It's 6:45. That may seem like the end of the day is rearing up but there are so many things "up in the air" that I feel a little premature writing this blog as a "summary" of August 9th, 2011.
Our lead actress (bless her heart...literally) has been having health problems and despite the severity of those problems she refuses to let it get her down. But sometimes life is a little heavier than we can carry. She's currently attached to a machine and not allowed to move until this machine...uh, does whatever it does. Since she's unavailable due to circumstances outside anyone's control--we had to cut a short day of only shooting a dummy being struck by a van.
While we spent much of our time on last minute alterations to the likeness of the dummy the local news showed up to capture the whole thing. More importantly, my parents drove up from Shelby to watch the spectacle. To perform the stunt, we had our actor pause in his last "stance" while we adjusted the dummy to mimic his posture and then stripped the actor of his clothes and dressed them on the poor hunk of wood and plastic. (I'm sure big budget films could afford at least two pairs of costumes for both actor and dummy but we're on a budget!!)
We had two cameras rolling and both got a pretty good shot of the "whack!" Obviously, we'll have to do some editing magic to make it all work but it was pretty fun I must say.
Afterward, the news interviewed EP Sam and Jack while I went to Red Lobster with my folks.
After lunch, I met back up with Jack to learn that Mia's condition is quite drastic but her spirit and desire to continue the film are high. Unfortunately, we've already fallen behind on our schedule due to her condition and thoughts of recasting the lead role and reshooting the past week have been brought up.
Only time will tell...
--Mr. Zach
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