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never expect. We shot the film in four blocks over five months and the first day of the third block we’re all ready to go. It’s like 5 in the morning at this bar. We had a new sound guy because our sound guy moved out of the area and the new guy never showed up. We just spent hours corralling some random sound guy to come and instead of having a nice little day where we could take our time, we had to barnstorm to get these shots. Things like that pop up that you never expect. When you think you have everything taken care of something is going to come and throw a wrench into the works. Could you imagine shooting a film right when the lockdown hit? I was involved in the shooting of a short film. They were shooting the weekend right before the shutdown and the next schedule was the weekend after. I was only doing a day on it. We were shooting it on Bleeker Street in the downtown (actually a block NJ STAGE - ISSUE 71 INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 20