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This article is intended to provide the reader an opportunity, to relive the ''[[Heroes]]'' in all of its aspects, from the beggining.
This article is intended to provide the reader an opportunity, to relive the ''[[Heroes]]'' in all of its aspects, from the beggining.


== Year 1 ==
== Season 1 ==


=== Pre-premiere ===
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==== [[Heroes Evolutions]] ====
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Claire posts her first blog entitled Zach: </br>
Claire posts her first blog entry entitled Zach: </br>
{{blurb}}'''zach''' <br> OMG, a lot of people keep asking me or telling me that I am secretly in love with Zach. I don't have feelings for Zach, he's just an childhood friend of mine. WE ARE JUST FRIENDS!!!! :)  {{blurbclose}}
{{blurb}}'''zach''' <br> OMG, a lot of people keep asking me or telling me that I am secretly in love with Zach. I don't have feelings for Zach, he's just an childhood friend of mine. WE ARE JUST FRIENDS!!!! :)  {{blurbclose}}
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Claire posts another blog: </br>
Claire posts another blog entry: </br>
{{blurb}}'''comiccon???''' <br> A lot of people for some reason have been asking me if I went to this thing in California called comic con. No, I haven't been, but I know Zach, who a lot of you are also myspace friends with, went to it. So you should ask him about it maybe. :) {{blurbclose}}
{{blurb}}'''comiccon???''' <br> A lot of people for some reason have been asking me if I went to this thing in California called comic con. No, I haven't been, but I know Zach, who a lot of you are also myspace friends with, went to it. So you should ask him about it maybe. :) {{blurbclose}}
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Zach now posts his first blog, entitled San Diego: </br>
Zach now posts his first blog entry, entitled San Diego: </br>
{{blurb}}'''San Diego''' <br> Current mood: exhausted <br>
{{blurb}}'''San Diego''' <br> Current mood: exhausted <br>
I know the Summer is supposed to be for lying by the pool and taking it easy, but the last few weeks have been crazy. I had the chance to go to Comic Con in San Diego which was a blast. There were a bunch of people dressed up in crazy costumes and sneak previews for some new movies and tv shows, as well as all my favorite comic book writers and artists of course. Overall San Diego is a cool city, everyone seems nice and minds their own business, it's a little different than Odessa, let me tell you.
I know the Summer is supposed to be for lying by the pool and taking it easy, but the last few weeks have been crazy. I had the chance to go to Comic Con in San Diego which was a blast. There were a bunch of people dressed up in crazy costumes and sneak previews for some new movies and tv shows, as well as all my favorite comic book writers and artists of course. Overall San Diego is a cool city, everyone seems nice and minds their own business, it's a little different than Odessa, let me tell you.
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Then, you can click on the tag <tt> '''''BACK''''' </tt> twice to come back to the room. However for now, there is nothing left to click on. Now please wait for the next week.
Then, you can click on the tag <tt> '''''BACK''''' </tt> twice to come back to the room. However for now, there is nothing left to click on. Now please wait for the next week.
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[http://www.myfanbase.de/ MyFanBase] covers the '''first interview about Heroes''' with [[Tawny Cypress]], the character who is supposedly going to play "Simone".
[http://www.myfanbase.de/index.php?mid=1492&pid=2665 You can read the interview here at MyFanBase or] you can also read it directly here, below:
<b>1. First of all: You have a new project "Bella". Can you tell us something about this movie and which part you will play in it?</b>
"Bella" is a sweet, little film by Alejandro Gomez Monteverde about friendship between two unfortunate souls played by Eduardo Verastegui and Tammy Blanchard. The part I play, Frannie, is that of a restaurant manager and friend to Eduardo's character, Jose. Alejandro based Frannie on an old boss of his that he became very close with. Quick and bold without being rude. Frannie's just "one of the guys" running a successful restaurant.
<b>2. Since your show is called "Heroes” what is a Hero for you? What kind of persons are Heroes? Do you have a Hero?</b>
The definition of a hero for me is someone who you admire, who selflessly helps you in some way and who possesses qualities that you hope to acquire one day if you try hard enough. And in that regard, I suppose even evil people can be somebody's hero. I do have heroes. My brother, Toby, is a hero of mine. He's got a resilience that might make you think he was made of teflon. And he's "super"-talented. Also, my dear friend and teacher, Barbara Marchant is a hero for me. She's been on my side even when I didn't have a side to be on without ever asking anything in return and she has a grace that makes me hope to be just like her one day when I grow up.
<b>3. What can you tell us about your character?</b>
