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!
Grimm Airs Today!
Month: April 2016
Mistresses Shoot Day 14
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.
Mistresses Shoot Day 13
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.
Grimm Promo!
The Grimm episode I directed airs this Friday April 15! Here’s the promo! Exclamation points!
Mistresses Shoot Day 12
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.
Mistresses Shoot Day 11
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.
Mistresses Shoot Day 10
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.
Mistresses Shoot Day 9
We spent pretty much all day in a strange little set on the lot. It wasn’t exactly on a sound stage – it’s an annex to a building that was re-purposed into an office set. It looked good but it was hot, even with air conditioning pumped into the room in between takes. Also had a chance to rehearse a scene that has some music playback for something we’re doing later on, so that was fun. It has been fun being part of a show early in the season while sets are new and we get to showcase some new sets that will be used later in the series.
Mistresses Shoot Day 8
Start of a new week and we shot two different house sets on stage. We had an actor who was too sick to work so the great production team quickly reconfigured the schedule and we made it all come together quickly. Also shot a shower scene which, you know, had people showering. All in a day’s work!
Mistresses Shoot Day 7
Final day of the week, spent entirely on stage on a house set and then one more temporary set. I had a pretty bad sore throat going. But a strong finish to a busy first full week of shooting. One more full week and a couple days to go.
Sharat Raju 