OVERTIME: PRODUCTION DIARY--DAY 3
Posted by Jett Blakk at 3/14/2008 12:49 AM and is filed under uncategorized 
After watching my Perry Mason ("Della!"), I headed downstairs to the restaurant for a bite of breakfast. I sincerely expected to order toast and a tomato juice. I did. But somehow that turned into pancakes, bacon, toast, tomato juice and fat-free milk.
We were picked up and taken back to the Falcon offices for Day 3 of the shoot, where a healthy spread of apples, bananas and other snacks were laid out. (Why did I order those pancakes??)
Soon, I was upstairs with JAMES the Lighting Guru checking out the set. It was a doctors office, with an examination table, screen and various knick-knacks. There was a doctors certificate on the wall, with Dr. Castles name on it.
Trevor Knight
From this point, it will be exactly 10 minutes before TREVOR KNIGHT will pounce on me like a cougar on a cantaloupe, so let me now take the opportunity to test your trivia knowledge with THE OVERTIME DVD CONTEST!
Below, you will see the names of 6 characters from OVERTIME. Now, you all know what a film buff I am. When I wrote the script, I had just watched one of my favorite mainstream films and decided, as an in-joke to myself, to give these 6 characters the same names from that film. Here is your chance to show me how good YOU are at movie trivia: what mainstream film has characters with the same names as those below, and what actors played those characters in that film?
Mr. BREWSTER
Mr. MARSHALL
Mr. GARDENER
Mr. REDFERN
Dr. CASTLE
PATRICK
The first person to e-mail me the correct answers (7 in total) at CONTEST@BLAKKSBLOG.COM will win a free copy of Falcons OVERTIME autographed by TREVOR KNIGHT and TORY MASON!!
Tory Mason pictures property of Fabscout Entertainment.
But thats not the only chance to win! We will give away a 2nd copy of OVERTIME by random drawing! So make sure you enter, even if youre not sure your answers are correct! The contest ends at 8:00am Monday, March 17th. Good luck!
Back to the set. Its 10 minutes later, and wham! Suddenly, I am grabbed from behind by Trevor Knight, who hugs me passionately. OVERTIME is Trevors first film since he came out of retirement. He is playing the doctor, and is decked out in a button-down shirt, khakis and a white doctors coat. He looks great. Behind him is KYLE PIERCE, his scene partner, a handsome young man with a lean, tight body.
Kyle Pierce
We begin the scene. Kyle has to get a physical for his companys insurance, and Trevor is the doctor who has dismissed his nurse, since its the last exam of the day. When Trevor decides to check Kyles prostate well, theyre going to be there for a while. The guys were doing very well, and the scene was a hot one. The room was a bit small, though, and with two models, LEIF GOBO and COLBY TAYLOR doing camera, MOCHA doing stills and ADAM KILLIAN p.a.ing all in the room together (I was about 6 feet outside the door), they were bumping into each other. But the footage looked great on my monitor, and it was probably my favorite scene of the shoot.
Copyright 2007 Falcon Entertainment.
Lunchtime came, and after a hot Mexican spread (which for Tory Mason is just a weekend in Tijuana, lol), I showed Leif the storyboards for the opening scene while the floor was cleared of screens and equipment. His eyes bugged out, and I think he stopped breathing as I showed him the 32 shots I wanted. The sequence begins outside with buildings towering overhead and people hustling er, hurrying (better choice of words) on their way to work. We then cut to inside the office building where a faceless mail clerk pushes a cart and delivers mail and packages to the various employees. This would be set to a jolly tune by JAKE RENDER.
While I think its a great sequence, Leif began diplomatically, I think its a bit too ambitious for us to shoot in the time we have.
Ill do the outdoor shots myself, later, I said. All we have to do is get the indoor ones. And if we start now, it will be over before you know. I reminded him of the dolly shots we rehearsed the previous evening, and that once set up, we got 3 of them in a five minute period.
Killian showed up with the cart and the mail, ready to go. Dont show my face, he said. I told him I was never planning to (which is a shame, as hes a rather handsome fellow). We got in position, and bam-bam-bam...the shots were knocked out one-by-one.
The top floor of Falcon has a glass canopy for a roof, so I wanted a shot looking down through the glass for a long shot of the mail carrier pushing his cart around. Leif and I climbed up to the roof, but the glass was frosted just enough to obscure visibility, so we had to nix it and do something else. Then we shot the envelopes that would make up the mug shot sequence, and snap! We were done. I checked my cell phone clock. It had taken 90 minutes.
The final scene for the next day would be with ERIC RHODES as the Big Boss and CAL SKYE, who I was told was being considered as an exclusive, and the higher-ups were very interested in how he would perform.
We finished up, and Mocha and I decided to relax by going to the movies and seeing 30 DAYS OF NIGHT, which had some good bits but I found overall disappointing, especially with such a great premise. And man, was Josh Hartnett miscast.
