(Someone later told me that the entire neighborhood had been trying to get the owner of that house to repaint and fix the place up, and now the owner is the one who's laughing, since he's getting paid for his house to look like that. 
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The entire neighborhood had turned out to see the shoot. Small children were running in all directions, riding on skateboards and scooters and bicycles, throwing footballs around. I half expected to see hot dog and taco stands being set up. There was a heavy net-community turnout, too. BlueBehrBabe and Janna23 from SMGFan.com were there, the two girls I'd talked to at the construction site shoot in Sylmar last week were there, and the FroggyFrog family showed up later on. It was quite a party scene. The Production Assistants were thrilled. 
Unfortunately, because of the big crowd and the wider street, we were getting pushed much farther back than last night.
Anyway, the shoot itself... our four characters from last night were back, dressed the same way which means it was supposed to be the same night. The four of them were standing on the sidewalk, looking up at the spooky house. They talk and poke each other, presumably talking about which of them is going to go up to the door. Finally, Dawn bravely and steadily walks up. After a few moments, the others run up as well.
That scene had to be shot about seven or eight times. The director didn't seem happy with the way the three guest stars were running, or the speed they were running, or something like that. Then, when the guest stars were running properly, there were dogs barking or kids yelling or radios playing. It wasn't an easy time.
At last the shot was done, though, and so it was time to move on. Just like yesterday, they seemed to be doing things in sequence, because the next shot was a close-up on Dawn as she walked up to the house. After they did that a couple of times, they went up onto the front porch of the house for some shooting that we couldn't see. We did, however, hear a very distinctive Michelle Trachtenberg yelp at one point. Apparently something was scaring Dawn - but what?
By this time, a lot of the neighborhood kids had wandered off or gone to bed. Those who remained were mostly gathered on the street corner across from the house, where apparently they were all studying how to be Production Assistants - whenever people started to yell "Rolling!" they would all start shushing each other, and whenever people started to yell "Cut!" they would all yell "Cut!" as well. Meanwhile, BlueBehrBabe and the two girls I'd seen in Sylmar were heading off to Santa Monica. They had heard that Sarah and James were shooting at the [i:df47c47dbc]Buffy[/i:df47c47dbc] studio tonight, so they were going to try sneaking a peek through the fence. If they saw anything, I'm sure we'll hear about it soon.
Back to the spooky house - The next shot was back to Amber Tamblyn and the two guys. They came running up onto the porch, the guy with the Sunnydale High jacket first, then the guy with the black jacket, then Amber T. The guy with the black jacket yells something like, "I'm gonna go kung fu on you!" But who was he yelling at? We still couldn't see.
Finally, FroggyDaughter says she thought she could see a man dressed in black and white standing on the porch. On the last take, we hear someone say, "Come in! Come in!" Then there's a break, and everyone comes out from the house. Standing there with Michelle is indeed an older man wearing a white shirt, black pants and a black waistcoat. He reminded me of Martin Landau playing Bela Lugosi in [i:df47c47dbc]Ed Wood[/i:df47c47dbc].
The guy responsible for First Aid on the shoot was doing crowd control near us, and we had an interesting conversation with him. He mentioned that at the beginning of the shoot, while it was still daylight, they had done a shot of the old guy walking up to the house and going inside. Who is he? We don't know.
Another thing the First Aid guy told is the nickname crew members have for [i:df47c47dbc]Buffy[/i:df47c47dbc] - they call the show "Buffy the Weekend Slayer," because so many location shoots are on Friday night and run into Saturday morning. 
It was getting late and it looked like the shoot was going to be centered up on the porch out of view, so that was where we called it a night. Still, I'd say this year's Halloween episode should be a fun time, and I'm really looking forward to it now.
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