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

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