My character on "Heroes" is Simone Deveaux and she is an art dealer based in New York City. Her father made a killing playing the stock market which makes her first-generation money. The pressure of living her father's dreams has made her a bit of a realist and quite conservative. Unfortunately, the man she is in love with is a brilliant, but drug-addicted artist. We start off Simone's story with her father on his deathbed and his male nurse secretly in love with her. Everyone she loves is hurting. The people around her are doing and saying crazy things. Whatever will she do?
<b>4. Can you tell us anything about the first season of ”Heroes”?</b>
Things I can tell you about the first season of "Heroes":
The first couple of episodes you get to meet (mostly) everybody and then the story kicks right in, fast and deep. As the show gets going, tales come in and out so, not every storyline is in every episode. And, record the episode cause you may want to go back and watch that
awesome scene again!
<b>5. When you first read the script of "Heroes” what did you think?</b>
When I first read the script, the first thing I thought was how cool it was. How well written and freakin' fun it was. The second thing I thought was that there wasn't a part in it for me. In fact, I almost called out of the initial audition because I knew they weren't looking for my type, but I thought the script was so cool that I went anyway. I thought it'd fun enough just doing the audition... and it was.
<b>6. You played a part in one of the first 9/11 movies "World trade center”. What was working on the movie like?</b>
"World Trade Center" meant a lot to me. I was there that day, standing on my roof getting vertigo. I still see it fresh in my mind twenty blocks away. It's a wound that hasn't healed and I really wanted to be a part of telling somebody's story somehow. Oliver and I met several times on that project and I auditioned for several different parts before he finally conceded that there just wasn't a role there, but he offered me this small, painful moment and I took it. It was important to me.
<b>7. Since your mother is half german, have you ever been here in Germany? What impressions did you have?</b>
I have never been to germany. I just watched a beautiful documentary on the Berlin Wall coming down. I would love to see that in person. It's certainly on my list of places to see.
<b>8. "Hero” asks: We first got a confirmation that your character's last name is "Deveaux". Is that a "tip of the hat" to "Nathaniel DeVeaux", who has played a part in quite a few sci-fi TV series and movies, but never as a character with special "powers"? Your character seems to be a lady who is strong and primarily self-sufficient (like a Whedonverse character); how will your character develop during the show? We also received the hint from Ollie Grigsby that there will be a "Deveaux Society". What will be the purpose of the "Deveaux Society"?</b>
This is such a smart question. Unfortunately, I don't have an answer for the shows inspiration for the last name Deveaux. I will ask, creator, Tim Kring at the premiere and get back to you. As for my character's development, Simone starts off holding herself to together so tight, what she really needs is a release. Finally, the Deveaux Society was founded by Simone's father as a means for funding causes he felt bettered the world. It's not something that interests my character so much as it often bleeds into politics she doesn't agree with.
<b>9. "Heroes” asks: Does your character's dad, Charles Deveaux, have any interaction/connection with "Mr. Linderman" or "Sylar" or "HRG" (Horned-Rimmed Glasses) or with whoever was after the Human Genome Project research? Do you know what ails him (is he "Patient Zero")? And last, will we see Richard Roundtree in more scenes other than him as a patient in bed?</b>
Another amazingly intelligent question. Man, you guys can think! I don't know much about my father's dealings, I'm afraid, as I had opened an art gallery and made that my life. My father was more interested in stocks and bonds. And yes, you will see him again.
<b>10. Judy asks: Would you like to be a Hero?</b>
I would love to be a hero to someone. I think I'd be strong enough to handle the responsibility. I'd love to be admired for something selfless that I do. Unless you meant, would I like to be a "super"-hero. In which case, yea, one of the wonder twins.
<b>11. René asks: Did you have a Hero when you were a child? Like Superman, Batman or someone else?</b>
I didn't really have any heroes growing up that I can remember. I was really strange and kind of moved to my own beat. I guess the closest thing to a hero would be my mom who taught me some of the wisest lessons.
<b>12. Kathrin asks: Do you think "Heroes” could be the TV Hit of Season 2006/2007?</b>
I do think "Heroes" could be a big hit. It's such a cool story. The characters are fan-freakin'-tastic and the actors who play the characters are stellar. I'd watch it even if I wasn't on it.
<b>13. Since myFanbase is an online magazine about TV Series do you have a favourite one?</b>
The shows I have to record are "Project Runway" and "Lost". And "Heroes".
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<i><tt>3) Hiro Nakamura posts [[Hiro's_blog#Late_Again|his first blog]] under [http://blogs.nbcuni.com/hiro_blog/2006/09/hi.html NBC's website] Read it:<tt></i> <br>  
<i><tt>3) Hiro Nakamura posts [[Hiro's_blog#Late_Again|his first blog entry]] under [http://blogs.nbcuni.com/hiro_blog/2006/09/hi.html NBC's website] Read it:<tt></i> <br>  


