Shoot: The Car Lot

After an early morning lesson, I headed to the location for this shoot, a car lot on Vermont. I had directions from Yahoo! maps which said to take 101S to the New Hampshire exit. There is no freakin' New Hampshire exit. As I found myself looking for a place downtown to turn around, I got the call that the honchos at the location had turned away the shoot, backing out on their agreement. Nice. The location was moved to an empty parking lot in town, and the small production staff quickly rigged our cars up to look like they were for sale. It was a patch job, but a decent one. One of the other lead actors had to leave by 2pm, but with all the moving around we weren't able to start shooting until almost 1pm. We knocked it out though and had a good time. The little girl playing my daughter was a character. Within the scene, she kept forgetting one of her lines which was simply "Right". Finally, we had to shoot a series of just her cue line and her line.

I've had several questions about what I meant by "pilot teaser" in my previous post. If you have an idea for a show, you have to pitch it to the tv execs of whatever network or cable channel you target. The writer of this one is going to use this brief video as part of his pitch. It's sort of like having a PowerPoint presentation in a regular business meeting. "Here's an example of my idea." I did it to get a copy of the work that I can use in my reel. Even if his idea results in an actual pilot, there's no guarantee that he can/will use the same actors. Anyway, in keeping with the speedy nature of this one, the guy has already put it together and loaded it onto the web. You can see the short HERE.