Post Production and Fake Money

Today we went back to WB and got to scout our locations for where we will be shooting this weekend. We are shooting in this place called the "firehouse" with beautiful rafters and wooden beams going everywhere. It's going to be a great little hangout spot for our mobster characters. It's going to be a blast to shoot there. We got escorted around by the Director and Vice-President of Operations and WB (who have been helping us get around and do things the past 4 weeks). They are great guys and have a wealth of experience to share with us.

After that, we got our final tour at WB, the post production tour. We toured the Foley sound room (where they create and record sounds with all different kinds of things and toys and materials to recreate certain sounds), the orchestra room (where they record live orchestra's for movies' scores and such), the ADR room (where they record actors talking if they need to rerecord their voices in post, the same rooms that actors record their voices for animated movies), and multiple mixing rooms. The best part of the tour was when we walked into this huge room with a screen the size of a movie-theater screen, with sound proof walls, and a top of the line state of the art sound system. There was a HUGE mixing board, and we were told that the guys in there were putting he finishing touches on the new Daniel Craig and Nicole Kidman movie, The Invasion. We got to watch the first 7-8 minutes of the movie, and it looks amazing. I have never heard sound that was that good in a movie before. It's not that the movie had the best sound, it was just the room we were in. I was hoping the producer, Joel Silver, would be there, because he might be my favorite Producer in the biz, after producing the Matrix trilogy and countless other awesome films. (IMDB him if you want to know....)

Once I got back home, Tony and I went to the prop house 15 miles away and got some nice fakes money (two fad wads of hundreds) for our shoot. Now we have two very realistic prop guns and fad wads of cash...trouble could definitely follow if we aren't careful.... hehe. Tomorrow we have tons to do, rent folding chairs, coolers, organize our craft services (food) for the two days of shooting, get actor release forms, do a rehearsal/read through with the actors, go get a dolly and 30 feet of track, go to Burbank to get our mat box, make fake blood, go over our shot lists and call sheets....and I'm probably forgetting a few things. Tomorrow is the last hard day of pre-production, and then the fun stuff begins. Saturday I have to wake up at like 5:15 am! If you know me at all, you know this is not good news for me. We are leaving USC at 7:30 for WB, and starting to shoot at 8:30 or 9 all the way until 3:30. It's going to rock! We will be so exhausted by Monday, but will hopefully have great films to show for it! It sure is a good feeling to be exhausted at the end of the day doing something that you love. I hope all of you figure out whatever it is that will do that for you...I can't believe I'm 19 and already know what I want to do. I mean not have a lot of the means of money that a lot of people to do accomplish things, but at least I've got a bit of a head start!

Alright time to get some sleep before I start losing it again!