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<i><tt>4) Hiro Nakamura later tonight, posts [[Hiro's_blog#Strange_Day|his second blog]]. Read it:<tt></i> <br>  
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Friday, July 14, 2006
 
Hi, and welcome to Heroes. My name is Greg Beeman and I’m one of the producer-directors on the show.
 
For the last five years I’ve been working on the WB show Smallville, where I oversaw the creative production of the show and directed many episodes. I left Smallville to join Heroes this year. The pilot (or first) episode was one of the most exciting and inspiring shows I’ve seen, since, well… The pilot episode of Smallville.
 
Tim Kring created the show and it seems to have had a certain “special-ness” from the moment it left his computer. The pilot was filmed in March 2006 and directed by David Semel. It was put together and first screened for audiences in late April. It seemed to be a hit and in early May, NBC picked it up to air in September.
 
From that point on there is a lag time before the next episodes begin to be produced. Tim, and his partners Executive Producers Dennis Hammer and Allan Arkush (who have all been working together on the other NBC show Tim Kring created, Crossing Jordan, for the last 5 years) began to put a team together that could write and film Heroes on a week-to week basis.
 
If you go to http://www.9thwonders.com/ and check out this teams overall credentials, you’ll see there that Tim Kring has put together a pretty impressive team. A lot of these people have created and/or run shows of their own. I remember feeling, when I first started realizing who I was working with, that we had the TV equivalent of The New York Yankees. A lot of high-powered creative talent has been assembled to get this show on the road.
 
Allan Arkush and I are the directing-producers. We’ll be both directing episodes and overseeing the production and post-production of the show. Probably with Allan mostly in post production and me mostly prepping the episodes and overseeing shooting.
 
Anyway, I’ve been aboard since June – and during that time Tim and the writers have been conceiving how these amazing and complex stories will be told, and writing the first few episodes. There is a harmony in this “Writers Room” that I haven’t seen before. A lot of it stems from Tim who is very Zen-like and accepting. He sets a high bar, but he sets it respectfully. He seems to know how to quietly get the best out of everyone. The first few scripts are the best first scripts of any series I’ve ever read. Of course they’re also top secret and I can’t reveal any details.
 
As for how we’re going to shoot it week to week - we’ve been having lots of meetings and conversations about how the show should look, how to make it happen every week, We’ve been hiring the crew like production designer Ruth Ammon (who designs and builds sets and finds and dresses locations), Director of Photography Jon Aronson and many others.
 
