There was a scene on Friday, where the couple wakes up in the middle of the night, to find that the wife has had a miscarriage. On my pre-production day, I purchased chocolate syrup and poured it onto a blanket, thinking that it would harden and my actress could just lay on the puddle. I'm filming in black and white, so i didn't need anything red; chocolate syrup will come off as blood on film. Well, day of, i touched the chocolate, and it hadn't hardened. It was sticky, instead. So she laid down on the sticky chocolate syrup puddle, and when the actor bent down to scoop her up, he lifted, and she stuck to the puddle. Can I tell you that all of the crew was on the floor laughing and crying?! The poor actors just stood on the plastic bags I'd placed on the floor, as chocolate dripped off of them. They looked borderline horrified, as they watched us try to catch our breaths and compose ourselves. It was one of the most disgusting things I'd ever seen. Easily top five grosses moments ever. One of my crew mates said to me, "you really put your actors through a lot." I felt so bad. But I feel as though we my crew and I have a strong bond with these particular actors now.
Sunday and Tuesday we filmed on a crew mate's movie. That was a lot of fun too. I just remembered thinking that I could really get used to this. I am so happy right now; it's almost incomprehensible. It is definitely indescribable. I'm so glad I finally took the steps to do this.
We'll do some more filming this week and then it's back into the classroom on Monday. In the meanwhile, because I filmed my movie on film, instead of with a digital camera, I have to have my film processed. Normally we just turn it in at school, and it magically appears to us in digital form. My directing teacher told us that if we wanted, we were able to sign up to watch our film be processed and correct any coloring issues. This process is called a Supervised Telecine. When we drop it off at school, it's Unsupervised. So, I called and set up an appointment. No one else in my class seemed to express interest in doing this. But what I found was that with the amount of film I shot, and with my student discount, it's actually CHEAPER for me to do the supervised. Now, I don't know about you, but I get to sit in, have them make corrections, AND pay less. Sounds like a terrific deal to me. That's scheduled for Friday morning at 11. Super excited!!!!
Alright, I'm about to do some recommended reading: Directing Actors. I'll let you know how the rest of the filming and the telecine go. Bye!
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