Monday, July 09, 2007

Day 14 Wrap

Back to Hastings for the final two days of shooting. Driving into town across the Highway 61 bridge felt so good and seeing Pam at the Rosewood Inn made me feel right at home. Hastings has been a wonderful place to shoot a movie and I hope to one day return to shoot another.

There was a tour going on at the LeDuc when we first got there in the afternoon so we couldn't start setting up right away. Once inside the crew worked double time and had the house looking exactly like it looked the last time we were there. The museum plaques and artwork were taken down, the exit signs and security lights were covered up, and the beautiful interior of the mansion was uglied up again for the purpose of our shoot. We had an extra lighting package with us this trip so we could handle a longer shot from an upstairs bedroom all the way to the basement stairs. Fine tuning the lights proved to be a lengthy task, but we got everything the way it needed to be, including blacking out all the natural sunlight from outside. Three hours of set up for a scene that lasts a whopping 30 or so seconds in the movie. It was worth it, though.

The rest of the overnight shoot was spent with more chasing scenes. I got beat up a little, but that's all part of the game and well worth it for the end result. I sure didn't get to stretch my legs as an actor much, but all we did tonight was still very necessary for the movie. I apologize for being vague about the scenes, but getting too detailed would spoil the movie.

We were visited on set by a photographer from the St. Paul Pioneer Press. He got some great photographs for an article to be printed in the East Twin City's paper. Look for it online under our publicity heading.

After wrapping around 2:00am (wow, an early night!), we went back to the Rosewood for some deserved rest before the final day of principal photography. Smile and a tear.

~ Justen

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