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While I was making my First Impressions post for this eppy, I got to taking a critical look at the final scene. I took a filmmaking view of it, 'cause I'm geeky that way ;), and determined how I think they filmed it. You gain a whole new level of appreciation of Jensen's acting skills when you realize how this was done.



( A shot-by-shot analysis w/caps... )

I'm super sleepy, but I'm going to try to account the last two days of filming anyway.

Saturday was fairly simple - the re-shooting of one scene involving the killing of a character. There was some dialog and then the rigging of the blood pack for her "death". The special fx worked great and our only small setback was waiting for a nearby neighbor to stop using their leaf blower.

Today (Sunday), was a little more complicated. More scenes, including a bunch of insert-type shots of our lead actor driving in a car past the camera several times. A few more scenes were re-shot and more fake blood makeup was applied (some of it by me at the end of the day :)). Continuity is going to be a nightmare for these scenes. We've re-shot some of them 3 times now, changing things, and of course the blood makeup ends up looking a little different every time you do it. I can only hope some clever editing will save it.

Anyhoo, there's going to be some more filming this week, but I don't know when yet. It looks like I will have tomorrow (Monday) off though, so hooray for that. I can catch up on my sleep a little along with LJ. I see there's a lot of Chicago Con goodies to check out. :)

I'm sure I had more to say about the filming, but I'm so sleepy that it's not coming to my fuzzy brain. Maybe I'll actually go to bed earlier tonight. Ha! Yeah, I wouldn't count on it. *iz a hopeless night owl* My feet ache (too much standing) and I've got even more spots of fake blood on my jeans (it washes out, not to worry). Coming home with my hands stained with the remnants of the fake blood has become a bizarre, yet cool aspect of this project. I feel like the kid on the baseball team who finally gets to come home with his uniform dirty after sitting on the bench game after game. It's kinda cool. Like I'm a full-blooded member of the team because I've been tainted by the blood. :P

* Funyuns actually came up in conversation today. Our Camera Op said something like, "That stuff is gross. It's not even food." LOL 'Course you can bet I was thinking of that scene in the Xmas eppy. ;) Oh, and we had pizza for our late lunch. Ah, pizza....the staple food of moviemaking!

OMG....so tired/sleepy. Need nap. Need nap badly.

Got up at before the crack of dawn this morning, at 6 a.m. to drive to our location by 8. Got there and within around half an hour it was raining - heavily. Make-up got done while most of us stood around and watched the downpour, wondering when and if it was going to end. We ended up starting with a scene inside a parked car, with a canvas canopy over it to keep most of the pounding rain from hitting the roof. After a couple of hours the rain stopped and the sun came out. More time spent on special effects makeup before we started filming in the yard. The yard was....well....squishy. And in some areas downright boggy. Ugh.

Things were fine until our key actor did a first take where his character gets shot and lands on the ground. He ended up with mud all over his shirt and jeans! Major continuity problem as he isn't muddy like that in any of the following scenes that we'd already shot! We couldn't get another matching t-shirt and there wasn't time to wash them, so we continued on....the camera operator trying not to get the mud stains on camera and me getting frustrated and worried over this major problem. There was also some major continuity issues involving the fake blood stains and the trees in the yard which had turned color. It was fast becoming a Script Supervising nightmare. But still, we kept on. Our daylight was going quickly. We ended up filming the final outdoor scene practically in the dark. It was crazy. Then there was a final scene done in the house. Luckily, it wasn't really all that cold, though several of the actors were freezing when we were outside. It also didn't really rain on us again, which was good, but we battled against audio problems. From planes flying overhead, to a big soccer game going on nearby, dogs barking and even a neighbor with a leaf blower (who flat out refused to stop for our filming when we asked). It was one challenge after another, but somehow we got the scenes filmed.

There's only a few left to do tomorrow and then we should be done unless some pickup scenes need to be done later. But I'm beat. I'm going to check out my flist, take a little nap, print out today's photos, make today's cap post, and go to bed to do it all over again. Heh.

* This was the quote of the day according to our camera operator. He kept saying this to people whenever they'd make a mistake or accidentally mess something up a little. It was a running joke all day long. Hee! :P

I haven't done a Random post in ages! For those of you who are new around here, I do these random rambly posts every now and then. They're sort of a potpourri of subjects, random thoughts, a post where basically anything goes.

And because this is a random post, we must have a random cap to go with it. What could be better than Jensen in his "Eye Of The Tiger" moment? :D


( Randomness & a Vancouver Webcam pic... )

Um....sorry, the boys are being distracting again. More on that later. Hee!

