Rehearsal / Day One of Filming the Sandwich

Today marked the first day of shooting for my class for our three film productions that we will be making in the next two weeks. Today's shoot was for a script called The Sandwich, written by classmate Kristen Hall. We had a crew call at 7:30 am, began filming at 10:30 am and wrapped at 3:30 pm. We will finish up The Sandwich on Wednesday, setting up again at 7:30 am and wrapping up at 2 pm for a company move to start filming my script, Young, Awkward and Stupid.

Our crew positions for The Sandwich are as follows:

Director- Alex Gangi

Producer / 1st AD- Kristen Hall

Director of Photography- Rachael Abrams

Camera Operator- Abosedé Copeland

Sound Mixer- Gerald Butler

Key Grip- Kurt Shrader

Grip- Justin Andrews

Boom Operator- Katy Lowe

1st AC- Adam Tuckey

Gaffer- Wesley Caldwell

Best Boy- Kim Travis

Art Director- Christoph Tallerico

Script Supervisor- Jamey Smith

The cast for this film is the following:

Young Woman- Violet Butler

Young Man- Adam Bailey

We had a pre-production rehearsal / walk through of the set on Sunday morning at 10 am. I took a few pictures with my T2i to test Rachael's lighting schemes. You can see these pictures below.

Rachael using her light meter on Violet to gauge the f stop.

Kim acting as a stand in for Adam to determine our lighting.

Me acting as a stand in for Violet to test our living room lighting set up.

Rachael also acting as a stand in.

As shooting got under way this morning, Kristen took a few behind the scenes photos of us setting up. You can see them below.

Since we used my camera to shoot, I snagged a few stills from the actual film footage for your enjoyment. I made sure not to include any stills that were spoilerish in nature. Mostly, I just wanted to give people a taste of what the film will look like with the lighting we achieved.

You can see all these stills below.

Overall, it was a pretty good first day. We got started late but things went fast once we started. We actually finished up an hour before schedule. Don't get me wrong-- it was still a long day full of stress, hiccups and problem solving. But I loved it. It's great to finally be doing this.

Also, lunch break was amazing. Kristen's mom catered. She did home-made baked zitti and pumpkin cake. Good Lord. So good. I could barely move by the time the break was over. I now know why the professors were putting so much emphasis on lunch / catering.

That will do it for now. Stay tuned for more. I am going to attempt a blog post with behind the scenes photos / film stills for everyday of filming we do.