Eddie & Liz

This morning we worked on and talked about the Eddie scene over at John Andring's house. He lives about two minutes from my apartment, so the drive isn't too far. There is a rather big part that takes place in the neighborhood at night that is going to require a lot of planning and cooperation. It's going to be a tough scene, but I'm not trying to think about it yet. I should be thinking about it though, because I'd like to get ahold of two more cameras and with operators behind them. But enough of that, I'll post some photos from today:

Eddie's "Office" a.k.a that awesome creepy basement;
Night of the Hunter creepy.

In thinking about this sequence, it's been broken down into five parts. 1) Paul drives up to the house, scopes out the neighborhood 2) Paul rings doorbell, Eddie comes from the side 3) the two men talk in Eddie's "office", inside the basement 4) Paul talks with Kate, the lady in Eddie's living room, & 5) Eddie and Paul have final exchanges outside. 

This scene will be photographed on Wednesday, September 14th. Now all I need to do is find someone to play Kate. I'm fairly certain this won't be hard to cast, as several friends have already expressed interest in playing this brief character.

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At a little after 1:00pm, Jennifer showed up at my apartment. We ran through the first Liz and Paul scene for about 45 minutes or so, then we moved the action over to my parents house where we shot the scene. Even though another big scene that doesn't have anything to do with Liz will take place in the house, we shot in a living room. I shot it rather tight. We'll get away with it. 

So far with the production we seem to be averaging eight takes per scene. I think the most takes I ever did for anything project was 25. That's excessive, yet an idol of mine, Michael Mann, has been known to do maybe up to 100. That is nuts, and no-doubt wears the actors down.

After shooting one scene we rehearsed another part that will take place in the lobby of my apartment. 

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4 scenes shot, 96 more to go.

Tomorrow night we will either rehearse some stuff or shoot a few smaller Paul scenes.