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We had our third shoot for The Hour before Morning last week. I never did get around to blogging about the second shoot because my computer chose that evening to melt down, so I'll recap here:
Shoot 2: Meravyn, Trenod, and the Wounded Man.
We wrapped Trenod (Sam) and the Wounded Man (Eugene) with this shoot. It was all day Saturday, lots of hard work and good things accomplished. It was also another adventure in the unpredictability of microbudget film making. We asked everyone to block out their whole Saturday to ensure time for the several scenes we needed to film. But life intervenes, and a few days before the shoot, we got word that Sam had to work till 2:00 on Saturday (this can happen when you can't pay your actors and they need to eat) and Eugene had to leave by around 4:30 Saturday to get ready to catch his plane to Mexico. So... our full day for filming became about 2 hours for all the scenes that required Sam and Eugene both. Everyone rose very gamely (and intelligently) to the challenge. Before Sam arrived, we filmed everything else we could that involved just Meravyn (Trisha). Then, we blazed through the Sam & Eugene scenes, and finished up with Sam & Trisha. I was amazed by everyone's calmness and diligence under pressure. Very good performances from all involved. I could feel the heartbreak of Meravyn and Trenod's breakup. Sam played Trenod, I think, more sympathetically than I wrote him, which is all the good. I think he will be a character many people will like. (He tends to be disliked in the book, from my experience.)
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Shoot 2: Meravyn, Trenod, and the Wounded Man.
We wrapped Trenod (Sam) and the Wounded Man (Eugene) with this shoot. It was all day Saturday, lots of hard work and good things accomplished. It was also another adventure in the unpredictability of microbudget film making. We asked everyone to block out their whole Saturday to ensure time for the several scenes we needed to film. But life intervenes, and a few days before the shoot, we got word that Sam had to work till 2:00 on Saturday (this can happen when you can't pay your actors and they need to eat) and Eugene had to leave by around 4:30 Saturday to get ready to catch his plane to Mexico. So... our full day for filming became about 2 hours for all the scenes that required Sam and Eugene both. Everyone rose very gamely (and intelligently) to the challenge. Before Sam arrived, we filmed everything else we could that involved just Meravyn (Trisha). Then, we blazed through the Sam & Eugene scenes, and finished up with Sam & Trisha. I was amazed by everyone's calmness and diligence under pressure. Very good performances from all involved. I could feel the heartbreak of Meravyn and Trenod's breakup. Sam played Trenod, I think, more sympathetically than I wrote him, which is all the good. I think he will be a character many people will like. (He tends to be disliked in the book, from my experience.)
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