Shooting on BROKEN AUGUST began Saturday night in a Culver City parking garage and then continued for a few hours on Sunday over in Arcadia at a chiropractor's office (thanks a million, Dr. Goff!). I wish I had more time Saturday -- we got about 24 of the 34 setups I had storyboarded -- but the actors were wonderful and there's only so much you can ask of a crew that is working for nacho cheese Doritos. Everyone who came out was a trooper and we got a lot of great material. I am deeply lucky to be working with producers Eli Loghavi and Sharon Chin; they are tireless and smart and are making me look good. I hope this movie is something we can all be really proud of, even if it's the darkest thing any of us have touched.
We had been thinking we'd put Alaina in a wig for her transformation scene -- her character basically becomes another person after a tragedy is visited upon her -- but the wigs within our budget were just crap, so we went with Alaina's real hair, which is currently kick ass, anyway.
We shot 1080P, DVCProHD, on the Panasonic AG-HVX200, on two 32GB P2 cards (not tapes) from the kind folks at Moviola. Using 32GB cards was a true luxury. We shot for about a full day, all-told, and never had to download the footage on set. Two 32GB cards at 1080P uses about a gigabyte per minute, so it was super-sweet to not have to reload after every eight or sixteen minutes of footage shot, as we would have to do with smaller cards. For the record, I'd like P2 cards for Christmas, please. There are 64GB models coming out this fall.
That's all for now.
