Weekend on a movie set!

This Saturday I got the chance to be on a movie set for the movie “The Hollow Oak”. My host Allie Harrison plays the lead in the movie (Kayla) so she spends a lot of her time on the weekends filming.

“The story is about "Kayla," a good-natured but misunderstood young woman who faces peer pressure from a friend with questionable motives. She finds love at Camp Hollow Oak, but haunting memories surface and it's up to her to contain the evil that materialized from a once-innocent childhood friendship. Battling depressive tendencies, Kayla finds Camp Hollow Oak will help her find what she needs in life.

When we arrived, Allie was put into hair and makeup to get ready for the day's scenes. They were shooting dream sequences so the main part of the day Allie was the only one acting. It was very interesting to see how they do things on a real movie set and one thing that shocked me was how time consuming it is to get even just a few seconds of screen time. You have to shoot it from every angle and make sure that the items are in the exact same place. Also the lighting has to be the same, and to make it look right they use reflectors. So basically it is a lot of work!

We started at 2 pm and went home at 2 am, so it was a long and cold day and you could tell that the actors were tired at the end of the day. The scenes were filmed in the woods so it was kind of creepy in the cold dark, but it was a great experience and I look forward to seeing the final result cause my host is AWESOME!

Since the movie is a low-budget movie it will be shown on netflicks.com and in redbox. You are welcome to join the fanpage on facebook “The Hollow Oak – feature film”.

The added pictures are from the set Saturday + a commercial picture for the film (Allie is the girl on the right)

- Malene