Monday, September 27, 2010

Epitaph: Bread and Salt Production Underway

WOW! It's been some time since I was last here. I wanted to update and keep people posted on what was happening at least on a weekly basis. I've been steady with my production journal, but I haven't been getting around to updating the blog. So here's what been going on. The movie is cast for the most part. We still need someone to play the Rabbi Hassan and Dr. Tanner parts, but we've started shooting what we can.

When we started we slated to shoot with the Canon HG10, but I was contacted by the photographer who help shoot JR2 Production's "The Storm". He showed me what he had in mind and what his camera The Canon 5D Mark 2, could do. He came aboard and has been shooting since last week. It's been slow, but we plan on a three month shoot and have been working it out. Adam's a perfectionist and I'm a shoot and run kind of guy, so we've been meeting in the middle and managing to get some great shots. I tell him what I'm going for and he figures it out. Best DP I've ever worked with on anything.

So far we've shot scenes with Jack Gusta, Yohanni Liman, Jim Hager, Carissa Lynelle, Jenna Halvorson, Walldkiria Kawai and a little bit with Leena Kurishingal of "The Long December." We added a cameo by scream queen Kelsey Zukowski and also had three went through several ladies to play the character "Siren" until we met Rachel Stubbs came to us. She's a trained stunt woman, has worked with "Babes with Blades" and is engaged to a guy who makes prop weapons. You simply don't get better than that. LOL. I've been working on the posters too. All of them are on our facebook and production journal.

-Nate