Tune in at 9pm Eastern/Pacific for the Grimm episode I directed – “Inugami” with great guest stars Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Keiko Agena and Matthew Yang King!
This guy does stuff in the episode. (Photo courtesy of NBC.)
Final day of the longest TV shoot I’ve yet done. Although it was for two episodes, it was essentially putting together one long 2-hour movie over two weeks of shooting. The final day was part of a double-up day – the incoming director started shooting his Day 1 and this was my final day. Mostly straightforward scenes that we had to finish quickly because we had a lot of them. Finished up at night with a couple of pieces of coverage that we had to save until now. Spent about 6 weeks with the same people – I’m going to miss them.
Biggest day of the shoot, in production terms. About 100-125 extras, creative stage lighting effects, three cameras including one on a crane, and almost all of the principle cast. All in all, a pretty great day – shot some really fun and interesting scenes.
The Grimm episode I directed airs this Friday April 15! Here’s the promo! Exclamation points!
End of the week and first day shooting two days on a new set built to look like a re-purposed warehouse. Re-purposed for what I guess I probably can’t say. But we had about 60 extras and gorgeous lighting set ups. It was a lot of fun, and not a lot of pages shot, but complicated work. The cast and crew are all such good sports – it’s a lot of fun.
Two more days to go, including our biggest day coming up on Monday.
Had a full day on the stage, including a scene with the entire main cast in one place. Calm before the storm – tomorrow is our big two-day shoot of a festival thing with lots of background and some other complex production elements.
Lots of inventive sets this day. Started the day in a cleverly used facade – the front of the production offices – for a walk-and-talk scene. I did something like that once for Finding Carter, re-using office facades to fake a location. The art department did a great job dressing it to look like a place in perhaps Beverly Hills or West Hollywood and not a production office in Santa Clarita. But it was incredibly windy so that was a challenge. Then we finished shooting in that makeshift set I described yesterday and continued on to finish with a night exterior on the tiny backlot city street at Santa Clarita Studios. Long day.
