First Day with Neil

Today was our first day shooting with Neil for the film. His costume looks good and he was easy to work with.

He did great and we got some interesting shots with him. Didn't finish but we worked faster and did very well i think.

I have also just now (literally) had a possibly good idea that would look cool in the movie.

we have had one problem shot that we have been dreading and that is the tracking shot from one side of the wall to the other. This would be hard to do with our flimsy wall. But here's my fresh idea.


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imagine that the boy and girl are leaning back to back against the wall directly at the center of your 180 rule line (yeah you know what i mean). The trick is we only have one usable side of a wall.
So we imagine the other side exists and begin the shot from directly in front of the girl, eye level. She is writing her second note. She finishes writing and looks at it.

She crumples the note into a ball and throws it over the wall. She sits back to her original position and lowers her head. Then the camera (on a dolly) moves in a quarter circle to the left end of the wall and moves into the blackness. The camera moves out of the blackness and continues the circular movement, but now beginning at the right end of the wall and moveing to the middle of the half circle arch, this time positioning the boy directly in the middle of the shot with his head down. He is wearing the clothes of a soldier.

The note falls directly in front of him, causing him to raise his head and look forward (mimic of how the girl put her head down). The boy gets on his knees, reaches, and picks up the note. He opens the note and reads it.

"Are we at war?"

THE END (of that tiny scene)

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that's my idea, and i'm going to sleep now

goodnight
-Jordan