Emmett Behind The Scenes News.

Writer, Producer, Director: Sterling Johnston

The first weekend of filming is completed. We are two days behind in the filming schedule because of the unsafe weather. With any luck we will catch up this weekend.
This weekend is the big staged car crash scene. We have many poeple volinteering their time. We have first aid poeple, top knoch FX poeple and a scecond camera unit ready to go.

Posted May 30th.
We are now three days behind in our production schedule, one of our actors went to a wedding in Tronoto on Saturday. The rest of the cast reherst for the big day on Sunday.

Posted June 2th.
Our staged car crash filming went great. A very specail thanks goes out to Staint John Ambulance and Lee for piching in when some of my crew failed to show.
Also many thanks to our FX guy for putting up with the lack of equipment he had asked for. We just scaled back the crash scene to fit the safety of the cast and crew and it looks great on film.
We found a great location and we had great weather. The only problem we had was the rented micorphone didn't work so we had no sound recording avalible to us. We are going to rerecord the sounds required later. This pushes the cost of the production up but what can I do?
We are now four days behind in our production schedule.

Posted June 6th.
Well! This week was one of those weeks, Emmett broke his leg playing soccer. He is on a Fregus Soccer team. My first concer was for Matthew (Emmett). Once I got word that he was okay and doing well, the "Now what I'm I going to do" set in. This was Thursday night. I told every one to take the weekend off and we would pick things up next weekend.
This means that we are going to be in production on and off all summer as Emmett"s leg heals and he can return tp filming. The production should now rap up around mid August 04. This is fine with me, I'm just glad that Matthew is okay.

You may send Matthew a Get Well Wish and I will pass it along to him. I am sure that he would greatly appreate it.

Posted June 14th.
Filming was canceled over the weekend due to one of our other actors coming down with the chicken pox or something like that. We are goping to regroup this weekend 19th & 20th have a production meeting and see what we can do about finishing this production. We are also going to have an out door cinema night for fun.

Posted June 29th.
We had alot of fun at our out door show. Nearly all of the cast came out and braved the cold. It was great to see that Matthew is doing well. We are planning to have an other fun night for the cast on July 21st, activity to be anounced. Hopefully every one can make it.

We are planning to start filming Emmett (once agian) August 2nd to the 10th. we should be able to have it all edited and ready to go for the September 11 Premiere.

Posted July 7th.
Sterling has just finished working on "In Your Dreams Babby" and he can now focus on the Emmett Production. Their is a lot of work to do before Agust 2nd. With any luck we will have nothing but sunny weather for the production week.

Posted July 15th.
Due to sceduling problems Robert Gibson is un able to play the role of Ben. We are going to miss him on the set. We are hoping that he will be able to make the next film production.
Cameron is now playing Ben and 10 year old Adam Nankivell will be playing Ian. Welcome Adam! it's good to have you on board.
Filming will start up on August 3rd and end August 13th.

Posted August 2nd.
Well we had a big scare yesterday when a cast member phoned in stating that he would not be able to meet the new film scedule and would have to drop out of the production. Luckly I was in covesation with 12 year old Evan Green about the posiblity of him filling an extra role as a base ball player at the time of the call. I asked him if he would be intrested in the part of Mike. He said yes.
Also Jacub Sega age 8 is now going to play Emmett's little brother.
So the sets are back up in the studio, the location are secured, the actors are lined up & waiting and we are off to make the show tommarrow morning. I'll try to keep every one up to date on a day to day bases. See you tomarrow!

Posted August 14th.
We Did It! We are Finished! Wow! I would like to thank all the parents for showing thier suport of the project. I would like to say thanks to the actor for pulling things together for the last to days of filming and finishing on time even thought we got behind scedule becuase of the rain. Just thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
A spiecal thanks goes out to Jacobus "Jim" de Bock for letting us use his house and barn for filming locations and his aditionel help as a stand in audio recordest. I will be editting for the next 4 weeks in a mad dash for completion of the project for the September 11 primiere. Hope to see many thousands of people there to see the show.

Posted August 29th.
Editing is going well and the production is sitting at a running time of 55 minutes. We are going to do some reshoots this week coming and we should have a final production on Saturday.

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