Pushing yesterday's work back to today meant that this day would go long, and we all knew it going in. That said, it was still a pretty fun day. Filmed the first 4 flashbacks, which is kind of cool, all things being equal.
The Time Capsule Scene
The first scene, Scene 9, was the first flashback, of young Terry, Hannah, and Patrick filling the time capsule. Also the scene where we first meet Patrick, and get to see Terry's first thoughts on asking out Hannah. This was probably the single non-Prom scene we spent the most time on in the writing process, trying to make sure it was right. (We did spend a lot of time on a bunch of the scenes in the Prom Sequence. But since the Prom Sequence was 12 scenes in the script, it's really an animal of it's own...)
The time capsule scene was shot in my on-campus house, in our kitchen. Once again, Karli delivered a stunning set-dressing performance, as she managed to turn the kitchen of a bunch of college slobs into one you could really see a suburban family living in. This was a fun day, since I think the Christian Bale rant had broken during the week, so we ended up talking and joking about it for pretty much the whole rest of the movie.
I don't think my roommates had any idea, when I told them I was shooting a movie there that morning, that I was referring to a crew of over a dozen and a whole bunch of lights. A couple of times they would come out of their rooms, look around in confusion, and then go back into their rooms. A couple of them also didn't understand how good our mic was, because sometimes they were still talking loud enough that we could hear them without the headphones.
After the kitchen scene, we headed down the road to shoot the next flashbacks: Terry asking Hannah out, and them returning from a date.
Outside Hannah's House
In a continuing confluence of awesome, we made a crane out of a cherry-picker. This made Josh, our DP, look suspiciously like a foreign dictator. Then, his leather jacket and gloves, coupled with a pair of my sunglasses, he looked like the Terminator.
In the pictures, you'll also notice super-grips Alex and Tadashi (who we had taken to calling "Tuck and Roll" at this point, since they somehow reminded us of the pillbugs from "A Bug's Life") serving as stand-ins for Terry and Hannah coming back from the date, and then getting carried away with their role...
Once we finished the scenes that took place outside the Hannah's House set, we headed to the cafe on campus, the Centrum, to film another date between Terry and Hannah. A date like any other, until Patrick makes things a little more interesting...
Dinner For Three
Since the Centrum closed on weekends, we had it to ourselves, so we patiently prepped the location as we waited for the sun to set. We picked out plates, slathered them with food, and dressed the tables. This was also our first scene with extras, though all of them were either crew members or family of the crew.
As the Script Supervisor, I'm always struggling to find a place from which to watch the action, but also stay out of the way of the cast and other crew members. Not the easiest task on some of our sets. Fortunately, I was able to set up shop behind the salad station, and lay all my script pages out on the counter.
Once the sun was down, we tried to figure out how to light through and against massive, incredibly reflective glass windows. Once again, Josh and his team of talent succeeded in an impressive feat of badass.
While this day did have 4 set-ups, it wasn't nearly as bad as our shoot on the 1st, because we had a lot more time to work on each location, and didn't need to worry about running as far to each set.
Satisfied with a job well done, we turned our attention to the next task before us: The Prom Sequence.
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