Do Over!

We were scheduled for a two-day shoot in the beautiful Manhattan Supper Club, but thanks to the hard-work and talent of the cast and crew, we wrapped in one. So, after patting ourselves on the backs and exchanging pleasantries, we went our separate ways looking forward to a well-deserved day off. Two days later, we gathered in a residential neighborhood of Orange to film another scene and learned that there had been a problem with one of the cameras and some of the footage might be unusable. So the night's shoot suddenly grew by several hours as we shot a new dining-room scene and a completely new, semi-improvised ending. I was a little apprehensive, thinking that the previous shoot had certain qualities that would be difficult to recapture, but I left thinking the new footage was even better. It felt like we were even more relaxed with each other and comfortable exploring and heightening. Kudos to the director for bringing together a group of strangers with the chemistry to function as a convincingly dysfunctional family. After the final night of shooting, I got good news from the director: both night's footage looked usable after all, and he's planning on editing two different versions. I'm looking forward to seeing both of them. It's not often I get a twofer.