Sunday, November 19, 2006

Who needs stairs when you've got two by fours?

Yesterday was a fun day. Kaleigh and I filmed our play, with Heidi taping. They came at 11 and we were done by 6:30. Yes, it took us seven and a half hours to film a five and a half minute play. We have some parts where we had to rewind and redo someone's line, but there's this delay so we have half of the line and then the real line. Kaleigh goes, "obvi obviously" and then, "oh my oh my god," and I go, "Let's let's". Then we're supposed to be arguing with each other because Kaleigh's stuff is on my side of the room, and then Kaleigh goes, "I'll fix this," and draws a line across the room with tape, except she forgot her line. I'm like out of the corner of my mouth, "I'll fix this," but you can't see me saying that in the film, you just see us looking at each other. Heidi says it looks like there's tension between us, so it doesn't look that bad.

Then Heidi had to leave when we were only like halfway done, and Kaleigh and I were despairing on what we were going to do. We had to film a scene in the car and the way we did it was we propped the camera on some stuff on the dashboard, Kaleigh pressed power and then we did our little conversation, except I had to lean way over for two reasons. One, to get in the shot, and 2, to block the sun. Even when I'm leaning all the way over you can only see half my face. And you can see this little pot leaf air freshener swinging into the shot from time to time. Then we had to film us going into the "pool hall" aka the old house (which has neither a door nor a roof nor stairs) and we were going to prop the camera on some stuff on the hood of her car, but then Heidi came back! Unfortunately, we forgot to take the stuff off the car, so you can see books and stuff on Kaleigh's car but you have no idea why it's there.

At the beginning of the play Heidi did closeups of Korn, Atreyu, Holly Brook, and Killing Heidi posters, each time having a song by the band playing. Then she had a shot of the wall for some reason. At the end, we taped a paper on the wall and I wrote, "a film by Kaleigh and Robin" and Kaleigh taped a piece of paper over that, and wrote "the end" while Coming Undone by Korn played in the background. It looks pretty sweet.

I watched an X-Files episode today involving cannibalism and right after I watched it dad made supper, which were this shish kabob thingies, and I could only eat one until I felt sick. In that episode Scully almost got her head cut off and then eaten (her whole body, not just her head). Which makes "life in peril moment" number eleven or so. But she doesn't get all emotional and whatever like Bones did when she got kidnapped by that killer. Bones started crying and holding onto Booth (I thought they were FINALLY going to confess their love for each other, but noooo) anyway, Scully has only cried once, (well, twice in all, but once because her life was in peril. The first time she cried was when her dad died) and that was when this guy kidnapped her and he was going to kill her to feed his death fetish. She got away somehow and then hid in a closet and when he opened it she sprayed him in the eyes with bug spray or Windex or something, and then they had this struggle on the stairs and I think she fell down them, and then Mulder saved her, and then she cried. I mean, I would cry too if I had just gotten into a fight with a psycho killer. Mulder cries because 1: Scully is kidnapped and presumed dead, 2: Samantha dies because of him (except it wasn't really Samantha), and I can't remember the third one, but I'm pretty sure he cries three times. He also gets seasick. He is such a baby. My favourite supporting character in X-Files is Skinner. He seems like a bad guy, but he is actually good. My favourite Skinner moment was when X told Mulder about something in Alaska but Mulder didn't tell Scully where he was going. Scully slept overnight in his apartment for some reason and X came, thinking that Mulder was there. Scully asked X to tell her where Mulder was, but he was like, "I'm sorry, I must have the wrong apartment," and Scully ran after him but he got into an elevator and closed the door, and when it opened again, Skinner was there and was like, "did you tell her what she needed to know?" and X said something which I can't remember, and then Skinner just attacks him, and for a plump bald guy, he's a pretty good hand to hand combatter. Then he goes to Mulder's apartment and knocks and Scully opens the door and he's all bloody and he robotically states what planes Mulder took and what his ultimate destination was. It was pretty funny. Man, I love Skinner.

Anyway, I'm going to go. Ciao!

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