Production Update #60: Final thanks (we hope)!

Wow! What an incredible shoot! 28 set-ups in 7 and a half hours. And multiple shots from most of those set-ups... Despite the SPF 60, I think we all walked away with more than a little sunburn!

Thanks so much to EVERYONE who made this final shoot possible. What a powerful team effort!

Thanks to:

* Bob Sapora for his lightning-fast changing bag hands, and for catching our light meter gaff before it was too late.

* Gordon Masters for arriving an hour early to help us set up, and for suggesting a better location for the extra wide master shot.

* Novia Campbell for her genuine performance on camera, and for feeding us between takes.

* John Krebs for delivering the fire engine at 7 in the morning, and then picking it up after dark. (Great job with the cow poop necklace, too!)

* Russell Justice for his wonderful dance moves, and the very cool carved-snake prop.

* George Maurer for bringing the vintage delivery truck, and passing up a Preakness Party to wait for your time in front of the camera. (Sorry those shots were so spread out.)

* Tom Wach & Brenton Green for keeping the camera and tripod so portable. And for staying to help us clean up afterwards. AND for a VERY funny final scene.

* Ed Holthause and Chris Hart for being willing to adlib with fire and fish... always a daring thing to do.

* Kelly McGee for a very professional job slating for us all day long. Nice work.

* Steve Malcolm for your patience, for that wonderfully laconic delivery, and for bringing that box of vintage props.

* Renee Johnson for driving all the way from Havre deGrace and waiting in the hot sun -- and for a delivering those lines with just the right amount of exasperation.

* Robert Lemieux for all your support and for always bringing a wonderful authenticity to the performance to "Guy with Cyst"... we hope you don't get typecast.

* John Lewis Krebs for filling out the crowd with another genuine firefighter... thank goodness we didn't use you earlier in the movie because you've grown three feet taller since we started shooting this thing.

* Jim Buckley for some of that patented Jim Buckley patter as you took photos of Talia.

* Jenna Krebs for masterful maneuvering those bounce cards to get some light on those faces.

* Gretchen and Mercedes Malcolm for being a patient audience on the hill.

* Mick Swain, Todd Miller, and your families for being very supportive neighbors during the 7 years it's taken to shoot this beast..

I will drive the 1,500 feet of film down to Colorlab in Rockville on Monday. Keep your fingers crossed that it all comes out properly exposed, in focus, and well framed, without any scratches, hairs, or any other gremlin-like anomalies... I will let everyone know as soon as I get to screen the dailies. But planting a few 4-leaf clovers and kissing a few horseshoes this weekend wouldn't hurt.

Thanks again. From now on whenever I get a sunburn, I will always think of this shoot -- and the many generous people who made it happen...

Let's hope this truly is the end of principal photography for "Cinder."

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