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Production Notebook
M.Sto: I don”t know why your father keeps picking up.
Jessica: Isn”t it convenient that when he”s doing something annoying he belongs to someone else, i.e. my father, but when he”s terrific he”s yours? I know you go “your daughter” all the time to him about me and I don”t appreciate it.
M.Sto: I do not.
Jessica: Do so, I can hear you in California because I am psychic and the wind also carries your voice sometimes. Anyway, maybe he can sense that I need to talk to him. Put him on.
The Grizz: Hello, where are you, what are you doing”You watching you back out there?
Jessica: I am working and always watching my back especially when I”m in my home office where people might hide in the closets and surprise me while I”m on the phone with you the end. So here”s a question, is it possible for you to build me Really Big Prop?
The Grizz: No, mostly because I don”t have a time. That takes time; wood working.
Jessica: Yes but you could do it? I mean, it”s possible, you have the skills?
The Grizz: Anything”s possible. How big is this Really Big Prop?
Jessica: Technically it”s a piece of the set and it”s at least fifteen feet tall, maybe twenty at the max. I don”t know; I need to talk to the DP to see what can be done with camera angles.
The Grizz: What”s this for? Photography?
Jessica: It”s for a film, Dad. A film.
The Grizz: I am available to play the character DeathStar.
Jessica: Yes but are you available to build me a Really Big Prop?
The Grizz: I”m only available for acting, that”s construction.
Jessica: That”s funny, because on your resume it says that you are an electrical contractor. I must have missed the listing for that one time you were in movies.
The Grizz: Can you do it as a miniature?
Jessica: No, there are actors in the scene and they need to interact with the Really Big Prop”
The Grizz: Actors like DeathStar!
Jessica: but not like go inside of it or anything. ”No.
The Grizz: You know that those old Really Big Things were about seventy feet tall, right?
Jessica: Dude, I know, but I don”t want one that”s seventy feet tall. I want one that”s like fifteen feet tall or whatever works for the scene. And we don”t need one that big to make it look bigger and it shouldn”t be that big anyway. Seventy feet is like” a giant. This is not Jack and the Beanstalk. Or something.
The Grizz: Then yes, I could build that for a film. Theoretically.
Jessica: I”m going to send M.Sto some reference photos for you so that you can see what I was looking at out here except they won”t let me shoot there even though I talked to some nuns about it.
The Grizz: What? OK”
Jessica: Sweet! Okbye.
Later:
M.Sto: He was just here and he looked at the photos.
Jessica: Did he say anything or did he just Grizz grunt.
M.Sto: Grunt.
Jessica: OK, but, what sort of grunt? Like, he”s interested or like, “Not again I already built a whole homecoming float for her twice”?
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