Day 6: S-S-S-S-S-Smoking shoot!

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Day 6 of  filming started off at Jame's (willingham) house. It was a great location for the two scenes we needed to film.That on top of the heat of the day...it was quite the scorcher in Wellington so we were thankful that everyone showed up and didn't blow the shoot off to hit the beach instead. I know i kept looking at the waves longingly from the deck!! We started at 12pm with new actors to the short: some friends from work turned actors: James Bennet as one of the detectives and Hugo Dominguez as the other detective and the nurse character by Jess who was studying acting at the local wellington academy.  So that was cool plus we brought in Kate again for her role and then everyone else just pitched in like James Willingham was on the Boom, George was operating the main camera and good ol Norm was doing special effects as well as camera .We wanted to add a little environment haze with some fog but the fog became overpowering in some shots. Good to know for future scenes...less is more!  Plus it was hard not to crack up over the fog machine spewing spurts of fog sporadically. Always during key serious moments so that had the crew cracking up. Also the fog was more so for the first scene but the second scene it was probably 75% cigarette smoke then fog. It got sooo smokey in there it was like we brought the bars and nightclubs to us! I think poor Kate went thru about one pack and a half...the guys started helping after a bit...like Hugo would take some drags for his character too and it became part of the shot as well. Nothing like some good props...but then again they had to do it again and again and again. So before long we had to go on a cigarette run! What troopers...no sunny day, heat or lung cancer would make these guys budge. So focused and dedicated...awesome! It was a great shoot and is all definitely coming together