Hi friends. Scene 4 and the street walking scenes from Scene 6 were shot over the Labor Day weekend. Those scenes turned out wonderfully and now only two scenes remain in the production roster ! After nearly two months of shooting on every weekend, while planning the weekend shoots all week long each week, our production's line producer Tanja Nibbering and I are getting pretty tired ! There are two grueling all night shoots left in order to get Episode 2 completed. One scene is a timelapse sequence of the cross on Mount Royal. The camera starts rolling (One frame at a time every 60 seconds) at 2:00 AM through to 8:00 AM. Scene 19 is the closing climactic scene in this episode, and it is an all night shoot with 75 extras, two on camera stunts, and a whole rack of time consuming camera moves and setups. Just moving and setting up the camera and sound take rather surprising amounts of time ! I find it extremely frustrating when I'm working with actors, and we shoot two shots and they are warmed up, only to have to stop again and spend up to 20 minutes screwing around with the camera, while my actors cool off again ! It is a testimony to the talent and patience of my actors that they can give such consistently high levels of performance from shot to shot and take to take, while waiting for the camera to become ready each time. Check out two stills from Episode 2: No Reflection below.
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