Thursday, July 2, 2009

Film Day 11 - Bruise On, Bruise Off

Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Location: Interiors -- Prison
Film: Under Jakob's Ladder

Ah... Tuesday. We're back on set for Week 3 of filming.

Today is one of the days we had bring in our make-up artist: Jennifer Theeparajah. (We actually already had her come in on Saturday.) Her job on set? Make sure we had our bruises for Yasha (played by Quentin McCuiston)...

Here's the thing: We needed the bruise to age, to get progressively lighter as time went by. But, the problem was, we weren't really shooting the scenes in order! Which meant we had to be specific as to what type of bruise the scene called for. So, we needed labels for each bruise.

For example: We'd tell Jennifer that we needed a "Day-3 Bruise" for one scene (i.e. a lighter bruise). And a half-hour later, we'd need her to either take the bruise off completely, or switch it to a "Day-1 Bruise" (i.e. a darker bruise).

Fortunately, changing the bruise was a pretty quick process; and so we never had to wait very long until we got the bruise we needed for the scene.

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