We’ve also been scouting locations – basically we drive around in a van looking for places to film the scenes. When location scouting we eat a lot – here’s some photos of our scout lunches:
 
<center>[[Image:Beaming Beeman1.jpg]]</center> <br>
<center>Typical workday = Scout lunch + phone calls </center><br>
 
<center>[[Image:Beaming Beeman2.jpg]]</center> <br>
<center>Nutrition for filmmakers...in this case: Thai food! </center><br>
 
Heroes is an especially challenging show because we don’t have that sets on stage. Isaac’s loft, Mohnider Suresh’s apartment, Claire Bennett’s house – and that’s about it – and not that many scenes take place in them, relatively.
 
Mostly we’re “on location.” Out in the real world, trying to create New York, Las Vegas, Texas, Los Angeles, and Tokyo – all in Los Angeles. This is inherently slower and more expensive than filming on sets we control.
 
So, also, as with every show, there have also been budget issues. Heroes, because of it’s scope, is an expensive TV show. And many meetings and much blood sweat and tears has been spent trying to figure out how to make it producible at a budget NBC/Universal is comfortable with. This is all pretty normal, but, to make a long story short, getting a TV show of the ground is a big, difficult job, logistically, financially and creatively.
 
Thank God we finally begin shooting Monday.
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[[Hiro Nakamura]] posts his [[Hiro's_blog#Where_to_Begin...|fourth blog entry]], read it:
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Episode 2: Don't Look Back
I don't even know where to start. You're about to be critted by a wall of text.
TODAY:


October 2, 2006
My trip to New York was more than just a trip. It was a life changing event.


Hey guys… Welcome to my Blog.
I found a comic starring me. I went to the author to find him dead with his brain missing. I got arrested. I found out I was five weeks into the future. I saw a nuclear explosion. I came back to present day Tokyo with the comic book in hand, my only proof that I went to the future.


Tonight the 2nd episode of Heroes airs.
Ok, so back to the beginning. I was looking for the ramen shop that people were recommending near Kinokuniya. Oh, by the way, I was able to repost my last blog entry that was on my cell phone. My phone's memory doesn't seen to get affected by time travelling. Cool. I was enjoying the sights and sounds of New York, but everyone was in a rush to get somewhere like Tokyo. Do New Yorkers smile? I thought they liked Japanese people because of Matsui. Boo. So, on my way to the book store,


I realized, after posting last week that it may seem schizo to you guys for me to be writing: “Tomorrow we start filming.” The weird thing is that we started production of HEROES back in July, but the work we did then is only now hitting the air. Actually as we speak I am directing episode 9, and have already finished episode 6.
I found a comic book with me on the cover. \(^o^)/ Wow! That's so cool, but quite perplexing. The scary newsstand owner wouldn't let me read it there so I had to make a run for it. I didn't steal it though. A hero would never steal. I payed him. In yen. In fact, I over payed him with 1000 yen. I even told him he can keep the change. (^_^)


But, way back last summer, Craig and I talked about me doing a production diary for the fans… If I waited until shows aired I’d be stuck recounting what happened, for me, 3 months ago. So I started writing thoughts down as I went…
The comic book retold everything I did yesterday. (?-?) I found the author's address on the back of the comic book and decided to go meet him. Do all American comic books put the address of their author's on the back? If so, I need to buy an X-Men so I can meet Stan Lee or Tim Sale.


But now it’s today and I’ve decided the best solution is to bend back and forth between the past and the present (kind of like Hiro!) – giving perspective from today and from back when we were shooting…
I got to Mister Isaku's house and the door was unlocked! (O.o) I heard New York was dangerous but I guess it's safe enough to keep doors unlocked. I entered his house and it seemed pretty empty. I found many paintings and then I found an unfinished comic of myself. The first panel was me talking on the phone. The second panel was me looking at my watch. The third panel was me with eyes wide open with a look of shock. The fourth panel was empty. I then saw a trail of blood and then a gun next to it.


