news and notes 11.12.12

Our mercurial goat "friends".

Welcome, welcome. We've been some busy beavers here at WSF. Are busy beavers a thing? I think so. Right? After a great weekend at Rivers Edge Film Fest last week (that you may have read about here), we followed that up with a Space Cops shoot THIS weekend. We're normally very busy with the family life and whatnot, so it's uncommon for us to go back to back WSF weekends. Nonetheless, we pulled it off.

Saturday we headed just down the road to the friendly farmland of Junction City, KY. I know you're anxiously waiting to see the fourth episode of Space Cops, but Todd had a script ready for Episode 5 and we had incredible weather this weekend, so we needed to go ahead and make it happen.

Your head is already swimming with questions. What are the Space Cops doing on a farm? How do the very somewhat  barely friendly farm animals pictured above figure in? Well, hold your... horses. Muwahahaha. (See what I did there?) All will be revealed in due time. What I can tell you is that the script is crazy and a lot of fun. Goats, horses, donkeys, disguises, pranks, pint-sized villains... Episode 5 has it all. Space Cops fans have a lot to look forward to in the coming weeks.

The goats may have gotten a bit nippy/head-butty at times, but a big shout out to Hans the dog who literally followed us around for every moment of the six hours we were out there. Good dog, Hans! Good dog. And there were a couple of very personable horses we got to meet as well.

I'll be interested to see who scares you all more: Bo Jangles from Episode 4 or Cappella (Grace Sheene) from Episode 5. Both may give you nightmares.

We met at 9am at Space Cops HQ to costume up and caravan out to the farm. After a quick scout of all the locations on the farm, we got our first shot somewhere between 10 and 10:30. Episode 5 has a very large cast so there were lots of people on the set and we worked really efficiently, all things considered. After a couple hours of shooting, Blythe and Henry Sheene showed up to deliver the carbs and refuel the crew with some incredible white chili. Seriously... mmm. And after lunch we squeezed as many shots as possible into the next four hours. We got good stuff and we're hoping to finish up all farm scenes before the bottom completely falls out on our weather. So, everybody do us a favor and pray for a nice long Indian Summer.

Stay tuned this week for more posts, including Indie Wednesday. And if you want to see more pictures from Saturday's shoot, head over to Facebook and LIKE our page! We've been stuck on 225 likes over there for awhile and everyone is getting lonely.