Today was unusual. I went to work at normal, and got some things done. I had to leave early today to go pick up the equipment which was left at Dave Gifford’s house in Youngstown (since we thought we would be shooting there last week we left it there). That gave me the opportunity to take that nice drive along the river I normally talk about enjoying on Sundays. It was weird because it felt like a Sunday simply because I was making that drive. I picked up the stuff and went home, passing a few school busses on the way. After I got home I rushed to get all the equipment out of my car to try and figure out where to shoot Aaron’s scene in the next hour. I tried a few places and settled on the dining room. I hadn’t really planned on being in there again since we have shot there before. Both scenes involve Aaron in the dining room and it’s supposed to be two different locations in the film. Odds are you wont tell since I’m much closer on his face in this one and at a different part of the room. It should come out fine. I also had no sound person so I clamped the boom pole into position via two stands. It held up well since he didn’t really have to move much. The scene was actually really important even though it was just a short conversation on the phone. We shot maybe 30 minutes or so of footage which is a lot considering the scene will probably be a minute.
After that we got the sound equipment upstairs to try out the ADR process. Aaron only has a few lines so it was a good test run. However, the scene he had to dub had him way far back in frame, making it really hard to see his lips. I had to zoom into the footage 200% to see his lines. This was a scene because of weather I needed to quickly film and get it over with. It’s something you would have a lav mic on the actor for since they are well out of boom range. We’ve known we needed to dub this for months (we shot it summer last year for Pete’s sake) and just now have the time to start the ADR. It went pretty well and we’ll see how it mixes together. I’m trying to get a feel for this and so was Aaron. It’s one of the rare scenes I need to totally recreate everything and throw out the production track. Dialog, footsteps, clothing, background noise, and in this case car doors, car starting, pulling away, etc. Even a few folks walking in the background will probably need a thing or two. LOTS of work to be done on scenes like that…luckily there is only three. That isn’t good but isn’t bad considering what we thought it was going to be just a few short months ago. We finished his lines in about an hour and we both left.
I went to Vintage (which I was late for) and hung with some friends afterwards at Applebees (as is the norm). It’s a fun time, and I’ll miss it. I have three Vintage outings left, and three Sunday mornings left. Hopefully my last Sunday I’ll be able to actually sit in a pew (something I’ve only done maybe 3 times since Spring 2006). It’ll be weird but I’ll love not having anything to worry about on a Sunday. Just come and be a church goer…what a concept!
After I got home I took a bike ride. Three times around the block, hustling all the way lol. I gotta get rid of this chin I got, it drives me nuts. I think this new haircut has actually made me even more conscious of my face. The haircut is kinda roundish so my face looks more round to me in the mirror. I gotta get the face off my face, yuck. Honestly, I normally lose it there before anywhere else so hopefully I can actually get some sort of jawline showing a little easier in the near future. Yea I’m body conscious…sue me.
G’night, I’m bushed and gotta get up at 7:30am to shoot at 9am. Here’s hoping for a good shoot!
