CFC Shoot: Anchor

I was really glad that i was able to go to a Canadian Film Center shoot the past week...
it was really fun and learned a lot of stuff..
the director was an Italian, and was really good.. he knows what he was doing and had great communication with the DOP...
the script was really interesting...
and the actors are really amazing performers...
one thing is that it was in Oakfield and was really cold...
the wind was blowing all day and had a really bad headache afterwards... >_<
Also, one of the hardest scene to do is that the kid needs to "catch" a grasshopper...
so we needed to smoked the grasshopper dead first...
and place it carefully on the rocks..
but since it was so windy... and the kid squashed like 2 grasshopper with the bottle by accident..
was the longest scene that we need to take..
a warning to everyone.. do not use another live insects in ur film...




The story is about a guy, Gene, wanting to commit suidcide, and was lying in the bottom of a swimming pool..waiting for the sky to rain.. so that he can drown and kill himself.. and can blame on God who have killed him...







this kid, Oren, came by and saw him..
told him that he is going to flow if it does really rain..
and he went and got lots of rocks and placed it on him..
so that he is going to die for sure...
the man was buried by tons of rocks on him...
it is pretty funny...and was really hard to actually bury the guy..
we had to have 9 bags of river rocks..
which is like about 80 pounds each...really really heavy..
took a long time to place all the rocks on him..
you have to imagine that we had to pick the rocks ALL BACK into the bags after the scene...
it was really a big mess..but it looked really great on film..
can't wait to see it...


One of the lines that Gene explained why he wanted to die was really interesting,
"Disease, Debt, and Divorce, the worst a man can get, the holy trility"
which is really true, where lots of middle age ppl have to face nowadays...
I guess we all have our own problems,
but i think that we do need to take control of our own lives and take care of our own happiness...
no matter how bad it gets...
there is always a way out..
so we should never give up on ourselves..
or let other ppl take over of our lives...