{"id":5147,"date":"2008-02-29T04:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T04:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box1047.bluehost.com\/~sonicci2\/wordpress\/?p=5147"},"modified":"2015-08-22T13:23:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T13:23:45","slug":"unwinnable-hand-production-diary-9-with-no-rehearsal-comes-on-the-spot-rewrites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/unwinnable-hand-production-diary-9-with-no-rehearsal-comes-on-the-spot-rewrites\/","title":{"rendered":"“Unwinnable Hand” Production Diary 9: With No Rehearsal Comes On the Spot Rewrites…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sorry for being away for so long- it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a crazy few months for me, as you can read about in my \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Creative Happenings\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a> blog on Sonic Cinema. <\/p>\n

Well, after many months of postponements for a variety of personal reasons- most recently, my hospitalization with pneumonia in September (I woke up on the day we were suppose to film actually)- \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Unwinnable Hand\u00e2\u20ac\u009d has gone back in front of the cameras for the first time since June. The plan was to finish up all filming at Ron\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s parent\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s house yesterday (Sunday), and commence from there.<\/p>\n

But life, as it always has seemed to do on this film, intervenes. Sick children (which I can work around- just come in later dad\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6). Impromptu sectionals (no prob- we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll start earlier, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll work quick). And tardiness of key players (when I say 11am people\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 \u00ef\u0081\u0160). To say we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get everything I hoped to finish up done is stating the obvious as this point, but to say it didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really matter is something of a surprise. While we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get to everything I wanted to Sunday, we did get enough done to where we shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to film over at Ron\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s parent\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s house again. Not that they aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hospitable folks- they just don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to worry about the inconvenience of having a tiny film crew and an iconoclastic filmmaker trying to work out a schedule with them anymore\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 \u00ef\u0081\u0160<\/p>\n

That said, the subtitle of this particular blog rang true in every way, shape, and form yesterday when working on the big scene of the day- a short flashback with Ron and Dave where more is implied than actually said. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a compelling scene on the page- the trick would be to make it work on film; as it has with every other scene, the editing should benefit that greatly. The trickiest part is getting the right performances\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6and the flow of the scene. To say my actors have had it rough with my dialogue is putting it lightly- they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had some hard-core marble-mouthed lines to contend with. But God bless them for working with me- they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re making it work onscreen (just wait until you see a scene with Mike and I- it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s almost enough to give you chills the way it works\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6)<\/p>\n

Yesterday, in particular, was quite a high-wire act, as lines were chopped, reworded, and rearranged on the fly during on-set rehearsals, making memorization a tricky proposition (just wait until you hear the commentary about THIS scene; this is guerilla filmmaking at its\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 best folks). But you know what? I like what we got, even if we were fighting time and our amateur status as thespians to make it work. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m really looking forward to editing this thing together.<\/p>\n

In addition to the big scene, we also got pickups for the end of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Movement II\u00e2\u20ac\u009d- as well as a quick insert for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Movement I\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I realized I might need- in the interim. The only thing we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get to was the last scene with the four main guys- myself, Ron, Dave, and Mike- but location isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t important to the scene, as I hope you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll see when the time comes. It made me feel bad that we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get to the big thing I wanted Mike there for, but he did get in front of the camera for one of the pickups, so it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t completely pointless for him being there (that and the fact that he provided an inspired idea for our line reading problems). Next time I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll make sure you are a big part of the scene.<\/p>\n

Thank you again to everybody- Ron, Dave, Mike, Ron\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s parents, and of course my co-cameraman Chris- for their help in this venture. I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do this without you. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more to come\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6including- hopefully- the first movement of the film online.<\/p>\n

Thanks for listening,<\/p>\n

Brian Skutle
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\nhttp:\/\/www.myspace.com\/cinemanouveau<\/a>– Featuring deleted scenes, trailers, and more from “Unwinnable Hand”
\nhttp:\/\/www.myspace.com\/brianskutle<\/a><\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to download or watch Brian\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first video diary after the first day of shooting.
\nClick here<\/a> to read my eighth \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Unwinnable Hand\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Production Diary.
\nClick here<\/a> to read my seventh \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Unwinnable Hand\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Production Diary.
\nClick here<\/a> to read my sixth \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Unwinnable Hand\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Production Diary.
\nClick here<\/a> to read my fifth \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Unwinnable Hand\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Production Diary.
\nClick here<\/a> to read my fourth \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Unwinnable Hand\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Production Diary.
\nClick here<\/a> to read my third \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Unwinnable Hand\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Production Diary.
\nClick here<\/a> to read my second \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Unwinnable Hand\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Production Diary.
\nClick here<\/a> to read my first \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Unwinnable Hand\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Production Diary.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to read “Red Cup Mafia,” another short script I wrote in November 2006- inspired by some recent happenings at work- that I hope to film in the future through Cinema Nouveau Productions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sorry for being away for so long- it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a crazy few months for me, as you can read about in my \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Creative Happenings\u00e2\u20ac\u009d blog on Sonic Cinema. Well, after many months of postponements for a variety of personal reasons- most recently, my hospitalization with pneumonia in September (I woke up on the day we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-news-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5769,"href":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5147\/revisions\/5769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}