So today I was filming my 1st full-blow action/crime film called 'The Candy Man Conspiracy' which means something along the lines of 'the drug lord and his adventures' thats what the title is supposed to mean, but anyways here are some things that happened today:
IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER...
(I'm filming in Honduras, by the way.)
1) I woke up at 12PM and went to this small reunion thing because an old friend of my dad's was celebrating his birthday. That was quite interesting.
2) After the party, me and my dad (producer) went to look for fake guns everywhere, but couldnt find any. The only thing we bought were flour for the 'cocaine' and fake blood and make-up.
3) After we bought those materials we went to look for our main actors which we brought along to go find the damned fake guns.
4) After a long tiring search we bought the guns and some weird clown masks. Then we went off into a very dangerous yet quiet little village, because we didnt want any cars in the shot except the one used in the film. So we take like an hour and a half to shoot this introduction scene in which a guy gets shot by hispanic gangsters wearing clown masks. The guy they shot was loaded with cocaine, so of course they took the cocaine. But here's the catch...while we were shooting quite a few cars went by, and people walking on the street. It wasnt like crowded or anything, but every 5 minutes or so someone would walk by or just simply watch us. Keep in mind that we were using tons and tons of fake blood, and guns, fake cocaine, and guys in suits wearing clown masks shooting at a guy pale-and-dead on the street. Some people were freaked out!! haha
5) Its like 5:30 and we were done filming and just as soon as we were leaving the little village all hell breaks loose. Two cops riding on motorcycles came speeding in front of us and told us to stop the vehicle. They made us all get out of the car, because they were going to search. These guys arent like the american police. The americans just have a little gun and fancy uniforms and a little helmet. These guys had fucking MACHINE GUNS! and KNIFES! and tons of $hit like that, plus also some little guns. We were freaked out. Not because of the blood or fake guns, but because of the fucking fake cocaine which is flour! They searched their bit told us to stay put and well we waited blah blah. we wasted like 10 minutes there just smiling at the policemen. Thank God they didnt find the fake cocaine because if they would have they would have probably arrested us because they cant identify if its flour or not until tested in a lab. That meant going to jail until the lab tests were completed, that would have taken about a
a week. And Honduras prison IS NOT the friendliest jail in the world. But we got off okay.
6) After that we went to a bar at around 6:30-7 and we set-up the next scene. The bar people were pretty cool and if it wasnt for the nice looking bar girl being in the film, the movie would be a complete, uhm sausage fest. lol
7) The bar 'talk' scene went excellently, we accidentally burned a chair with our gaffer lights. lol but it went well.
8) After that we went to the parking lot of a casino for the establishing shot. That means that I'm filming just the 2 gangsters entering the casino place, but the next shot is the bar. So we filmed in 2 locations which will only be one location in the film. So we are outside in the parking lot which is basically the street, and its filled with cops and what not, so after I had rushed and filmed the scene, one security guy came and yelled at me that I couldnt film there blah blah blah! I think he was ready to break Beatrice (my camera) but we ran off.
9) Theres no 9.
10) After we finished our day's work we went to BK (at around 9PM) and finished the day. But tomorrow, The Adventure Continues...
Saturday, August 11, 2007
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