So Cousin John, his brother Dan, Sadaat and I showed up @ 1:30ish (OK more like 2) at the B&B today...and guy didn't. We called him again and left a voice mail. Nothing. We spent the next 3 hours driving around trying to find backup places to shoot with little success. There's so many vacant buildings downtown that at first thought, it'd be relatively simple to find something. The reality though, is that they're all nearly stripped down of anything inside and so instead of just cleaning the set and adding some dressings to it like we'd have to do at the B&B, we'd have to literally build the set in the building. Still, its not without hope. I mean, today WAS Labor Day, so he'll probably get back with me tomorrow. We've also found a few restaurants that close at 8 p.m. so maybe we can shoot after hours...tomorrow I'll have to make lots of calls and just hope something pans out. Fuck me.
I'm also planning on shooting some exterior stuff of Nick Adams (Steve Barker) so maybe we'll get a scene in the can and then I'll get a call and guy will leave the key for the B&B. Keep moving forward.
One thing of interest during our location scouting: everytime we'd walk into a place to just look at it to determine if it would be worth persuing to use, people would almost freak out, "can I help you?" they'd say but the meaning behind the words was clear: "what the fuck are you doing here?". Ahh Port Huron...it was like a ghost town today as we walked through it from building to building. I half expected to see tires roll down the street.
Oh, and if we can get this single take shot I have in mind, it will be a triumph of cinematic awesomeness and personal fitness for Steve. We'll see. Here's hoping.
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