Oct 28

Time is ticking!

We had our initial meeting with our 1st AD, but with no shotlist yet, it was difficult to get a real picture of how the schedule would look.  I ended up giving each scene a possible number of shots, so that Aaron could at least get us something. 

There has been some challenges getting period firearms and today we came up with an alternative idea.  The only gun which needs to fire is Chomatsu's, so we just get whatever is available.  Hopefully a dark metal, snub-nosed revolver.  We will never focus on it, so it shouldn't be an issue.  Brown's revolver needs to be authentic looking, but doesn't need to be able to fire rounds.  So Michael and I will head to the Army surplus stores and look for period revolvers.  Another important weapon is the rifle Brown has in the first scene.  After a little research we decided it would be good to have a Lee-Enfield Mark 1, no we need to find one.

The DOP and I had our initial discussion tonight and talked about film references.  We seem to be on the same page, which is always good.  He wants to pitch a sequence idea for me tomorrow.  Great, I love it when I'm being presented ideas, that is the best way to get the best from other head-of-department and improve on the vision.

Lots of work to do, not much time to do it!