We spent 3 or 4 days in Henry's apartment (the days merge together in my memory when staying at one set). I realized we were nearing the end. We filmed Henry having a frantic episode. His world is falling apart and he is beginning to realize Diff isn't real. He's desperately trying to hold on to Diff, but he's not appearing any more. Paola comforts him. His mother confronts him about not taking his medication. Paola meets the mother and there is a moment in which these two women connect, and the mother realizes that Paola is going to take care of her little baby now.
At 5am we filmed a scene of the sun rising on the roof. It is the final scene and it is beautiful, although i won't upload pictures because I don't want to ruin the ending for you.
We spent our time on the set doing interviews. I became more incorporated into the Making-Of crew and held the boom mic. We interviewed the script writer who is from Chile and is incredibly animated when he speaks. I'm not sure what he was saying, but it was very fun watching him talk. Later on he saw the footage with the composer and they were both very impressed. The composer couldn't wait to make the music for Miente.
The highlight of the three days at Henry's was hanging out with Mariana. since Estefania has the key to the actors apartment/trailer replacement, we were always walking her back and forth. We hung out with her in her apartment and had a bunch of girl talk sessions.
We talked about what its like to have kids, different styles of acting, what film festivals matter, politics, Cubans, Obama, Hillary, and a lot of other stuff that five minutes later I couldn't remember because we were so busy talking that I couldn't convert our conversations from short term memory into my long term memory! It's such a shame that this happens.Nevertheless I gained an understanding of the psychology of acting, which was really interesting. For example, Paola enters Henry's life through his heart while Diff enters Henry's life through his head. Paola necessitates a sensual and emotional style of acting, while Diff, although focused, is less emotion and more physical. This creates a difference between how the actors adjust from In-Character to Off-Character. Frank is more likely to make the switch from Diff to Frank easier. Mariana has been in character for an entire month, though, even on her days off.
To top it off, Paola looks so different from Mariana, wearing more make up, being skinnier, dressing more elaborately, etc. Now that Paola's term is coming to an end, how will Mariana become Mariana again? Well she had to start by cutting her blue hair and dying it back to black (Amy Winehouse style.)
Anyway, the last big day of filming was yesterday. We went to an abandoned building covered in graffiti.
It was beautifully urban, in exactly the fairytale style that one would imagine. We filmed the scene where Henry and Diff meet (which happens to be Diff saving Henry from being carjacked in a sketchy alley.) We also shot scenes of Henry freaking out looking for Diff because he begins to realize Diff isnt' real.The scene was. so. strong. I had another one of those moments in which I stood by the monitors clapping silently, really excited, amazed, and completely trippin' to the scene:
Before the scene started, Henry was bouncing and hopping around like a boxer. He was going to be running in the scene, and he was working himself up.
I thought to myself jeez, that is a little silly. Does he really have to be bouncing around like a boxer? That's a little over the top... it's just acting!
Rafi yells action, and Henry runs into the spotlight, graffiti lit up in yellow Tungsten lights replicating street lights. "DIFF? DIIIIFFFF!" He pants, distressed, freaked out, in the midst of the realization that he's slightly crazy. "DIIIIFFF!"
Behind him, you see graffiti of a black angel, below is LIE, which the prop master Bryant and graffiti'd earlier that day. But in my trip watching the monitors i became conscious of another "lie" written subliminally and accidentally on the lower left hand of the screen. It wasn't on purpose, but it appeared. That accident really excited me, and elevated my respect for this movie by a hundred times. It's genuinely turning into a crazy movie.
By the way, the guy who did the PHET! graffiti happened to show up on set right when we arrived. When we needed to cover some panels, we utilized his help to do some work for us. He worked really quickly, and made some pretty cool stuff. He's a regular visitor of this abandoned building, and we noticed that he had covered every single wall. In particular, he covered every prominent wall which we were filming! 
We tried to do an interview with him, as a funny little cameo, but the making-of camera had to be used on set, and since we went overtime by two hours ($4000) due to Oscar being sick and needing a doctor, we couldn't keep the light on after shooting was finished to do the interviews. We then came up with the idea that my pictures should be included in the making-of footage to get in clips which the video couldn't capture!
Like this one, which the video camera couldn't capture because not enough lighting was available. This is Bryant, the prop master, making the guitar more breakable. We thought we only had one take to smash the guitar, but on the first take, Diff didn't smash it very hard. It was more like a tap, and it broke a little bit. It wasn't dramatic enough. so when we did it again, he really went for it, and sMAsH!!!!
It was brilliant, and we all got really excited. Clapping, whooping... the whole shbang.
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