Real-time movie tricks

It was snowing. Our family was on vacation. The roads were very poorly maintained - almost abandoned - with grass and weeds growing up in cracks in the pavement.

I was in a familiar and sparsely stocked convenience store speaking to the Middle Eastern owner who I knew personally. A male who was my friend in the dream interrupted our conversation with stupid questions he struggled to come up with while trying to appear at ease, “Do you have any grass-fed Kobe steaks?” I wandered off to the refrigerated section which was very small and flimsy and high up on a shelf. I looked at the ingredients of the few drinks available and bought a Sprite, the only drink without high fructose corn syrup. I also bought a pack of gum, the total was over $5. I asked if the gum was very expensive, which it was.

I walked out and came upon a film being shot about two characters in a car. One of the characters looked like Tiny Tim and had a grotesquely large head - about three feet high and proportionately wide, but overall, he was short and had a misshapen body. After I had followed the movie filming along for a while, I noticed the Tiny Tim character’s head was only very large when the cameras were rolling and realized it was a computer trick.