TC
Resident Agitator
I shot my flick for the fest this past weekend, and I don't think that I've ever grown from another filmmaking experience as much as I did this one.
There were 10 cast and 12 crew all in one cabin for 3 days. Everyone's cars were parked in the town down the mountain, so there was no escape, everyone was around eveyone else for the entirety of the long weekend. This gave the set a really awesome vibe, like we were all in it together. The 6am call times (for make up reasons) didn't seem so bad, because everyone else was up as well.
We all sort of became this big zombie film making family. Very cool.
We decided to shoot all the stuff w/o blood on the first day (for the most part), and then let the gore fly on the second day. This led to Saturday (the first day) being the most productive day of filming I've ever had. The crew was fast on getting to the nest setup, and the cast had been rehearsing with eachother the sholw day before, so they knew they're stuff by the time it came to shoot they're scenes.
Sunday was the hardest, dirtiest, longest day I've ever had. Most of that was shot outside, so combine dirt and with fake blood, and you've got a huge mess. Time seemed to be moving at a creep because of so many technical considerations, plus it was BLAZING hot, and there were tons of mosquitos.
We finally got the last shot: which was the hardest, most nerve racking shot I've ever attempted; because it was a one time thing (because of blood and continuity, and on top of that, add a dolly.)
After we wrapped, we got everyone dinner and we all just hung out and enjoyed eachothers company for a few last hours. It was a really rewarding thing to see everybody whipping out cell phones and exchanging phone numbers with others that they had just met.
I grew in more ways than I can even say, though the most rewarding thing was this: One of the guys who had been in full on make up the entire day (HOT!) was having a conversation with another guy and I heard him say "I don't even care if we win the festival, this was the best experience I've ever had on a set."
There were 10 cast and 12 crew all in one cabin for 3 days. Everyone's cars were parked in the town down the mountain, so there was no escape, everyone was around eveyone else for the entirety of the long weekend. This gave the set a really awesome vibe, like we were all in it together. The 6am call times (for make up reasons) didn't seem so bad, because everyone else was up as well.
We all sort of became this big zombie film making family. Very cool.
We decided to shoot all the stuff w/o blood on the first day (for the most part), and then let the gore fly on the second day. This led to Saturday (the first day) being the most productive day of filming I've ever had. The crew was fast on getting to the nest setup, and the cast had been rehearsing with eachother the sholw day before, so they knew they're stuff by the time it came to shoot they're scenes.
Sunday was the hardest, dirtiest, longest day I've ever had. Most of that was shot outside, so combine dirt and with fake blood, and you've got a huge mess. Time seemed to be moving at a creep because of so many technical considerations, plus it was BLAZING hot, and there were tons of mosquitos.
We finally got the last shot: which was the hardest, most nerve racking shot I've ever attempted; because it was a one time thing (because of blood and continuity, and on top of that, add a dolly.)
After we wrapped, we got everyone dinner and we all just hung out and enjoyed eachothers company for a few last hours. It was a really rewarding thing to see everybody whipping out cell phones and exchanging phone numbers with others that they had just met.
I grew in more ways than I can even say, though the most rewarding thing was this: One of the guys who had been in full on make up the entire day (HOT!) was having a conversation with another guy and I heard him say "I don't even care if we win the festival, this was the best experience I've ever had on a set."