Today was a short filming day, with a minimal crew. Two scenes (officially...we also did lots of other little ones) in only a little over 2 hours. A pretty easy day all in all. Just me and a few of the guys! Teehee! We had to improvise because we didn't have the makeup needed for a few shots, so I ended up coming to the rescue with some lipstick! I applied the lipstick to our actor's face, along with some dirt in an attempt to make some of it a little darker (with limited success). Then for another shot I got to cover one side of his face with fake blood. What fun! Heh. What a sticky, gooey mess. But it was kinda fun...painting an actor. LOL! But now I can add Make-up as a credit on this film. :)

There's two more scenes to film tomorrow, outside stuff. Beyond that the schedule is a little more fuzzy, but we are nearing the end of production. We're getting down to the final scenes with the actors, so there's lots of picture-taking and hugs. :)

Now, back to the boys being distracting....I'm watching "Mystery Spot" right now on a new 19" HDTV in my bedroom. Woot! Still playing around with settings and such, but so far so good. I'm also downloading a copy of TIH thanks to the awesome generosity of blackbirdj2!!! Whoo-hoo! Can't wait to watch Jensen all decked out with the wild hair, makeup, and clothing. *bounces*

Yes, I know I still owe some goodies. I got a little distracted tonight with my new shiny toy. *g* I'll work on some of them tomorrow and Wednesday, I swear. *hugs*

Long day on the set today. Lots of standing....outside...in the cold. It wasn't so bad in the morning to start the day, but as the afternoon went on the temperature seemed to drop. Ugh. We had two locations: in front of a house and then we went to a park north of Seattle. Lots of people wanting to see what we were doing, of course. Lots of "lookie loos". Heh. And you don't think filming on a residential street is a big deal until you start shooting. Ha! Then...it's as if every plane, car, and loud person in the world has to be in the area! Crazy! We had to keep stopping because of audio issues. Then at the park there were all sorts of problems with passers-by and such. Some dude even stopped to take some photos of us! A little weird. But we were shooting a pretty exciting scene, with two of our actresses running from a shooting (one of them covered in fake blood) and jumping into a guy's car to get away. Cool stuff! :)

Anyhoo...I'm tired. Got another full day tomorrow, but at least it's indoors. Hmmmm....gotta post an Impala cap for Sunday's Just 'Cause post. And print out today's photos from the set...then it'll be bedtime for me. But I might squeeze in a goody post for all of you, too. Mmmmm.....sleep.....

I've been taking photos on the set every day for the film production I'm working on. I haven't made a complete count, but over the 21 days we've been filming I think I've probably got over 800 photos. I print them out at the end of each day, put them in a big 3-ring notebook, and everyone loves to look at them. The second question I usually hear when I arrive on set after "What are we filming today?" is "Where are the photos?". :D They're quite popular along with being useful for continuity reasons.

Naturally, members of the cast & crew have been pestering me to send them the photos. For my last film production over the summer, I used a Photobucket account to post selected pictures. However, I'm considering using something else this time, namely for the sheer volume of pictures. Flickr is a strong possibility. There's also been a lot of talk of setting up a MySpace page for the film, yet nobody seems eager to make one. I've been asked several times, but I know almost nothing about MySpace.

So here's what I'm asking...

Is Flickr a good choice for a lot of high quality (and large - 3264 x 2448) photos?
Or should I stick with Photobucket (which shrinks them down)?
What should I know about setting up a MySpace page for the film? Is it easy?
Do you have any other suggestions for photo hosting a large amount of pictures?

Any and all help/advice/suggestions is greatly appreciated. *hugs flist* :D

Yeah, I guess it is....*yawns*

I just woke up from a major napping session. I was sooooooo sleepy when I came home from filming tonight. OMG So sleepy. I feel a bit more human now, so it's time to tell you about my day, such as it was.

Nothing much happened really. I drove to our 1st location of the day, in a shopping center parking lot, only to find out I was one of the first people there. We then waited about another hour for the others to show up. Hair & makeup took forever for the actors and then off they went in a car for 2 hours to film car scenes. The three of us that were left just hung out in the parking lot. Oh joy. Good thing I brought my mp3 player to listen to because the 2 guys I was with are not big on conversation. *sigh* We eventually moved to our 2nd location, a park just down the road. There, we had makeup problems...no fake blood. We tried some leftover stuff we had, but it didn't look right on the actress's face. Sent a PA after some fake blood, thinking that with Halloween so close it should be easy to find in stores. Think again. They were all out! He ended up getting corn syrup and food coloring. By this time it was getting cold and our light was fading. With lots of mixing, he got the color right, but when he sprayed it on the actress it looked like blueberry syrup. Ooops. So we scrapped the shoot for the day. We'll need to reschedule it. Lots of waiting around for me, but I did need to be there for my continuity photos. Ah, well....they can't all be busy days, I guess. Tomorrow will be better. Another major character death scene and some other stuff. The actress is so excited, "I can't wait to die tomorrow!". LOL

Now that I can stay conscious for longer than 5 seconds I think I'll try and post some goodies for you guys. Goodness knows you've been patient enough.

*grumble*grumble*grumble*

I feel the need to rant a bit. Feel free to ignore...it's just me, venting 'cause I need to.

( Five rants from Miss Grouchypuss... )