Shooting Chaointe continued

Ok so I went up to Capital Hill and dropped off Gels, Cstands etc at the location. I talked with Mike to let him know what we were planning. It is ultra important to I think almost annoyingly make sure everyone at the location is happy, you dont want to burn a bridge and you want to be respectful of there business and grateful throughout the shoot. After talking with Mike a bit I ....Oh I still didnt know how many extras we would have to fill the coffee shop. could have been 2 or 20 no idea. So I am sitting there and I see Adam walk by. We hook up and start picking up things like safety pins and markers. We were looking for streaks and tips, you spray this on your lights apparently to diffuse them. We never found them. I also bought a dress and a hood that I never ended up using. So Adam and I pick up more miscellanous things that we will need for the shoot. A notepad oh and gum mmmmm gum. You use this for freshing your breath at 3AM after many much muffins and coffee and pretzels. So Adam and I get back to the location and we started to set up some of the paintings for the shoot. Oh yes I also called the artist to introduce myself and make sure it was Ok to show his art. I will put his name on the blog later I dont have it in front of me but his artwork sells I believe from 125 to 250 depending on the peices. Some of the work really complimented what we were doing and looked good. Actor 1 shows up Josh.

Josh
Josh is a good friend of mine from a long time ago. We use to do music together. not in a band but more like we did music around eachother. Anyway, I hadnt seen him in forever or about 4 years. then the other day when I was not buying thai but buying teryaki instead I ran into him at Fred Meyer. I totally forgot he acted so I called him the next day and said in about 24 hours were shooting, you would have one line and get to stay up all night eating muffins and gum. So he came up and it was great so Josh was the first one on the scene. Honestly after that it was a blur by 1opm everyone was there.

I have to stop there because my pillow is calling my name but I wanted to say white balance.
In merlot whenever the camera is unplugged and plugged back in or whenever you need to white balance this is where you are telling the camera what is white. I still dont have the hang of exactly how far or where the white card should be and what was great is I didnt have to think about it on this set. Eric, Sten and Jeff were a machine. Ok so I will pick up at 10pm The cast and crew all there and the store closing.


Oh I did have this cool woman come up tami or tani or toni maybe kelly I'm horrible with names she was interested in being an extra but never showed up we had no extra's. none . 0 not even with free muffins and gum could I get extras. I could have had them for sure but I didnt want to have to be working with a ton of people and I figured coffee shop staff may be interested. but none of them showed up. Mike could have been an extra but the night ended up being similiar to taking a hallucinaginic for me and it didnt happen, sorry Mike, but thanks again for letting us use your place. Ok so next post will be what happened after 10 PM on Saturday.