Thursday, September 4, 2014

6x05 - Black Budget

“Black Budget” – Callen and Sam head to Mexico to track down the only employee who managed to escape a professional shooting at the Department of Defense.  Meanwhile, the rest of the team works to uncover the motive behind the shooting.

 Courtesy: http://www.cbspressexpress.com/cbs-entertainment/shows/ncis-los-angeles/releases/view?id=40980

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Episode
6x05 - Black Budget
A term used for funding Covert Ops by Dept of Defence (DOD). We learn that NCIS OSP gets funded by that unit of DOD.
Writer
Frank Military
Felt better getting away from R S Gemmill stories. I do like Gemmill, but five episodes in a row from was an overdose for me and especially when so much of it was repetitive without getting any structural hint of what the season 6 was going to be watched for us. 
Frank Military’s episode was refreshing and relaxing. There was nothing analysing about it. You could just sit, watch and relax at the crime and thriller. See, I did not even come out and try analyse the episode. Yes, it was a thriller episode with those gun shots being fired by assumed Delta tean and Granger letting us know in the nth moment, that it was not the real Delta Duster team. There was lot of fun around and one could laugh at the kidding or embarrassing situations they were in.
Director
Dennis Smith
Lovely Direction once again. Have to admit, to me he is the one saving the Season 6 episodes so far.
Editor
Robert Florio ACE
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Episode Summary
The Opening Scene was fun to watch. Margaret shyly having lunch at her work place and her boss asking about it. Very Cutely she says, “Saves Money”
And ironically it the siphoning of money, which is what the episode is about.
The Ops was really a Black Ops with no feed on what Sam and Callen were doing, except for Granger sensing through OPs digging that Scallen were danger because they went to rescue the criminal mastermind and that was trouble. Hmmm! I cannot summarize Scallen going South to Mexico. It was interesting and fun to watch them ambushed by other Agents in Covert Ops, stripping them off their guns, cellphones and being wooed by Mexican girls pleading them to marry them and take them to United States. Haha ! So much for the stress they were in for going black.
The Story is about, Milton Mulrooney, an accountant working with DOD’s Covert Ops team. He along with his mercenary pals, hatch a scheme to siphon off Govt Money at the pretext of Missions that do not exist. And to add to that fraud, Mulrooney frames DOD’s Delta Team as the swindlers.
NCIS Personnel Highlights / Bull Pen Fun
Did I see anything in Bull pen that I can remember when I sit down to write an episode analysis after two days ? No. So there was nothing memorable there. But was there any Bull pen scene at all ? Hmm! Can’t remember. Lemme go and watch. Oh! yeah. So it was weekend and so team just walked in to Ops Room..all in haste and seriousness.
Granger is the active Manager of NCIS LA Office. Hetty just joined the team to say two or three directives that were more like repetitives. What’s the plan here ?
**No other highlights over the characters. It was strictly Professional and Mission Oriented episode**
Talking about the Mission, there are three groups working on the case: Scallen, Densi and Ops team along with the Managers. They got all forced by circumstances working in Silos. And the three teams apart from each other, all reach the same conclusion that the entire killing incident at the DOD was to cover up for the fraud from Mulrooney and his Pals.
Ops Manager/s
OPs Manager Hetty Lange
Asst Director Owen Granger
Hetty was more active in the Cross Over Episode in “Scorpion”. I guess that is the reason for dormant role in this episode.
Granger !! Active, Aggressive Boss. Keeps his team in place and also is protective about his Agents. Is this the new plan for Season 6? Get Granger become part of the NCIS LA Family ? Seems so. So far, Granger has been showing himself being protective about his team, his agents and his Ops. Consistent so far.
Partnership 1-
G Callen & Sam Hanna
The Episode belongs to them. Watch them in Action. Everyone else is unnecessary until it becomes really needful that somes saves them. BAM!! Granger comes there to save their day.
Partnership -2
Marty Deeks - LAPD Liaison Officer
Kensi Blye -Special Agent
Whatever they discover about the mission, is their parallel investigation away from Scallen or away from OPs room. And though it shows the two Agents as being competitive with other two senior Agents of the team, what they discovered is not useful for any.
Ops Room  Partnership
Eric Beale- Tech Operator
Nell Jones - Intelligence Analyst
Nothing memorable in there. Only Granger makes use of their data mining skills. And perhaps the viewers could get impressed with the graphics and visuals of flow charts showing how the money was siphoned off. Perhaps this is necessary for other viewers, but for people like me, nothing useful there. Hardly the few seconds of visual is going to convince me what was the plan there and how the flow chart even looked! Can’s believe, so much of the extra stuff done for an episode production actually gets wasted.
Guest Characters
The Mexican Gang of females was cute
And I was so sorry to see their house shot at. All that beautiful stuff being blown away. Ha! it was just a set probably and the stuntsmen did their job, so I should not bother at all. BUT it was fun watching the girls banter with Scallen and Callen especially.
Others/GK



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 In crew's terms this is known as 604-126
The Production Crew has different numbers than what later becomes the air sequence. Season 5&6 Production Schedule had extra episodes shot for consecutive seasons. This changes the order of produced Episode and Telecasted Episode. 604-126 - Black Budget realistically becomes 605-125 for Viewers.