Tonight’s episode was directed by Allan Arkush, the other producing-director on the show: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0035106/ . He’s been a long time collaborator with Tim Kring. He directed the pilot of “Crossing Jordan” http://www.nbc.com/Crossing_Jordan/ and has been producing that show with Tim ever since.
Note to all my fellow gamers. In a game, you see a weapon on the floor, you pick it up. In real life, you see a weapon on the floor, probably not a good idea to pick it up.


For my part Allan has been enourmousely ingratiating and inviting to me. From the start he and Tim and Dennis Hammer were very open and encouraging of my ideas and involvement. Believe me that is not always the case.
I followed the trail to find the author dead! \(>o<)/ Then the police rushes in, they yell something. My guess would be drop your weapons and put your hands up. Seems to be universal among all cops. The next thing I know I was being helped up by the cops. Guess I fainted. They started interrogating me. They were pretty mean, but it looked like they were Trekkies, so that was comforting. They tell me that it was not October 2 but November 8. Then I see a big flash and New York crumbling to a nuclear explosion like thing. I concentrate and I came back. After I returned to present day Tokyo I had a chance to do some soul searching at my grandfather's grave and now I know what I must do.


Do you believe in the Butterfly Effect? I do. Nobody has to see the future I saw. The future can be changed. That is my destiny.


Director Allan Arkush
I've been dreaming for a moment like this my whole life. I've become Chrono in Chrono Trigger or Trunks in Dragon Ball. I've become the hero in my own RPG. Except that this isn't a game. This is real. There is no saved game or cheat codes. I get no Phoenix Downs. There is no game over. There can't be.


I'm excited to take this journey as a hero. In reality, I'm scared. But I have to, and will overcome it. I will not be like Trunks or Akira. I won't live in a post-apocalyptic world. I'm going to save the world! I hope I find my Marle and Lucca though. And soon.


Allan and 2nd unit DP Nate Goodman
This is beginning of my adventure.


Allan’s episode is terrific. It’s visual and emotionally rich… a worthy successor to the pilot. It also introduces Greg Grunberg and much more!
With great power comes great responsibility, Hiro


Looking back, we started this series in a very unusual way… Because we had 2 scripts and because many scenes in both scripts were in the same locations – the decision was made to block shoot the episodes. This means we were both shooting both episodes at the same time. Some days Allan would shoot a couple of scenes in the morning and I’d finish the day, some days visa-versa. Some days he’d have the whole day, some days I would. We even through in a scene or two from episode 4.
P.S. On the November 8th paper, it said "wins by landslide". What's does landslide mean?


It was kooky.
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Normally, in TV, a director preps for 7 days, shoots for 8 days and then edits for 3 or 4 days before turning the show over to the producers Allan Arkush and I were shooting episodes 2 and 3 for, like 20 days… Not normal…
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[[Zach]] makes a comment on Claire's MySpace Page:
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Hey Claire, again i'm suuuuper sorry I lost the tape. I'm still looking for it everywhere, I know how important it is to you. Please don't hate me.
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And now as I prepare to shoot episode 9, HEROES still isn’t made like a normal show. But then again, neither was SMALLVILLE. Maybe I like abnormal. (I know I like big and good!!!)
Zach posts his [[MySpace#Bears_Game|third blog entry]], read it:
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Current mood: complacent


The Union Wells Wildcats (my "lovely" school) take on the Bears this week. It's an away game but everyone is going because it's a huge rivalry and all that. I can't say I'm a huge football fan or anything but I guess I'll go, mostly to support Claire.


Our football team is practically worshiped which is fine if you go for that sort of thing, but it just sucks because a lot of the players let it go to their head and think they're invincible or something. Brody Mitchum, the quarterback, walks around like he owns the place. I honestly don't know why Claire gives him the time of day. From what I've seen and heard, he's a complete jerk. But enough bitching, I still gotta find that tape!


