| Monday, March 2nd
Welcome to our second day of taping Reva's High Sea Adventure.
We started the day at 7:30 a.m. preparing for our first scenes, which were aerial shots. Director Jo Anne Sedwick and a three-man crew met a helicopter at the Marathon airport and flew to the island. The first shot was an aerial of Kim lying face down in the water. After a few takes we hurried onto the boats and headed out to sea. Behind us we towed "Sean's boat" which was designed by our Art Director, Rick Dennis, built in the studio, and then shipped down to Florida.
Here's a picture of Rick riding in his boat making sure it's safe for Kim and Bill. The wind was really strong today, which caused a very rocky boat ride. Once we got far enough off shore we transferred Kim and Bill into the prop boat and left them drifting while we moved far enough away for the helicopter to get some isolated shots.
After completing the helicopter shots, we headed back to the island to prepare for the rest of the day's shoot on the beach. Before we started taping again we had lunch prepared by the world's best location caterer, Buddy De Vingo, and his crew from My Buddy's Catering. Everyone has been raving for the last two days about how good the food has been. We are all looking forward to mealtime!
As you can see from this picture, Linda Williams, our Hairstylist, and Helen Gallagher, our Makeup Artist, took this time to touch-up Kim. Helen used makeup to create the cut on Reva's leg from the plane crash as well as other cuts and bruises she suffered in her struggle to get off the island. Due to the high winds we experienced today, an extraordinary amount of seaweed washed up on the beach. A group was quickly organized to rake and clean up the beach so taping could begin.
The seaweed was deposited on a compost pile. The island collects all the seaweed that washes up and turns it into fertilizer for all the landscaping they do. In today's beach scenes, Reva built her shelter and established a home base. Reva's shelter was also shipped from our studio and assembled on the beach. The scenes went smoothly and everyone worked on their tans in the beautiful weather. The wind must have carried the music from the tiki bar in the other direction because we didn't hear one beat of it today. What we did hear was the generator that gave power to our control room. The generator is located on a barge just off shore and the site we were planning on using for Reva and Sean's picnic was near the edge of the island. At the last minute we walked the island to find another area the scene could take place. The area was quickly dressed and the equipment moved and the rest of taping went off without a hitch. We finished taping on time at 9:45 p.m. We had a great day on Seabird Key and hope you're enjoying watching.
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