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Submitted by Eli Kramer on Thu, 12/06/2007 - 12:38pm.
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Alex's hand could be felt all over this shoot, but he used relatively few words. The atmosphere was controlled and efficient, but soft and open. It's no joke to coordinate a three-camera shoot, but the whole thing was so low key. Nothing got in the way. It seemed like we were shooting a lot of the time. Our cohesion as an ensemble for that day's scenes was 95% there when we arrived; the casting was that good. Very nice.

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