Although the first cut looked really good, I decided it needed something extra, something to make it a little more exciting. So I went back to my original storyboards and shooting script, in which I had the first scene intercut with images of a couple at some exotic pool, being taken photos of by a paparazzo hiding in the bushes. But that wasn't making it any more exciting. Those intercuts were still pretty non-eventfull, so I went for yet another idea. A couple is seen walking from the back, pursued by an army of paparazzi who run around them to get the perfect shot. I cast Mark as the man in the couple and he calls up his friend Grace, for the part of the girl. Marq and his crew are all excited to shoot the extra footage and we meet everyone at the Group 22 office. Grace brings two costume options, and I go for the pearl colored looking dress. She looks like a princess!!!
The shoot takes a little longer than expected. The camera needs to follow the couple at the same speed they are walking. Not easy. Add to that that three photographers are coming in and out of the frame, and you yourself a camera-man-technical-nightmare. But after a few takes, we find the paste and the footage looks out of this world! The fun of it all, is that the photographers (Milian, Marq and Becky) are using real high-tech digital cameras, so each time they 'pretended' to take a photo, they actually were! Result: I end up with about a 100 great paparazzi looking photos of Princess Grace!
We rush home, where I edit in the final footage. Wow, what a difference! It really adds to the whole movie and created that invasive paparazzi feel I was kind of missing.
Three more days to go before the movie is screened at UCLA ... The clock is ticking!
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