Day 81

The Second Day of Filming.

The day began fairly well, despite being upstaged by Obama at Cooper Union Square just a few blocks away, awash in cops cars, sirens and news vans. It made navigating traffic a bit trickier than it should have been, but not too bad.

We shot in Washington Square Park today, where we shot the first two scenes of the movie as part of the Manhattan Storyline. We had a bit of a rain delay for about a half hour, but it cleared up and everything went pretty quick.

Despite the rain, and a loud obnoxious disruptive woman named Star Luna, we wrapped early and got all the shots I wanted! Overall, today was a pretty damn good day!

After downloading the footage at Tisch, I grabbed a quick bite to eat at Delion and then headed over to Montrose Ave in Brooklyn, where I met with my actors from the Hipster Storyline to go over some blocking at Sam's apartment. Everything went really well and I'm riding an endorphin rush at the moment.

Tomorrow is our big, most intense day of the whole shoot: the Zombie Walk, where we're hoping to get some people to be zombie extras starting at 7pm near the East River State Park on North 8th Street and Kent Ave.

Sorry, but I don't have any pictures to put up today, but rest assured, there will be plenty tomorrow documenting the whole Zombie Walk in its full glory!

Day 76

(Technically: 221)

Last night, met with Jim and Morgan and we had a very lengthy and lovely chat, where we discussed their characters and ran through the script. I'm very happy with the way things are going!

Today, I met with Tim and Danielle, and we headed out to Sam's apartment (our shooting location) to look at the space and talk over their characters. Then we sat around and read a bit of historically documented zombie attacks.

Doing some storyboarding, since we start shooting in, what, four days? Crazy!

Check out the first table read-through with the cast of NYZ: