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Ext. An old warehouse in Hannibal

Sorry about the delay on this weeks blog.  I’m kinda all over the place this weekend, and I think this blog post will explain why.

In only three shooting days, I’m stunned at far we are on the third segment.  A lot fewer headaches behind the camera now. But the weather has actually decided to cooperate, so we’re splitting shooting up for the first time this weekend.  Saturday we’ll be shooting with Ted and Clark, and Sunday we’ll be in Hannibal shooting with the Fall cast. It’s a hard choice, and I hate breaking it up like this, but for winter, we have to shoot when there’s snow on the ground, and in keeping with the tradition of shooting in the farthest reaches of the Midwest, we are shooting in Vandalia, IL.  The upshot is we only have to pack wardrobe.  No sets to dress.  Not yet anyway.  We’ll save the interior shots for when we’re finished with Fall.

Not much left now.

Every time that we have a change of cast and location, there’s always that new break-in period where everybody is getting used to the work flow.  But we hit that really quickly with Fall, and we’ve gotten so much shot, so fast that I’m still a little amazed by the whole thing.  The production at this point has taken on a life of it’s own.  It’s no longer lumbering to completion, but sprinting to the finish line.

We started last Sunday off early.  The hour and a half drive to Hannibal seems like a lot less now, and got set up and ready to go.  Shot Eric’s character’s intro scene, which required him looking really nasty.  Jeff Bateman, who has been our most loyal extra, we plugged into a speaking part.  He made the whole thing look too damn easy.

So at this point we have just four scenes left to shoot with Eric and Doc, and one with Marianne, and I’m hoping to knock out most, if not all of them this Sunday.  That’s all on Tim now… This is more like it.

Last weekend also had us shooting with one of the folks I was looking forward to working with.  The Chocolate.  Devan Hennesy.  Don’t ask…. Just remember to call him Chocolate Devan.  He was someone that we read for a role, but due to a scheduling conflict we couldn’t get him.  But he showed up for a much smaller part in fall.  I hope he and Fred had fun.  They both have two shooting days.  After the first shooting day, I’m sure they’re thinking  it’ll be hard to make stranger requests of them, but we will!    All of this is leading up to a last day that I just can’t wait to actually watch first hand… There are some things in this life that you never expect to get to see.  I’ll get to check one of those off my list after the final shooting day, and Devan, Fred and Jeff get to do it.

Damn I love this gig!

As usual, it’s the night before a shoot, and I can’t sleep worth a damn… so here I am updating away…

Just a few other quick notes:

Don’t forget to buy a shirt.  All the cool kids are.
and…
Nichole Fischer updated her blog with her last shooting day stuff, and even more amazing pictures.  So by all means go check that out.

Oh, and Colby Raines was interviewed on the Benita Show, and you can watch that here.