It went awesome.

The first day was a total success.

Here we go...

Shoot starts tomorrow at 9. I will be there around 7:30 or 8.

Yikes. It's really happening.

The weekend schedule!

Saturday:

• 8am - Setup and prep. Breakfast.
• 9am - Nolan, Workman, Scott & Mark
• 12pm -Lunch
• 12:30pm - Scott & Mark
• 2pm - Scott, Mark, Steve, Kat, Chris
• 3pm - Scott, Steve & Chris
• 4pm - Scott, Chris & James
• 5pm - James & Kat
• 6:30pm - Dinner
• 7pm - Kat & Chris
• 8pm - Assess the stamina of cast and see where we are!

Sunday:

• 8am - Setup and prep. Breakfast.
• 9am - Extras
• 10am - Steve, Chris and Extras
• 11pm - Ensemble and Extras
• 1pm - Lunch and release Extras
• 1:30pm - Pickups
• 4pm - Kat & Chris live action reference

The newspaper props.

 The stack on the right is for the opening of the film, when it gets dropped to the ground. The single one on the right is for one of the extras to hold before the Golightly shoots past.

Here's a closeup of the newspaper. I'm pretty happy with how this came out, although modern newspapers are four inches narrower than the papers from 1870. Weird, huh?

"Oh, I forgot to grope her!" - James Muscarello

We had a blast rehearsing for the upcoming film shoot in two weeks. Here's a highlight from the afternoon!

Ready for the shoot?

 So today I went to Target and bought some organization. At least, that's what I was telling myself as I picked up large plastic boxes with which to organize my props/weapons/etc. It worked, mostly, but it also showed me that I have a lot of stuff. If I need to do another period show? Hahahahahaha. No problem.

 Here are all the costumes on a "Professional Target clothes rack. With wheels." Well, professional or not, this thing is gonna make Saturday morning easy peasy.

I have a lot of guns. Granted, one of them is my friend Marks, but still. Pretty awesome!

The fateful telegram...

So yeah. I found some awesome Western Union vintage telegrams from the late 1800's and recreated them using the new moniker United Union Telegraph Co. I made up a fictitious president and changed some of the fine print to create this prop. I also used a manilla envelope cut down to the right size and reglued with rubber cement. Looks convincing enough to me!