Diary of Production - Day 02

Ok, second day, a new set back! Andrew, the actor I cast on a club, remember? Couldn't make it today, due to a court hearing.. great! I had to rewrite the scene where we was supposed to be in, and we still made it work!

This was one of the longest days we had. We started at 8pm, and were supposed to shoot into late at night. We had three long scenes...

The first one was long, but fairly simple: Alex and Fernando are just hanging out, smoking weed and listening to music when Emilio gets home with Cecilia and confronts him about his drug smuggling into Emilio's school.
We shot this outside, in the Patio. We kept the lighting simple: a 1200HMI blasting through a silk and some CTO to give that hot effect. The reason it took so long to shoot this was because I needed a lot of coverage, so we got 10 shots out of this scene.




Meanwhile, everyone was complaining about a strange odor in the air... Actually, it didn't smell that good there, and I probably know why. When me and Alvaro (the gaffer) were doing some location scouting, when we went to this house we saw this almost dead dog roaming around. He ended up entering a small door leading to the basement of the house, and we never saw the dog ever since. Even during this entire shooting day, we never saw the dog once. So it's Alavaro's theory that the dog went into that basement door to die, and it's still there till this day.

Second scene, fairly simple also. We jumped into the kitchen and we did the scene where Emilio kicks his brother out of the house. Really good acting! Moving on!

Third scene. This was a little bit more complicated. This scene was about a bonding moment between the two brothers, and I wanted a really cool mise-en-scene. Only one shot, no cuts. We had to make that house and patio look beautiful and warm. We took a loooooong time to light it, but it paid off. The scnee looked amazing, and the performances, once again, were right there!



And that was a wrap for day 2!