Storyboards and Rowboats

After we finished the script, we storyboarded the entire midnight rowboat scene. That's the scene we are attempting on October 16th. The whole scene is about a minute and a half. We'll need about a dozen different shots that we can edit together.

We also decided to get aggressive and try to do the daytime rowboat scene this coming weekend. There is a park in Cincinnati where you can rent rowboats. We'll need 4 boats. There is the capsized rowboat, a boat with fishermen in it, a boat the police are on and (of course) something to hold the cameraman.

Notice I said "police" just now. Yeah. We need cop uniforms. We found a rental house in the area and they are $35 a pop per day. We could probably swallow that (I guess), but there are about 6 locations with policemen and scheduling those on the same day is insane. So we are going to just take the Ed Wood route. We'll find some uniform shirts, buy a few badges and ask the actors to wear blue pants.

Somehow between now and Saturday we have to storyboard the scene, throw together some police uniforms and round up a bunch of extras. Carl has been on the case with the extras. I'm going to hit some thrift stores for shirts and, failing that, there are a few uniform shops in the area I can try.

The real work has begun. :)