Carnivale (2)

I didn’t write anything about this episode at the time, but now that I have some screen captures from the DVD, I’ll do my best to remember everything I can about this day.

This episode was called “Hot And Bothered”.

I recall having to sing a hymn as part of the congregation. They’d written it out on cue cards and had us practicing it before we went into the church because they wanted us to memorize it.

See, they did a wide shot where nearly the whole room was in the frame so if there’d been cue cards, the camera would have seen them. The song has faded from my memory, but so far that was the only time I’ve had to memorize something longer than maybe a few words for a scene.

At least I got a better hat this time!

I recall having a character made up in my head such that when Brother Justin accuses the woman in the reddish dress of stealing from the cashbox at work, I was afraid he was talking about me!

The most unfortunate thing about this shoot was that part of the scene landed on the cutting room floor. It was probably in the interest of time, but I’ll probably never know for sure. At the end of the scene as shot, nearly the whole congregation stood up and surged toward the priest, asking to be baptized. I was one of the people from the back who crowded the aisle. What was particularly nifty about that bit was how eerie it felt after the director said, “Cut.”

We’d been randomly hollering “Baptize me!” for what felt like a minute or two waiting for the scene to end. And when it did, the silence after our fervor was eerie, but powerful all at the same time. I mean, we’d been so ‘in the moment’, it really felt like we all really wanted to be baptized. Like we’d come under some religious spell overcome by the urge to be baptized a second time. Crazy, but I absolutely loved it.

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