Relying heavily on editing - and post!

It is becoming pretty apparent that although I had a basic story in mind - that a lack of a solid concept is taking its toll. We have some great scenes shot - some not so great scenes, some big holes altogether, and a brand new concept dreamt of last night - to creatively implement without much of a structured script.

So that's happening... here is a recap of yesterday.

Shooting (TUESDAY AUGUST 19):
6:00: shot a great fight scene in the alley way behind "Ricki Lees" - the old "Mamacitas". Buck and Dan spent 3 hours getting beating down by Jeff. We did some great choreography - pulled off a few stunts (no one got hurt) .

10:00 am: We shot some of the initial establishing shots at Hought's 24 Flavors. We were missing our lead actor so we got a bunch of filler shots of kids eating ice cream, restaurant patrons and establishing our "Handler/Mystic" Renae Wells. Weather or not any of that is useable - only time will tell.

9:00 pm: We decided we needed a filler scene to establish why one of the thugs was not getting beat up in the fight scene we shot earlier in the day (Mike Cooper) had to work. So we visited Waypoint Studio where Test Audiences were rehearsing for Saturday's music at the festival. They were gracious enough to give us 20 minutes of their time to shoot. Thanks TA.

OTHER HAPPENINGS YESTERDAY:

1. The Fire Museum:

Took some photos at the Fire Museum - and was greeted warmly by Kathleen and the Fire Chief (Thanks for the SUpport and excitement.) We will be shooting a nice chase scene through out the classic fire engines tonight.

2. Mega Beard Records

About 1:00 am this morning I decided to go home and try to get 6 hours of sleep in - when I stumbled upon the MEGA BEARD crew - they had a cd of music for us and our fight scenes... so I walked back in and we all sat (Avery, Jeff, Jason, and I ) a previewed some great action music (beats?) music... laid it under our roughly cut fight scene from earlier that day - and BOOM - we had a solid scene - It is pretty amazing how much we can take the sound and music of a film for granted - when really it is the connective tissue to the whole project... Huge thanks Mega Beard !