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- Firing scenes were originally comedic but were rewritten to be more serious.
- This was done because, at the current time, many people had been fired
- This was done by having people who had been fired act as the people being fired.
- They were limited in shooting in the airport
- They had a set time frame where they could shoot in an actual airport
- They shot everything during the TSA scenes, cut it down, then saw what they were missing
- The characters had small things to flirt over, but couldn’t move faster because of this
- They couldn’t speed the romance without it seeming unnatural
- They have George and Vera do an improv scene.
- The Cutout
- He needed something to do when flying
- They added the cutout to the movie
- Boss’s character showed through his objects
- It helps to show his character
- They had bought all the items, but don’t focus on it
- The camera establishes an eye line in the small office scene with a lot of movement
- The actors move around in the office a lot
- Planned shots so that the eye line doesn’t change a lot
- “you can look with your eyes but not with your head”
- It shows the feeling of Natalie in the scene
- She only looks with her eyes
- Dinner/Lunch scenes: should the actors be eating or not
- It shows how important their conversations are
- The actors don’t eat their food because what they’re saying is more important
- Filming on small screens was filmed on big screens
- Small screens are hard to focus on without it looking pixelated
- They recreated the texts on a laptop-sized screen
- Music choice
- If a song is right or wrong, it will make you feel right or wrong
- Reitman picks songs while writing
- Flopping a shot
- In order to make the scene seem different
- They mirrored the shot