Back in the hotel room, I called CVK and told him I missed him and would see him in a couple days. The final scene was tomorrow, but the day after would require me to re-think something I had already shot. And would re-unite me with two good friends. I thought I had closed the book on DARE but it was about to come back into my life.
To be continued
JBK
We were picked up and taken back to the Falcon offices for Day 3 of the shoot, where a healthy spread of apples, bananas and other snacks were laid out. (Why did I order those pancakes??)
Soon, I was upstairs with JAMES the Lighting Guru checking out the set. It was a doctors office, with an examination table, screen and various knick-knacks. There was a doctors certificate on the wall, with Dr. Castles name on it.
Trevor Knight
From this point, it will be exactly 10 minutes before TREVOR KNIGHT will pounce on me like a cougar on a cantaloupe, so let me now take the opportunity to test your trivia knowledge with THE OVERTIME DVD CONTEST!
Below, you will see the names of 6 characters from OVERTIME. Now, you all know what a film buff I am. When I wrote the script, I had just watched one of my favorite mainstream films and decided, as an in-joke to myself, to give these 6 characters the same names from that film. Here is your chance to show me how good YOU are at movie trivia: what mainstream film has characters with the same names as those below, and what actors played those characters in that film?
Mr. BREWSTER
Mr. MARSHALL
Mr. GARDENER
Mr. REDFERN
Dr. CASTLE
PATRICK
The first person to e-mail me the correct answers (7 in total) at CONTEST@BLAKKSBLOG.COM will win a free copy of Falcons OVERTIME autographed by TREVOR KNIGHT and TORY MASON!!
Tory Mason pictures property of Fabscout Entertainment.
But thats not the only chance to win! We will give away a 2nd copy of OVERTIME by random drawing! So make sure you enter, even if youre not sure your answers are correct! The contest ends at 8:00am Monday, March 17th. Good luck!
Back to the set. Its 10 minutes later, and wham! Suddenly, I am grabbed from behind by Trevor Knight, who hugs me passionately. OVERTIME is Trevors first film since he came out of retirement. He is playing the doctor, and is decked out in a button-down shirt, khakis and a white doctors coat. He looks great. Behind him is KYLE PIERCE, his scene partner, a handsome young man with a lean, tight body.
Kyle Pierce
We begin the scene. Kyle has to get a physical for his companys insurance, and Trevor is the doctor who has dismissed his nurse, since its the last exam of the day. When Trevor decides to check Kyles prostate well, theyre going to be there for a while. The guys were doing very well, and the scene was a hot one. The room was a bit small, though, and with two models, LEIF GOBO and COLBY TAYLOR doing camera, MOCHA doing stills and ADAM KILLIAN p.a.ing all in the room together (I was about 6 feet outside the door), they were bumping into each other. But the footage looked great on my monitor, and it was probably my favorite scene of the shoot.
Copyright 2007 Falcon Entertainment.
Lunchtime came, and after a hot Mexican spread (which for Tory Mason is just a weekend in Tijuana, lol), I showed Leif the storyboards for the opening scene while the floor was cleared of screens and equipment. His eyes bugged out, and I think he stopped breathing as I showed him the 32 shots I wanted. The sequence begins outside with buildings towering overhead and people hustling er, hurrying (better choice of words) on their way to work. We then cut to inside the office building where a faceless mail clerk pushes a cart and delivers mail and packages to the various employees. This would be set to a jolly tune by JAKE RENDER.
While I think its a great sequence, Leif began diplomatically, I think its a bit too ambitious for us to shoot in the time we have.
Ill do the outdoor shots myself, later, I said. All we have to do is get the indoor ones. And if we start now, it will be over before you know. I reminded him of the dolly shots we rehearsed the previous evening, and that once set up, we got 3 of them in a five minute period.
Killian showed up with the cart and the mail, ready to go. Dont show my face, he said. I told him I was never planning to (which is a shame, as hes a rather handsome fellow). We got in position, and bam-bam-bam...the shots were knocked out one-by-one.
The top floor of Falcon has a glass canopy for a roof, so I wanted a shot looking down through the glass for a long shot of the mail carrier pushing his cart around. Leif and I climbed up to the roof, but the glass was frosted just enough to obscure visibility, so we had to nix it and do something else. Then we shot the envelopes that would make up the mug shot sequence, and snap! We were done. I checked my cell phone clock. It had taken 90 minutes.
The final scene for the next day would be with ERIC RHODES as the Big Boss and CAL SKYE, who I was told was being considered as an exclusive, and the higher-ups were very interested in how he would perform.
We finished up, and Mocha and I decided to relax by going to the movies and seeing 30 DAYS OF NIGHT, which had some good bits but I found overall disappointing, especially with such a great premise. And man, was Josh Hartnett miscast.
Back in the hotel room, I called CVK and told him I missed him and would see him in a couple days. The final scene was tomorrow, but the day after would require me to re-think something I had already shot. And would re-unite me with two good friends. I thought I had closed the book on DARE but it was about to come back into my life.
To be continued
JBK
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