Montauk...again

The ideas keep on coming. A few days prior to Tuesday, while on my way to East Marion I was getting all of these ideas as far as shooting sequences for "The Project". While taking a detour route on Route 25 I found this really interesting fenced in building that had a "NO TRESSPASSING" and "US Government Property" sign on it and the fence stretched for a good three miles. I'm not sure what the place was but it was in Calverton / Riverhead area. If anyone knows what this place may be, e-mail me with the information. Anyway, it's west of Edwards Avenue in Riverhead on Route 25. That was one of the first spots that I found interesting. The land out in Riverhead, New York is so spaceous and beautiful - farm land, windmills, long stretches of land, farmstands, etc. A wonderful place to shoot scenes for a film.

So Tuesday Chris Margaritis and I ventured out to Montauk to do some shooting for the Paul Kratka scenes in "The Project". We arrived around 2:30 PM and started setting up a crane shot at Camp Hero and then started shooting shots on the tripod and hand-held shots. There was even a point where I hopped over the "No Tresspassing" fence to get a reverse shot. It was a chance you had to take in a situation like this - but as Chris stated to me while we drove away, they probably wouldn't have done anything harsh other than a "slap on the wrist". The scene is to be used for the Paul Kratka featured scene in the film where Chris goes out to Montauk the day that he hears his friend commited suicide which he doesn't believe to be the case so he goes out there to look for clues, to find nothing.



I remember going to Montauk in the fall of 2005 with Chris Garetano, a filmmaker from New York who I had become good friends with after meeting him at the Fangoria Weekend Horrors convention. He invited myself, along with two members of WickedFx and actor John Brodie to come out to Montauk to check out this placed called Camp Hero. We all drove in seperate cars and I remember having my Green Jetta at the time and driving around the area in the fall and how surreal it was... And I've always been interested in featuring Camp Hero in a film and I feel "The Project" was the best way to do that since the film is about Mind Control and even though the film isn't about Montauk, Camp Hero and the alleged Mind Control experiments are something that interested me enough to feature a scene about in the film (it fully took my interest in 2006 after listening to an Alex Jones podcast about Mind Control). I like that the film touches on that subject a little bit, as well as RFID chipping which will be the main topic of the film.

Be on the lookout for Chris' documentary "Montauk Unvieled" which you can see trailers for on YouTube and other sites. That should be out very soon and that is a film that covers it from top to bottom so if you're interested in a documentary that touches fully on that subject, check it out. He's very talented and his films are unique and original and I think we all should strive for something like that with our work.