Our break-in scene proved to be another challenging, fun set.
In this scene, we had two thiefs (actors Ronnie Stepney and Angelo Sanchez) "break in" M's house. We had originally planned on obtaining sound effects for the breakage of the window...
But what fun and excitement would that be?! We were determined to film this as real as possible...
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| Carlos Rubio gluing the glass into place |
We wanted to break glass for realism but not necessarily an actual window; we had to rack our brains and inventory for something we could glue to an open window and actually break.
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| Rubio loads the glue gun |
Then it hit us- glass from a picture frame we had. We took the frame apart and hot glued the glass into the frame of the open window. The drawback here, folks, is you only get one shot to get it right. Unless, of course, you happen to have several picture frames at your disposal...
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| Reflections... are we inside or out? |
Our counterstep? Two cameras rolling on both sides of the window breaking shot...
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| A brilliant idea! |
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| Rubio ready for action |
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| The begining stages of prop making... |
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| Turning blocks of wood into "bricks" |
Our next step in preparing the set was to make the props the thiefs were after...
To show that Melania is a trusted drug hustler of the cartel, we decided to make props that resembled "bricks" of drugs.
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| Levi Hart concentrates as he wraps the wood in duct tape |
Fake money was the easy part, now we needed to figure out a way to make inexpensive props that look realistic.
Through our extensive research, we came to realize that most seized drug packages appear similar to bricks tapped and sealed up. (Hence the slang term "bricks" for drug packages)
Our first idea was to get actual bricks and wrap them up in duct tape...Then we realized we had no bricks to tape up.
We began searching our inventory for anything that resembled a box that we could tape up. Fortunately, Rubio found planks of wood that could be cut down to the perfect size.
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| Duct tape came in real handy on set today |
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| "Am I doing this right?" |
We wrapped several blocks of wood with different colored tape. For an added effect of realism, Rubio got a small bag of mixed dark spices and taped it on top of the block of wood. Cutting an X across the taped spices gives the illusion that block of wood is full of the substanance peeking out.
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| Rubio adds an effect for realism |
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| The finished products (minus the coffee mug) |
The Shoot!
Finally, it was time to shoot.
We began by filming the introduction as many ways as possible before we moved to the actual breaking in shot.
The anticipated moment we all had eagerly been waiting for came and went surprisingly fast. Apparently, our actor (Sanchez) was just as eager as we were!
The built up anticipation served us profoundly. Ahh, the serendipity. : )
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