Sunday, October 15, 2006

Erik tames the spinner


If you're not sick of seeing shots like this then you haven't been reading this blog for very long. This is the revised workroom set. From our shoot on Saturday night.

Last night the second unit (that means Ben stayed home) shot the "workroom night attack scene." Erik has mastered the spinner. The trick--"wind it up" counterclockwise. Then set it spinning. This is the scene where the sound from the radio becomes distorted and vibrates in time with the spinner with frightening resultsl! Erik had all these "Close Encounters" ideas for the scene. The voltometer starts to go crazy. Maybe the lights start to flicker. Maybe too far? Erik has the voltometer now. He's going to try to rig it so the needle will jump up and down. We finished in about four hours.

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