7/23/10: Gym-ing in the rain.

Day 16 is a wrap. We filmed at the park, a gym scene, as you will see from the pictures. Now, I know some people are going, "I have no idea what the hell is going on in this movie... A gym scene?" Yes. A gym scene. And just this once, I will tell you what's going on... Dan's character is a high school gym teacher. Boom... there you go. We had 4 students on hand, and they were all terrific: Sarah Gill, Rachel Canete, Colleen Mernar, and Sean Feuer. Thanks to them, and to Christina Garced for helping us book them.

The star of the day was, no doubt, Dan Gregory. I wrote the part for Dan, specifically, but I knew that Dan hadn't really played a part like this one before as far as I knew... So, I was thrilled to see him knock it out of the park on today's shoot especially. The footage is hysterical.

The end is in sight... 5 days of shooting left of principle photography in the next 7 days. Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, & Friday. Some of those are, theoretically, our most difficult shoots. They are certainly our most ambitious. We are doing really well on indiegogo. We are up to $4,950, which is great. Seriously, we love our fans and are so grateful. There are about 26 days left to donate. So, please donate what you can to help us make the next five days and post production as great as possible. And I don't want to oversell it, but if you have the money, if you donate $1,000 you get two invites to the wrap party with a great group of people... which should be a blast.

Stay tuned!

Sam

Actor, Writer, Producer

"Blaming George Romero"

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7/16/10: Wait we shouldn't wield machetes on a crowded road?

Day 13 has wrapped. Some say 13 is lucky... Some say its unlucky. I haven't made my mind up on that one. See, the original day 13 was the shoot we had to cancel... So, today was the 13th day we filmed... and we had to wrap early... Kind of.

We had the wonderful AJ on set today acting opposite of Isaac, which was good times. We had Mandyjo create another amazing looking zombie... Seriously... great looking. There are beginning zombie pics below, but no finished zombies for you... yet. Let's keep those donations coming... let's keep spreading the word, and you'll see sooner than later.

Long story short, we have a machete in this movie... and baseball bats (mini and otherwise). Today's scene called for a machete and bats outside. Now, we had them out for a few hours and nobody noticed or cared. My neighbors are cool like that. As we were on the very last shot of the night, a cop car pulled up... then another... then another... Apparently a worried passerby called them. I explained that we are shooting a film (its broad daylight and there is a camera clearly in view!) and they told us to take the weapons inside. If we want to shoot with them, it has to be in the backyard. See, the cop told us that there are gangs in Midtown Bayonne who fight with machetes and baseball bats... Now, I think that's the kind of thing that I would have/should have heard about prior to today... It sounds like a big deal. Certainly scarier than me, Bobby Lise, Loarina Gonzalez, Dan Gregory, and Ramy Shedid filming a movie in broad daylight. But whatever... we were about to wrap anyway. We could've used another take or two, but we got what we got. At the moment, I am not sure if it was a bad thing... it certainly caused us to rethink at least one of our future shoots. And hopefully, we are the better for the experience.

So, that was today... Some really good stuff was shot. And here's something exciting... There is a teaser trailer for the film in the works. I have showed a Rough, rough, rough, rough cut to a few people to positive reviews. We are going to continue working on it and then... Well, you shall see... But I will say this. Please keep those donations coming, and keep spreading the word.

Stay tuned!

Sam

Actor, Writer, Producer

"Blaming George Romero"

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