Monday, March 5, 2007

Good news, bad news.

The good news: Day Two of Production happened yesterday. The bad news: Day Two was supposed to happen the day before yesterday. A couple of cast members (Melissa and Kevin) were on hand, along with most of the usual crew suspects. But we just didn't have our set for the day as ready as we'd planned. So I sent the actors home after lunch and the crew went to work getting the set finished up and tweaking the lighting.

We tried to shoot again on Sunday with much better results. All the extra time the crew had was put to good use. The set, especially all the stuff Carl built, looked really good. Actually, it looked better than good, because of the amazing lighting work of Jimbo and Hilleke.

I'm starting to realize that this movie is not going to happen as quickly as I'd planned. My original idea was to shoot a down and dirty genre film the same way Roger Corman would have done in the 1970s. But Roger Corman's movies at least had SOME budget, which meant they had a decent-size crew working fast. Our crew is working fast, but it's a tiny crew where all the members have day jobs. So, at the end of the day, it ain't that fast.

Anyway, here are a few photos from Day Two. I'll post more later.

Jimbo contemplates his next move in his campaign to bring the Sexy back...



Hilleke and I get some video footage of Melissa...



Reverse of previous -- Melissa on (video) camera...

3 comments:

Andrew Bellware said...

You are getting good stills of every scene, right? For publicity?

Chance Shirley said...

Our stills are actually more behind-the-scenes at this point. I'll start reminding our set photogs to get some "clean" shots of the actors during run-throughs.

KidAt40 said...

Roger Coreman...cool....now if you could only convince David Carradine to do a cameo.