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The original plan was to steal our Episode One rooftop location from the building where our loft was located. It was gorgeous…the Los Angeles downtown skyline as a backdrop, wide open space for Fantastica to perform a dramatic run and leap to her death.
Unfortunately after about an hour on the roof, security came three deep, and kicked us off.
Our shoot schedule was tight (isn’t it always?) and losing the roof meant a pickup shoot was going to have to happen down the road. For future reference, rooftops aren’t easy to come by with no money, too many legal issues. Note to self: Do not write roofs into low budget scripts.
So three months later we’re on our new roof location thanks to my friend Mikki Willis and Elevate Films. We had permission, all was good. And then a helicopter showed up connected to another film production. Obviously they had more money than us. They hovered right over our shoot for an hour. We had to keep shooting to maintain our schedule but our sound was ruined. We did ADR for my line “That’s how I caught my boyfriend with some second rate superhero”.
The Jump
We laid down green screen below the elevated area Fantastica stood on for the POV shots. My stand-in, Shyla, held my shoes against the ledge for the shot. There was no room for me to fit in there.
Jeri Kalvan was our stunt coordinator and Josh Bradley was the assistant stunt coordinator. More on them when I talk about Episode Two.
We collected a bunch of used boxes from LAReuseIt, a great Yahoo group where you recycle unwanted items instead of throwing them away. Jeri and Josh set them up as the base of my landing pad for the jump. Then they placed a crash pad on top of those. They spotted me on both sides. It was fun to experience what it’s like to do my own stunts but it sure wasn’t easy.
Check it all out in the Episode One behind the scenes video, and remember Episode Two of CHICK drops tomorrow.
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WHAT!?!? the fall wasn’t real? fun to see the actual one, though.
I’m loving this so far! Keep up the great work!