Tara: Day Three

Sunday May 24th 6:15ish we arrived at our home base. This was our big make-up/gore day. Alex attached the prosthetic elbow piece that we had made earlier to Jen's elbow and applied fake blood and water color and acrylic paint. While she did this I set up the sound gear and recorded dog sounds, courtesy of Vaughn and Siri. Next Alex applied three scratches to Dennis' face, while I held a blow dryer to Jen's face and prepared the liquid latex for Ray. Jen took over the blow dryer and I began to apply the scarification liquid to Ray's forehead and neck. At first I didn't notice anything but after it dried it looked perfect. I added some laytex to Ray's cheek and neck and let it dry. Alex painted the scars and mdified the laytex to look like gashes and then painted.

Around 7:00pm we headed out to the forest to find our location. We found a nice stump for Jen to lean on and a log for Ray. Ray lied down against the log and we splattered him with fake blood. The shirt Ray was wearing had water resistant fabric so the blood rolled off. We ended up making little pools of blood on him. Then we opened up the turkey livers and necks and placed them on and around Ray. We shot a few scenes and then positioned Jen on her stump and shot our scenes.

As it got darker the mosquitoes attacked. Ray had a swarm floating above him, probably because of the sugar based blood. Chase (one of our sound guys) was swatting them off of Alex's shoulder. I had some on the had I was holding the camera with but make it out without any bites, and I was wearing shorts. Alex was not so lucky, she has six confirmed bites three of which where were Chase was waving them off. No count from anybody else yet.

So after another evening of several "top five classic moments of all time" we had another sucsessful evening of shooting.

Tara: Day Two

Thursday May 21st-22nd 10:00 pm we parked a car on the side of the road and began shooting. We started inside the car and worked our way outside. Not much to talk about everything went pretty smooth. Dennis saved a worm that was in the middle of the road. We finished around 2:00am on the 22nd. It was a night of classic moments and a lot of laughs.

Tara: Day One

On April 25th, approximately 2:00 pm, we started production on our newest project, "Tara". Our first scene we shot was our beast waking up from a night of carnage in the middle of a forest. Everything turned out really well. And Heir Director (Ace) seems to be pleased. Next we splattered blood puddles along a path and did one of my favorite shot style, the tracking shot. I followed our actor down the path as he notices the blood puddles. Our final shot for this location was a gory mess of what remained of a mans lust for an others one true love. Revenge. Justice. "Bloody Satisfaction".

We packed up the gear and took a dinner break. Five dollar foot long; Cold cut combo and Italian herb and cheese, pepper jack cheese, lettuce, tomato, green peppers, onion, and olives, mayo, mustard, and sweet onion sauce. And a large lemonade. We headed back to home base and fed. Our lead actress arrived around 7:30pm. Ace discussed the scenes we would be shooting with the talent and performed a small make-up test and the the real thing. We set up the green screen behind the car, set up the lights, readied the talent and began shooting the most perverse/physically scene we have shot to date. It wasn't as uncomfortable as I thought it might be. There was plenty of laughter between the screams. We finished shooting around 2:30am with a lot of good takes but unfortunately we will have to reshoot most of the night scenes due to an inconsistent lighting on the green screen, but at least we know how we want to set up the shots so it wont take to long.

So after a intense and enjoyable evening of shooting full of several top five greatest moments and many other tag lines we walk away with plenty of coverage, good and not so good footage.

It is May 17th 2009 5:56am and have yet to shoot another day. We are hoping to finish our reshoot sometime early this week. Until then...

-B