The only technical challenges were battling the uncontrollable weather, and the camera batteries which kept on running out juice quickly. In the footage you could never tell their were shivering, and uncomfortable. They were freezing their butts off and being rained on constantly. It’s a true testament to the actors commitment and professionalism doing what they did in those harsh conditions. The film is heavily reliant on the performances given from Wilcox, and Rollins.ĭay 2 was a mix of severely cold temperature mixed with heavy freezing rain, and non-stop winds. The Day 2 filming is imperative to get right on paper before we shot anything because their dialogue, actions, and exchanges is what will help propel the narrative of the story we are telling. We changed and shifted around a lot of dialogue, and actions. So the rest of the evening while actors were sleeping, Ramos, Garafalo, and I were doing a page 1 re-write of the script. So the actors can be emotionally invested, and fully understand the mind set of the character they are embodying. During our table read for filming Day 2, Wilcox, and Rollins had constructive feedback which we used to make changes to the script. Rollins portrays the lead antagonist, Edgar Torres in the film. Ramos, and I did a table read with actors: Wilcox and Stefan Rollins. We used Ramos’s car for filming the opening scene featuring Wilcox’s as the film’s protagonist, Floyd Tanager. The first day wasn’t so bad it was changing constantly between cloudy, and sunny which was frustrating. Unfortunately, it was cloudy for the majority of the shoot. I wanted to film in natural sunlight, and capture a lot of shadows in the photography. Mark Schoonmaker: Yes, there were several. READ: Interview with Mark Schoonmaker Steve Wilcox in Gridlock. The beach we shot at actually had a white picket fence as well. It fit the noir mystery crime drama vibe I was looking for. And as it turns out, the location we ended up using looked like what I always envisioned. I wanted the setting to feel familiar to convey a sense that anything bad could happen in your own backyard. Ramos recommended his sister’s place in Southhold. That’s when my producing partner, Phillip M. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a location, and figure out location permits in time. The aesthetic setting found in Spielberg’s Jaws (1975) was always in my mind a small town with white picket fences. I originally wanted to have production in Martha’s Vineyard. I hired my first assistant camera, Emir Fils-Aime through Garafalo. My director of photography, Peter Garafalo supplied the lenses, lighting equipment, rechargeable camera batteries, and a dolly. For the production I was able to use my friend’s Black Magic Ursa EF camera. I had a minimal crew on this production, and we filmed for only two days. The cast, and crew were lodging in a beach house, and down the road we were lucky to film in a secluded private beach. My cast was flown out from Los Angeles, and Atlanta my crew were all New York based. We filmed in Southhold, New York in late October 2016. Mark Schoonmaker: It was a very challenging shoot.
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