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SUNDAY
JULY 12, 1998, Shooting Day 9 of 16
We
shot Toe and the desolate road scene after he leaves Stu’s house and is all fucked up
on big game tranquilizer. It was a lot of fun to shoot this
scene and we got a ton of good stuff. Lots of road flare scenes
shot at 6 fps, and some black light scenes where we had some
chemicals in Toe’s eyes to make them glow green.
We
also shot Paco calling Jarvis after the Del Rio shoot-out. This
scene was powerful. Luis really gets into playing Paco.
It was a great performance.
MONDAY
JULY 13, 1998
G&S
Lounge fell through. Lots of miscommunication here. They
thought we were going to show up at 10:30 AM and be finished
by 4:00PM. We thought we would show up at 6:00 PM and shoot
all night. The owner said he would block the back parking lot,
alert the neighbors of the shoot, tell the police that we were
going to be shooting off blanks, and let us film wherever we
wanted. It turns out that there are two owners and the second
guy says "Hell no we can’t block the parking lot. You’re nuts
if you think you’re going to shoot off blanks, we have neighbors
to consider. There’s no way I’m going to let you film at night…"
TUESDAY
JULY 14, 1998, Shooting Day 10 of 16
We
shot some pick ups. Barna got us another pawn shop, Scott’s
Pawn on East 7th, the last independently owned
pawn shop in Austin. It was perfect.
We
went to Sugar and Spice on South Lamar. We shot the scene
where Toe calls Ross to sell him the
pills. There were a lot of cool shots and great colors. I felt
really good about that stuff. It was also fun to busts open
the gum ball machine.
Richard
and Barna ran the B and C camera. Richard was on a ladder for the bird’s
eye view, he ran the CP-16 we got from Jay Duplass and
shot on Ektachrome reversal. Barna shot the super8 footage,
and Jackson ran his camera in slo-mo. I
think it would be neat to, at the point of impact, cut to all
three explosions for a triple shot.
WEDNESDAY
JULY 15, 1998, Shooting Day 11 of 16
We
shot scenes where Jarvis kidnaps Ross. Paul
was great as the nut case, Jarvis.
At
one point, Jarvis’s belt buckle flew off. The buckle
bounced off of Scott Pate’s
Volvo and hit Jackson in the hand resulting in a small
wound, for both Jackson and the vehicle.
We
also shot the drop site scene at the car wash, where Ross
and Jarvis fight. Jackson wasn’t happy with the
location and all the different colored light sources. I like
the idea, myself. So Jackson set up a bank of white soft
light to just light up everything. I didn’t get the coverage
I wanted, Jackson was moping and we were fighting the
sun as it threatened to rear it’s ugly head. I filmed some masters
from different angles in hopes to get enough coverage.
Ross
and Jarvis were throwing themselves around for the
camera. They rolled off the hood and onto a matters several
times. One time in particular, they rolled off fast and as they
hit the ground, all I saw were feet sticking up. It looked pretty
good. If I had more time I would have liked to shoot some of
the stuff with a longer lens. I went with the wider stuff so
we would have a deeper depth of field and we could speed things
up and get more coverage.
Richard brought a bunch of photos
to the set, he’s been snapping the camera quite a bit and the
stuff looks great. I’m going to send them over to Allison
to be scanned into the web site
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