"It's the first day, John has actually begun the work with rehearsal," Joel says. They begin to block and also seek direction from John. It seems everyone is working together to make things great.
They're working on Scene 33, where Beer Guy gets thrown up on by the monster. "He wants it to be organize," Mike tells some of the crew, when it comes to why John doesn't rehearsal.
Some crew are making the "vomit" from scratch for the scene, which is shot on him after the heroine and bartender jump out of the way. "Help me out, man, I can't see!" he yells during the scene for part of it as he's trying to deal with being thrown up on by the monster. "I have no hope for those movie," Mike laughs. "It worked really well," Judah, Beer Guy's actor, said about the scene.
Chris Moore comes to visit the set to watch. "Nobody's in trouble," he jokes, coming to watch the footage in the HP trailer with no music or sound effects, yet. "I was into it, it moved fast, it was kinda cool. I got lost in a couple of places in the geography of the bar," he notes. "We've got ourselves a movie here, boy," Stephen admits, excited. "I think the casting is great, I think the set is great," Chris beams.
They move to Scene 74, where Beer Guy freaks out from the vomit. "You tell me to leave it alone!" he yells. He's freaking out by the after-effects of the throw up. The script adviser is there and needs to make some changes as it happens. Apparently, she's a friend of John's family, so he feels comfortable working with her and trusting her on the set. They shoot the scene again, as Beer Guy says "alien" instead of "monster," and they need to fix that. They laugh at the scene, because it's so hilarious how he freaks out, and the set is very jolly today with John's opening up and input. "I think it became clearer to John that these people are looking for him to guide him," Nike notes.
They shoot a lot more scenes, and John and his Photography Director, Tom, appear to be doing much better. "Hopefully, people will be more secure with John as director of this film," Mike says. The page counts on the script in regards to what is being filmed isn't being followed and now they've changed how the process works to do it opposite the way it normally is done. "There are differently very professional issues underlining this conflict," Joel says of the argument going on. "I just think they don't like each other."
They're on day nine of shooting and working on getting another scene done. "We need to start shooting something right away," the Director of Photography says. "There's always going to be a battle," Mike says of putting John and Tom together. "I was guessing. It was almost trial by error." Mike comes to talk to them about the previous day, "Today feels like we're back to the old grind." Joel says, "It's seems almost frothy." Nike understands how John works, but unfortunately, nobody else knows how to work with him properly through communications. "The trailer's already crashed, it's just happening in slow motion," he explains. "We should have this worked out."
That night they have a meeting in the HP trailer about what happened. Tom notes that there's too much going on by the time the shot is set up, and it ends up confusing John to the point that things slow down, which can't keep happening. "It's very strange scenario to have a Script Supervisor have that much influence over a Director," Stephen brings up. "I think we have bigger problems with Script Supervisor," Mike admits, "If it continues to be a problem, we'll take care of it."