Second shoot
Our second shoot, or first production shoot, had to be cancelled a few weeks back, because one of the cast members was sick. So it has been a long 3 weeks waiting for yesterday to happen, our first real shoot.
We shot the first two chapters and some additional footage to be used elsewhere throughout the series. Unfortunately however, we had thunder and rain for most of the day, meaning at the last minute we had to change the some of the locations to be indoors. Not only that, but we had to wait for the patches of dry, so the audio was clean from raindrops on the roof.
The one big thing we noticed during the shoot, was the difference between traditional directing, based on fixed characters with a fixed script, and directing for an improvised work. The result is the “director” appears to have less opinion, and is less inclined to “direct”. In many cases, where the director would have jumped in, we had to hold back in the name of improvisation. Let the characters do their thing, so long as it satisfies the chapter, character and series arcs.
Two of our characters are going away for a month, so we’ve changed the original plan of releasing in September and filming as we go, to producing half the series up front, and then start releasing episodes in early December.
The web site is coming along, you can check out the place holder at www.bonny-clyde.com. And we should have a trailer up in the next few weeks, so stay tuned.