Shot Ben-waiting-outside exteriors in Alhambra at about eight this morning. It was freezing—almost literally. Last night, we had a 'hard freeze' which is rare in LA. Alhambra is a haven for mid-century one-story commercial architecture. I cut the shots together and they work well.
Afterwards, while eating bean and cheese burritos for breakfast, we talked about the bird scene. Ben had very specific, very good ideas about how it should work. Go handheld, start in light and move to darkness as if time has passed, moment of surprise when the clue comes together, prefigure the "shot across the bow." My ideas since Friday have focused more on the design: put newspaper over all the windows, use moving tree shadows, use a gobo to add weird shadows when shooting the interior, maybe go POV at the end of the scene. Sounds like it will all work. But it always seems like it will work. One thing that will have to change is the shrine interior. Making changes to the clue-building scene means making changes to the shrine itself so that the build can take place. A real domino effect. Not a big deal. The one thing we did forsee was needing to shoot around the details. Just another close up shot in the kitchen.
Been cleaning my hard disk and spent some time looking through the last laundry room shoot files. One shot (when run backwards) comes close to what we're going for in terms of mood. BTW, I'm pretty sure that's the 500 watt Omni shining through the window.
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