- 7:21
PM,
Wednesday,
June 11th, 2003:
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- Good
news and bad news. Good news of course is Dewey is
finished and we're onto Cameron a week from Friday.
Bad news of course is there was no sun, and although
with some post-production magic I'll be able to fool
some peeps...the first one looked ten times
better.
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- Now
that's without making the sky blue, which
I intend to do on the final render. It won't be
completely blue - but it will have a hint of it.
What's unfortunate however is how the landscape looks.
The difference between sunlight, and WHITE cloud light
is quite telling. But the bottom line is who knows
what the weather's gonna be like when I do Cameron and
Spence so this isn't really a big deal. If I have
perfect sunlight for Cam and Spence I'm gonna be mucho
pissed though. Oh well, I have no control over it,
I just hope it's not a downpour. June Gloom
sucks.
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- So,
on with the pics:
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 - A
Dewey just isn't a Dewey without a laugh and a
point.
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Old
school Dewey, hittin' the low
note. -
 - Dewey
wearin' a Doo-Rag in a way only he could do
it.
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 - Cousin'
"It" makes a come-back for the Spencer
Set.
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- And
finally a shocking look at Dewey when he wants to be
romantic.
- Amazing
what taking the hair out of your face can do for
ya.
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- Now
it seems like ages ago, but I actually changed into
Dewey Saturday Night after I was done with G. First of
all, bad fuggin' idea, but I'll surpass that with an
even worse idea later when I decide to EPIL-STOP and
shave my eyebrows BEFORE dying them. (sigh). That
lead to some of the most acute head pain I've been in
for quite some time.
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- That
and dying the roots a second time almost made me pass
out - lol. My roots were where my scalp hurt the most
from the cornrows 'cause they pull like crazy. I
should really have let my head rest for a day before
we threw chemicals all over it. Anyway, by Sunday I
was ready to kick-ass.
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- Unfortunately
I still hadn't loaded all the G footage so I spent the
majority of the day doing all that, went to the
mountain 'round 5 PM - and did the B-Ball stuff
directly afterwards. Not sure if I described it
before - but the B-Ball stuff is just something for
the DVD, not in the show at all. Should be a funny
bit.
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- By
Sunday evening I was ready to start, and things
went "somewhat" smoothly. Of course I had to
throw a wrench in the works by wanting Dewey to smoke
a bong the whole show. LOL. My idea was to have Dewey
just pop off screen every few minutes when he was
bored - you'd see some smoke wafting up and then he'd
jump back up. Just a little something for people
watching a 2nd and 3rd time to enjoy. I of course
don't have a bong, so Jess got these Black and Milds
(mini-cigars), and I would just smoke at the
bottom of the screen and blow up towards the camera -
and then get a big mouthful ready for when I came
back up. The end result was pretty funny actually, but
the timing was a BITCH. Trying to suck the smoke in
and know how long I could hold it before my line
was more than a little difficult for Mr. "I don't
smoke". As well, we have this new smoke detector thing
with our ADT and I was sure that thing was goin'
off. Luckily it didn't.
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- Unfortunately,
even with all that work, I'm afraid people will think
it was somehow a shotcut to filming because he goes
off-screen. I'm over-analyzing I know, but you
never want a "throw-away" character in these shows,
and it may look like that to some. He still has a
suprise or two for the audience, and you'll find he's
a bit deeper than we all thought - but he's still a
pot-head. LOL. I don't see in what capacity he'll ever
be a deep part of the show because it's his
shallowness that makes him so funny. It's funny that
out of nowhere he just pops up and contributes to the
conversation - and then goes back down to have another
smoke. The only deepness we ever see is that he is a
"bit" smarter when he wants to be (as seen in the
first one) and he's got a different, romantic side
when he wants to (as seen in the new one). Past that -
you can't mess with the formula that is Dewey. He's
just funny.
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- Now
the best part of the whole Dewey Shoot was the
mountain climbers behind me while I was shooting
on location. Footage of course that is gone forever.
(sigh). I was gonna do a whole bit on all the people
getting in the mountain shots, as it happened with G
as well - but no one interrupted me when I re-did
Dewey. DAMN THEM. LOL.
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- So
it's halfway through and my feelings are...well my
nerves are shot - so my feelings kinda go along with
that. But as far as how the show is gonna turnout -
it's totally up in the air at this point in my mind.
Last time I was just thrilled with what G and
Dewey looked like that I couldn't get any higher.
Now of course, that's a given and you start to realize
how dishevelled 4tvs Production is. It's all bits and
pieces that are nearly impossible to read/critique
without the other pieces. It has to be somewhat how it
feels to be on a Star Wars set. There's just nothing
to really gauge your performance by when it's with a
digital character. In my case - my digital characters
are just future "Me's" yet to be recorded. So at the
end of a day, shooting half the show doesn't give you
a feeling on how it's gonna turnout. Hell - even
shooting ALL the characters still leaves you
empty. It's not until you complete whole sections with
all 4 screens that you can really sit down and soak it
in. Of course by that time - you're pretty much at the
mercy of the computer as to what it feels like.
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- I
miss the stage. I may need to find a way to get
back into that. Then again - I GET the stage when
I'm performing The Trinitrons. It feels like there's 4
other people up there with me. Heh. This is cool. Do
you realize I'm writing about something that no one
else in the world can write about? That's so kick-ass.
4tvs is unique to the point of absurdity. Now if only
the price of flat-screens would come down so I
wouldn't have to take a 2nd mortgage on our house to
afford them.
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- Hmmmm...that's
an idea.
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- (just
kidding jess)
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- Adam
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