R-L: TJ Hellmuth (DP), Mark Conchie (Camera PA), Tiff Laufer (Director), Tom Gavan (Dolly Grip) & Jada Young (Actress) Photo ©2009 William C. Laufer
We've just finished our first offical day of shooting - we were lucky to have the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in our backyard to provide the amazingly beautiful and historic backdrop for our film. We started in the Kirtland Hall of Prehistoric Life and then moved into a smaller gallery from there. It seemed like a quick day, literally flying by. It's quite a dance once you start shooting - trying to balance actors, camera movement, script and story ideas all into one shot.
I storyboarded the sequence but even then once you get onto set there are adjustments and modifications that continue to work their way into the shot, hopefully it only improves the shot and adds more life to it. We have a great crew so I know we'll be able to get our shots and make our days once we resume shooting. Yeah!
Our first shot was of this amazingly beautiful Tyrannosaurus Rex, here is some information on her from CMNH's website:
"Paleontologists have discovered and excavated only about 20 T. rexes, all of them from North America in Texas, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Alberta and Saskatchewan. Rancher Kathy Wankel discovered the original specimen of this T. rex in 1988 in the badlands of eastern Montana while out on a walk.
She brought the find to the attention of Jack Horner, curator of paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies (MOR) in Bozeman, Montana. He led a crew that excavated the site in 1989 and 1990.
The bones of this specimen were prepared between 1991 and 1993 and are now on display at MOR. The original mount is nearly 90 percent complete and includes the first intact forelimb of a T. rex ever found."
