Holy Shit My Ass Hurts
Today, from the hours of 10:00 AM to 7:30 PM, I was at school shooting my movie. To make it an extra bit more fun, I wrote a zombie movie. The basic plot is a bunch of kids get tangled into matters afterschool eventually resulting in the drinking of contaminated water, in turn resulting in zombie-fication and intense teen exploitation. To make a long story short, it just rocked. Here are some anecdotal landmarks:
-Walking through the streets of New York with a baseball bat, a knife, and a box of jello.
-Getting a 10-minute crash-course on cinematic lighting
-Having one of your main actresses bail on you and having to spend the next two hours calling a total of 7 different people before finding someone willing to do it.
-Making a bowl of blood out of jello, honey, and washing detergent
-Making a normal school building look like Pol Pot's house
-Making Deborah strip Sam
-Making Alex Coles split his head open on a library bench
-Filming the last shot of the movie without realizing the tape was used up
-Having my most common position being either sitting down and pulling my hair in sheer frustration or barking orders like a drill sergent
-Being given a deadline of 6:00 PM and finishing a full hour afterwards
-Having to scrub the floors and walls of the school afterwards
and finally, the one I really can't comprehend even now:
-Shooting an entire movie despite having to work with two stoners, a non-existant supporting role, hectic one-take shoots, and a naked punk kid covered in blood.
This has been a fabulous day. Thank you Sarah for helping so much. Thank you Deborah for being so considerate and taking the part of a zombie girl after its previous actress abandoned it. Fuck you Lily for making me assume you were going to show me how to make the blood and just bailing out at the last minute.
My ass hurts.
-Walking through the streets of New York with a baseball bat, a knife, and a box of jello.
-Getting a 10-minute crash-course on cinematic lighting
-Having one of your main actresses bail on you and having to spend the next two hours calling a total of 7 different people before finding someone willing to do it.
-Making a bowl of blood out of jello, honey, and washing detergent
-Making a normal school building look like Pol Pot's house
-Making Deborah strip Sam
-Making Alex Coles split his head open on a library bench
-Filming the last shot of the movie without realizing the tape was used up
-Having my most common position being either sitting down and pulling my hair in sheer frustration or barking orders like a drill sergent
-Being given a deadline of 6:00 PM and finishing a full hour afterwards
-Having to scrub the floors and walls of the school afterwards
and finally, the one I really can't comprehend even now:
-Shooting an entire movie despite having to work with two stoners, a non-existant supporting role, hectic one-take shoots, and a naked punk kid covered in blood.
This has been a fabulous day. Thank you Sarah for helping so much. Thank you Deborah for being so considerate and taking the part of a zombie girl after its previous actress abandoned it. Fuck you Lily for making me assume you were going to show me how to make the blood and just bailing out at the last minute.
My ass hurts.