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 The wonderful people at the Naked Fish again opened their cumin-flavored doors to us so that we could reshoot the scene we had shot in the first few days of production (back when we were all tweens). We had many, many reasons to reshoot: I had the camera on a bad setting the first time, some of the references in the script no longer worked, it gave us a chance to rewrite and make it stronger, we wanted to play up different angles of the characters, and maybe the most important and all-encompassing reason--we knew we could do it better.
Our day started off very well and fun with Amy, Tony, Jim, and Stacey posing for publicity/poster photos at our house in front of our bluescreen. Maura took a slew of pictures as the bluescreen continued to droop and tear like my patience. It worked out very well, and I'm glad we had a chance to do it. Then we had ample time to rehearse the newly rewritten scene, which was exponentially better than our original version. With time left to spare (a phrase I don't use very much when speaking about our film), we headed over to "The Fish" for a pre-shoot dinner. It was me, Stacey, Maura, Mark, Rajah, Frank, Amy, Tony, and Jim, later joined by his brother. It took us forever to get started probably because we were so prepared and so ready to go, but there were patrons there for much longer than I remember the last time. I guess it must be more popular to eat delicious seafood and have some Cuban cocktails in the summer than it is in mid-November. Rajah, Mark, and I ran outside to shoot the exterior which looked so great. A mixture of the magic hour and a neon sign that is to die for. But nobody died. So we began shooting and I gotta say it was almost a flawless shoot. The actors knew so well what they were doing--they've become so comfortable as these characters--that my directions were mere nuances or slight emphasis changes in lines. They performed great and the new version of the scene has tons more conflict and vitality than the original version: so crucial since it's the first scene the four main characters really get to have dialogue together. Plus our inclusion of hatboy/non-hatboy as a key extra was genius. P.S. hatboy is brilliant and non-hatboy is ridiculous. Then there was the humming. We won't talk about the humming too much, because it's kind of a sore subject. Suffice to say that our one issue that night was that there was a distinct humming coming directly from above our special booth. We asked them to shut off the air conditioner, which made it hot and still humming. They discerned that it was probably the dishwasher, that there was probably nothing they could do about it, and actually nobody had ever heard it much before because it usually wasn't that quiet in the restaurant. There were also a lot of dish rattling sounds, so we overshot footage to make sure we're gonna be OK on sound. I'm pretty confident we'll be able to fix it in post and, as Stacey has pointed out, with some music and restaurant background noise, it won't be bad at all. We finished in good time, thanks to some excellent shots, some excellent acting, and Frank making sure to get in a lot of good naps. There will be no need to re-shoot our re-shoot, which is really ideal. My thanks to the super group who helped out that night, especially those who did so back in November too--it was well worth it!!
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