Sweeney Todd
October 29th – Given Caroline’s maiden name, it only made sense that we would do a Sweeney Todd picture. We ordered the wig online and re-watched the movie to get some ideas of where to do it. We landed on our old familiar spot in Newark where we’ve shot a few of the others. One of the iconic shots in the film is Sweeney Todd looking through a broken mirror. On our way to Newark, we picked up a mirror at Ikea, taped up the back, and I stepped on it to get some nice cracks without shattering it. It held together pretty well, so we propped it up in the back of the factory with the ceiling as a nice decrepit background. Shooting this one was tricky on multiple levels, as Caroline had to hold him facing the mirror without being in the shot, and I had to avoid my reflection making it in there as well. We took dozens of photos at several angles, and as it turns out we ended up picking one of the first ones we took.