I Need An Assistant

Tonight, I've spent close to an hour on the phone to Rob Vassie and David Trumble to reorganise the shooting schedule. It was going to be Thursday night, then Rob wanted to film part of his movie that night too. So we were going to do mine then his, but one of his cast couldn't stay up late enough to film his scenes. So now, the final final plan is to film the final scene of Painkillers (the living room confrontation with Ryan and Daniel) tomorrow night at around 9:30, once all the cast have been rounded up and outfitted. Then, Thursday afternoon, we're filming the scene in the car with Ryan and Daniel, and Thursday night we're filming Rob's movie (I'm in that too).

I suffered a mild heart attack tonight from all the reorganising, but on the plus side, the movie's getting filmed, I have confirmed Emma Munn to play Amy at some point (hopefully Thursday), and I'm getting my sister to recruit any of her friends who look like Emma, to play the corpses.

And I've got a really neat idea for a DVD bonus feature; a recut of the film, without Daniel - so the scenes where Ryan thinks he's talking to Daniel, it'll show him alone thinking to himself. It's a version that will realistically show what any spectator would have seen. It'll require a little additional shooting for each of Daniel's three scenes though, but it won't be too much more to handle. However, re-editing the film will have to wait until after the 20th, I doubt I can complete both versions by then. I'll be lucky if I get just the one.