THE PAST:
Currently listening :<br>
The Dresden Dolls<br>
By The Dresden Dolls<br>
Release date: 27 April, 2004
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Sunday, July 16, 2006
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<i><tt>1) Watch the episode 1.03:</tt></i> <br>
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'''<big>[[Episode:One Giant Leap|Chapter Three -- One Giant Leap]]</big>''' <br />
'''Original Air Date: 09 October 2006''' <br />
Claire comes under attack by a high school quarterback, Hiro looks for support from Ando, and Niki makes a gruesome discovery.


Damn. Middle of the night day before first day of shooting. I’ve been doing this for twenty years and I still get nervous before the first day. It’s like football players say, you have to get out on the field and get knocked down a couple of times before the butterflies go away.


The structure of this shoot is weird. Because the cast is in just a few scenes per episode and always on the same location in each episode – we’ve chosen to “block shoot” – i.e. we’re shooting two episodes at the same time.
<i><tt>2) Read the third graphic novel:</tt></i> <br>
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'''<big>[[Graphic Novel:Trial By Fire|Chapter Three -- Trial By Fire]]</big>''' <br />
'''Original Release Date: 09 October 2006''' <br />


Tomorrow we’re downtown LA creating New York. Allan Arkush is taking the morning directing episode 2 scenes of Hiro in NYC. I’m taking the afternoon directing Milo V. and Tawny in hotel lobby. And later Greg G. in a bar.
I want to achieve a very specific look. Long lenses. Reflective surfaces. Pretty but unbalanced compositions. The goal is to create a slightly nervous feeling in the audience… like our characters are being watched. I also, always love the camera moving drifting – want the film to cut together sensuously. At the same time I have to photograph the faces of the cast. TV is an intimate medium. These characters are invited into our homes. Gotta find the balance of all this.
But who am I kidding? You never really know what’s going to happen or what you’re going to do until you get there. Something will go wrong. We’ll be behind schedule. An actor will surprise me with a nuance I didn’t suspect. Right now I know every shot I want to shoot. What I’ll actually do tomorrow will be different.
4 AM – Call time’s 7…. Gotta get some sleep.
Monday, July 17, 2006
First day is over. I never got over the nerves. New crew I’d never worked with. Tough schedule. Two location moves in downtown LA (which is crazy!)…
Got the set from Allan on time. His stuff with Masi went great… He did a scene of Hiro in NYC happy, enjoying himself. Masi was so funny ad-libbing “Go Yankees” and stuff like that. Really fun stuff. I took over and things started going wrong.
I was doing a scene with Milo and Tawny, in the lobby of a apartment building.. We smoked the building with special effect smoke for a specific look… then the fire alarm went off. Then the fire department showed up. Then two crazy homeless guys decided to have a fistfight on the sidewalk in front of our set. I looked at my watch and I’d lost an hour and fifteen minutes. Oh well… It’s TV Jake – no excuses – you wrap after twelve shooting hours no matter what.
Good news: The lobby where we’re shooting the Peter/Simone scene is beautiful. Fit the look I’m going for perfectly. Glossy marble and brass surfaces with bright reflective light. Crew was great. The camera moved gently on long lenses. Bit the bullet and took twenty extra minutes to film a huge wide cinematic shot – a high angle down of the whole lobby for the last shot of scene. Very lonely and very “who’s watching them?”
Actors were great... Their first time working together since the pilot two months ago. My first time working with them ever. Every actor is different, and my job is to give them the space and encouragement to create valid legitimate emotions in an absolutely awkward environment – with a hundred crew members staring at them; cameras, microphones and lights stuck in their faces. Milo has great such sincerity in his performance. He and Tawny were really working looking for emotional nuance. Last shot I did pushed into a tight CU of her face. Wow. Her eyes are so radiant. Felt like hard work on all three of our parts, digging for the emotion. Trying different things. Tawny had it the toughest – a lot of emotional gear shifts. She has to come into the scene upset by her previous interaction with Isaac, then be surprised that Peter’s there, then she feels how much she likes him. Then he gives her bad news, which makes her sad, but she has to cover that. Then he leaves and she has to reflect upon the choices she’s made and is making. That’s a lot of emotional territory to cover.
