Forget what you're used to seeing...
Saturday, October 4th Our second day at Tulsa Bible Church proved to be the longest day of the first leg of production at fourteen and a half hours. It definitely put our crew to the test, biting off almost 9 pages of the script, but we also were working with one of Tulsa’s best known and beloved actors: Brian Shoop. Brian is a writer/director that first directed me in the musical My Fair Lady in 1998, and almost ten years later he put together his first feature film called Treasure Blind, which I was fortunate enough to come in at the last second and pick up a part in the last three days of shooting as one of the main civil war characters who bury the McGuffin of the film. Seeing Brian in action helming the film made me realize what all it took to pull off a feature film, and seeing it happen firsthand showed me what I would eventually be in for (and that it didn’t require you to be in Hollywood and sitting on a mountain of money to make a film). While the day was long, we were able to knock out 80% of his scenes since they all revolved around the same location since Brian was playing Gabe, the vagabond that found some charity in the colorblind artist that had nobody else to talk to (or share lunch with). The end of the day found me sitting on the curb after everything had been packed out. I felt content and wanting to soak the feeling in, not knowing what the rest of the production would bring. But, I had a faithful crew and had plenty of wind in the sails for whatever would come next… which the next day held mourning the loss of a character whose scenes we hadn’t filmed yet… Fun note: Brian had lost a tremendous amount of weight in the year prior to filming Greyscale, and he spent most of the day eating hamburgers… I tried to limit the number of takes he had to endure food-wise. Scenes filmed: [6,8,10,11-,12,15] [41] [58,63] [110,112] [125,128] (8.75 pages)
-Oliver & Gabe
