I talked with Tim Janke, an old High School friend who works at Tuttles. He will play the bartender in the film, which will be perfect since he does that sort of thing at the bowling alley. Perfect. He's totally willing to help us shoot a scene after operating hours; meaning 1:30am until 3:30am (or whenever, but we'll try to keep the shoot short.)
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Yesterday our new fancy audio recorder showed up. The H4n, a nice compact recorder that will give us great audio for the production. I haven't had a chance to really play with it yet, but I will hopefully have an opportunity tomorrow to do so.
Today I got a small inexpensive 7" portable monitor that will be attached to the top of the camera by a 1/4" shoe adapter (which was $7, and will be in the mail soon). Because this was a more frivolous purchase, I didn't use the money we've raised so for to buy the monitor, but rather my own.
The monitor will be especially nice for location shooting, just to have something a bit bigger to look at. I love the small swivel monitor on my Canon 60D, but there have been times during editing other projects when I realize that something I thought was fully in focus suddenly wasn't. It will be good for outdoor shooting too. I will be making a nice monitor hood to wrap around it though.
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Tonight we worked on some simple Paul and Lady scenes. Lady has a name which is mentioned once, and it's Mary. Jenn, my super awesome lady fiance will play this character. She's excited to play someone bitchy. What are these scenes? I'm not gonna tell you. Jeff and Jenn play well off of each-other. These scenes are pretty much ready to be shot, so we'll be doing that next week. That's exciting. I'm eager to begin the actual production of Nicotine.
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After we ran through those scenes we went off to Ragstock and Unique Thrift Shop to find the wardrobe for the film. I'm dead-set on Paul having an obsession over polyester shirts. Whenever I can, I always wear polyester. Why do I love it so much? There's no big revelation or anything, but it's because of That 70's Show and how people used to ( and still do, to my amazement) call me Eric / Topher. That early attempt to see if this kind of clothing would work on me has translated into pure love of the material and style. Now I've spreading that love into my film. Ha. Suckers.
During my first film there were wardrobe problems occasionally because of mis-communication. But this time everything will be far more organized and I will be in possession of the clothing. We'll also document all clothing of all the characters for the sake of continuity.
Color palette is a subject I will keep for a later blog perhaps, but I don't have too many restrictions with color. There's "complete realism" and "artistic film style" to battle when deciding on the clothing. If there is any realism in this film, we can't deny certain styles and patterns. People wear what they wear; friends don't call up each-other to see what colors they're wearing when going out. For the sake of the movie, there will be problems if we think like that. Some colors and styles may end up clashing on screen causing for an unwanted video effect; for example if we pick clothing with striped colored lines too close together, it will no-doubt be troubling on the eye when the film is screened on the big screen.
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Tomorrow could potentially be a 6 or 7 hour day of rehearsals. I will have more to report then. Gotta get some sleep. I'm exhausted.
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