Yesterday, for about two hours we shot a bunch of pickups/reshoots in the workroom. This had to be really boring for Erik and Ben since these were just short unrelated bits—e.g., the spinner falls, or Ben clicks on the hand clicker, or Ben stands there in front of the spinner. Despite their simplicity, some of the shots took awhile. Just getting a good clicker shot was tough. Ben handles the tedium by acting like a nightmare actor. It's like directing Chad Palomino.
The Ben standing shot worked great. I finally figured how to achieve that look I was going for. It's all in the setup, not the shot. You build some tension before the shot and then—boom! Ben is just standing there. And the spinner is broken. I like the way it came out.
The one thing that we have to do again is the jib shot of Ben reaching into the shrine. First, the lighting is too off. It just won't pass for outside (we shot it in the garage). Two, you can't read "ex nihilo." Three, Ben is wearing the wrong color shirt.
It's interesting what Ben cares about. He has lots of comments on some storypoints and the way certain things look. He has incredibly sharp eyes for some things. Then, there are things he just accepts. Like why he has to be typing on a typewriter instead of a computer. Or that the clue is embedded in a lobby card. "You're the director," he says.
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