The Making of Jurassic People

Days of Filming :	5 (During the Winter of 2001)
Budget :	$375.00
Locations :	(Los Angeles & Orange County, CA)
Kitchen Scene Info :	54 Shots in 9 Hrs.(Aliso Niguel High School - Orange County, CA)
Problems During Filming :	Theft, Fines, Lost Footage & Random Horses (See Below)
Camera Used :	Sony DSR-200A DVCam
Editing Info :	This was Jamie's First Editing Project
Editing Time :	5 Months (Adobe Premiere)
Random Fun Facts :	The Eggs in the Film were made of White Chocolate The Spitter Slime is Molasses, Pancake Batter, Dye and Killians Beer The Deleted Scene (see Coming Soon page) shows two Gallimimus' mating.

See Below for The Complete Story
on How This Film Was Made
(Including Behind the Scenes Photos)

Sixty-five million years ago dinosaurs ruled the earth. But then they all died. In 1993, Man brought dinosaurs back to life. But then the mailman from Seinfeld tried to run away with a Barbasol can full of Dino-DNA but he fell, dropping the can down a hill and into the mud below. Anyone who watched the original Jurassic Park knew that this scene was a sign that there would soon be a Jurassic Park II. However, with the passing of the sequel one question remained unanswered: What happened to the Barbasol can?

With the dawn of the new millennium, Jamie Hobert was sick of sitting around asking himself over and over that very same question, so he decided to make a short film telling the true story of what exactly did happen to that missing Barbasol can.
This is, in brief, what took place during The Making of Jurassic People….
Teaming up with Michael Perl, Jamie sat down in the fall of 2000 and developed a story that would put to rest the question that millions of people were asking themselves everyday: What happened to that Barbasol can in the original Jurassic Park?
The result: An award winning short film about several hikers who wander onto an island and come upon a lonely can of shaving cream, which they then open, finding several little yellow liquid capsules, which they of course drink, consequently stripping themselves down to nothing but their thermal underwear as one by one they each turn into Dinosaur-like humans, or better yet, Jurassic People.
With award winning dialogue like, "Oh look, a bowl of Jell-o" and "Who's your daddy," Jurassic People was bound to be a cinematic success.
Filming began in January of 2001 and was scheduled to be shot over a period of three days (plus one extra for just the kitchen scene) with a budget of just under $375. Using the camera (Sony DVCam) and talent of filmmaker Armin Chamanara, Jamie and Mike rounded up some friends and pushed hard and fast to complete the shooting of this unforgettable epic. However, no one could have predicted the number of "unlucky" or "unfortunate" incidents that would plague this production.

Day One took place in Griffith Park (Los Angeles, CA). However, before even making it to the park the battery of the Jeep used in the film died, putting the shoot 45 minutes behind schedule. Not a good sign. Filming began around 8 AM and continued into the early evening covering such memorable scenes as, "The Argument in the Car Scene," "The Brachiosaurus Scene," "The T-Rex Chase"
and "The Spitter Scene" - all the while keeping the nearby city and other signs of civilization out of frame. One scene even had to be re-shot because a random horse decided to walk into the shot. Although it was funny, the director really couldn't use the take where Seth Laursen (Ned) told Randy Martire (Christy) to get out of the car by saying: "Get out of the car!!! That's right, take that fuckin' horse and get the hell out of here!" (Silence followed by laughter as a big black horse slowly passes by the front of the car) The day would come to a crashing halt when a lonely park ranger, on an enormously pathetic power trip, would roll in and fork over a $300 ticket for having a Jeep on a fire road.

This "unfortunate" incident as well as many others was, of course, caught on tape, and is included in the ever-so-entertaining DVD which features "The Making of Jurassic People."

Day Two took place in the secluded hills outside Santa Margarita, CA. Since the crew could no longer film in Griffith Park, Mike and Jamie quickly found this back-up location on the morning of the next day - day two of the three-day shoot.
Covering such memorable scenes as "The Raptors in the Bushes Scene" and "The People in the Tree Scene," the second day was moving right along until it was discovered that in the 10 minutes when no one was watching the bags and backpacks of the cast and crew , one of the 4 or 5 cars that drove by all day happened to stop and steal a backpack which "unfortunately" contained the following:
" Jamie Hobert's wallet
" Danielle Vernengo's wallet (including over $100 in Christmas gift certificates)
" All of Danielle's make-up (theater/film and everyday make-up)
" Jamie's camera
" Danielle's camera
" 3 pairs of Danielle's clothing
" Jeremy Williams $75 pair of sunglasses
" A brand new $90 pair of walkie-talkies
" And finally the backpack itself

That was the end to Day Two.

Day Three took place in the hills of Aliso Woods Canyon (Aliso Viejo, CA) and covered such memorable scenes as "The Gallimimus Scene," (watching the gallimimus slip and fall while trying to run sideways on a wet hill provided for many hilarious outtakes) as well as "The Opening and Kissing Scenes," the deleted - "Gallimimus in Heat Scene"

(available of course on the super-exclusive DVD ) and finally, "The Hatched Eggs Scene" - which included the ever-so-necessary shot of Danielle yelling, "Run!" - impersonating the all too emotional line of Laura Dern in the original Jurassic Park. After several hours, shooting then moved to Irvine, CA where the finale scene between the Raptors and the T-Rex was shot. However, as luck would have it, it began to rain, and instead of driving off into the sunset, the heroes of this film drive off into the cloudy distance.
Exhausted, the crew returned to watch the footage of all 3 days only to find out that somehow, "unfortunately" the best takes (and in some cases the only takes) of several of the scenes had been taped over. The crew sat around in exhausted and depressing disbelief and then did the only thing you can do in that situation: they went to sleep.
Four months later they woke up and in the spring of 2001 they shot the only scene with a real stunt (The Bird Scene - shot by driving two pickup trucks backward with the camera on the back of one truck

and the bird (John Thvedt) laying on a piece of wood hanging five feet off the back end of the other truck). This was followed by the shot-for-shot remake of "The Kitchen Scene" filmed at nearby Aliso Niguel High School. Hours had been spent prior to the shoot cataloguing the angle, length, and action of each shot of the kitchen scene, 54 in all. Since everything was on wheels, Jamie and Mike were able to rearrange the schools kitchen and, in just under 9 hours, film the complete remake of one of the most memorable scenes of Jurassic Park.
Jamie then spent the first 5 months of 2002 both cataloguing the sounds and music of Jurassic Park to match the scenes of Jurassic People, and eventually, using Adobe Premiere, editing everything together to complete the unforgettable story that answers the age old question: What happened to that Barbasol can?
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