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Jensen Ackles & the push-in shot

From Jensen’s podcast interview on Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum – MR mentions a complicated scene he shot with the camera “on sticks” (fixed on a tripod), and that reminds Jensen of a Supernatural shoot and this story (slightly paraphrased for brevity) –

JA: We’re shooting down on a beach, it was at night, a boat comes in, and it goes up onto the beach, and the camera’s on sticks on the beach, and basically the waves are kind of crashing against our ankles, and we’re having this conversation. The tide is starting to come in, and we’re not getting the shot, and they keep having to pick up the camera on the tripod and bring it back.

Eventually it gets to a point where it’s like the end of the scene and we get it, but the director yells out from his tent, “Give me a push in!” For the audience, that’s where the camera slowly moves in to the actor, and it adds a little dramatic flair.

Well, they’re running out of beach, and the water’s really getting high, and there’s no time to lay track. The camera guys are like, “We don’t have any track, we can’t lay track! We’re running out of time, water’s coming up!” And I’m like, “I got it! ROLL!” And we roll, and I’m not kidding, I just do this–

MR: You moved up! You literally bent into the picture! JA: I spread my legs out, and I just slowly moved while looking at the other actor, and just slowly went straight towards camera. MR: You created a push in! And when they said Cut did they applaud you? JA: The crew did. The director was like, [barking] THANK YOU. MR: Dude, that’s genius! Do you have that? You had to get that piece of film. JA: Oh yeah, no, they used it. And now we’ll just do it all the time, and the director’s like [to the camera crew], “What are you doing, why’re you pushing in, I didn’t ask for the push in!” The camera guys are like, “We’re on sticks! That’s the actors being assholes!” [Laughter]

Gifs from SPN 8.05 Blood Brother, directed by Guy Bee

“What the fuck is that racket?” Dean sits up in bed so suddenly that Meredith, Cas’s cat, goes skittering off their bed and regroups at the door, giving Dean the evil eye before stalking out of the room and down the bunker’s hallway.

Cas tilts his head and listens for a second. “Hyla versicolor. Eastern Gray Tree Frog.” He goes back to reading his book, absent-mindedly sliding his reading glasses up his nose.

700 words, rated Teen, written for @deancas-smolthings. Read it on AO3 here.

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Castiel Novak meets Dean Winchester in the summer of 1989 when they’re both ten years old. Growing up in small town Kansas is as all-American as climbing trees and little league baseball, but the carefree days of childhood can’t last forever. With adolescence comes new challenges, and Cas finds himself frustrated by decisions Dean makes that he can’t understand. After a big fight junior year, they stop speaking for months, and when tragedy strikes Cas’s family, there’s only time for a quick, heartfelt goodbye before the Novaks move away.

Six years later, after the death of his father, Cas takes a semester off from grad school and returns to Kansas. There he finds the woods where they used to play bulldozed into a housing development, and the Winchester family similarly fractured and gone. In relaying this news to his mother, he learns Dean was keeping secrets of his own as they grew up, forced by circumstances to take on too much too young. Armed with this new information, Cas impulsively decides to drive west to find him and try to make things right.

A DCBB 2019 fic - posting Monday, October 21

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He is half of my soul.

- Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

aka what if Crowley and Aziraphale were created as a single being - then split in two? Destined to keep coming back to each other.

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84. TIMELAPSE. This means something… Subtractive food sculpture. Start with a block of cheese or a massive mountain of mashed potatoes and without using tools, eat your way to an ornate re-creation of a famous statue.

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100. TIMELAPSE. Write a phrase on a piece of wood of something negative you say about yourself to silence yourself or hold yourself back. Burn the wood and the phrase in a fireplace or fire pit. Use the ashes to write something affirming about your strong self on a sheet of white paper.

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101. The heir to the throne of France was known as the Dauphin, French for “dolphin”. According to Donald Trump, the heir to the British throne is the Prince of… Whales? Illustrate a meeting of these two majestic undersea figures, with Macron and Prince Charles as their respective attendants. (This may be photoshopped or, for bonus points, live action.)

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102. Reach out to a senior in your family or community and ask them about a commercially made snack or dish from their childhood that brings them fond memories—something that just doesn’t exist anymore. Try to recreate it based on their description, then share your creation with them and record their assessment.

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120. Neil Armstrong stepped on to the Moon 50 years ago. To memorialize this amazing achievement, make your own “One Small Step” monument. Take a Giant Leap for mankind and put your foot somewhere it has never been before and probably should not go, then show us the resulting footprint.

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121. SIDE-BY-SIDE. You know those garden gnomes that dotted your grandmother’s backyard? Well, it’s been a while and now they have fallen on hard times. They have turned to a life of crime and misanthropy. Their little gnome hearts are filled with despair, hatred, and regret. Show us the before and after.

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122. The next time that Earth’s magnetic poles reverse themselves, your magnetic compass won’t be much help navigating. Fortunately, you remember a mention from a history class of a “south-facing chariot” [SFC] invented in China some 2500 years ago. To be better prepared for the coming magnetic mélange, you have decided to build a functioning SFC so that you can always find your way home. Of course, your SFC will be topped with an assbutt and your chariot will be modeled after a 1967 Impala.

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23. (Up to 20 seconds. You may use fast-motion or tight editing). When baking, measurements are vital to the culinary success of your creation. Small missteps will ruin your souffl�. Of course, measuring cups and spoons, over time, change size and volume due to humidity and aging. Let’s use a measuring device that you trust and know intimately: your mouth. First, figure out exactly how much volume is in you mouth and then use it to source and distribute all ingredients to bake a cake. You may not use any utensils or measuring devices. Grab whatever ingredients you use to make a cake and place them on your counter and then, without using your hands to measure or fill, fill your mouth with the appropriate amounts of each ingredient and then deposit in your cake dish.(Yes, this means you would need to “bob for flour” in your flour bag and then “mouth spout” it into your mixing bowl). Once the ingredients are all safely in the mixing bowl (again, delivered by your mouth), you are allowed to mix it with any device–as long as that device is a part of your face. Bake it and enjoy it with a loved one (without using your hands).

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8. It’s summer, and that means it’s time to do your civic duty. Take a swim in the jury pool – complete with flotation devices, snorkel, etc.

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16. LOCATION-BASED. Clowns were the original glad-iators. Prove it with Roman clowns fighting in an actual Colosseum or ancient amphitheater in a knock-down, drag-out pie fight.

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8. It’s summer, and that means it’s time to do your civic duty. Take a swim in the jury pool – complete with flotation devices, snorkel, etc.

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