Hey!

It’s been fairly boring on the pre production front in terms of no huge leaps forward. This is why writing and production are the best parts of filmmaking! We are right now slowly chipping away at the beaurocracy behind making a no budget short film.

When I revealed my budget to the insurance guy hey said “you’re kidding me…you can’t possibly do a zombie film with stunts and effects”. I just quietly asked how painful the insurance was gonna hurt. Who needs insurance…

To use a public location there are a number of fees a production needs to pay. For example, its 80 bucks an hour to have a cop stand around and make sure nobody gets shot with a fake gun. There are other silly restrictions when filming on public property. No burning things. No killing living things. No Top Gun-esque shirtless volleyball scenes. We’re working on getting those fees waived.

Tomorrow we go about making a fake instrument for one of the sequences in the film. We’ll tape it and post it here soon. I’m warning you, it’ll be super budget! Laughable? We have yet to see.

Now, back to fighting The Man (i.e. the laws that keep us all safe at night but prevent obscure films from happening)!

George Somerwill