So - it is 13 minutes passed midnight which means I did not get my blog done for the first day of pre-production... already a little behind... yikes.
I began the day after a full nights rest - as now I am grateful for that. I had set up a meeting with my team at 2:00pm this morning at Hought's 24 flavors (our sponsored location). I spent the most of last night and this morning running scene after scene in my head, shot after shot - all of it was "SLIPSTREAM" like.... but around 10 am this morning I was able to start fusing pieces together and come up with a brief outline.
Action - I thought to myself - no real dialogue just cool stunts and explosions.. oh wait I have no budget -
2:00pm: I arrive at the meeting with the ideas in hand and we immediatly start trying to figure out who can play these parts. I had the foresight to call up Mike Cooper (EOU theatre student I know) to meet with us as a quasi casting directing and a potential "THUG" himself.
Anne suggests someone for the MOB BOSS part and it pans out - we have our first actor. Mike has a handful of GOONS to use - now we just need our leading action star and the lady star. We have some friends with think will be perfect - we give them a call - DRAT! Already snaked by the "DRAMA" team.
A suggestion from Sarah from behind the ice cream lands us our lady...but no luck on a leading man... my mind is filled of ideas and twists and turns - but more so on the key ingrediant - one of the main elements of a good action film... "THE CHASE SCENE" - Definately putting some focus here...
I stumble through Blockbuster and run into an old favorite... Bobby D. in "RONIN" - man oh man - one of the best car chases in action history... take a look:
So as the last couple of hours have passed doing some daily-need doings - this chase scene has been stuck in my brain... K - still need my MAIN ACTOR - we start shooting tomorrow or today I guess - I know the person will pop up - but by 2:00pm tomorrow where I need him to yield a Samari sword! - I guess we will find out... hoping to get some insights during dreamtime.
Excited to see what our mystery prop is in the morning!
Sweet Dreams,
Christopher
1 comment:
Hey, maybe you'll luck out and your prop will be Jean Reno!
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