Warner Brothers Shoot: Day 1

I haven't been this tired in a long time. Yesterday I was running around all over LA and Burbank getting equipment for today's shoot, and I didn't get to go to sleep until 1:30 or so. That would be normal for me, if I wouldn't have had to get up at 5 am. That's bloody early, my friends. That's so early I'm not even hungry. I don't like waking up before the sun does, it's just not right. We left USC at around 7:30 and drove a huge coach bus with our whole class and all the actors and unpacked all of our equipment and took it to our sets at about 8:30. We started shooting at 9 or so. We started with our flashback scene, which is the only exterior (outside) scene in the whole movie. We got that out of the way, and started setting up and lighting our interior scene, in our amazing location, which is this great wide open set that looks like an abandoned building on the inside. It had wooden beams and rafters everywhere, and is really tall. It's a great mobster hangout area, which is why we chose to shoot there.

Our actor's looked amazing, and it was really great to get to see Tony's script come to life. I really enjoyed working with these particular actors, they were a lot of fun and seemed to have a great time. It was fun to goof around on the set with them, especially with the prop guns and money. Our actor, Cal, who is this Australian guy playing the "bodyguard" also is really good at makeup (which we found out on set today, which was a totally bonus) which really helped us out. He touched up all the guys and made them look great for camera, and as for our only actress, Sam, she did all of her own makeup, because, well you know, girls already know all that crap. Cal also was really into taking pictures all over the set, and when we were setting up shots or working on lighting or something, he would take pictures of the other actors "in character". Here are a few of his pictures that he sent us, we'll get the rest up later.



(Cal is the one in the upper right, Nevada Vargas in the middle playing "Marco Sarlone")

This is Michael Vitiello playing "Tommy Sarlone":



Here is our Femme Fatale "Gloria" played by Samantha Colburn.



Here's a shot from the exterior flashback scene with "Tommy" and "Gloria."



Here's a shot of our crew in a golf cart at WB at the end of today. We were exhausted, but still not ready to leave the lot!

Director: Anne (middle)
Writer/Gaffer: Tony (left)
Producer/1st Ad: Me (back right)
Sound: Armando (right)
Director of Photography: Oscar (back left)



Tomorrow is the exciting day, we are shooting the fight scene, and then some more action. I'll get a lot more sleep tonight, but first I have to go get some more supplies for tomorrow's shoot.

Random sidenote about today: The cast and crew loved juice boxes on set. It was amazing, they were all gone in about an hour. I thought it was hilarious, all these tough mobsters, drinking their little juice boxes in this huge abandoned warehouse. Stuff like that cracks me up....

I'll post later about tomorrow, and will get more pictures up... I'm having a blast, doing what I love... that's really all you need to know. ;)