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- Putting the dolly on the track for a smooth move during a long shot.
- During driving scenes the sound mixer trails behind remotely capturing the dialogue.
- Bugs will fly to the 17th floor to find the only lights around.
- Ben Walker brokes a major business deal.
- Shooting a big scene on the 17th floor landing.
- Preparing a board room scene we shot at night to look like day.
- Even the mundane tasks are important; here props are prepared for the board room scene.
- Taylor and Kevin rehearse a scene while crew watches and figures out where to put camera and lights
- Cast and crew all applaud whenever an actor is “show wrapped” (they’re done shooting all their scenes).
- Last minute director adjustments before a dinner table scene is filmed.
- Worst part of doing props and production design–preparing food scenes.
- Our digitial imaging technician Scott downloads and logs the footage during shooting.
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- “Ben Walker” preaching a sermon when he hasn’t set foot in a church in 15 years.
- “Kimberly” showing tickets to “Dylan” for a concert they’ll be going to (first date?)
- Rehearsing (that’s why Kristy and Debby are wearing jackets) a scene where Ben Walker has screwed up again.
- The Walker family (Sorbo, Ryan, and Swanson, with little Taylor snuggled against Swanson) about to be filmed watching a family memories DVD
- Setting up a big scene inside the church. The 100+ year old church we used is no longer operating, open only as a museum on Saturdays.
- Debby Ryan (Kimberly), Kevin Sorbo (Ben), director Dallas Jenkins
- Setting up a shot inside the Walker home
- The camera’s focus settings are impacted by the exact distance from the camera to the subject.
- “Video village,” where the director and several other crew members watch the monitors in a separate room to see what the two cameras see.
Principal Photography is complete for “What If…,” and editing has begun. Stay tuned for another “behind the scenes” video blog coming soon, but in the meantime, here are some more production photos from the first day of shooting:
- Director Dallas Jenkins talks to crew before day one filming
- Kristy Swanson and Kevin Sorbo as Wendy and Ben Walker
- Preparing to shoot a scene outside “The Little White Church”
- Preparing the pre-marital counseling scene
- “Don’t you know who I am?”