As indie filmmakers, we always have to think of creative ways to come up with no budget videos. This probably is one of my favorite elements of filmmaking because no one ever knows how we really pulled off certain shots…only the final product. When I wrote the scene where “Annie” starts stabbing into “Roger’s” head, I didn’t really think how we were going to pull it off.
In this movie magic scene, a few ideas to hack into a guys head for our Manivore webisodes was using a piñata. So I went down to my local piñata store in Highland Park and asked if they could make me a look-a-like of a human head to kill. They looked at me strange and said we don’t like killing human heads. Then I asked the lady what else looks like a head then…and she pointed over to the produce department and said perhaps a $3 watermelon.
