Today, the entire "core cast" for the episode was called -- Forge, the assistant and the client. In Episode 2, "Forge Goes Wild," Forge chooses Super Secret Agent Geneva Skully to assist her in the investigation of a haunted rock in the middle of a massive conservatory run by Dr. Angel Grace (Whew! What a run-on sentence!)
Faith Aoibhinn DiMarco (Forge), Cris K.A. DiMarco (Skully) and Brianne DiMarco (Dr. Grace) were through make up and wardrobe by 9:30am and we were out the door to Tacoma to hit our two locations before we lost the light (dark falls around 4:30pm right now). Maxwell Kier DiMarco (Maxo) was with us again today but this time he was looking forward to actually having a scene of his own -- though it wasn't as Maxo ;)
Of the 16 script pages (!!!) scheduled for today, all but two of them were dense, twisty dialogue packed with marks to hit, keywords that play into the episode in other scenes, and between-the-lines jokes for our more grown up viewers. The day required an enormous amount of focus for everyone, and with Brianne acting today, I played my own production manager for one scene... and that was one scene too many :) Everyone was floored with Cris' ability to fall in and out of character at the drop of an "Action!" and how convincing she was as a secret agent. The buttoned-down agent was an awesome foil for the hippie innocence that Brianne crafted for Dr. Grace; you'd never know that neither of them have ever really acted before.
It was certainly a day of extremes with the 80 degrees in the Tacoma Conservatory and the 45 degrees outside at the Native Plant Park! Faith, dressed as a bumble bee, looked so perfect for the two locales that strangers kept remarking how adorable she was.
At the end of the day, while Cris volunteered to take the kids homes and get them warmed up in front of the fire, bathed, and fed a huge pasta and herbs dinner, Brianne drove me to the local Goodwill. What was on the list? Knee pads. I will not sacrifice the angle I want for a shot but that means, without knee pads, I'm wearing through Levis at an alarming rate!
$1.99 later, I'm outfitted with black and neon green knee pads thanks to a hastily growing teenager who no longer needs them :) Our equipment budget for the episode is now gone. Of course, it was only $10 to begin with.
Our totals today:
2 locations
16 script pages
56 shots
118 takes
So our director's scorecard ratio for today is 2.1:1 marking our overall for our two days 1.63:1!
Jennifer DiMarco
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