Day Thirteen
Today is our last full day at the Ward house. We start with some mystery with one of the cars. Nope, certainly can’t tell you what that’s all about … important story point.
And actually, we have two cars to deal with today. One of the red Fury shots is a pickup, because on a previous day we once again had issues keeping it running. Our fingers are crossed … and yes, we get the shot.
But the most important shot is the family breakfast scene. We have multiple players on set to be placed around the table, five to be exact; the three Ward brothers, Dan’s wife Jenny (Kira) and Dylan’s son Mason (Charlie).
The brothers have not seen each other for years, but that doesn’t keep the sparks from flying around the table. Hey guys, can’t we have a little brotherly love here, huh? You would think that shooting a static scene with several people around a breakfast table would be simple … not!
It’s just dialogue, right? Well yeah, but there are choices about staging and camera placement and movement, if any, especially relating to the scene objectives, composition and lighting, dialogue coverage, matching eyelines and performance, getting your actors on the same page, and the overall feel and rhythm of the scene. Yes, there are even more choices, but luckily some of these can be played with and tweaked in post. Yet, you had better get most of what you want right here, right now.
We finish up the day with a couple night shots and add more mystery to what could be going on with the family, and how it all relates to their past demons. The mystery and the tension grows.
Day Fourteen
We finally move out of the Ward house and on to a more scenic environment, northwest of Austin … near Marble Falls …
A simple but poignant moment, amidst the scenery of bluebonnets. I was starting to get a bit concerned about this shot, because of the short period bluebonnets bloom in the spring in Texas. We originally were going to shoot this sooner, but the schedule didn’t accommodate it. So we had to force it a bit to get out there.
I am usually a bit nervous about these types of shots. You hopefully acquire (shoot) all the elements you need to make these shots work in post. And as I am not a VFX expert, I do know basically what we need to get. Plus we did have a VFX advisor tell us what we needed to do. It took some time, but I think we got it.
Jerry Alden Deal
Writer - Director - Producer
Over the past thirty-five years Jerry has been hired numerous times to develop and write screenplays for other production companies. During that same period several of his spec scripts were also optioned. In 2007 ‘Dreams Awake,’ shot in the Mt. Shasta area, was Jerry’s feature directorial debut. He currently has several other projects in various stages of development. One of which, ‘The Inner Sonic Key,’ a documentary, is in the post-production queue, while another, ‘One Hand Clapping,’ wrapped production in Austin, TX in April of last year (2018) and is currently in post-production. Two other projects are also on the horizon; ‘Patterns of Creation,’ an animated sci-fi adventure going through an extensive script rewrite, and ‘The God Dilemma’, an unorthodox courtroom drama, whose story is being fleshed out.
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