FROZEN STUPID - The Journal, Part Five - Final Entry
Note: This is the conclusion of my journal entries for the indie comedy FROZEN STUPID, where I was Script Supervisor. FROZEN STUPID will premiere in Michigan, Summer 2006.
Friday, February 3, 2006
Dog gone it! We do several shots with Windex the bloodhound today. We are at Tony and Lila’s house. The opening shot involves Windex peeing on Tony’s face as Tony sleeps. Windex however gets the jitters and doesn’t really cooperate. He won’t stand over Tony and wants to lie down or just get away. We end up putting some hot dog water on Joey’s face so that Windex will lick it. Windex doesn’t respond so his handlers put tripe, or cow stomach, around Joey’s neck and this does the trick. Windex goes after the tripe and then licks Joey’s face. The shot works well. The peeing is scratched. I think this will work just fine because some people would really get grossed out by a dog peeing on a man’s face. In the morning, Joey tells Rich that his voice is feeling a little scratchy, but you couldn’t tell that all day. Joey performs great. We do two other scenes with Michelle Mountain, who plays Lila, Tony’s wife. In one scene, she’s merely disappointed in Joey’s character. In other scene, she’s steaming mad, beyond mad and not only yells up a storm, but also beats Tony with several wallops. Joey endures it all valiantly. The last shot of the day involves Joey letting Windex out for a morning pee. Windex runs around, sniffs the ground, and does everything but pee. After the camera rolling about five minutes, he answers our prayers. He goes wee-wee. We all clap and cheer and wrap for the day. What trials we filmmakers endure.
Monday, February 06, 2006
The next to the last day of principal photography. This morning, we go to a restaurant filed with dead taxidermy stuffed animals. The opening shot involves Joey storming in looking for Lila. Rich decides to pan from a stuffed squirrel wearing glasses to Joey. Funny stuff. Jennifer Hughes plays the hostess with aplomb. She’s quite good and gave us quite a few emotional reactions to Joey’s plight. After snapping this interior stuff off, we head outside. It’s 25 degrees and the wind is howling. Joey has to strip down to his T-shirt and put on his dinner clothes. We are all freezing wearing our winter coats, so I can’t imagine what Joey feels like. Piling into the Limberlost Truck� or van, it sputters and acts like water is in its fuel lines. After putting in some new fuel, it revs up to normal speed and makes it to Lyman’s Bait Shop. There we meet a wonderful cast of characters, locals who work and hang out there. We meet a Chihuahua named Stains, but he doesn’t make it in the shots. The place looks great, filled with lures and ice fishing gear. Lyman’s is a character in and of itself. In the afternoon, Joey plays a scene with Will Young, who plays bait store owner Willaby. (Will played Louie Esch in BARN RED.) In this scene, Joey eyes a bottle of pickled eggs, buys four and eats one in the store. In reality, Joey hates pickled eggs and insists on eating a mere hard boiled egg (again). We accommodate his wishes, but we have a pickled egg expert on hand to encourage Joey to try it. But Joey doesn’t. The martini shot (last shot) of the day is another parade cheer scene. This time Will Young, Lyman and his crew, Andrew and I cheer on Joey. All these parade shots, however, don’t have Joey in them at all. It’s usually Holli holding up the slate and passing by us slowly. Our job is to look at the slate, pretend its Joey and cheer. We do and the day is wrapped. One more day to go!
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
Last day of principle photography. We are outside all day. I almost miss the bus and hop onboard the Limberlost van, which sputters and stalls its way to the KillKare Inn. Just outside this place is a boat ramp access site to the lake. There, we shoot a few scenes where a crazed stranger played by Kate Peckham approaches Joey in the Probe and tells him to scram. Kate puts in a funny, bizarre performance, which may either scare or delight the audience. Then Joey has to back into a truck tailgate, destroying one of the taillights in the probe. They can’t get the taillight to line up with the truck tailgate. They need the car to sink a little lower, so various folks hop on the trunk to see who has the proper weight. I hop on and am picked to be the man. I initially thought I was just going to sit on the back corner, while the car was backed into the truck tailgate. Oh no. I find out they want me to crawl into the trunk, and lie down out of sight while Rich’s son Colin does the stunt driving. We have only one take to make this right. Squeezed into the trunk, wrapped around fishing gear, the shot goes off flawlessly. Accept for this persistent nagging pain in my neck, I’m unscathed. (Kidding! I’m O.K. ) Then, we shoot a shot involving a very noisy monster truck and its cab full of drunken passengers. They drive up to the Probe, jump out of the monster truck and manually move it between two trees. The extras are having a ball doing this, and the shot looks hilarious. After lunch at the KillKare, we shoot one more hilarious scene with Guy Sanville, playing a tobacco-chewing, tow truck driver. After this shot, I run in for a potty break, but Rich is ready to shoot a quick scene with Guy waving to Joey on the parade route. I step out of the john, and the AD is yelling, “Kinne. We need you. Hop to it.� I run to the set as Holli playfully scolds me the whole way. Then we head over to the hotel for our lasts shot of the day. Joey takes Guy out onto the ice to see where the truck fell through. We set up a HMI, throw up a yellow gell to represent the waning hours of the day, and then fire it off. By 4:45pm, we are totally wrapped. Cold, tired, but strangely satisfied, we all give a big clap and head inside for what else….the wrap party!
