Sunday July 6th: First Day of Principal Photography

Hi friends. The first day of principal photography on Episode 2: No Reflection has come and gone. We had a great day of shooting and we were able to obtain perfect performances, lighting, image, and sound. We began with the longest dialogue scene we had in the episode (Scene # 14), which was a complicated walking and talking scene with short sections were the two principals are seated, then move to another bench in Mount Royal Park. The waether cooperated with our shooting schedual quite nicely. The edited scene will appear for only 90 seconds or so on screen, but it took well over 6 and a half hours to shoot ! The hand held camera shots were very trying on my lower back muscles in particular, as I had to walk backwards with a camera on my shoulder and keep the two principals in frame steady and perfect focus throughout the duration of the scene without flinching. (Try it ! ;-) )

Special thanks are in order to Robin Williamson, who helped steady me by putting her hand on my belt and walking backwards with me. Robin is a gifted and professional makeup artist, who runs 514 cosmetics and is our principal makeup artist on the production. Robin also contributed to the behind the scenes footage posted below. Check out the video and feel free to comment. We also thank our line producer, Tanja Nibbering, for doubling as clap board operator during the shoot. Sometimes folks from one department have to double up and assist in another.