"Barnacle Man"
With this particular solution we had a lot of different ideas to choose
from that would work. After our group vote, “Barnacle Man” written by Daniel
Irons, one of our DP’s, was the winner!
“Barnacle Man” is about a chance encounter between a beachie man and a
barnacle-encrusted hero who helps him with his saltwater dilemma.
Our crew had another day in the bright sun and clear skies. Our location
for this shoot was on Tybee Island (South Beach). It was a beautiful day in
which we started filming at 11am!
Richard Cheeley (Barnacle Man) was spectacular addition to the cast
making our dreams a reality wearing a great costume provided by Rachel Dotson
our production designer. We also had in the cast, Joshua Bolla (beach goer)
wore a simple outfit but played a very major role in this production.
As we started filming the tide was out making it harder to film. The
crew had to walk from our campsite on the white dry sand through various
sandbars and fish to one of the furthest points where the waves were perfect
and the actors could act without actual beach goers staring them down. Filming
went smoothly until the tide started creeping up on top of them, and suddenly
you could see that they were going to get washed away. One of the producers
said, “Look its as if they are coming through a flood.” The crew was hurrying
to dry sand with all of the equipment in the air above their heads keeping it
dry and out of the ocean.
After that there were only a few more shots left.
We ended up finishing early and a few of us actually stayed to grab some
sun!
Richard and Joshua have great chemistry on set
Daniel (DP) watching his script come to life
Action!
Richard havin' some fun in the sun!
