The Director Gets a Grip by Heather Horrocks

Author:Heather Horrocks [Horrocks, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romantic comedy, paranormal, vampires, werewolves, Witches, shifters, movies
Publisher: Word Garden Press
Published: 2017-01-08T23:00:00+00:00

The next morning, Blake kept glancing at his watch. Nearly ten. He’d been smiling all morning — so much so that Buddy and Janine both commented on it.

Today, they were rigging up a dolly so that the main camera would roll smoothly around the main couple while they danced in a living room — kind of like the dancing scene in Beauty and the Beast — only in a smaller room.

Blake was taking Bianca into town at ten, which would give them time to return for the catered Thanksgiving meal being brought in at noon. Then everyone would get the afternoon off — though he suspected with this bunch of workaholics that some of them would voluntarily put in a few more hours. After all, they wanted to be home with their families for Christmas even more than for Thanksgiving, and they’d want to put in all the time they could to make that happen.

At five to ten, Blake headed toward the front of the lot. He didn’t see Bianca, but Dunstan caught his eye and motioned toward the lobby. He nodded and went out.

Bianca was talking with Cindy. She looked up and smiled at him — a beautiful smile — and it was enough to blow all of his mental circuits.

Bianca said, “We’ll be gone for an hour or so checking out locations. If I get any calls, patch them through to Dunstan. We’ll be back before the noon feast.”

“You should see the cafeteria,” Cindy said. “Ilene got people to decorate and it looks great.”

Blake held the door open for Bianca, and followed her out into the sunshine. The snow from last night had melted and the day was bright, but still cold.

“Let’s take my car,” she said.

This time, she got in the driver’s seat and he climbed into the passenger’s seat. “Where to?” she asked.

“Go toward town,” he answered. “There’s a place right on the edge of Town Square with fantastic lighting.”

Bianca nodded. “We film there often.”

She drove toward town and he pointed out a couple of other possible locations — one in a stand of trees just outside the studio gates, another in a gazebo on a residential property. “You’d need to get permission, of course, but the light through that gazebo would be great at dusk.”

This was what key grips were good at — shaping light for the cameramen, creating patterns, colors, and shadow effects.

She pulled into the parking lot and he led her across the square to the far side, across the street from A Bite to Eat Café. He found a bench and positioned her on it so that she could see what he meant. “Now look through here, at the gazebo, and how the trees frame this area. When I was here on Monday, from ten until about two, the lighting was fabulous. It will make for great shots.”

He waited to see what she thought of it, hoping she liked it. He found himself nervous.

Finally, she smiled at him. “I love it.”

He breathed a sigh of relief.

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