Well, the pulling-Jim-through-the-window scene went pretty good, so kudos to construction guys Matt and Paul for the breakaway boards, and everyone else for getting it in 1.25 takes (don't ask).
However, the setup and fiddling with this scene took several hours! So blowing Mitchell's brains out got deferred. Ah well, that gives me more time to improve the brain squib.
Next weekend it looks like I get to shoot Mr. Clark (living) as well as several dead. This means I can test my new, improved easy-load squib setup! I hope it works!
I haven't analyzed the shot list yet, so I don't know exactly what I have to do yet, nor if I need my larger makeup crew or not. We do have a number of undead extras, it looks like, so I may get to call in more of the troops.
Nik, my son, is flying in on Friday (Hi Nik!) to stay for the usual month of summer. I'm hoping to get him smuggled into the crew in some capacity so he doesn't get booted from the indoors shooting, so he isn't totally bored out of his mind this visit. Next weekend is mostly outdoors shooting, though, so he can demonstrate his usefullness and maturity then and weasel his way into the director's graces...