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Thursday…the longest day ever

June 19th, 2008

by: Brad

Most of the crew has been awake since 5:00AM ish and we just got back to the studio now (11:20PM)….and will probably leave the studio sometime in the next 30 minutes…maybe.. we’ll see. It’s been a looooong day! Goodness! We filmed in Southlake (Danielle’s house) all day… well actually a hurricane of a storm came through Fort Worth then Dallas this morning, so we had to wait at the studio before leaving for Danielle’s house. We didn’t actually leave the studio until 9:00AM – when the storm finally passed through.

A very quick summary: Driving to Danielle’s house in the rain… 6 car caravan… We filmed some of the interior “Love Triangle” scenes first – because it was still raining. Danielle was technical script supervisor for her first movie camp… very cool. Good job Danielle and welcome to the fun!

Then….The rain stopped and so we went outside to film the treehouse scenes. We had a last minute script modification of the first scene in the movie with Ashton, Alexis, Harrison, and Maddie. Due to the location of the treehouse, Director Linda Seto got creative, lines were modified, and new blocking/direction was given. It’s now very more “Spy Kids” style of a scene now. It’s going to be one of those parts of the movie that you’ll want to play a few times over.

At night, bugs galore…bugs in maggie’s t-shirt… last scene of the day made the whole crew laugh…and Brad laughed so hard, he cried…. we enjoyed moving the “moon” around for the night scenes…. conducting the crickets, conducting the leaf blower….. construction workers that only started working EXACTLY when I said “Action” and stopped working when I said “CUT”… very strange and I think someone said I was cursed because it happened for a few hours like that. Hard to believe, but it’s true.

We all ate pizza at Danielle’s house and some of the kids (Maggie included) played Guitar Hero for a few minutes. hehehe..

Extra special thanks to Danielle Sherrill’s mom and Maddie Earhart’s mom! Also thanks to Blaise for guest appearing in the movie today! You did great!

Aaron plays an absolutely hilarious “Jose” character….and on a random note…today was the most actors “watered” in ONE day (either hit with water balloons or sprayed with water guns…Wow)

Okay…time for some sleep…nite, nite. By the way, there will not be a Thursday behind the scenes video tonight…maybe tomorrow. See ya tomorrow.

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