Friday, February 3, 2006
Dog gone it! We do several shots with Windex the bloodhound today. We are at Tony and Lila’s house. The opening shot involves Windex peeing on Tony’s face as Tony sleeps. Windex however gets the jitters and doesn’t really cooperate. He won’t stand over Tony and wants to lie down or just get away. We end up putting some hot dog water on Joey’s face so that Windex will lick it. Windex doesn’t respond so his handlers put tripe, or cow stomach, around Joey’s neck and this does the trick. Windex goes after the tripe and then licks Joey’s face. The shot works well. The peeing is scratched. I think this will work just fine because some people would really get grossed out by a dog peeing on a man’s face. In the morning, Joey tells Rich that his voice is feeling a little scratchy, but you couldn’t tell that all day. Joey performs great. We do two other scenes with Michelle Mountain, who plays Lila, Tony’s wife. In one scene, she’s merely disappointed in Joey’s character. In other scene, she’s steaming mad, beyond mad and not only yells up a storm, but also beats Tony with several wallops. Joey endures it all valiantly. The last shot of the day involves Joey letting Windex out for a morning pee. Windex runs around, sniffs the ground, and does everything but pee. After the camera rolling about five minutes, he answers our prayers. He goes wee-wee. We all clap and cheer and wrap for the day. What trials we filmmakers endure.
Monday, February 06, 2006
The next to the last day of principal photography. This morning, we go to a restaurant filed with dead taxidermy stuffed animals. The opening shot involves Joey storming in looking for Lila. Rich decides to pan from a stuffed squirrel wearing glasses to Joey. Funny stuff. Jennifer Hughes plays the hostess with aplomb. She’s quite good and gave us quite a few emotional reactions to Joey’s plight. After snapping this interior stuff off, we head outside. It’s 25 degrees and the wind is howling. Joey has to strip down to his T-shirt and put on his dinner clothes. We are all freezing wearing our winter coats, so I can’t imagine what Joey feels like. Piling into the Limberlost Truck� or van, it sputters and acts like water is in its fuel lines. After putting in some new fuel, it revs up to normal speed and makes it to Lyman’s Bait Shop. There we meet a wonderful cast of characters, locals who work and hang out there. We meet a Chihuahua named Stains, but he doesn’t make it in the shots. The place looks great, filled with lures and ice fishing gear. Lyman’s is a character in and of itself. In the afternoon, Joey plays a scene with Will Young, who plays bait store owner Willaby. (Will played Louie Esch in BARN RED.) In this scene, Joey eyes a bottle of pickled eggs, buys four and eats one in the store. In reality, Joey hates pickled eggs and insists on eating a mere hard boiled egg (again). We accommodate his wishes, but we have a pickled egg expert on hand to encourage Joey to try it. But Joey doesn’t. The martini shot (last shot) of the day is another parade cheer scene. This time Will Young, Lyman and his crew, Andrew and I cheer on Joey. All these parade shots, however, don’t have Joey in them at all. It’s usually Holli holding up the slate and passing by us slowly. Our job is to look at the slate, pretend its Joey and cheer. We do and the day is wrapped. One more day to go!
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
Last day of principle photography. We are outside all day. I almost miss the bus and hop onboard the Limberlost van, which sputters and stalls its way to the KillKare Inn. Just outside this place is a boat ramp access site to the lake. There, we shoot a few scenes where a crazed stranger played by Kate Peckham approaches Joey in the Probe and tells him to scram. Kate puts in a funny, bizarre performance, which may either scare or delight the audience. Then Joey has to back into a truck tailgate, destroying one of the taillights in the probe. They can’t get the taillight to line up with the truck tailgate. They need the car to sink a little lower, so various folks hop on the trunk to see who has the proper weight. I hop on and am picked to be the man. I initially thought I was just going to sit on the back corner, while the car was backed into the truck tailgate. Oh no. I find out they want me to crawl into the trunk, and lie down out of sight while Rich’s son Colin does the stunt driving. We have only one take to make this right. Squeezed into the trunk, wrapped around fishing gear, the shot goes off flawlessly. Accept for this persistent nagging pain in my neck, I’m unscathed. (Kidding! I’m O.K. ) Then, we shoot a shot involving a very noisy monster truck and its cab full of drunken passengers. They drive up to the Probe, jump out of the monster truck and manually move it between two trees. The extras are having a ball doing this, and the shot looks hilarious. After lunch at the KillKare, we shoot one more hilarious scene with Guy Sanville, playing a tobacco-chewing, tow truck driver. After this shot, I run in for a potty break, but Rich is ready to shoot a quick scene with Guy waving to Joey on the parade route. I step out of the john, and the AD is yelling, “Kinne. We need you. Hop to it.� I run to the set as Holli playfully scolds me the whole way. Then we head over to the hotel for our lasts shot of the day. Joey takes Guy out onto the ice to see where the truck fell through. We set up a HMI, throw up a yellow gell to represent the waning hours of the day, and then fire it off. By 4:45pm, we are totally wrapped. Cold, tired, but strangely satisfied, we all give a big clap and head inside for what else….the wrap party!
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