Day 28 was the brainchild of that crazy Jim Shalkoski, Jr. who called us the day we arrived back from the Cape, bleary-eyed and 3 days past a good night's rest and suggested that we still shoot something that weekend.  "The nerve of Jim Shalkoski, Jr.!" I thought to myself.  We just shot seven days straight and he's suggesting we not take the weekend to recuperate?!  He's lost his mind.  Which turned out to be true, but still we decided it was a good idea.

Thankfully, what we decided we would be shooting was both light and familiar.  So we decided to not bother the rest of the crew and just have Amy, Rajah, Jim, Stacey & me shoot their cheesy Space Invaders interview segment and the (gulp) reshoot of the reshoot of the funeral procession scene.  We were banking on the third time being the charm.

So Stacey, Amy, Jim & I headed out to a location about a minute and a half from our house when we determined that the playground I had envisioned was--in reality--"full of people and crappy-looking," as Stacey put it.  We set Mitch & Ally up on a bench near the water, Stacey framed it nicely with a sailboat or two in the background, and I got to break out the windjammer microphone hat.  Mike tells us this is not called a windjammer.  But he is terrible, and that's what I want to call it.  Also, he's not terrible.

The entire shoot took 8 minutes.  We shot it on 60 and 24 frames, did a few quick takes of each--and it was funny and fun to shoot.  I think Jim & Amy did a terrific job and really enjoyed all 8 minutes of the shoot.

Then we moved on to the 3rd rendition of the "in the car" funeral procession scene.  I had made some script revisions that made it fresher and better, and the minute we started I could tell it was going to work out a lot more than the first two times.  Jim & Amy had their stuff down, and we hit the usual snags that are now old hat to us in shooting this scene so very many times.  Jim having to drive, act, brake, respond, and not kill pedestrians is a lot for him, but he did them all with flying colors.  I really liked how Mitch & Ally came out in this scene and I'm so glad we kept doing this until we got it right.  My hats off to Jim & Amy for doing such a good job and for being great sports about shooting the scene several times.

Rajah was happy (as happy as Rajah can get) with our coverage, and we even added some stuff afterwards because we were feeling confident about the scene now playing very well.  We actually went outside of the car for a part of it!  Very risky.  True, it was parked, but I still like to think we were playing with danger.