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The MUCKMAN Diaries #2: First Glimpse of Muck!
June 16, 2009 by Greg Lamberson
The MUCKMAN Diaries #2: First Glimpse of Muck!
Filmmaker Brett Piper continues to blog the brutal details of his latest low budget film production, MUCKMAN:

We resumed shooting on MUCKMAN this weekend. Things went much better this time around. We were concentrating mostly on Alison Whitney's scenes and managed to finish everything we had scheduled, some of which went extremely well. We even got to use the Muckman.

Steve Diasparra, who plays low-life TV producer Mickey O'Hara in the movie, volunteered to don the costume and plunge into frigid water at 1:00 a.m. for a scene where Alison encounters the creature. At first we thought he'd gone into shock when he hit the water but he rallied and we got the shot. He wasn't the only one to suffer in the cold and the wet for is art --- Alison and co-star Danielle Donahue donned bikinis for a fight scene in a frigid mountain stream. I swear I don't really hate (most) actors but no great art is created without suffering.

Altogether Mark estimates that we managed, in just two weekends, to finish around 70% of the movie. Now we're going to go over the footage we have already and assess what needs to be redone to replace the two guys who quit (well, only one of them had actually quit, the other one simply hasn't been heard from again and is assumed to have quit). More to come as the adventure continues!