Thursday we had the traditional Big Pre-Production Meeting. We had the confab in the commissary at Kaufman/Astoria. We only had four hours because "Life On Mars" was coming in for their "lunch".
So everyone gathers around a gathering of tables and the 1st AD leads the meeting. In this case, David Cluck (on the right). Director Marius Balchunas is on the left.
So the 1st AD goes through the shooting schedule day by day and outlines locations, special needs, etc. Anyone from any department who has a question or a problem chimes in and the situation gets worked out. A lot of the time, however, a discussion is "sidebarred" since to tackle the issue would take more time than the meeting could spare.
Below are the two key hair people:
And then there's Gaffer Mike Castro (right) and DP Irek Hartowicz (center):
After the meeting I went back to the subway. I was going back to Manhattan but Irek and his wife Ingrid Fuentes were headed deeper into Queens in search of a particular and alleged Polish restaurant:
Actually, Ingrid is also the movie's key make-up artist. That's how she and Irek met; he was DP'ing a show and she was making it up and the rest is current events.
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