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Thiago (Phillip Garcia) & Hanna (Julie McNiven) come face to face with a biker gang
really amplified. The AC has to help
out a lot and be very patient, because there aren’t a lot of marks for
focus. The AC we had was great. We
didn’t have a lot of rehearsals, so he
would have to get his marks as well
as he could on the fly. It’s a difficult
job for someone to pull focus on top
of all of these extra responsibilities,
because he didn’t have a second AC
that he could pass duties on to. He
had a lot of weight on his shoulders,
and he did a great job with that.
Really, everyone has more responsibilities and a tougher time
in general on these smaller productions. On top of all that, we all
were constantly battling with the
environment. We were always getting bitten by bugs, and it would just
start raining out of nowhere. It’s really rough on the crew, and it definitely will test anyone’s patience.
The sound department was just
Michelle [Guasto]. She didn’t have a
boom operator, so she was doing it
all herself. To make things harder,
the camera moved around a lot, so
it was often very tricky to mic properly. But I think the audio came out
very well. These kinds of shoots
put a lot of pressure on people, but
that’s awesome because you get to
see how people really rise to the occasion. I’ve found that it’s very important to develop an understanding
of the other departments and what
they need and to strive for the best
communication, so everyone can
understand what’s going on. It can
get confusing sometimes, working
how we did, and you want to minimize that confusion, so everyone
can put in their best work. For this
type of shoot, you need to have that
mindset of doing many things without abandoning your main duties.
In some cases, you wish you
had something you don’t, and you
just have to solve it a different way.
Ingenuity becomes a big factor, and
that can be exciting and fun to try
to figure out creatively how to do
something differently and still make
it work. That applies heavily to production and direction. They have
some unique problems because
there are many things you have to
do without at this level. But it’s nice
Greenpeace protesters refuse to let a Jeep cross their path
Trace (Shaun Sipos) & Yesenia (Jessica Camacho) find Hanna (Julie McNiven) & the sheriff (Kelly Perine)
