The final day was a huge race but we managed to get something like 50 shots finished!
We filmed a big action sequence, the entire sequence featuring a zombie band, and finally the last shot of the film as the last shot of the shoot.
It was a marathon of a shoot and it would have been no problem had we money to pay people to work but we didn’t so we were under-crewed for the majority of the shoot.
But ultimately, this project goes toward finding grant money in the future and receiving money to pay people for their hard work! Thank you all very much who donated your time for Hell of a Wedding. It’s going to be a very fun film and we’ll keep you posted about post (editing, special effects, and sound). I don’t even want to begin to think about how stupid that sounded. Let’s just run with it and I’m going to sleep for a week!
George Somerwill
Day 3 of Four
Biggest day and biggest sh!t show ever! 80 plus people on set. Musicians showed up four hours late and they were required for most of our shots. Food ran out. Paramedics arrived because someone on set went into an epileptic seizure. Turns out it was due to fatigue and low blood sugar levels. She is fine and I just talked to her. I must tell you there were times today that I felt like throwing an epileptic fit myself because it seemed that we would not get our day due to our late start.
After everything was said and done we powered through the rest of the schedule and completed a bunch of gore shots and an elaborate action scene. We even finished our day with a few extra shots! We also had a specialist rig up a squib pack on one of the zombies and he was “shot” with a shot gun. It was my friends life long dream to assist with rigging something like that and he was in awe when it went down.
This is were the moral side of things come into play however. If someone is having a seizure and is in your shot, do you ask the paramedics to wheel them slightly out of the way to continue shooting? We didn’t, but the person in the seizure was joking about it when I talked to her.
Almost through! There is light at the end of the tunnel! It can only get better from here on right?
George Somerwill
Tons of zombie action today! First things to film of course were some vital “story” elements in which we get to know the characters a little.
The zombie extras started to roll in around noon. We had leisure suit zombie, booty short zombie, the trio of giggling girl zombies and of course, the all important jaws zombie!
It was lots of fun and we had a real hollywood stunt man John Sampson come out and assist us with our action scenes. He was by far the most gung ho person I’ve ever met. It was good to have people like him around set and the energy level was through the roof! Every one is into making this little film the best it can be and it gives me bonafied tingles knowing that so many people out there support us! Great make up artists, actors, crew and technicians, and not to mention zombie and wedding guest extras!
George Somerwill
Hello,
Today was a solid start. Not too many crew members though, and some had to pull double duty such as grip/ boom op and the ever important 1st AD/ Caterer, but the scene set ups only focused on a few of the main characters standing still. This is not to say we didn’t get any exciting shots. There was one that I am particularly pleased about. It blows my mind, it was so graceful.
So far, it seems everything is coming together. We feel tired but confident about what we have so far. Tomorrow will be the next test as we have about thirty extras coming out to join us on the production!
All in all, we got our day and knocked off a few extra shots as well. Lets hope this immaculate weather holds up for the next four days of production.
George Somerwill
