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Weekends for most people is a time to relax go out with friends unwind from a difficult work week. For indie filmmakers the weekend is usually packed with 30+ hours of more work.
The typical weekend schedule will look like
Friday: 7-pm to 2am This gives people time to get off work and get ready.
Saturday: 8am to 10pm not too early and not too late it is Saturday after all.
Sunday: 8am to 6pm. This seems pretty reasonable on paper but usually paper is the only place times like that are seen.
What usually happens is this.
Friday: Holy Sh!* it’s 10pm and we haven’t started filming. Followed by Holy Sh1* it’s midnight and we haven’t started filming wasn’t in 10pm like 5 minutes ago. Ending with Holy Sh1* it’s 6am Saturday, why are those birds so loud. People start going towards their designated sleeping places, which is usually a dozen or more crammed in a crew members house.
Saturday will start out with 1 person trying to wake everyone up by noon. Less than 6 hours of sleep for the smart people and probably less than 2 hours of sleep for 95% of everyone else. Even though no one has slept everyone is surprisingly energized and ready to film, well maybe everyone is surprisingly actually alive and ready to film. The first part of filming Saturday will consist of caffeine and a LOT of it. Everyone is trying to recover and caffeine is the only way to do it. As the evening approaches everyone will be blasting off on a caffeine and sugar high. You will get a lot done and probably catch up from the late start Friday. As Saturday turns into Sunday morning usually around 2am filming will wrap for the day. Someone will say Wow it’s 2am if we go to bed now wake up at 8am and we will be on track to get everyone done filming by 7ish. This is always followed by Holy Sh1* it’s 8am and we haven’t even slept yet.
Sunday more caffeine and starting filming around noon. Most people will have accumulated 4 hours of sleep at this point. It has to be some kind of movie magic because miraculously you get all your shots and everyone scrambles home to get into bed by midnight. Even more miraculously everyone shows up to do it again next week.
Scotland Thompson
Here is one of the pages from Ryan Cole
We are planning on doing a photo interview soon for Zerpes. We will have lots of cool guest photographers taking pictures along with the cast of Zerpes answering questions and saying random stuff. Here is a sneak peak
This is Trevor Swaim Ryan Cole and Scotland Thompson on the set of Gag Order. A fan film written by Stephen Haydon. I was running an idea by Trevor seeing if it would work on camera. It involved a gun flying at high speeds towards our heads while we tried to catch it.
I got into acting about four years ago. Director Scotland Thompson needed someone to fill a small part in a film and he asked me if wanted to be in a movie. I was super excited, even though the part was really small and I had no lines I said I would do it. I must have done something right because he asked me to do another small part in a movie. I think he could tell that I had fun and I wanted to be in more movies. Eventually I got a supporting role in a short that Scotland was directing. We filmed it in one day at mansion for about 10 hours, and it is still one of the best acting experiences of my life. I got a few more supporting roles for a while until one day Scotland wanted to shoot some test footage with a new camera lens. The test footage looked so good we decided to make another short Clarity Directed by Scotland Thompson and DP’ed by Trevor Swaim. Clarity ended up getting into the Action on Film Festival in California which is the first film festival I had ever been in. Later that year we made a horror short titled Bag which won a horror festival in Iowa. After Bag Scotland offered me my first staring role in a feature film called Zerpes which we recently finished. Hopefully I will have a lot more staring roles in films to come. For me its really just about loving acting and having fun with it.
Ryan Cole
If you see me on set most of the time you will see this guy Trevor Swaim nearby with a camera. Photo from Iowa Zoetrope co-founder Kipp Paulsen
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