It has been a little while since I had a chance to update everyone, but that is not to say that nothing exciting has happened.  Catching up on the past: the remainder of the shoot for Predisposed went extremely well (without nearly as many technical delays as the first half of the shoot).  We shot the final scene on the last day as planned, and thanks to the dexterity of the crew - who moved with cinematic blitzkrieg speed setting up the shots - we were able to spend a lot of time working behind the camera.  Everyone walked away feeling confident that we put together a great film, and after watching a rough cut that Phil and Alex threw together I am confident that this is true. 

In other news, I signed on to do Tony Fiorentino's new play, "Dinner with Amy," premiering at the American Theatre of Actors.  It is a fast paced, witty comedy (a la anything written by Aaron Sorkin) about a fundamentalist Evangelical named Amy who attempts to convert a professor from the local university and self-admitted serial sex-dater.  It is scheduled to open on December 19th and run through December 23rd in ATA's Sergeant Theater.

 
 

Shooting for "Predisposed" began this Tuesday (11/13/07), but I haven't had a chance to write about it at all.  I will do my best to fill everyone in.  So far things have been great and the crew has been amazing.  We've been slowed down by some technical setbacks (as if there is any other sort), but Ron and the other producers have done a wonderful job of making sure that secondary plans are in place to continue shooting.  We wrapped the third day of shooting today, and arguably the most difficult with the gangsters breaking in to the drug dealer's house.  There was a ton of blocking and it involved the entire cast, so it was quite the undertaking and I think everyone feels better to have that under our belts.  I spent most of the time bent backwards over a wall being chioked, so I got a pretty good view of the ceiling - which, by the way, looks great thanks to the art department...well, the ceiling looks like any old ceiling, but the rest of the house looks great in a "this is a shithole" sort of way.

Tomorrow we have to reshoot a couple of scenes that we lost because of generator issues as well as the driving scenes.  It will be well worth it in the end to go back wand rework the scenes that had the lighting issues, and I'm pretty sure that we'll have plenty of time as long as the technical side of the car shots doesn't get in the way of things and set us back.

 
 

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For days with me check out: http://tailslating.wordpress.com/2007/06/23/the-hayley-project-day-3/