Greco’s Editing Nightmares won’t be seen this week.  After a month solid of editing, getting everything to it’s nearly finished form.  The last bits are just about finished, and instead of my bleary-eyed, computer glazed over eyes telling you exactly how tedious and time consuming the whole editing process is, we bring you the last of the crew blogs, from our resident ray of sunshine Kelly.

She’s fun, funny, a great talent behind a camera, and willing to do whatever to get a shot.  Exactly the kind of person you want to work with.  Our long time readers will remember that we lost Kelly after beginning to shoot Summer due to a new job.  But due to a wonderful series of circumstances (not really) , a sizable ransom, a team of crack mercenaries were hired, sent into an area department store, I am pleased to report that Kelly was returned to us unharmed.

Kelly writes:

Sooooo, as you heard we are done with shooting and it feels very bittersweet.  (yeah, clichéd I know however, my word document thesaurus isn’t giving me anything better) Anyway, I will miss filming A lot, yet I can’t wait to finally see the film all together and also see how every one of our fabulous fans react to the finished product, yay! As some of you may know I was a camera person on The Year after Infection and was lucky enough to be a part of almost every aspect of the film.

The only time I was not there was when I accepted a job for about 3 months at a department store selling kids shoes which was definitely an adventure in itself.   I must say, there is nothing like tying a child’s shoes then looking up in their bright face just long enough to catch a juicy droplet of saliva landing right between the eyes.  Oh and I couldn’t possibly forget seeing the crazed look in the parent’s eye when you tell them you don’t have the shoe they want for their “little darlings”.  Let’s just say, even though I wasn’t working on a horror film at that time I was definitely still getting the whole creepy vibe.  Some of the things you witness in retail have the potential to haunt you the rest of your life.  Retail Hell, it’s no joke.

So I’ve never filmed a movie before, or acted, or really anything regarding a talent.  Don’t feel bad most of it was due to me just not trying.  I do like drawing, however most of that was killed by an art teacher in the third grade who held up my project to the class asking “who does this….thing belong to?”

At least you could tell what I was drawing unlike Joe what’s his name in the corner who ate his boogers and thought Elmer’s glue made a delicious midafternoon snack.  (Admit it there’s always one, unless you’re it, then you can keep it to yourself)  Anyway, let’s just say I hadn’t really found my niche until I started helping out with the film.  What an amazing experience, I would say you should try making one sometime but seeing our director and producers put in that immense amount of hard work, and believe me I know what  hard work looks like.  I’ve spent many years avoiding it, I figure it’s really not for everyone.

On the second day of filming I was asked to work the second camera.  At first I thought they were joking, thus after the fifth time of hearing “no really” I decided to accept the offer before they changed their minds.  My first mission: walk across a dark field backwards while keeping one of the three actors in frame, sounds easy enough.  Now before I continue I must say that this field was not that large yet took all of two nights to shoot.  So, there I was slowly walking across the field, and thinking to myself my feet are soaked from the dew, I’m tired, I’m still a little shaky from the shock I received earlier from trying to plug stuff in on the dewy ground, and I’m having the absolute best time EVER! Mike said it best when he said “The absolute worst day of filming is better than the greatest day at our regular jobs.”

The very last day of filming just passed us and I must say what a great note to end on.  I also got the great pleasure of two of my marvelous parents, Bill and Laurie, being there and one (my dad) actually got to be a reporter!  I’m not just saying this because he’s my dad, but he did absolutely incredible.  I guess after so many years of thinking your parents are lame the phase ends and luckily in my case it was replaced by this truly talented individual who can act, and write/play his own music. (You’ll hear some of it in the film!) Anyway, I just had to give a shout out to my dad! So proud of you!

So, that’s pretty much it for me, I hope you all enjoy the movie!!