Week 2

Production is finis on BOHICA. The second week wasn't the smooth, downhill ride we all wanted, but it didn't get really hard until the last three days, which were nights, sunset to sunrise. The last day being an epic thirty hour day from when I woke up, went to Ryan "Dean's Award" Meyer's LMU graduation, then worked straight through the night until 11 AM yesterday.

The entire shoot went well and it has been pretty rewarding working with the cast and crew. I'm excited to follow it through post and see how it all turns out. I learned a lot on this show as well as made a lot of mistakes, but that's part of the job.

Some highlights of the week are included in the pictures below, taken by myself and Hanawalt. (There are a lot of pictures of me, so I'm apologize for my vanity, but this is my blog. ) I'll probably file a proper production journal later this week.

Enjoy!


Art Department

My forehead and a dead soldier.

Megan "Medic" Kellie

Another pic of our highly skilled redheaded set medic

Clearly I'm giving a shit about something here…

Cast photo. From left, standing: Adam Rodriguez, Kevin Weisman, Josh or Taylor, Nick Gonzalez, Matthew Del Negro, Jaime McAdams, Megan Kellie, Tom Wright, Taylor or Josh, The Set Detective Dave Greenfield; kneeling: Director DJ Paul, Brenden Sexton III

A beautiful shot of basecamp(foreground) and set(background) at dusk. Photo by Hanawalt.

A reversal- from set looking West at sundown.

Wardrobe shenanigans around the bonfire.

If our 20-year old Props Assistant doesn't glue the undermounted M203 grenade launcher to our weapons, who will?

Wherever there is a fire, Fireman Crocker will be there to put that shit out!

Matching make-up from scene to scene.

At some point I had to transcribe handwritten notes for "mortars" and "flares."

The view from Video Village.

Hunter and I were enlisted as honorary grips during the windstorm(oh, I'm sorry, wind ADVISORY) that almost shut us down for three hours.

"Remember that time we took made a movie during a windstorm?" "…sigh…"

"Are those two a-holes still out in the wind?" "Maybe someone should tell them it's really warm in the make-up trailer."

Speaking of make-up, on our last night, I had Rebecca give me a black eye and Nick, one of the actors, and I made up a story about him socking me…

…the funniest part was, not too many people fell for it, but DJ, the director, saw it and when I told him the story, was about to kick the shit out of Nick!

Anyhow, there you go. If I find or get any more pictures I'll post them up. Thanks for taking the time to look at this and if you still haven't subscribed to my blog- you should get on that shit!