She is nonplussed.  Why?  Because she's calm.  Because it's three-quarters of the way through the movie, that's why! 

This is the scene where Marissa says that Amy is "an odd bird, that one" and Bill responds by saying, "Watch your mouth" (also a reference to an earlier scene when the two are discussing Marissa's use of the expression "I'm just a bad penny"). 

The scene itself, we might say, is "an odd bird" -- For one thing, the coverage is terrible, and what there is, let's say, is not the way I would set it up now.  The one WS is just downright weird.  There's way too much negative space!  (oo - will have to put that and "coverage" in my glossary)  It's so weird that I think I must have been doing it intentionally for some artistic reason that is now lost.  I'm trying to analyze it and figure out what I would have been thinking if I had been me.  :)  Regardless, we crossed that DAMN 180 LINE again -- annnnd you can see Jenny & Mark's kitchen through the doorway as plain as day, which really kind of stinks because the Jenkins' kitchen is where we shot Bill's kitchen.  We didn't shoot in Jenny & Mark's kitchen at all.  Hmph.  I cut around it pretty well, I think.  Maybe we can just pretend it's a pantry on the way to the kitchen. 

This was also the scene where we wanted to show Marissa dropping a piece of paper, which would then float to a very specific place onthe floor where Sarah finds it in the next scene.  We stopped numbering the takes after a while.  I'd guess... 20?  

After several different versions, trying to cut around the kitchen and the weird framing and the jump over the 180 line, I think I have ended up with an okay rough cut of it.  A challenge MET!

Now I move into the hard stuff:  Sarah and Amy reading aloud, "That man is on crack," and the Showdown!