Day 2

Production Day 2 (or the Official first day of shooting)

So as to how the day started I don’t remember. It was a Saturday, but it seems really vague. I remember seeing Jon Baranick the first time with his hair cut for the film and he looked great! Day 2 was going to be one of our easier days of shooting. It was all the stuff on the mall. Like the jogging scene and the chase scene with Jon and Adam. Our contact that had rented us the police car also lent us a lighting fixture so we could generate emergency lights on a cop car with out a cop car present. We used them with the scene with Colin in the elevator. I wrote a letter to the police and dropped it off with my contact info and information about what we were doing, where we were doing it and the contact info for my prof. as well. Pretty standard really. I did this on all my movies shot at night on campus. During the day your fine but at night they ask questions and instead of running the risk of getting sent home you just tell them where you are and what you’re doing and they leave you alone. Easy. Just be honest. We started shooting on time and it was good to have the crew whole crew there. Some of them were a little bit dear in head lights but got better as the night went on. The location I wanted to start at didn’t work because we couldn’t find power outlets. Thankfully across the parking lot we found some and shot over there. We did the chase stuff first. Brad, the actor playing officer Navarro, helped us with lighting a bit because Kenny and Dan were pretty nervous. They did generate some great shots. Like the one with the emergency call box. We were way behind though. We had about 7 pages to shoot and at about 11 we had only gotten through 1.5 or so. I really started to panic. I had prepared a 6 page shot list and at midnight I literally threw it out. The jogging scene was supposed to be done in like 12 different shots and I ended up doing the whole thing in 3 shots, with one master and 2 small inserts. Man I hope it edits together well. We had Adam and Jon on tonight for their first night. Adam ended up providing his own costume because Linnaea and I weren’t able to get anything. I had called him a few days before and told him what I was looking for and he said he had exactly that. Linnaea had found a great shirt for Jon’s character. It fit him great and says “hotties ride for free”. Absolutely perfect for the character. Ali started that night too as the character of Sarah. She had to come really late and we ended up shooting until about 3am. One of our latest days. A lot of the scenes we did ended up being in one or two shots because we just didn’t have time. It was by far the worst night of shooting. The footage wasn’t nearly as good as the tunnels and turned out to be the worst of the whole shoot. We actually may have to redo it if it doesn’t edit together well. We’ll see. This is the first I’ve ever mentioned this but it just may happen. We got some really good stuff that night, like the chase, and Colin in the Elevator, but it was by far the worst night of shooting. We didn’t make our day either. We were about a page short at the end of the night. Sigh. We were off to a great start!:(