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We have less than a week left until the shoot. While I’ve been alternating between curling up in a fetal position and running in circles around my living room in excitement, my lovely A.D. Justine and 2nd A.D. Jacqui, and of course producer Amanda, have been working to keep this shoot on-schedule and in control.
What’s been done?
- Art director Candace has been designing and executing a surrealistic reality for our characters (you figure it out) that is funny, dark, and just a little crazy in the best sorts of ways.
- Jacqui and Justine met with me for an absurd amount of hours to try to talk me out of every single shot in the film. It was a valiant fight, and they made some major wins in the favor of saving time, but I managed to hold onto our money shot despite their death threats (and Justine’s temporary coma in the middle of the Tisch common room when I announced we were doing an entire scene in basically one shot).
- Our D.P. David designed a shot list to die for. (Haha. Get it? Die? Death? C’mon.)
- Storyboard artist Michael made the boards for one of the most complicated scenes to cover.
- Amanda kept everything going, despite the fact that she has a movie of her own to shoot.
- Boom op John Doe has decided not to make an appearance until sometime later next week, so as to make a dramatically late entrance into our otherwise complete crew.
I’m about to go to the first full-cast rehearsal. Can’t wait!
Cast and crew are LOCKED! I’m ecstatic. I’ve never had a production where I was SO enthralled with every single person working on it. The cast is amazing, the crew is both talented and friendly, and Amanda is producing all of our lives on top of the film.
And rumor has it we might have a location locked by Monday!!!!!
The one casualty in all of this? My favorite character, Billy’s best friend Willy, has been demoted to a background artist. He will be missed by “Team Willy,” who fought so hard to keep him as supporting role.
So, we had our first 4 hours of casting today. Very exciting! Sixteen extremely talented actors showed up, and there should be many more next weekend. We’re already having an extremely hard time choosing (expect fistfights soon!)
Special thanks to Amanda and Justine for sitting through my ridiculous adjustments and to Lexie for dealing with the meanies in the printing lab!
So I’ve started my favorite part of the pre-production process (maybe even more so than the writing): casting. I think auditions are a wonderful way to meet incredibly talented people, and it’s the first time I get a chance to see the characters of the script come alive.
We’ve (Producer Amanda, A.D. Justine, and I) already received 208 headshot submissions… after only publishing one breakdown! I’m expecting a lot more once we add the breakdowns to a few more publications.
This weekend we’ll start having people come in to read. Eek! I can’t believe this is happening so quickly! Now if only we could find a hospital… (We’re open to suggestions!!)
