Greg Beeman's blog is the best source for behind the scenes info and photos from the set of Heroes. His latest post is about episode 1x09 - "Homecoming". Here are some tidbits and photos, but be sure to check out the whole post!
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?Homecoming? is an episode I directed. All in all, I?m pretty proud of the episode and the way it came out. It looks and feels the way I wanted it to, I?m happy with all the performances and the tone and pace of the show. As always, it starts with script? In this case, Adam Armus and Kay Foster wrote a great one.
Milo Ventimiglia really stepped up as the hero of the show. His performance gets better and better with each episode. Hayden is great as always? It always feels to me that, whoever she?s in a scene with, I believe in the authenticity of the relationship. Also, Jack Coleman continues to be awesome. In this one, we show (I believe) that he is, in fact, a worried father. Whatever his overall assignment is, he genuinely loves Claire. I wonder if his love for her will eventually bring him into conflict with whoever he works for? I also wonder if whoever he works for knows that Claire has powers? I know I work on the show, but I legitimately don?t know the answers to things like that and I speculate along with you.
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Finally, this episode also fulfilled most of the paintings that were created in episode 4 and 5? i.e. the one that Peter and Isaac discuss in episode 5 that ?Tell a story like a comic book.? They are: frightened Claire close up, Cheerleader running up the stairs, Sylar standing over the dead body of the cheerleader, locker door being hurled telepathically at Peter, Hiro and Ando standing under a bloody Homecoming banner.
The paintings which Tim Sale creates for the show happen in two ways ? sometimes we film the event first and give Tim the frame we want to match to. Remember when Hiro and Ando stood under the rocket ship in Tokyo and looked at the exact same frame in the comic book. Well, we?d filmed the Hiro/Ando shot first and did the comic panel as an insert later. That way is way easier for all concerned.
But? the paintings in Isaac?s loft were a different story. Tim Kring and the writer?s gave Tim the idea of what they wanted and Tim painted the paintings in a vacuum, before we ever had sets or clear ideas of how we?d end up shooting the scenes.
