MONTCLAIR (SCREENED 5/5/06)

[BWilli]

wasnt she like one of the sisters on 7th heaven?

she still is...isn't she?

dont watch that show...

[Ivy Lynne]

yeah same  here, i used to catch clips here and there cuz my big sister was obsessed with it one summer....it was bad...texas chainsaw masacre, she was in that right?

[BWilli]

yeah same  here, i used to catch clips here and there cuz my big sister was obsessed with it one summer....it was bad...texas chainsaw masacre, she was in that right?

yep...didn't see that either   :razz:

[Jophess]

yeah same  here, i used to catch clips here and there cuz my big sister was obsessed with it one summer....it was bad...texas chainsaw masacre, she was in that right?

yep...didn't see that either   :razz:

She was good in that movie.... That's awesome that she's interested. Must be a good film!

[Ivy Lynne]

so she was in TCM? i was trying to remember if that was her or not...the movie was ok...i think it could have been better but whatever...

[BWilli]

Shooting starts July 25th.

For the last week and a half, I've been pretty busy contacting folks involved, trying to get more peeps to help out on set, driving from location to location in order to map them out, trying to wrangle together last minute necessities, have a bunch of meetings.  (seems like a lot less when writing it out, but this shit takes forver)

Although tiring, I absolutely love my job on this film.  Can't wait for tomorrow.  There's nothing better than doin' what you wanna do.  

The last week was pretty long, but the next 3 weeks will seem like 4 months.  We'll be putting in about 12-14 hours a day (sometimes a night)

No word on Biel, but if I had to guess, I'd say she probably will NOT be in this movie.  We'll see.

I'll let ya'll know how the first week of shooting went next weekend.

Peace.

[BWilli]

The first week of shooting is done and it feels like a month has gone by.  It's so weird.  Today is our first day off from shooting.

So far things have been going great on the film.  We're not too far behind schedule, maybe like 1 or 2 scenes.  We seem to run later than expected, which can get people a tad annoyed.  It doesn't bother me all that much, just because I'm having fun, but it's extremely tiring.

Last Wednesday was probably the worst day of the week.  I was handed over the responsability of getting working papers to the NJ Labor department for these two minors that are in the film.  That itself turned out to be a pain because the woman at the Labor department kept changing the way this stuff was supposed to be handled.  It could have been completed a week ago, but no, we had to rush it because the kids were shooting that day and we couldn't change the date due to permit that we had alrady paid for.

So, I tell the kids to be in Montclair, NJ an hour before shooting is to start so I can get them down to the High School in the town to get all this paperwork filled out.

I was on my way to mee the kids, when my cell phone rang.  I was on the highway, so I pulled over and BAM!   Fucking pot holes.  Blew out my tire.  Luckily it was near an exit, so I was able to pull off and get to a gas station.  Turned out someone I know works there, so he popped the spare on and off I went.  I wasn't too late, which was a good thing.

So I get the kids to the school, have the papers signed, and get back to the producers house to fax 'em to this chick at the Labor department, while the kids head over to set.  So I called the woman to make sure the fax got through, and they did....but there was yet another problem.  The kids had to actually sign the sheet as well.  So off I went, back to set to get these kids to sign, then back to the house to fax 'em.  Finally...paperwork is done, the kids were able to work.

So the morning was stressful and annoying on many level.  I also got yelled at by the director.  Part of it was my fault I guess, but part was Set Designs fault as well.  I saw him talking with the head of Set Design, but not sure how bad it went.  

Every other day has been pretty good I guess.

Today I'm off to get my tire fixed (hopefully).

Making phone calls to actors for the week as well, trying to find Production Assistants.  We only had two PA's and one left the second day of shooting to work on something at VH1.  That pissed me off, she didn't even have the guts to call me...she sent me a text message.  Dirty whore.

Anyways...I'm having fun.  Sadly I have seen so much of the actual film making.  I'm usually on the phone or I just can't because most of the interior sets are kind of small.  Hopefully I'll get to see more of it this week though.

The people I'm working with are amazing.  There's only one guy I can't stand.  He was supposedly hired as a PA, then denied it, so we handed him over to lighting crew, but he just bitches so much, thinks he knows everything.

I hope I get to work with these peeps again.  They've been super nice, and they seem to like what I'm doing, so that's a plus.  

[TSE]

Last Wednesday was probably the worst day of the week.  I was handed over the responsability of getting working papers to the NJ Labor department for these two minors that are in the film.  That itself turned out to be a pain because the woman at the Labor department kept changing the way this stuff was supposed to be handled.  It could have been completed a week ago, but no, we had to rush it because the kids were shooting that day and we couldn't change the date due to permit that we had alrady paid for.

In Mountainside?  Or do they still have a Newark office?

