Filming In Brooklyn

If you’re ever sitting at work, hating your job, then imagine this: that you’re working outside, on an 88-degree day, and you have to wear a heavy coat and a scarf. That’s what Nia Vardalos did today. And yes, she gets paid well for it, but we’re just sayin’…

So after I Hate Valentine’s Day was done shooting in the Gloria Flower Shop, the crew set up for a walking shot on Court.

Rails were laid down on the street for the length of the block, and a camera dolly was mounted on the rails.

Once the lights and camera were set up and everything was in place, the crew got to practice their moves a few times with the stand ins.

Ms. Vardalos came onto the set, and got her coat and scarf on.

Here she is, waiting for “action.”

“Action!”

And Ms. Vardalos returns to the starting point for yet another take.

Filming In Brooklyn learned something new today. After watching the scene being shot, we noticed that the microphone was pretty far away from the actors, and asked if the dialogue would be dubbed in later. We were told that the actors were wearing mics, and that the big mic was for picking up atmospheric sounds – cars and trucks, mostly. A loud truck going by sounds like distortion on the actors’ mics, and would ruin the scene. But if the big mic picks up the sound of the truck, that sound can be added to the dialogue, over the distortion, so that it just sounds like a truck going by.

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