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look back up, and smile.”
Buck got ready. His heart was beating as hard as when
the moose had charged him. When they had recorded the
first scene, he had been so excited about the caribou kill,
he didn’t have time to be nervous. This was different. This
time he had to remember one of the scripts he had been
practicing.
Don’t mess it up,
he thought.
“Okay, you look good,” Shoop said, peering through
the camera. “How’s the sound?”
“Buck, say your line just like you will when we shoot,”
Toni said.
He got halfway through his line when Toni interrupted.
“Too loud,” Toni said. “Just use your normal voice.”
Buck started his lines again. He got a few words out,
and Toni spoke up.
“That’s fine. We’re good to go.”
Dad held up the whiteboard, this time saying
Blueberries,
Take 1
. The little red light came on and Shoop stated,
“Action.”
“Did you know a grizzly bear can eat over two hundred
thousand blueberries a day? That’s a lot of blueberries!”
