Inside the Ruins

A common theme among the cast remembrances of this film shoot a year ago was that cold, cold Wednesday.

Because it threatened to rain (and it did, in fact, rain), we had to rig up tarps to cover our equipment in video village. (You can see the tarps in the photos.)

The scene involved the cast of prisoners standing in line. Fortunately, it wasn't raining that that time, but the wind was pretty brutal.

Meanwhile, some of the crew were holed up in what we had nicknamed "the ruins"; watching the monitor as each take was filmed.

There wasn't a whole lot of room in there, especially when all the equipment -- including the camera and tripod . But some of the cast thought that maybe, just maybe, we had a heater in there?

No, even though we had some walls, it was just as cold in our make-shift video village. The wind made its way inside. (If you could call it "inside.")

Yes, everyone suffered that night.

(Oh. Did we mention how cold it was?)