There is a summer site in Ottawa called the Carnivale Lune Bleue. According to their website the Carnivale is "inspired by the legendary magic and allure of the 1930s carnivale . . . (where all the) authentic all-senses escape where visitors become immersed in a colourful, gritty, surreal and frequently bizarre all-evening entertainment extravaganza". In their words, this is the old fashioned carnivale with the old fashioned Ferris Wheel and horse-merry-go-round and then all the freak acts - the snake dancer, the contortionist and way, way more!
Last night there was an independent short film being shot at the Carnivale in which Braden was the Producer, Kaleb was a main actor, Emma had a minor role and I was 'Bobby's' mommy. We started in wardrobe, hair and make-up at 6:45 and then were on set shooting at 8:30 and left the set at 1:00am! Yep - it was pretty much a 5 hour shoot with no breaks, trying to get in 27 scenes shot in that time - yikes!
The transformation begins - the make-up lady created this mask so that Kaleb's whole face wouldn't be in make-up and there would be less chance of it being rubbed off due to the length of the shoot. Great idea!
Let me introduce you to our Kaleb! After the shoot was done the make-up lady said that Kaleb could keep his mask and he was ECSTATIC!!! He couldn't wait to take it home, although he said that he was going to call it a bear, not a lion - hehehe!
The film's story was about 052, a science experiment guy who had light bulbs attached to his head, learning how to not only do what he was programmed to do, but rather to experience life and use that experience to direct his thoughts and actions - in other words, think out of the box. Emma was a little girl at the carnivale that was getting her face painted by a carny worker, Kaleb was the little boy who thought that 052 was a face-painter and asked him to make his face into a lion and I was the mom shooting a pictures of my son's amazing face.
Unfortunately because there was so much camera time I didn't get the photos I wanted, but I'll show you some better ones when the actually photographer's pictures come.
What we discovered about last night . . .
* Kaleb is actually a pretty good actor - great expression, great interaction and good memorization.
* When you are wearing a lions mane created out of real hair it it itchy - just ask Kaleb
* Kaleb can actually fall asleep while standing up after just saying a line
* Kids should not do this amount of shooting at this time of night for sooooo long
* Emma and Kaleb would do it again in a heartbeat!
The nice thing was that the kids got to go on the Ferris Wheel for free and also check out the snake shows. The not nice thing - the kids couldn't ride on the merry-go-round because it was just behind where we were shooting and if the shot was taken with them on the merry-go-round it would look like they were in two places at one time - not good!
Cotton candy was one of the perks of acting in the film - Kaleb had to spend from time 7pm till about 11:30 in the mane - itchy! His chin was done in make-up, which had to be redone a few times and he started putting emma's sweater over top of his to help warm him up. To say that he didn't have a few melt-downs, well - let's just say that he earned his "wages" last night.
It was pretty cold shooting so late at night so the girls grabbed some hot chocolate to warm up. Emma's friends, Victoria and Katrina joined the shoot as extras.
A shot of Kaleb watching another scene with 052 - the guy in the green pajamas. If you look close you'll see that he actually shaved his hear and has a very heavy contraption with 3 light bulbs attached to it. After shooting he had bruises on his head from it - and you could see them because the top of his head was bald! I guess work this week at the gov't offices that he works at will be interesting this week!!!
And yep - no shots of me because I didn't shoot any - oops. I was dressed as a normal lady though - although none of my clothes matched (black 40's style heels, at the knee - flowing floral shirt, bright purple velvet jacket, pink scarf with broach, natural make-up, straight hair and bangs)
So, the night was long and we're all exhausted this morning (expect for Navia who fell asleep at 7:30pm with her babysitter) and we're having a rainy day inside, working on a few projects and just hanging out as a family - yay!!!
(Oh, and as an aside, this independent film had no budget, therefore everyone who participated - from actors to crew, make-up, wardrobe and anyone in between all donated their time to the project just because they believed in the project and wanted to be a part of it - kinda cool! - Oh, but Kaleb and Emma were paid . . . Daddy promised them Backugans - hehehe!)
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