Kate works with film for all of her movies, This particular film she was shooting with Super 8 for the first time. A big part of her composition of the filming has to do with bright colors, as you can see by the lighting/costumes/backgrounds in the pictures I took below, which are going to be stunning once the film is developed!
After dressing Elena in 7 inch heels, fishnets, an orange 90's halter, black leather shorts, and one groovy afro, I grabbed elenas canon rebel and we made our way to the alley behind Edinburgh Castle (a bar in the T.L.) to meet the sound guy Curtis. Kate and Curtis explained to me how to organize the scene/take records and how to manage the slate.
Elena is an amazing actress/model and also one of my seven roommates in the flat. Her rendition of "Annabelle the hooker" was grand, and was worthy of all the whistles she got from the tenderloin locdawgs - ha ha.
After we wrapped up the street scenes we got in Kate's silver toaster car and headed to Port Costa. It was an odd little town that kind of reminded me of Spectre, the town in big fish, via Edward Bloom's return. After meeting Morgan and Mark, who were helping Kate with the lighting (which was AMAZING) we shot in a creaky hotel that was once a brothel. All of the rooms had prostitute names instead of room numbers - Kate had reserved 'Victoria'.
After shooting about four scenes, the (completely sweat soaked) six of us packed up our gear at 1:15 A.M. and headed home - we had been filming for twelve hours. The feeling I had on the way home was euphoric. I felt like I had been a part of something of artistic importance, I was excited. I'm serving as Assistant Cameraman for the rest of the filming, and I cannot express how fucking stoked I am. Kate is an awesome director of photography and I am truly inspired by her eye for composition. Who knows, maybe this whole film production idea will become a new medium of interest for me...
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