Scene 49 is now done!
This scene has the distinction of containing one of my favorite lines to say (see title of post). It was the source of two separate takes-ruined-by-people-laughing -- one was me and one was Rachel A-O. But guess what -- I had to cut the line!
I have loved that line for ten years, but it will not be in the movie. It is lying on the proverbial cutting room floor as I type.
Why?
Because it happens to be the ONLY time (I believe) (so far) that we managed not to get the line on camera in any way, form, or fashion and it's really not the kind of line that makes sense OS. I mean, mayyybe I'll leave it in, OS, but the flow of the dialogue works just as well without it since no one actually answers him.
HOW did we manage NOT to get Kevin on screen for that last moment when he and Larry re-enter the dining room from the kitchen (where nothing was burning, despite Larry's sudden interest in such a possibility, moments before)? HOW?
Coverage that whole day was weird -- as I said in the previous post (same day, both for us, working, and in the story). The angles were weirdly directed, the coverage was oddly incomplete. I had to put in a close-up of Marissa without its matching sound in order to have a transition shot from the MCU of Sarah and Amy to the last wide shot of everyone, otherwise, we wouldn't even have seen Larry running out the door and Marissa following him. Not that that actually means anything to you, but since I don't believe you exist, reader, I'm just going to say it like that and not explain myself.
I'm about a day behind now. Nervous about Scene 50, which I start tomorrow.
Scene 50 is the Showdown and it's the only scene we did fully handheld with some creative circling of the actors as they circled each other. I cannot find my notes about it. I lost them, and then found them recently (I remember my joy upon the discovery), but now I seem to have misplaced them again. Or maybe I only dreamed about finding them, because I cannot imagine why I wouldn't have just put them with everything else. Ugh. It's okay -- it will mean I have to start the scene ffrom scratch, but that's probably appropriate, if more time-consuming.
Also, the world is ending tomorrow. Happy Solstice!
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