Got to the bar at 5:30 PM to shoot Greg’s scene. That’s about an hour and a half behind. I knew I’d never make it. So I started prepping the producers that we’re going to be eating some big overtime money right away on day one. Knew I had to go fast. It’s a fun, easy scene, but needs a lot of specific shots to tell the story. Can’t tell you too much, but basically Greg’s having fun with his powers for the first time.
What a great guy Greg Grunberg is. Easy to work with and a lot of laughs. We talked briefly about what we both expected/wanted out of the scene and shot it. Unlike the previous scene, this went easy and well… Just the mechanics of getting all the shots took time. The D.P. John Aronson and Camera operator Nate Goodman get and support the look I’m going for and found ways to make it better. Finished the scene and felt pretty good about it. An hour and a half of overtime. That’s $11,000 to the studio. Ouch!
Went home thinking of the shots I hadn’t gotten and the overtime I hadn’t wanted to go into… It’s OK… I’ve done this a long time, and I know when I do have it and I don’t it. Both scenes will work. I got enough to cut together. It’ll be good.
Tomorrow is another day!
Tuesday July 18, 2006
Tim Kring and Dennis Hammer seem happy with the dailies…whew!
Thursday July 20, 2006
Luckily, the studio, producers and most importantly, Tim seem happy with the dailies. Everyone reviews everything we shot the day before in its raw, unedited form, and we discuss what is and isn’t working – a few notes and issues both from myself and others – but for the most part, the plan is working.
Yesterday we were up in Canyon Country North of Los Angeles. There’s a location there that we’re using for the Odessa High School. It’s a cool and unusual building – really feels like Texas to me. Modern, clean and mildly oppressive.
Alan had done a really fun scene before where the police and fireman from the pilot have lined up the cheerleaders to find out who was the hero from the train wreck. Everything had gone well.
Today the temperature was 105 degrees and up. Really tough on the crew and cast. Just staying focused is hard. And despite the heat, the DP still has to bring out big lights to balance the shadow areas. Imagine standing under a heat lamp on a 100+ degree day.
That’s what Hayden Panettiere had to put up with. Thursday was my first day working with her. My kids and I were already fans of hers from “Raising Helen” and “Tiger Cruise” – she’s easy and fun. Like a lot of young actors, her attitude is “no big deal” – but then she’ll deliver complex emotional performances as easy as pie. I did one scene in front of the school with Hayden and Jack Coleman, who plays her father – a character we call “HRG”. From the pilot you see why theirs is a complex relationship. My job was to make sure that they expressed a very loving relationship. Claire’s relationship with her Mom is more troubled. But her Dad, from her point of view, is the greatest. No matter what his mysterious career is, it doesn’t affect her (at least not yet).
The shoot was frustrating. Allan Arkush was filming Episode 2 scenes with Ali Larter in the morning and had some mechanical trouble with the insert car. Anyway, an hour later than I wanted, I got a camera and some crew – but not a full crew. I’d had a real plan for how I wanted to shoot the school scene – using really long lenses, a swing and tilt lens, some handheld – all to create a visual tension that would be counter to the light family emotion and comedy of the scene. But I ended up rushing and the heat was so blistering. I ended up happy with the performances, and feeling like I’d shot pretty shots that would all flow together – but that I hadn’t really achieved the subtlety of the style I was looking for.
LATER:
Then we had a night scene – a high school pep rally with a huge bonfire. The special effects guys did a great job. We had 100 extras and lots of cool cars circled around, and it looked great. I had a 3 page scene (which usually adds up to three minutes or so of screen time) to film with Hayden and Matt Lanter, who plays a high school quarterback who might be interested in her.
Hayden Panettiere And Matt Lanter
