Some thanks are due here-part 3-the pawn/jewelry shop

This is to express out thanks to Joyeria Juncal, where we filmed the scene in which Luis pawns a ring. 

Joyeria Juncal, located in the Madre de Dios area of Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, is both a jewelry shop and a pawn shop.  That is to say, they sell fine jewelry and watches, but they also purchase gold.  The owner of the shop, Francisco Juncal, kindly allowed us to film there free of charge, and his father (the elder Francisco Juncal, who is the shop's founder) played the part of... the shop owner.

Being that he knew exactly what he was doing, he had all the correct materials for evaluating the gold in the ring, and giving a price for it.

Francisco (Paco) Juncal, father...with our hero.

 Before shooting this scene, I didn't know anything about how gold is evaluated.  I now know that to assess it for the base of 18 carats, you use a pretty bottle with some bluish-greenish colored liquid.  You also scrape the gold on something that I presume is especially hard sand paper.  At least, that's what it seemed to be.

After scraping it, you apply the liquid.  If the tiny pieces of metal that you scrapped off stay there and don't float away, you have what is a minimum of 18 carats of gold.  (Unless I got it backwards, and you WANT them to float away in order to be sure it's gold.  I think I'm not quite ready to work in a pawn shop.)

Yours truly and Antonio Moreno Jimenez, our sound tech.  Yes, WE WERE THERE.

 Francisco Juncal the elder, who played the pawn shop owner, also wore a nice, bright orange sweater which worked well with our hero, Luis', dark jacket.  Our hero, Luis, has a tendency to wear dark jackets.  That's because Antonio de la Malena, the actor, evidently has a wardrobe full of dark jackets.  Brightly colored neck scarves but dark, dark jackets.

And our hero, Luis (Antonio de la Malena).

 OUR NEXT POST will really, really be about hair (I think).

Shooting the scene in the pawn shop

If you were an unemployed middle-aged man with a family, trying to find a job and also scrape together enough money to fulfill your obligations, at a certain point you´d likely find yourself in a pawn shop.  Especially now, in the economic crisis.

Luis (Antonio de la Malena) counting the cash he got from the jewelry he sold.

You´d find yourself in a pawn shop looking for ready cash.  You´d do all you possibly could to avoid selling that piece of jewelry your beloved mother or father left you, and you´d certainly try to avoid selling your wedding ring, but if you had any other piece of jewelry of value that you had purchased in better times, you´d try to see what you could get for it.

Paco, the pawn shop owner, waits on Luis.

With that thought in mind, we shot a scene in which our hero, Luis (played by Antonio de la Malena), goes into a pawn shop and sells a gold ring he has.  I´m posting some of the photos here from that shoot.

It being a fairly simple scene, director Eve A. Ma did double duty as camera person.

Sound tech Antonio Moreno Jiménez (front and center) with best boy el Negro (Jesús Suarez).

Enjoy.

 OUR NEXT POST will be about...hair...changed my mind.  It will be a thank you.