"IceBreaker", Day 14 of Production
Day 14 was…interesting to say the least. We were scheduled to start shooting at the club Euphoria in downtown Minneapolis at noon. When Chad and I arrived at the front of the building, there were about 20 extras, Sasha, and crew members waiting on the sidewalk. From what we gathered, there was no one in the space to let us in. We walked around to the back of the building, found the back door, pounded on it, but nothing. We got screwed.
Randy arrived on scene and explained that he had great difficulty getting confirmation in the last week from Euphoria, even though we secured the spot 3 months ago. We tried making some phone calls, but nothing. We reassured the cast and crew that we were looking at some other options.
Randy hit Rosen's bar, explained our situation, and they agreed to let us shoot there. Meanwhile, I was talking to Tom down at The Loon. Half the bar was closed, so he said we could use it for whatever we wanted. Awesome.
We started at The Loon, shooting some stuff for the rejection montage. Kristen Richardson played our babe for one sequence, and Ashley Powell played the babe for another. Both were great scenes with great performances. We had The Loon cater our lunch, which was very good. Thank you to Tom and all his peeps at The Loon.
We then moved down to Rosen's for the goth and hooker bit. Sasha informed us that a Christian club around the corner, 3 Degrees, might be very cool for the goth bit so Chad and I ran over there quick to check it out. We made contact with Pastor Steve and let him in on our situation. He said that we had 30 minutes to get it, and that was all. We made a mad dash over to Rosen's, grabbed the gear and the Goths and darted back to 3 Degrees. We shot handheld, and fast. The scene is great and was probably one of the more fun shoots so far on the project- just because of the rush from working quickly.
After we wrapped 3 Degrees, it was back to Rosen's were Chad's computer crashed. No problem, we just went right to tape. We filmed a short sequence with Sasha and Angie Hauk then moved onto the more complicated hooker bit. Kristen Beyer played our 'lady of the night' and Sasha and Andy were on hand as Gary and Roach. Randy had another cameo as pimp daddy, but I don’t want to reveal too much, you’ll just have to wait.
It's too bad Euphoria doesn’t have their shit together. Their location was great, and would have worked for us. Oh well, everything worked out in the end.
Thanks to cast and crew, Mary for the food, Brian Casey for being a last minute PA, Rosen's, The Loon (Tom) and 3 Degrees (Pastor Steve).
Day 14 was…interesting to say the least. We were scheduled to start shooting at the club Euphoria in downtown Minneapolis at noon. When Chad and I arrived at the front of the building, there were about 20 extras, Sasha, and crew members waiting on the sidewalk. From what we gathered, there was no one in the space to let us in. We walked around to the back of the building, found the back door, pounded on it, but nothing. We got screwed.
Randy arrived on scene and explained that he had great difficulty getting confirmation in the last week from Euphoria, even though we secured the spot 3 months ago. We tried making some phone calls, but nothing. We reassured the cast and crew that we were looking at some other options.
Randy hit Rosen's bar, explained our situation, and they agreed to let us shoot there. Meanwhile, I was talking to Tom down at The Loon. Half the bar was closed, so he said we could use it for whatever we wanted. Awesome.
We started at The Loon, shooting some stuff for the rejection montage. Kristen Richardson played our babe for one sequence, and Ashley Powell played the babe for another. Both were great scenes with great performances. We had The Loon cater our lunch, which was very good. Thank you to Tom and all his peeps at The Loon.
We then moved down to Rosen's for the goth and hooker bit. Sasha informed us that a Christian club around the corner, 3 Degrees, might be very cool for the goth bit so Chad and I ran over there quick to check it out. We made contact with Pastor Steve and let him in on our situation. He said that we had 30 minutes to get it, and that was all. We made a mad dash over to Rosen's, grabbed the gear and the Goths and darted back to 3 Degrees. We shot handheld, and fast. The scene is great and was probably one of the more fun shoots so far on the project- just because of the rush from working quickly.
After we wrapped 3 Degrees, it was back to Rosen's were Chad's computer crashed. No problem, we just went right to tape. We filmed a short sequence with Sasha and Angie Hauk then moved onto the more complicated hooker bit. Kristen Beyer played our 'lady of the night' and Sasha and Andy were on hand as Gary and Roach. Randy had another cameo as pimp daddy, but I don’t want to reveal too much, you’ll just have to wait.
It's too bad Euphoria doesn’t have their shit together. Their location was great, and would have worked for us. Oh well, everything worked out in the end.
Thanks to cast and crew, Mary for the food, Brian Casey for being a last minute PA, Rosen's, The Loon (Tom) and 3 Degrees (Pastor Steve).
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