TUWOPS: Day Ten

Here we are. Two thirds finished. What a ride today was. It started off pretty horribly to be quite honest. To set the scene we were shooting on a sound stage, and we don’t have the kind of equipment one would usually have when shooting on a large-scale sound stage. We needed something to patch into the sound stage’s electrical. So what we thought would be a simple pick-up at the camera store took A LONG time and because the crew member who was picking it up had all of the make-up with them we couldn’t start to process any of the actors. We started today two and a half hours behind schedule. Because our crew is awesome we were caught up by the third of six sequences we had to shoot today.

Two of our sequences today required a fair amount of blocking and figuring out. In the end we went into over-time a bit, but we had planned for that for today anyway, we actually planned to go much further into overtime so technically we did quite well, especially considering our start. Go team!

So today we finally got to put Zoie Palmer up in a scene. I don’t want to show off too much of her stuff today and it’ll ruin the scenes for an audience not familiar with the script. We also had Landy Cannon, Ace Hicks, and a slew of great actors doing background joining us today.

The hardest part about this whole process has been getting all of these amazing actors and only having a few days to shoot with them for the most part. Outside of being tremendously talented they’re also a group of really sweet, beautiful people.

So, for your viewing pleasure, here’s some stills from our last few days now that I’ve had a chance to catch up on digitizing the footage:

Pat & Tricia

Tricia being interviewed:

Kris being interviewed by the lovely Ms. Hoople.