Production Notes - Scene 4 - Reactivation

Major Mayweather arrives at the Holmes residence, tasked with officially reactivating Lance. Here, I wanted the audience to briefly see some incidental moments in Lance and Stephanie's life, before Mayweather gives them the news.

Various editing details you may not have noticed:

• Three separate music tracks play in the background, back-to-back: "Center of the Earth", "Dark Horizon" and "The Lovers".
• As with almost every scene, all sound effects were individually adjusted for volume.
• In the high-resolution version, I was able to get the horse prop to stay still in every shot. ;)
• There is a brief shot of Stephanie after she enters the cabin, slumping her shoulders. This is intentional - we're to presume she suspects what's coming. This shot is timed to coincide with a deep viola in the music.
• In the high-resolution version, we see Mayweather briefly look back toward the cabin as they walk away. He's stalling here - fretting a bit about Stephanie. This little visual tidbit was lost in the online version, as my computer tends to have a strange drag on the video during export, at the end of each shot.
• Lance standing in the cabin shaking his head is actually an idle mannequin from the "Conversation Interruption" scene. I had to bring the camera above the brim of his hat to hide the fact that lip-synch didn't work properly.

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