Well, here I am back at home in Illinois, having driven back this morning. Last night Jonathan officially wrapped production, and we actually got to sit down for a while with nothing that had to be done!!!
We started out yesterday afternoon with a funeral scene… attended by eleven people. Jonathan had called everyone that he could think of (and I had even tried recruiting a contact about an hour south of Cedar Rapids), but only eight extras showed up. So it was a bit tricky, but I think that we were able to make it look like there was a lot more people there (and no, we’re not duplicating people via CG…).
After wrapping that up, we had to improvise an “AA meeting” scene… most of the actors had to leave, so we didn’t really have enough to do an actual meeting. But it turned out. Jonathan had a plan B.
Back at the house, we set up an intense scene where a drunk “Uncle Joe” vents his anger on his orphaned nephew. Basically we were finishing scenes that we missed getting during the week do to various and sundry reasons.
So all in all, the last official day of production went pretty well! It was a great week, but I think that both Jonathan and I are glad that it’s over. It was busy and tiring, but great.
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