Not surprisingly, there wasn't much time during the Hatboxes shoot to draft blog posts, but we did keep up with our Twitter feed (backwards chronologically):
https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/%23hatboxesthemovie
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The shoot lasted for six days and went well. We ran into some glitches beyond our control on the first day (the sun does move inexorably; so do the planes approaching O'Hare from the east and the Friday late-afternoon commuter trains), but beyond those, we kept to our schedule, ate very well, discovered that some cats are good at assisting with data wrangling, and came away with some very good footage.
Photos of the overnight shoot (Urban Orchard interior, day 3):
http://flickr.com/gp/esteban_monclova/4b1x5M/
Photos of the night shoot (exterior of the apartment building two doors from my house, day 5):
http://tinyurl.com/6salu8n
http://flickr.com/gp/esteban_monclova/4b1x5M/
Photos of the night shoot (exterior of the apartment building two doors from my house, day 5):
http://tinyurl.com/6salu8n
I learned more about HVAC controls in those six days than I had known living in 27 different places over my entire lifetime. It's astonishing how noisy air conditioning can be.
I learned that while the shooting schedule may look modular on paper, when it comes to making scheduling changes, considerations beyond the cold linearity of time and geography require a filmmaker's attention. It seemed to work out for the best that the two most intense scenes got shot on the last day, but that was a lucky break. The cast and crew of Hatboxes were an exceptional group of professionals, and working with them was an honor.
I learned that hearing the ingredients in Cheetos read aloud at Hour 11 of Shoot Day Six is unaccountably funny.
We'll keep you posted on our progress. We've already received a rough assembly of the film, and it looks quite promising.
Susana Darwin
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