Over the weekend we picture wrapped the first of our main talent: miss Shelby Barnes. It’s a sad occasion for a couple of reasons.
The first of which is that working with Shelby, particularly on this project, means a lot to me. As long as I’ve had what might be referred to as a career in film (student, amateur, independent or otherwise) Shelby has been my go-to actress and good friend. She’s starred in both of my most successful shorts (Stache and The Twins McCallister – both CampusMovieFest award winners) and she played Emily in the original Super Hero Party Clown 10-minute short, viewable here:
The second reason it’s sad to send her off is strictly from a filmmaking standpoint: if we missed something or wanted to get a pickup shot or felt it was necessary to write a new scene for Emily or re-shoot an old one… we can’t. She’s gone!
That’s a scary thought but it’s a sobering one. We’re done with Emily; her existence as a fictional construct is now sealed in its entirety on film (or hard drive… whatever). It is what it is, I guess.
We move now into our last two weeks of shooting still relatively on schedule. 12 days left out of 28. Forging on.
JI
