I decided to shoot the eternal scenes first. Ryan’s apartment was close to a location I had in mind for the first scene. There is a stretch of road that is off of Eisenhower Road near the flee market which leads to the Black Swan Inn. It’s nice, over grown and kind of creepy. It didn’t take long I figure 30 to 45 minutes tops. I didn’t want to linger to long. It’s a public place and I don’t exactly have the proper permits if you know what I mean. So I got my shots and we caravaned to the house where we were shooting the rest of the scenes. The rest of the cast and crew where there waiting for us. I got a few establishing shots of the living room when the pizza arrived. After scarfing down pizza it was back to shooting. For the most part shooting went very smoothly. I had a log of setups and the lights were making the house rather warm. It was cooler outside that it was inside. I don’t I stopped sweeting till I got home and took a shower.
Around 6PM we took another break. Mainly so I could get the ghost into his make up. I put the camera on the tripod to get all the shots of the ghost. With the camera being still it will make it a lot easier to apply some After Effects magic. Some close to 9 or 10PM we took another break for dinner. This time some KFC. I didn’t realize how hunger I was. The three pieces of pizza at 3PM was the last time I had eaten anything. We finally finished shooting sometime after 11PM. So we packed up the gear and parted ways. It had been an incredibly long day, but for me it wasn’t over yet.
When I got home the first thing I did was take a shower and down some more water. I think I must of gone through at least five bottles of water and I’m sure that wasn’t enough. For the next two hour I pulled the footage off the tapes. At around 2:45 I started doing the color correction in After Effects. I ever toyed around a bit with the footage of the ghost. I finished the color correction at 5:40AM queued the footage to rendered, prayed that my computer didn’t crashed and headed straight for bed.