Picturing: Reopened Graveyard Shift Contact Sheet

Reopening my 'Graveyard Shift' files a few years ago sent me back to 1985, as I reviewed photos, memos, call sheets, and sketches related to that film's production. Affixed above is a partial contact sheet of photographs I took right before commencement of the 'graveyard set' shoot.

In the summer of 1985 I was hired to design and build a... graveyard set. (Actually, I was first hired to build a miniature for a script that ended up being unproduced; the script and project changed.) My workshop was on King Street West in downtown Toronto. The studio was on George Street. I also painted designs on 'flats' for a party scene.

Graveyard Shift was released in the States as Central Park Drifter.

The bottom right photograph is of the late Tim Mogg, the talented special-makeup artist who went on to enjoy a prolific career (as did Darren Perks, who is not pictured on this sheet).

Postscript: Director Jerry Ciccoritti, producer Michael Bockner, cinematographer Robert Bergman, and production manager Peter Boboras were all great to work with. Special thanks to Peter for hiring me, especially so given the fact that I was about to start my second year of film school.