Day One -- Thursday, June 16
Day One and only. And Day One of the film shoot itself. This news footage appears on TV during the movie so they are getting in done right out of the gate. It was a fun day today. I had two different appearances to shoot. I shot my first, then waited while another anchor shot her stuff. Then waited a little longer while the KTLA news crew came in and shot an actual news promo. It was as if I had never seen news before. And it made me realize that my first scene was NOT up-to-snuff as far as news anchoring goes. Having seen the real-deal right after trying to do it myself, I could actually see that I was too emotional and, perhaps most surprising, too slow. Those guys really burn through the information. Once they were done, we returned to the desk and took a shot at the second scene. It was a lot better, a fun to try to mimic our KTLA heroes.