7/2/10 Production Blog/Photos: The Hardest Shoot Yet

You know, last week we had a shoot and it was a pretty long, indoors one. There was one point where for whatever reason we were not getting the shot, and I was under the lights getting tired and frustrated at the loss of time... But that was nothing.

Yesterday, we had our "in the woods shoot." Spoiler alert! There is a scene that takes place in the woods! Well, we had secured the location in Stewartsville, NJ. My good friend, Devin's brother owns a big plot of land over there and was willing to let us use it for our woods scene. We had a lot to shoot... In fact, we scheduled 2 days at the location we had so much to shoot... some of it day stuff, and some of it night stuff.

When we got to the location we found out that a tree had fallen by the path... I found out later that this tree's falling had blocked the path that we would've taken to set and forced us to take a longer, harder, steeper path... By itself, it was treacherous... Climbing up and down with equipment? Well, I wouldn't recommend it. There were moments of tension on set... No one was happy with the prospect of the long climb up at night.

I am happy to report that we filmed not just the stuff we had scheduled, but everything that we needed to shoot in the woods. So no more trips down and up that godawful mountain... I say mountain and perhaps that is an exagerration, but it felt like a mountain and my legs agree with that statement right now. We had some new additions to the cast on set, making it the largest number of actors shot in one day, so special thanks to Myron Covington, Wanda Modzelewska (sp?), and Adam Lucas for joining the cast of "Blaming George Romero" for the day. We also had the special addition of Associate Producer, Blake Zawadzki helping out all over... Without his extra hands, the night would've been so much harder than it was... and it was hard to begin with!

We did a lot... at the end of the night (2am) everyone pitched in according to their own abilities and lugged heavy cumbersome equipment up a steep, treacherous incline. It was not easy, and I'd like to see Steven Spielberg join the crew and pitch in like everyone on set did last night. That said, I never... ever... want to do anything like that again.

But like I said... we got the shots... we got out of the woods in one piece (more or less) and I am home to write about it now.

11 more days of filming to go. Some will be easier than others, but hopefully none of them will require the amount of work that yesterday did.

Finally, I gotta give it up to my fanatastic cast and crew again... We did it... and we are so close to the finish line now.

Stay tuned!

Sam Platizky

Actor, Writer, Producer

"Blaming George Romero"