There are a lot of days when we film in bad weather - days so hot your
eyeballs feel like they're frying, days so cold your hands might fall off, and
rain pouring so hard you could almost drown on set. Each month we'll remember
one of those horrible weather days and celebrate the survivors who braved the
elements in order to film. Why would we want to remember those days?
Because going through hell on set has a way of bringing everyone closer
together when they can say they survived mother nature AND filming on a Yibble
set.
THE MUDDY ROAD HOME
Rain was forecast for the afternoon of the day we filmed Twisted Tales:
Cinderella, so we filmed the outdoor scenes first. The sky was cloudy and filming took quite a while, but it
didn’t really rain until after lunch. We filmed on the Kansas City Renassiance
Festival grounds and it was a bit of a hike from the office where we had lunch
to the building where we were going to shoot the inside scenes.
It had rained a few days before and the ground was a little wet, but –
being the off season when the festival was closed and knowing the people who
worked there – we were allowed to drive a van through the faire grounds to the
shooting location. We parked outside the building a little ways away, and it
started to really rain as we where heading inside. By the time we were ready to shoot it was pouring.
We filmed all the scenes we needed to and the rain varied between a
light drizzle and a downpour, but since we were inside it didn’t really make a
difference. As soon as we were
done, we packed up and waited for the rain to ease up before we went out to the
car. When we got to the van there
was mud everywhere and as soon as we tried to drive back we quickly realized
the car was stuck.
By this point
the rain was starting to get worse again.
There were four of us and it took everyone to help shove the car out the
mud ditch we found ourselves in (well, one person was driving while everyone
else pushed). We finally got it
unstuck with a big splash of mud all over us (well me at least, the others got
out of the way quickly enough to avoid it). Zan drove it back to the office and picked up her jeep to
come back for the rest of us as we started walking through the deserted faire
grounds, heading back. By this
time it was pouring. Everyone was
muddy and soaked (and of course I was worrying about one of the costumes while
the van was stuck rather than the actress inside it – sorry Bri!).
Although the situation was certainly miserable, we were pretty much
laughing and joking on the way back.
When Zan picked us up we gratefully climbed into the back of the jeep,
then cleaned up at the office as best we good and headed home. It was a rainy, messy day at the end
but it was still a lot of fun and I loved working with these wonderful gals.
To those who survived the Muddy Road “Affaire”, I thank you and salute
you:
Bri Arnold
Antatia Powers
Zan Powers
I’m sorry we all lost our dignity in the mud but we don’t have to time
to go back and find it now. Here’s
a towel instead.
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