The filming of my Capstone went great. We were in and out in no time. We started by shooting Greg's scene and getting him out. That was followed up by the morning scene with the kids. With those in the can we broke until the evening.
When we returned is was a race to get the kids finished off, so that they weren't up late. Then a scene were Dan returns home after work. Everything was sailing along, and it was a good thing because the next scene was the most intense.
Melanie and Dan's practice was put to the test when we started the argument scene. There was a lot of emotion in their performances and everyone in the room could feel it. But we got all of the coverage needed and called it a wrap for the first day of shooting.
On the second day we started early to get the opening of Dan waking up and getting ready. It was quick and painless, except getting the alarm to go off at the right moment.
The second location was an ally where Dan's character has a mental breakdown. We put a bunch of trash and debris around a dumpster and let Dan freak out. This is where we had our first significant issue.
Dan was supposed to tear up a resume, but I for got to make copies. That was only the beginning, no one had any paper in their vehicles. The only option we had was have him tear up the shooting script and save the one copy of the resume for the close up.
It worked out and we moved on. I used the joys of a smartphone to pull the shooting script up and we shot out the final scene of the day. I have some great bloopers from this one. My friend and crew member, Nagy, played a small part as a man turning down Dan's character for a job.
Nagy jumped out of the office he was in while Dan was staring at the floor in character. This scared Dan, and I have video evidence showing Dan almost jump out of his chair.
That was it for day two and day three was an hour and a half of lack luster filming. So I'm done filming right? I thought so.
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