A Year Without Rent

A YEAR WITHOUT RENT: DAY SIX OF "CXL"

By | October 2011

I almost never read the scripts for these projects. Not because I don’t want to, but simply because it isn’t practical. On probably half of them I don’t even get a script, so that makes it easy…

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A YEAR WITHOUT RENT: DAY SIX OF "CXL"

I almost never read the scripts for these projects. Not because I don't want to, but simply because it isn't practical. On probably half of them I don't...

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A YEAR WITHOUT RENT: DAY FIVE OF "CXL"

When we last left Sean Gillane and his merry band of San Francisco pranksters, they were shooting green screen footage on the street, guerilla filming at...

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A YEAR WITHOUT RENT: DAY TEN OF "FAVOR"

All through this production, I've heard tales of our "seedy motel" location, a place so vile and disgusting, they couldn't even bring themselves to put me...

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A YEAR WITHOUT RENT: DAY NINE OF "FAVOR"

Previously, on FAVOR: Paul Osborne drove us out into the desert with a shovel and told us to dig (what could go wrong?). Well, now we're back at his house...

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A YEAR WITHOUT RENT: DAYS SEVEN AND EIGHT OF "FAVOR"

We're combining days here for the first time on A Year Without Rent for one very simple reason: nothing happened on day 7. Well that's not completely true....

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A YEAR WITHOUT RENT: DAY SIX OF "FAVOR"

The one big issue with using soft lights as your primary lighting source is that they don't do a whole lot when you take them outside. They're kind of by...

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A YEAR WITHOUT RENT: DAY FIVE OF "FAVOR"

Joe is back! When a crew is as small as the crew on FAVOR, you really notice when people are gone. Mostly because they fill so many damned roles. Take Joe...

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A YEAR WITHOUT RENT: DAY FOUR OF "FAVOR"

There will be blood. Maybe. Or maybe not. We're doing a practical effect where a character gets [REDACTED], thus leading to a lot of blood. Like, a lot of...

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A YEAR WITHOUT RENT: DAY THREE OF "FAVOR"

All through Day 2, one of the chief topics of conversation was how to shoot a scene with prop glass. Let me explain. In the scene, an actor has to throw a...

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A YEAR WITHOUT RENT: DAY TWO OF "FAVOR"

You know how I said it's generally a bad idea to film where you live? Well…here we go again. We're filming at Paul Osborne's house in Burbank, and while...

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