Well, I’m slowly catching up on blogs.  Saturday April 2nd was our first day shooting “Cowboy Café,” an 18% Productions film by Steve Ohl.  On “Cowboy Café,” I’m splitting the duties of 2nd Assistant Camera / Digital Imaging Technician with my friend Peter, and I’m also in charge of editing the film by May 20th (so soon!).  We spent the entire day shooting the opening sequence in East Boston on the harbor.  It was cold, but the view was awesome and our cast and crew worked great together.

Trevor (left) and Zack (middle) prepare the scene for set decor.

The first shot of the day!  Those garbage dumpsters– creation of Tina Zito.  Now that’s production design!

Peter B holds the precious Alexa between shots.

Some awesome weeds near the scene… random, I know.

Boston

Trevor (Assistant Camera) and Zack (Director of Photography) prepare a shot.

Two of our “homeless” actors– Matthias and Floyd.  Tina and Steve did an AWESOME job with the costumes for the actors, and all of them had to be substantially scruffed up for the film.

Director Steve Ohl rehearses (and almost gets stabbed) with an actor

Gershon plays Waco, “the ugly”

Dan (left) suits up to play Cowboy, “the good”

Waco takes down a few homeless men

Floyd, right after he got shot in the chest.  We had an awesome special effects guy on set.  He put a steel plate on Floyd’s chest and then taped a fake-blood filled sack in the center of it.  Then he gut a tiny hole in Floyd’s shirt, and during the middle of the take, he shot Floyd in the chest (the reason for the steel plate) with a fake blood-filled BB, which exploded the bag on Floyd’s chest upon impact.

Floyd dies on the sidewalk while Trevor and Zack set up the shot.

RIP Floyd

That’s all for now.  More pictures soon.