Star Rider by Bonnie Bryant

Author:Bonnie Bryant [Bryant, Bonnie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-82501-8
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2012-12-19T05:00:00+00:00

“UP ALL NIGHT practicing your lines?” Skye asked when they met in makeup early one morning later in the week. This was the last scheduled day of shooting. Lisa was a little sad, and a little happy to think that it was all going to be over soon.

“ ‘Aww’,” Lisa said. “Or is it ‘Beautiful dog!’ ”

“I think you did ‘Aww’ yesterday, along with Thank you’; it’s ‘Beautiful dog!’ today.”

“Stop talking or I’ll put on the wrong shade of pancake and make your lips crooked,” Jeanette said.

“You have to watch out for her,” Skye told Lisa, almost seriously. “She spent years doing the makeup for horror films. She’ll have hair sprouting out of your cheekbones in an instant!”

Jeanette grinned mischievously. “Do you want it curly or straight?” she asked.

“Curly. And I want pointy ears like Mr. Spock, too,” Lisa said.

“Hmmmm,” Jeanette mused, working hard to make Lisa look exactly the way she had looked the day before, and every other day of her life.

Then, while Jeanette put down her pencils and brushes to examine her subject, Lisa dared to speak again. “How come I’m admiring your dog today—as in ‘Beautiful dog!’—when I already saw him in the scene we shot the first day?” she asked Skye. “I mean, shouldn’t I have remarked on Maverick’s beauty before instead of saying, ‘Your horse is ready, Gav’?”

Skye smiled. “Seems that way, but remember, this is a movie. Although everybody who sees the movie will see you admire Maverick before you deliver my horse, we don’t necessarily shoot the scenes in the order in which they happen. Shooting a movie isn’t like performing a play. Everything is done in the most economical order, not the most sensible order. See, the filming is planned so that all the scenes that can be done in one place at one time are done at once. Also, they take into consideration who is in each scene. I’m scheduled for filming for these two weeks and then for another two weeks later next month. They don’t want me sitting around, going to classes and collecting a salary for a minute more than they need me. It’s all very complicated.”

“And fascinating,” Lisa said. “I hadn’t thought about filming in those terms, but, of course, it makes sense. It’s sort of like—”

“Shhh,” Jeanette said. “I’m about ready to do the hair sprouting out of your cheekbones.”

Lisa sat absolutely still while Jeanette finished her makeup. Once again Jeanette had succeeded in making her look exactly like herself. She noticed that Jeanette followed a chart she’d prepared the first day so Lisa’s makeup would be identical from day to day. There was a lot that went on behind the scenes of movie-making that was completely invisible to moviegoers. Lisa liked getting the inside view of it all.

It turned out that the scene they were to shoot called for Skye to canter up toward the stable with Maverick following him. Lisa’s job was to walk through the back door, take his reins, and kneel down to be greeted by Maverick.

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