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I've been working on a movie set the past two days, and I haven't been this exhausted and sore since I played tennis in high school. Standing up all day and sweating my ass off in a tiny room with like 30 people is very hard. But I'm really enjoying it. I am "Assistant Set Dresser." Basically we are in charge of the set and props and making sure to keep continuity as best as possible.
The movie is called The Funeral Singer, and it's a short musical. So it's only going to take 2 more days to film. I think it's going to turn out awesome, and kind of funny, but the filming locations are FUCKING CREEPY.
These first two days we have been in the Austin State Hospital, which was built in the late 1800's and was an insane asylum once upon a time. So the rooms are like falling apart. Floor tiles are missing, old iron pipes are exposed from crumbling brick walls, the ceilings are caving in. And of course the walls are full of asbestos and lead paint is peeling from everywhere. Oh yeah, and supposedly it's haunted. I wouldn't doubt it. It creeps me out. And there are old medical tools in cases around the buildings. They did horrible things to people when it was an asylum. One of the old hallways is our funeral home set. We went exploring up in the bell tower yesterday and found graffiti from as far back as 1906. Yeah, it's awesome. Part of Second Hand Lions was filmed here.
Tomorrow we will be in another building on the site. It was a neurosurgery floor or something and it's going to be the embalming room set. The whole place smells like embalming fluid, and if you've never smelled it, it's the weirdest creepiest smell. And there are crazy ass tools and things in there because it is such an old place. We found like old notes written in like 1924. And the embalming table in that room is the table they used for Charles Whitman, the sniper who shot people from the UT tower. Part of Drop Dead Sexy was filmed in this room. I've never seen that movie but supposedly it sucks.
Everything about these places is creeptastic and you can expect pictures on facebook in the next few days. Even with scary history like this, I still think scenery inside is beautiful.
The movie is called The Funeral Singer, and it's a short musical. So it's only going to take 2 more days to film. I think it's going to turn out awesome, and kind of funny, but the filming locations are FUCKING CREEPY.
These first two days we have been in the Austin State Hospital, which was built in the late 1800's and was an insane asylum once upon a time. So the rooms are like falling apart. Floor tiles are missing, old iron pipes are exposed from crumbling brick walls, the ceilings are caving in. And of course the walls are full of asbestos and lead paint is peeling from everywhere. Oh yeah, and supposedly it's haunted. I wouldn't doubt it. It creeps me out. And there are old medical tools in cases around the buildings. They did horrible things to people when it was an asylum. One of the old hallways is our funeral home set. We went exploring up in the bell tower yesterday and found graffiti from as far back as 1906. Yeah, it's awesome. Part of Second Hand Lions was filmed here.
Tomorrow we will be in another building on the site. It was a neurosurgery floor or something and it's going to be the embalming room set. The whole place smells like embalming fluid, and if you've never smelled it, it's the weirdest creepiest smell. And there are crazy ass tools and things in there because it is such an old place. We found like old notes written in like 1924. And the embalming table in that room is the table they used for Charles Whitman, the sniper who shot people from the UT tower. Part of Drop Dead Sexy was filmed in this room. I've never seen that movie but supposedly it sucks.
Everything about these places is creeptastic and you can expect pictures on facebook in the next few days. Even with scary history like this, I still think scenery inside is beautiful.