08/10 Scenes from Saturday the 6th

After a late start on Saturday, we shot the scenes where Percy is approached by Ron Price about becoming involved in the local horror movie, "Lucifer Cicero".



In this scene, Percy is giving a wild monologue and Ron, the manure farmer- turned- sudden- movie producer, interrupts him to offer him a role.


It was challenging to film around passersby and the ambient noises of the skateboard park behind us, as well as battle certain symptoms of being a little hungover...

It was a hilarious scene to film, Emory Kristof is an incredible, no-holds-barred actor who doesn't mind pushing the envelope in the least. It's great to work with actors so comfortable in their own skin, that sort of bravery and confidence really sells the character as well as the script, and makes longs hours of filming seem effortless.

My handsome man, Jesse, got a spot in this scene, this picture was taken just moments before a 'spit take'. (Turn around, Dave!)

Pete and Neil configure a shot.

After the park, we caravanned to downtown Fairfax to shoot a scene on a street corner where Percy is doing a street performance and a woman is shielding her young daughter from him protectively. Our extra for this was young Georgia May, and what a great little girl she was!

Now, I hate to say it, but I absolutely abhor talking to the people on the street whose attention we attract. And being right in the midst of traffic, we garnered a lot more attention than I was personally comfortable with. I could not wait to be finished with this particular shoot.

That's a Wrap!!

We ended the day back at HiConcept Films' headquarters to shoot Percy and Angela rehearsing for the movie "Lucifer Cicero". We watched the dailies from the park and laughed our faces off at Emory's extroverted performance and then set up "Ron Price's Livingroom".


Percy in his wardrobe...

We had to set the camera up in the stairway.

Our producer, Dave, took a liking to doing sound.

This is how the director and I watched this scene being filmed, through the monitor.

Here is a picture of that fourth wall, from the other side. Looking into the camera breaks the "fourth wall", as a stage is set with a background wall and two sides, the front wall not existing so the audience can see the scene. The resulting invisible fourth "wall" is the barrier between the actors and the audience. Engaging the audience with direct eye-contact breaks down that barrier.

Finally, lastly, I wanted to end on a pretty note.

Our photogenic assistant director and post-production manager: Jessi Hutsko.

Stay tuned for Sunday's Motel scenes with Ryan Mulkay as Ian Gilliam.