DAY 4
Thursday, August 13, 1998

The Whitman House, Seattle 11:59 PM
Todd Howard, Producer

Well, well, well. Today something became excruciatingly clear: 15 hour days DO NOT WORK. On the flip side - there is one thing about moviemaking that is incredibly heavy, and it is this: you have secured a particular location for a scene to be shot, met with the owners of it weeks before and made specific arrangements and agreements with them, and you have estimated what time you will be cleared out of their space. Enter the director and the director of photography.

These guys get into the space and suddenly there is all this inspiration (go figure) and they get ideas about what they want to shoot and where and from what angle... (perhaps they should have seen the location *before* the actual shooting day - well, there's always the next movie!!)

This inspiration got us in a fix with local law enforcement. I had a confusion on the mind about the schedule we had set up with the police in regards to closing off certain stretches of road in town to traffic so that we can achieve "lock-down" and get no roaring cars or trucks in the audio track of the shot. Well, I closed the road down, and the police didn't know about it and, well... they do now...

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