It's Day Two on Corners and it already feels like day 12--if there's 31 days in August (minus one for our day-off) then by the end of this month we shall have been filming for 360 days.
Last night involved an unhappy text message from our Make-Up Artist. I don't know the full story but while we were sitting on set talking about our favorite color of ice cream today, he was getting his car repaired to make the two hour journey to Asheville with one of our actors in-tow. Basically after a pretty relaxed morning shoot we had a four hour break while this guy resolved his car trouble and drove to set.
This is actually considered a "good ending" because the text from the night before implied he wouldn't make it at all. With having so little money and much of our resources and labor being voluntary--we can't afford to miss such a crucial filming day.
This also meant that filming went pass the expected 6 pm wrap time on into about 9-9:30 at night. Then there was quite a bit of clean up and next-day problems to resolve. Also, our trusty executive producer let his blood-sugar get too low and almost went into a diabetic coma (or something like that.) He's ok now.
I had a Ham and Cheese sandwich for lunch.
Lots of fun shooting today! I probably shouldn't speak too much on the plot and what's being filmed--but there was an 8-year old, rusty knives, and watermelon involved! I had a lot of fun lighting the basement interior. We made a cucoloris out of cardboard. Sadly I had left my knife at home and so my trusty Walmart Hatchet was used to cut holes. It turned out really dramatic, eerie, and green!!
I'm pretty worn out from today--So is Jack the Director. While eating a late-night dinner he realized that he was wearing his shoes on the wrong feet and had been doing so for the past hour!
Good news--Camera crew gets an extra hour of sleep tonight, so I'm going to take advantage of that!!
-Mr. Zach
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