Yesterday some of us met to work on some fight choreography. Geoff (director), Tina (lead actress), Noelene (photographer), and I headed over to Mike (producer)'s house. We started off the night by watching fight and chase scenes that Mike selected from various action films to help inspire us. We saw scenes from the entire Bourne trilogy, Hitman, and a few others. We got some good ideas, especially from the Bourne movies. We also enjoyed seeing some insanely absurd fighting scenes.
We were there to specifically work on a fight scene that involves Tina and I. Geoff had a very specific idea of how he wanted the fight to go. He walked us through it step by step, practicing each one, bit by bit. We borrowed one of Mike's guns at first (completely unloaded), but we were worried about dropping it on Tina's sandaled feet. It'd be a shame to cripple your star a few weeks before filming.
As we went through the fight, Noelene photographed. Once we had learned all the steps, we went over it, again, and again, and again (ad nauseum). Geoff filmed our practice so that we could watch it later, and find places to improve, and such.
It was definitely shaky at first. But we caught on pretty quickly, and while it's still not perfect, Tina's gotten pretty good at disarming me, and slamming into the wall.
I think our practice last night really exemplified much of the production process. We haven't really been getting everything quite right, right away. But as we work more, and get closer to our deadline, everything's starting to really materialize well, and take a very good shape.
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