The Shining
October 20th – The Shining was a picture we have wanted to take from the very beginning, but it was much trickier than it looks. I searched around for a free wooden door on Craigslist for a while until Caroline’s Uncle Bob was able to get me one made of particle board. We cut it in two with the intention of putting Charlie between the two sides to make it seem as if he had just put a hole in the door. However, putting his face that close to the sides seemed too dangerous, so I ended up ripping off about a square foot of particleboard and throwing out the rest of the door. We had Charlie hold the famous axe from the “Here’s Johnny!” scene to make up for the lack of door on his left side. After applying a bit of make-up to give him the Jack Nicholson stubble, we handed him the axe and held the particleboard in front of his face. After 40 or so shots of a way-too-innocent smile, Charlie snarled at us. I don’t always look at the screen and declare that we had the perfect shot, but in this one I couldn’t be happier with his expression.