IceBreaker Production, Day 2:

Day two went equally as smoothly as day 1, with the exception of one small detail, but more on that later. Chad and I arrived at the townhouse (doubling as Tina's house, the kitchen and the bedroom) at about 0745. Randy, our location manager, was there to meet us. Next to arrive was Brian our sound engineer. We unloaded all the equipment into the garage which would act as our staging area. Our Production Manager Ben was the next to arrive. Our PA's had some personal matters to attend to, but they would be on set as soon as possible- no big deal, they both work their asses off. The first scene we are shooting is the ice cream bit with Sam (Emily) and Tina (Dawn). We get audio setup and then the lights and camera. Todays breakfast: orange juice, donuts and strwaberries that Sarah the PA brings later. Ben is doubling as PM and Script Supervisor today (Narayanan had a prior engagement). We soon find out that our boom operator is not coming (scheduling error). At about 0845 Jay (PA) shows up and is informed that he will be the boom operator for the day, he gladly accepts. At about 0900 Nicole our make-up artist and Dawn (playing Tina) arrive on set. After some breakfast and chit-chat Dawn goes into make-up. Shortly thereafter Emily arrives (playing Sam) and goes into make-up after Dawn. While the final lighting design is being devised (Nick and Jay) Dawn, Emily and Chad rehearse upstairs while make-up/wardrobe is being finished. At about 1000 we start the first shot of the day. It was a good scene, and both actresses did a wonderful job. It was very amusing watching them eat the ice cream, take after take. We had one technical difficulty during the scene- one of the lav mics had some major static and had to be taken out of commission. No matter, the remaing lav and the boom did a fine job capturing the sound. We wrapped the scene around 1130-1200 and broke for lunch (pizza). This was a day-wrap for Dawn. Next up was the kitchen portion of Emily's monologue. We got camera, lighting and sound set up, then did some last minute production design which included Sarah running out to buy an apple pie. Make-up/wardrobe was awesome (you'll have to wait and see when the film is finished, I don't want to spoil it). Emily did a great job and we nailed it in about 7 takes. We struck the set for a move upstairs and got about half the gear moved when Emily (not me, not Chad, not the script supervisor) realized that we missed a line downstairs in the litchen. Shit shit shit! We moved back down. Rather than reset the entire set, we pushed in on Emily and shot her in a close-up. Awesome, it only delayed us about 15 minutes. Then we moved upstairs for the sex/monologue scene. Emily went into make-up/wardrobe and Doug (playing "man") arrived on set. I set up the makeshift jib I made while Brian setup audio and Sarah and Jay brought the lights up. We decided ahead of time that this would be a closed set due to the nature of the scene (simulated sex). The only people in the room (other than Doug and Emily) would be Chad, Jay (holding the light) and myself. We let the camera roll and the scene was wrapped in about 15 minutes. So far this shot is my favorite of the film. The angle, lighting, performance- just awesome. We had the set struck and gear loaded by 4:00 PM and thats all she wrote- Day 2, done on time.