Production Planning and Rollout - Prepping - 7 Business days days | Shooting -7 Business days | Post Production - 7 Business days | Promotions - 2 weeks before Air date

Story writing/Script : by 25th August 2014
Prepping - 26th Aug to 5th Sep
  1. Concept Meeting - 
  2. Departmental Meetings : Video Effects Meeting, Stunts and Special Effects Meeting, Casting, Costumes 
  3. Location/Tech Scouting : 
  4. Table Read : End of Prepping and before shooting starts 
Shoot Schedule : 8th Sep to 17th Sep
Post Production : 18th Sep to 29th Sep

Press Release : Storyline - 16th Oct 2014 |Photos - 15th Oct 2014
http://www.cbspressexpress.com/cbs-entertainment/shows/ncis-los-angeles/releases/view?id=40980
http://www.cbspressexpress.com/cbs-entertainment/shows/ncis-los-angeles/photos/?episode=7733

Promotions: CBS
CBS2 Air Date : Oct 27th 2014.
CBS2 Rating : NCIS: LOS ANGELES averaged 8.78m, 1.7/07 in adults 18-49 (up +6% from last week) and 2.5/06 in adults 25-54, up +9%.
http://www.cbspressexpress.com/cbs-entertainment/releases/view?id=41079
Credits
Writer : Frank Military
Director : Dennis Smith
1st Assistant Director : Suzanne Saltz
2nd Asst Director: Hillary Cohen

Co Producer: Christopher J Molnar, Chad W Murray
Producer : Eric Whitmyre, David Bellisario, Rick Tunell, Jordana Lewis Jaffe
Consulting Producer : Joe Sachs, Gil Grant
Story Editing: Andrew Bartels
Supervising Producer : Joseph C Wilson, Kyle Harimoto
Co-Executive Producer : Dave Kalstein, Frank Military
Executive Producer : John Peter Kousakis, R Scott Jemmill
Assistants to Executive Producer : Chad Mazero , Samantha Chasse and Sarah K Mosse

Production Designer: Thomas Fichter
Director of Photography : Victor Hammer
Editing : Robert Florio ACE
Music : Jay Ferguson

Unit Production Manager : Rick Tunell
Casting : Suzanne Bluestein. CSA|Jason Kennedy CSA
Casting Associates : Meredith Forney and Krysty Baxter
Costume Designer: Darry Levine
Art Director : Anthony Parrillo
Set Decorator : Michele Poulik
Property Master : Steven B Melton
Make-up Artist : Chris Burgoyne
Hair Stylist : Brooks Stenstrom

Production Coordinator : Laura P Napoli
Assistant Prod Coordinator : Adam Rex

Set Production Assistant : Jimmy Ramirez
Production Accountant : Mathew Klipper
1st Production Accountant : Dana Micahaelsen
Art Department Coordinator :
Location Manager : Jason Savage
Stunt Coordinator : Troy Brown
Special Effects Supervisor : Don Frazee
Production Sounds Mixer : David M Schneider
Construction Coordinator: Mike Brooks
Construction Assistant : Krista Schoenbaum
Transportation Coordinator : Dave Bassett
Script Supervisor : Elisa Forni
Script Coordinator : Jimmy Donchey
A Camera Operator : Russell McEllhatton
B Camera Operator : Terence Nightingall
Gaffer : David B Jarell
Key Grip : Jeryll L Marshall

Assistant Editor : John McKnight
Post Production Supervisor : Dillom Gemmill
Sound Supervisor: Wilson Dyer MPSE
Post Production : Digital Film Tree
Post Production Sound : Larsen Studios
Re recording Mixer : Chris Haire CAS, Alexey Mohr
Online editor : Jacob Tillman
VFX Supervisor : Dylan Chudzynski
Colorists : Patrick Woodard
Music Supervisor : Mark Wiki
ADR Supervisor : Jay Keiser
Sound Effects Editor : Kevin Fischer
Theme by : James S Levine
Technical Advisor : Osama Shofani USMC (ret)
Multi Media Coordination : Justin Maradiegue
Specialized Imagery, Software and Promotional Consideration : Furnished by Lockheed and Pictometry International Corporation
Sponsored by Microsoft Corporation

Cast
SERIES REGULARS:
Chris O’Donnell (NCIS Special Agent G. Callen)
LL COOL J (NCIS Special Agent Sam Hanna)
Linda Hunt (Henrietta "Hetty” Lange)
Daniela Ruah (NCIS Special Agent Kensi Blye)
Eric Christian Olsen (LAPD Detective Marty Deeks)
Barrett Foa (Tech Operator Eric Beale)
Renée Felice Smith (NCIS Intelligence Analyst Nell Jones)
Miguel Ferrer (NCIS Assistant Director Owen Granger)


GUEST CAST:
Tim Griffin: (Unit Leader)
Bill Malone: (Milton Mulrooney)
John Billingsley: (Doug Ouellet)
Diana Maria Riva: (Marcella)
Gloria Garayua: (Aminta)
Lorena McGregor: (Carmen)
Ana Mercedes: (Grandma)
Roberto Sanchez: (Owner)
John Posey: (Army General Keys)
Lindsay Hollister: (Margaret)
James Ferris: (Delta Unit Leader)
Jean Paul San Pedro: (Gang Leader/DEA Agent Banuelos)
Muriel Villera: (Bartender)
Valenzia Algarin: (Juanita)
Ben Maccabee: (Border Patrol Agent)


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Twitter News



 · Oct 28
Thanks to Frank Military for writing last night's show. When you're given words like that to say, acting suddenly becomes very easy.

 · Oct 25

goes South 4 jeopardy and suspense. G and Sam are trapped, U don't expect it. Dir.by writ.by

 · Sep 11

Great stuff but this is all I can show you. is on Day4. Ep#604 ot scouting
 · Sep 5

Prep is complete on EP.604 Dir.by for many action packed moments Written by .29.14

 · Sep 4

Scouting!

 · Sep 4

leads the tech scout for EP.604 Dir.by .29.14 .
 · Sep 4
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 · Sep 3

scouts the ladies room. You'll understand in ep#604.

 · Sep 2

Art dept.Mtg. E604. Written by Frank Military. Dir.by This EP. will rock.

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