I had a very eventful visit to Providence last week. Highlights:
I humbly suggest that anyone not confined to an oxygen tent get down to Trinity Rep to see Jessie Austrian and friends in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. It was the best way I could have spent the last few hours of a day which began with a 4:00am trip to the airport.
Ed Cattucci of CRI communications has generously (an outrageous understatement) loaned us a brand new JVC HD100 camera and a Glidecam V16, a device which attaches the camera via an articulated arm to a vest worn by the operator. So I will be frightening small children everywhere we go, and our hand-held shots will be smooth as silk.
We are doing quite well both on props and locations, thanks to Sixten and Kas respectively. You can see some new scouting shots here. Thanks to Lolo Jawerth and Sixten Abbot for standing in for me, and Jerry Pulleo for showing us around both the warehouse location and his own incredible house.
Cast, and therefore schedule, are still works in progress, which is about where we should be with three weeks to go.
We're deciding whether to buy or rent guns, but we have decided on full load blank fire guns in either case. These are incapable of firing, but have working action, muzzle blast (to a certain extent, we'll see), and shell ejection. You'll hear me say it many times more, but safe as they are, these guns are still dangerous if abused, and have caused at least one famous fatality. We'll have the rules laid out well in advance but I will expect everyone to treat them with the respect they deserve.
That's it for now, much, much more going on, but my time is better spent working on the production than posting about it at the moment.
Posted by Steve at September 25, 2005 12:22 AM