Today was the last day before we begin principle shooting for "The Last 24." Like getting ready to wadge a war - all the troops must be ready, all the game plans must be agreed upon, and all communications must be in order. Yep - it is a crazy world we live in - mobilizing so we can shot a TV show - but here we are.
We started the afternoon with a meeting of the full production crew - there will be 8 crew folks involved in the capturing of Dominic Walsh and his Dance Theatre over the 24 hour period starting Wednesday night at 7:30pm.
We will separate into 4 teams of two crew members each - one camera operator and one audio engineer. The teams will be matched up with a producer and staggered through out the 24 hours. The Dominic crew will work with me and we will stay on around the clock - sleeping when Dominic sleeps - therefore we will be sure to capture everything that happens in his life over the time period.
The second two crews will trade off and be with Producer Laura Lucas - their focus will be on DWDT Managing Director Leigh McBurnett and the secondary cast of designers, technicians, staff and of course the Dancers.
The fourth crew will be assigned my assistant Jake Hamilton and their focus will be the surrounding environment and "beauty shots." So this afternoon we walked through the schedule to make sure everyone was on the same page.
Also a shout out to Chick-Fil-A, they have generously agreed to feed the crew over the recording period. It was very generous of them to do this, since we are moving forward with this production without underwriting dollars - so we are making this program on a shoe string (of course if any person or company is out there who believes that Public Television should be doing programs of this nature and would like to donate to "The Last 24" - please contact me at ernie@houstonpbs.org).
This evening a portion of the crew joined Laura and myself at The Hobby Center to watch the initial tech rehearsal for "Made in Italy." It gave us a good idea of what we will be shooting tomorrow evening - and helped us figure out what space we will have available to us.
The first piece in the show was the first piece I had ever seen that Dominic had choreographed. "Dolcemente" was staged when Dominic was a principal dancer at Houston Ballet - and after seeing it, I realised that Dominic was truly gifted. I had been on him for years to re-mount this piece and I am thrilled that not only is he doing it, it is being done during a show we are capturing for our documentary. And as I was the first time I saw it, I was again moved this evening when I saw this piece performed.
There are two additional pieces, and those too were worked this evening. It looks to be a thrilling show.
Tomorrow we finish the preliminary shooting script and then tomorrow night - we begin "The Last 24"!!!
Here are a few shots I took this evening during rehearsal...
We started the afternoon with a meeting of the full production crew - there will be 8 crew folks involved in the capturing of Dominic Walsh and his Dance Theatre over the 24 hour period starting Wednesday night at 7:30pm.
We will separate into 4 teams of two crew members each - one camera operator and one audio engineer. The teams will be matched up with a producer and staggered through out the 24 hours. The Dominic crew will work with me and we will stay on around the clock - sleeping when Dominic sleeps - therefore we will be sure to capture everything that happens in his life over the time period.
The second two crews will trade off and be with Producer Laura Lucas - their focus will be on DWDT Managing Director Leigh McBurnett and the secondary cast of designers, technicians, staff and of course the Dancers.
The fourth crew will be assigned my assistant Jake Hamilton and their focus will be the surrounding environment and "beauty shots." So this afternoon we walked through the schedule to make sure everyone was on the same page.
Also a shout out to Chick-Fil-A, they have generously agreed to feed the crew over the recording period. It was very generous of them to do this, since we are moving forward with this production without underwriting dollars - so we are making this program on a shoe string (of course if any person or company is out there who believes that Public Television should be doing programs of this nature and would like to donate to "The Last 24" - please contact me at ernie@houstonpbs.org).
This evening a portion of the crew joined Laura and myself at The Hobby Center to watch the initial tech rehearsal for "Made in Italy." It gave us a good idea of what we will be shooting tomorrow evening - and helped us figure out what space we will have available to us.
The first piece in the show was the first piece I had ever seen that Dominic had choreographed. "Dolcemente" was staged when Dominic was a principal dancer at Houston Ballet - and after seeing it, I realised that Dominic was truly gifted. I had been on him for years to re-mount this piece and I am thrilled that not only is he doing it, it is being done during a show we are capturing for our documentary. And as I was the first time I saw it, I was again moved this evening when I saw this piece performed.
There are two additional pieces, and those too were worked this evening. It looks to be a thrilling show.
Tomorrow we finish the preliminary shooting script and then tomorrow night - we begin "The Last 24"!!!
Here are a few shots I took this evening during rehearsal...
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