Fire!

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 | 8:17 PM

This has nothing to do with fire or flame but I figured that it was a good attention getter...

So over the last week we did a lot of casting, casting, casting! I am amazed at how many great actors I was able to see over a four day period. It was really one of those situations where you had two or three AMAZING people up for one roll. Those were the really hard choices... but what a great problem to have! I'm still use to casting in San Francisco where you put out a posting and get 5 people responding and you make a choice from there. I must have seen 30 people for Mason and 30 people for Layla alone! I wish I had more projects to fill great people into more roles, it's a shame that I can't work with them all.

Beyond that, we hit another great milestone... SHOT LISTS! Albert (the DP) and I sat down over the last two days and hacked and re-shaped my shot lists to create a set of shots that I think is workable within our schedule and will give us a lot of really wonderful moments in every episode. We have started to pass them on to IFC... now I have to see if anyone can decipher my list notation. I have a feeling I should start doing more boards to explain a lot of these new shots.

We are 1 week away and I'm really feeling confident about how everything is shaping up. I can really see it all coming together and the more I see it the more excited I am.

Now it's on to the daily schedule. I think when I see everything I have to do in a day I may take back that confident comment. ;)