[BWilli]

Last Wednesday was probably the worst day of the week.  I was handed over the responsability of getting working papers to the NJ Labor department for these two minors that are in the film.  That itself turned out to be a pain because the woman at the Labor department kept changing the way this stuff was supposed to be handled.  It could have been completed a week ago, but no, we had to rush it because the kids were shooting that day and we couldn't change the date due to permit that we had alrady paid for.

In Mountainside?  Or do they still have a Newark office?

it wasn't Newark...the fax number was 908 area code, so I thought it was down near Trenton or something like that.

[TSE]

it wasn't Newark...the fax number was 908 area code, so I thought it was down near Trenton or something like that.

Ohhh, something about it made it seem like you went to the office, so this is far less interesting to me now (no offence :wink:  )...I'd bet Mountainside, they have a 908 and I KNOW there is a DOL office there, Trenton is 609 I believe.

[BWilli]

it wasn't Newark...the fax number was 908 area code, so I thought it was down near Trenton or something like that.

Ohhh, something about it made it seem like you went to the office, so this is far less interesting to me now (no offence :wink:  )...I'd bet Mountainside, they have a 908 and I KNOW there is a DOL office there, Trenton is 609 I believe.

oh..my bad...the area code is 609.

[Ivy Lynne]

awww is this what you were telling me about over the phone today? that really really sucks. but at least it has gotten better.

[BWilli]

awww is this what you were telling me about over the phone today? that really really sucks. but at least it has gotten better.

yeah....it has since gotten a whole lot better.

Even this past Saturday, when we were dealing with children, I thought I was going to go insane, and it wasn't nearly as bad as I expected.  The kids worked great, they all left set unscathed.

We had Sunday off, and we're pulling an all nighter tonight from 5PM to 5AM tomorrow morning, then we've got the rest of Tuesday off.  

Wednesday we start are final 6 days of primary shooting, then next Tuesday (the 16th) will be a pick up day for some scenes we were unable to shoot due to the lack of a recording studio location.

The 16th will also most likely be our wrap party as well.  I'm trying to work it out so that I can be at Vanessa's show that night, then make it to the party afterwords.  We'll see what happens.

I'm off to run some morning errands before I get to set later tonight.

I'll give ya the final update next week when we wrap.  

[Ivy Lynne]

oh good ttys

[BWilli]

WOW!   Working on this film has been one of the greatest experiences ever for me.  The people were just amazing, the entire crew and cast were just some of the nicest guys and gals I've worked with.  I haven't done a whole lot with my film career, not nearly as much as I wish I could be doing, but this is by for the best set I've worked on yet.

Yesterday was the final day of primary shooting and it was a long one.  I was up at 5:30AM to pick up breakfast by 6:15, only to get to the place and it was closed.  The manager told me the night before they opened of 5:30, so I placed a pretty large breakfast order.  However, there was this nasty storm that same night (which many of the crew, including my self, got drenched from head to toe...I think my sneakers are still quite damp), and his power went out, so he was running pretty late.  We ended up getting breakfast about an hour later than we should have, but shit happens.  

From there we shot off two really quick pick up scenes, then shot the final scene of the film (for those interested, films are really never shot in the order they're written).  So off we went to the next location, a golf course.  It turned out to be a nice day weather wise, cloudy, not too hot and it didn't rain.  The golf course took longer than expected and we got back to the other location about an hour an half later than we should have.

From there, we sat around awhile waiting to get some clothing for the police uniforms.  Why that was done last minute, I don't know.  I think we started shooting the final set up around 10:30PM and we finished around 1:15AM.  By the time we had finished cleaning the location, I had been awake for 22 hours.  Not sure how I lasted that long...even the coffee wasn't working.  However tired I was, I just wanted to be there.  Helping make this film.  I didn't get the hands-on experience, but I learned a whole new apsect in Line Producing and Second Assistant Directing.  

Over the past 22 days, myself, Jenni (the Unit Production Manager and character of Suzanne) and Justin (Producer and lead character Jay) did the jobs that would normally take roughly 10 people to do.  The entire crew busted their asses to get this done, and we did it.   Shit I can't wait to see this film.  I know it's going to be great and hopefully it'll take the director further into this business and open the door much wider for me as well.

I'm hoping Jenni will keep in contact with me.  She's working on a short film that will be shot in January.  The story sounds great and I hope I'll be able to help out on that.

I'm also taking into consideration of quitting my real job (which I go back to tomorrow after being gone for 4 weeks.....damn that's gonna be weird).  I don't know when it'll happen, maybe sooner rather than later.  Hopefully I'll also come up with some great ideas of my own, and start shooting my own films.

Now that it's over, it's hard to believe.  After the first week of shooting it had felt like we'd been there for 1 month.  Now I just can't believe that it's over.  It truely had been a wonderful 4 weeks...4 weeks of my life that I will NEVER forget.