So you know how A New Hope was a really really good movie, and then Empire Strikes Back was somehow even better? Well that wasn't the case for me. Not to say to went badly. It actually went pretty much just as well. What am I even saying anymore...
So I picked up Wesley at around 3:30, then took him to my dad's office. This was for two reasons: I need my dad, and I need to film at an office. Now, I needed my dad to play the role of the boss. So here's the thing, I've never seen my dad act in anything before. When I had asked him if he was willing to act, he just said "Actually, I used to be a thespian". No clue what that means. But when I asked if he could play the role of an annoyed boss, he just went "Oh that will be very easy, I'm annoyed all the time".
He pulled off the annoyed and disappointed boss really really well.
You can tell because one of his actual employees walked by, and she thought someone was actually in trouble. When I told him he did it really well, he just said "I was imagining I was talking to you". Love you too, Dad.
After that, Wesley and I drove back to the city center outside, where we had started filming last Thursday. On Thursday, Wesley had to be back by 2, so we just filmed all the scenes that Isabel were in so she didn't need to come back for another shoot.
The last scene that we filmed on Thursday was Alex giving Brian a mysterious bag, and telling him to go drop it off in a corner. So that meant that the next scene was a bunch of walking. Yay. Nothing more fun to film than that.
I probably should have gotten more inspiration for what to do with the scene of him walking. If you have too many scenes of a character walking from one location to another, you just get something slow and boring, like the driving in Taxi Driver (ooh burn!).
In all seriousness, I just got a wide shot and a couple of close ups of Wesley walking, so it should look good. I also had some handheld reverse tracking shots, which I was worried would come out shaky, but they actually didn't turn out half bad. I guess I'm just the best (or the $3,000 camera has good stabilization, one of the two).
The scene after I'm a bit worried about. Brian drops a bunch of what my econ teacher would call "powdered sugar", and as he is picking it all up he gets knocked unconscious. The slight problem is that if he is acting, and I'm filming, we need someone else to punch him. I wasn't about to bring a third person along just for a single scene, so the plan was to have that shot be with a tripod, and I would do the punching. This didn't really work out however. I wasn't able to get the angle that I wanted with the tripod(the shot was too low down), and getting him to stay in frame and in focus without being at the camera was just too difficult.
My on-the-fly solution was to have the camera zoom onto Wesley's face, which would then cut to black right as his face covers the frame fully. I would then add a smack sound in post. Looking back at the footage, I'm not sure how well it will turn out, but if it's really bad I can always refilm it. I just really don't want to.
It would cut earlier than it does in this clip, so hopefully it turns out okay.
After that, we went to my house and did Wesley's black eye makeup, which actually came out really well. I took of picture of it with the camera to make sure it would turn out well on recording.
And yeah it did turn out pretty well. Wesley's looking pretty tuff.
After that was just the ending office scene. All this really starts to feel more real once you record you're ending scene(even if you still have more to record).
Now, all that's left is the scene with the thugs, and I'm done filming. I do have about a week left, so...
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