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| Introduction: Opening the Doors Cast and Crew Prelude Journal 2: ACT 1: Blacklisted! March 6 (Day 2) March 9 (Day 3) March 10-11 (Days 4-5) March 12-13 (Days 6-7) Journal 3: ACT 2: Welcome to Ferndale! March 20 (Day 9) March 21 (Day 10) March 22 (Day 11) March 23 (Day 12) Journal 4: March 26 (Day 13) March 27 (Day 14) March 28 (Day 15) March 29 (Day 16) March 30 (Day 17) Journal 5: April 2 (Day 18) April 3 (Day 19) April 4 (Day 20) April 5 (Day 21) April 6 (Day 22) Journal 6: April 8 (Day 23) April 9 (Day 24) April 10 (Day 25) April 11 (Day 26) April 12 (Day 27) Journal 7: April 16 (Day 28) April 17 (Day 29) April 18 (Day 30) April 19 (Day 31) April 20 (Day 32) April 23 (Day 33) April 24 (Day 34) April 25 (Day 35) April 26 (Day 36) Journal 8: April 30 (Day 37) May 1 (Day 38) May 2 (Day 39) May 3 (Day 40) May 4 (Day 41) May 7 (Day 42) May 8 (Day 43) Journal 9: May 10-11 (Days 44-45) May 14 (Day 46) May 15 (Day 47) May 16 (Day 48) May17 (Day 49) May 18 (Day 50) Journal 10: May 21 (Day 51) May 22 (Day 52) May 23 (Day 53) May 24 (Day 54) May 25 (Day 55) Journal 11: May 29 (Day 56) May 30 (Day 57) May 31 (Day 58) June 1 (Day 59) |
Journal 9 May 17 (Day 49) We occupy two different sound stages at The Lot for today’s work. On Stage 6, where our day begins at 10:00 a.m., Frank sets up Sc. 124 -- Int. Sheriff’s Office: Ellerby and Saunders will canvas the town a bit. Five actors appear in this sequence -- Carrey, as Pete; Garfield as his agent, Kubelsky; Briscoe as Lawson’s Sheriff Coleman; Daniel Von Bargen as Ellerby and Shawn Doyle as Saunders, the latter two playing the F.B.I. agents hot on Appleton’s trail up to this point in the story. A.D. Colwell has scheduled the scene to finish around our lunch break at 4:00 p.m. before moving the crew back over to Stage 2 for several two-shots of Jim and Laurie sharing a romantic moment atop the lighthouse (another version of the actual site in Ft. Bragg fabricated by production designer Melton and his staff). For the “morning” work, Frank has eleven different angles planned to cover the five guys talking about Pete returning by train to Los Angeles to testify. The master shot is staged looking into the three-walled set, with Pete and Kubelsky seated in front of Sheriff Coleman’s desk. The F.B.I. agents stand adjacent.  After completing his takes of the master shot, Frank moves in for different pieces of coverage, close-ups of all five as they deliver their dialogue. While the cameras are moved around for placement, the grips tear out a wall (if you've been paying attention, what are such walls called?). This is my third project with Briscoe, who won acclaim for his role as one of three men whose lives turn tragic after finding $4 million in drug money in Sam Raimi’s Oscar-nominated “A Simple Plan” (he played Lou, the first to die tragically in the film). In addition to his work in front of the cameras (he counts something like 28 features to date), he is also a successful movie/TV writer (with partner Mark Fauser), with Miramax shooting his recent script, “Waking Up in Reno.” The sequence in the sheriff’s office marks the final scenes for actors Von Bargen (so good in the Coen Brothers’ “Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou?”) and Doyle (a Canadian-based performer known for his work in “Frequency”). As indicated on today’s call-sheet, the notation “WF” appears alongside their names, indicating “work finished.” Traditionally, the first assistant director notes an actor’s departure from the production after his/her very last shot but on this show, Frank prefers to do it. The announcement usually draws applause from the crew, especially if the cast member has been a welcome presence on the set. Frank acknowledges both co-stars here graciously. After lunch, it’s back over to Stage 2 for the lighthouse set-up. Frank works for the very first time against a “blue screen,” a huge fabric suspended behind the working set on which visual effects artist Gibson (through the magic of his computer graphics) will superimpose the Pacific Ocean and setting sun. Stars Jim and Laurie engage in some more lip-locking tonight (can you kiss someone continually for over four hours?) in the scene showing the rekindling romance between Luke and Adele. It seems Luke and Adele are the only two aware of the unique “cure” to Adele’s often incapacitating episodes of hiccups. The cure?-- a deeply romantic kiss with her old flame, Luke, extinguishes the agonizing hiccups as she tries to explain to Luke (in Sc. 51 -- Ext. Lighthouse: Adele gets the hiccups; Luke’s kiss still works) that this is the spot where they shared their first kiss. The couple were to be engaged when Luke went off to war back in 1942. Now, nine years later, their romance is re-ignited with his return. Holden displays some real method acting in bringing up the repetitious hiccups during her dialogue, sending Frank and those surrounding the video monitors into fits of laughter in take after take. By the end of the night (coming up on 11:30 p.m.), Carrey pays Holden back -- he emits a thunderous burp just as he is about to kiss Holden’s Adele for one last take. He who burps last... Tomorrow -- back in Ferndale? |
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