Bringing You Guys up to Date
By Tony Vallone story, screenplay, associate producer
It has been awhile since my last blog entry which is just as well because I have been really busy. Luckily I’ve had some other people sending me entries to lighten my load. So this entry will attempt to bring everyone back up to speed with what we’ve been up to.
We filmed at my old high school with all four of our guys. Aaron Ashmore (Alec), Justin Mentell (Ryan), Johnny Lewis (Nolan), and Ben Savage (Patrick). We were filming the opening scene in the story where they all break into their old classroom to steal something that was confiscated by their teacher.
It was great to have them all here because they get along really well and in the scene I felt that they truly were good old friends. In reality they’ve only all just met.
The next night we went to a different high school to film all the boys before they break off for the night. It is there that we took this great picture of all of them together:
After that, everyone but Justin Mentell flew back to LA and we filmed some more car rig stuff. This time it was a little more sophisticated with a generator ratcheted to the front of the tow car. Brad had also spent his free time in the previous week welding on platforms for lighting and camera.
The following night was pretty intense. We were shooting another scene at our abandoned house which had since been completely cleaned up. We had to match the exact placement of ALL OUR PROPS. Down to the position of the very last beer can and the aggressiveness of its crumpling.
The night after that we filmed a slight throwback to American Graffiti. It included a familiar car character:
The night after that was more car stuff. The last of the Geo Metro car stuff. Justin and Eve were glad not to have anymore long dialogue scenes in that car. I don’t know what the big deal is, I liked it. The funk lingers on your clothes longer than any other car I’ve driven.
That brings us to yesterday where we filmed a crane shot. No dialogue and only one shot. It took us 4 hours to set up, 15 minutes to film and an hour and a half to break down… but believe it or not it was worth it
So that is the big update from me. We have about 12 more days of filming and then it is back to LA and back to seeing the sun for more than an hour or two each day.
It has been awhile since my last blog entry which is just as well because I have been really busy. Luckily I’ve had some other people sending me entries to lighten my load. So this entry will attempt to bring everyone back up to speed with what we’ve been up to.
We filmed at my old high school with all four of our guys. Aaron Ashmore (Alec), Justin Mentell (Ryan), Johnny Lewis (Nolan), and Ben Savage (Patrick). We were filming the opening scene in the story where they all break into their old classroom to steal something that was confiscated by their teacher.
It was great to have them all here because they get along really well and in the scene I felt that they truly were good old friends. In reality they’ve only all just met.
The next night we went to a different high school to film all the boys before they break off for the night. It is there that we took this great picture of all of them together:
After that, everyone but Justin Mentell flew back to LA and we filmed some more car rig stuff. This time it was a little more sophisticated with a generator ratcheted to the front of the tow car. Brad had also spent his free time in the previous week welding on platforms for lighting and camera.
The following night was pretty intense. We were shooting another scene at our abandoned house which had since been completely cleaned up. We had to match the exact placement of ALL OUR PROPS. Down to the position of the very last beer can and the aggressiveness of its crumpling.
The night after that we filmed a slight throwback to American Graffiti. It included a familiar car character:
The night after that was more car stuff. The last of the Geo Metro car stuff. Justin and Eve were glad not to have anymore long dialogue scenes in that car. I don’t know what the big deal is, I liked it. The funk lingers on your clothes longer than any other car I’ve driven.
That brings us to yesterday where we filmed a crane shot. No dialogue and only one shot. It took us 4 hours to set up, 15 minutes to film and an hour and a half to break down… but believe it or not it was worth it
So that is the big update from me. We have about 12 more days of filming and then it is back to LA and back to seeing the sun for more than an hour or two each day.
Labels: Week_5
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