As always, when there’s a lot of continuous dialogue, I try to get the actors on the move, walking and talking. If actors stand in one spot for three minutes it’s deadly dull. I set up a very complex master shot – craning down past the partiers to find Hayden at the bonfire – she’s joined by Matt and they walk across the whole parking lot, through a huge crowd. They end up in and “over the shoulder” onto Hayden for the last half-page. Then as they exit a mysterious character appears, watching them!!!… ANYWAY… Getting 100 extras and 25 cars and a big bonfire and a complex crane move and two actors plus one mysterious character to line up takes time. I thought it would take an hour and a half to shoot, but it took 2 and a half hours to get it in the can! That’s okay, except Hayden is only sixteen – and being a minor she can’t work past midnight. It got dark at 8:45, so by the time I had my first shot done, it was 11:15pm. That meant I only had 45 minutes I needed to clean up the four close-ups left in the scene. I don’t know how many people have been on film sets… But if you are ever are, the general impression is that nothing is happening. Nothing seems to be happening because it takes a LOOOONG time to do all the things necessary to get every single little shot done. Every shot needs to be rehearsed. And then the camera has to get in place and focus marks need to be taken. And the it has to be lit. And then hair and makeup need to do touch-ups, etc., etc.!
Anyway, this night I blasted through three shots (thank God the actors were spot on with their dialogue) and ended up doing one close up of Matt with a photo double of Hayden. It went well and looked good -- but I felt I was rushing so much – I keep wondering “could I have done better?”
The film business may seem exciting and glamorous from the outside – I don’t know. And, thank God, for the last several years of my career I’ve produced work I’m proud of artistically… BUT… On a day to day basis it’s gut-churning and frustrating. You start off with big plans, having had lots of conversations with the writers and other producers about the visual style and the nuances of performance – and then, on the day, you have to rush as fast as you can with problem after problem occurring. Lights explode in the heat, extras faint, cameras break, and after finally getting a perfect take, the camera operator announces it wasn’t in focus. So as a director, your perfect plan begins to get nipped away at. You can start saying to yourself, “Okay maybe I don’t need that one shot.” Then, later, “Well, it won’t be as good, but I can probably combine those two angles into one,” and so on and so on. And in addition to all that, there is constant financial pressure to go faster – to have less cranes and Steadicams and special lenses and stuff like that, stuff that you feel will make it cooler. There’s an old movie by Francois Truffaut, Day For Night, that really captures this torturous experience. Nevertheless, I’ve found, that in the act of fighting for everything you believe in – despite all logic and financial pressure – in trying and failing to achieve a great vision – you end up with something still much better than if you’d been reasonable in the first place.
Posted by Greg Beeman at 10:11 AM
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== Notes ==
== Notes ==
# Actually the game "Suresh's Loft" is started on July 11, 2007 which is exactly 14 days before the airing of Heroes on BBC Two. Thus, in order to integrate the British version of the experience also, it's added here in the exact same order of date; 14 days before the airing. As such, people can experience both versions of Heroes Universe simultaneously.
# Actually the game "Suresh's Loft" is started on July 11, 2007 which is exactly 14 days before the airing of Heroes on BBC Two. Thus, in order to integrate the British version of the experience also, it's added here in the exact same order of date; 14 days before the airing. As such, people can experience both versions of Heroes Universe simultaneously.

Latest revision as of 17:09, 31 August 2015

This article is intended to provide the reader an opportunity, to relive the Heroes in all of its aspects, from the beggining.

Season 1

Pre-premiere

Heroes Evolutions

July 2006
August 2006
September 2006

Volume One: Genesis

Pod One

September 2006
October 2006

Notes

  1. Actually the game "Suresh's Loft" is started on July 11, 2007 which is exactly 14 days before the airing of Heroes on BBC Two. Thus, in order to integrate the British version of the experience also, it's added here in the exact same order of date; 14 days before the airing. As such, people can experience both versions of Heroes Universe simultaneously.
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