It’s Wednesday night, and while the rest of you out there are watching “Lost,” we’re steadily chipping away at the script. This production is shooting an average of 10 pages of the screenplay each night, which is unusually high. But we’re keeping pace with the schedule thanks to pre-production rehearsals and stellar line memorization by the cast.
Good news: We’ve found our dog. Our shitzu is straight out of central casting thanks to an agency that leases animal actors. You don’t want to know how much they’re charging us for one night. Put it this way, the human actors aren’t making this kind of money. For this amount of cashola, this shitzu better put on an Oscar-caliber performance when we ask it to roll over and play dead. And, no, we’re not giving the dog its own kennel-trailer.
Tonight’s set is subdued. Only 5 cast members are involved, and much of the shoot takes place inside a green Dodge Charger that’s straight outta “Dukes of Hazard.” It’s an easier lighting set up and, apart from a few dolly shots on a line of track, much of tonight’s shots are close-ups in the vehicle.
The assistant director, Danny Schrader (below, left), as the respect and admiration of the crew. Danny runs a very tight ship and it means that Josh can focus on getting tone and perfo
rmance -- the key elements of this comedy. Danny
has worked on "Will & Grace" as well as reality shows such as "Big Brother." I gotta sit down with him and hear some of the stories he must have from what goes on inside that house...The director of photography, Clark Parkhurst (above, right), is the epitome of mellow. A long-time friend of Josh -- they went to film school together -- Clark is currently working on special effects work for "Wolverine." The film is looking incredibly handsome even before all the post-production work on the Red Camera, which is being managed by Alex Hanawalt (currently making his own documentary about urban planning). Editing falls under Drew Kilcoin, who is going to have his work cut out for him since Josh would like to have a cut ready to take to Comic Con in July.
By contrast, we’re expecting an intense and complex shoot tomorrow.
-- Stephen Humphries (production assistant)
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