For this post, I'll be crunching a bunch of days together. There are lots of memories from them, but for the most part, not a lot of filming. We're in transition. On the 11th, Bert and Paul got inserts in the morning (inserts are non-story specific shots to add background and flavor, for instance, shots of bakeries, cars driving by, Quebecois landmarks, etc.) while the rest of us slept in, felt sick, or explored. I like having alone time, so this was a much needed day of solitary exploration for me, wandering in and out of markets, churches and art galleries, interspersed with lengthy sits on benches reading my book. (As well as finding two 7 year old video game magazines lying on the sidewalk in mint condition. I enjoyed reading some scathing editorials on the Virtual Boy)
On this day, my beloved camera of six years, and three continents turned on for the last time. Therefore, there will be one last batch of photos on the facebook page soon, but after that my contribution to photos will be done.
We met up for dinner, and went once more to the same restaurant. The food was fantastic and relatively cheap as it was before, but our cheerful server mistakenly overbilled us again in the same way she did before, leaving us with bittersweet memories of the place. I'd probably go again, but will make sure I triple check the bill before paying.
As soon as dinner was over, we headed back to the motel, packed up, and set out on the road for an overnight journey to Timmins. The nights were dark, foggy and rainy, but through taking shifts and driving cautiously and alertly through the dark we arrived safely in Timmins the next day, where we were treated like royalty by Craig and his parents. After a well needed sleep, and a very hearty breakfast, we left early in the morning for Winnipeg.
Thanks to construction, we arrived much later than expected. It wasn't fun watching the hours tick by and the sun sinking in the west while the distance to Winnipeg remained dishearteningly far. It wasn't all bad news though. I got within pages of finishing Storm of Swords, and have now finished my first book of the trip.
The following day was purely recreational. More sleeping in, more reading, with Pool playing, snippets of Halo and a very loud dog., in the very Mennonite Zimmerly household. Dinner was home cooked stir fry, finished with fellowship at a place called 'Cousins' and another good nights sleep.
Finally, today, we got back to filming. We drove out to near Camp Assiniboine, looking with trepidation at the looming storm clouds. There was a faint drizzle, so we set up the car mount and decided to get the glidecam shots of an important dialogue scene first. After successfully capturing them, we fixed the camera on the carmount (a bizarre futuristic looking contraption that attaches a camera to the hood of a car with suction cups) just in time for the skies to open up.
We succeeded in keeping the camera dry and not broken, but we didn't get the footage and we got completely drenched. It's the first day the weather's been against us, but considering how the forecast has been doom and gloom pretty much the whole time, and this is the only time we've had to stop production due to weather, I'd say we're winning.
The rest of the day was more relaxation, numerous discoveries of food the dog has eaten, and filming of a video blog. You can check out previous entries here
Tomorrow we're going to try for that carmount shot one more time. After that, it's our Winnipeg premieres of the Love Doc and Sumu, We'll decide whether we're going to do another night drive, or leave in the morning. Either way, Banff is approaching.
Ben
EDIT: Jon just asked me if I mentioned the bears. There were bears! We saw three, all very close to construction zones. We also saw 2 moose, a slew of deer, and Paul saw some baby foxes.
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