Lighting test went really well on Thursday night. The crew is amazingly fast and we got through a ton of hard set-ups pretty efficiently.

Got our first real view of the Pale Figure in action and it was tight as hell. The dude in the Pale Figure make-up, Jason, freaked me out a few times on the monitor, man. We had him jump up onto the hood of the car and try to get inside and his action plus Lam’s camerawork resulted in some very creepy moments. So the plan is to just shoot a ton of stuff with these guys and then edit together the most fucked-up little bits from all the footage. We won’t hold on these guys for more than a second most times in the film.

Gregg and I were both really excited. Gregg called Rob in the states just to tell him how sweet it looked. Rob was happy to hear the good news.

Lam lit the night scenes perfectly and we went through every single one of our tests with great results. I was really worried about lighting the night put it looked fine, especially since nothing has been color corrected. Our goal is to make it just bright enough to see and avoid over-lighting as much as possible. Lam adds just enough, man. He’s a great DP.

We worked today, Sunday. Is sucked. Hated leaving Stef and the kids on the weekend.

I mean we got a lot of work done on the first day of the technical scout but I was tired and it started raining after lunch and it wasn’t too much fun. We went to more than half the locations and I walked through what I wanted to do at each place. Then each department head and their people went off and figured out how to make it happen.

My crew is awesome.

Off to bed now. Tech scout day 2 tomorrow. Things are looking good. Real good.

-ed