Soap Opera at Lake Shawnee

I mentioned on my post about growing up at little Lake Shawnee that soon they were filming the Guiding Light, and that took place yesterday.



http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070913/COMMUNITIES21/709130358



There's the first article I found about it. They spelled my dad's name wrong though, it's RON Wolfe haha. Even though I don't watch soap operas I will have to tape it for the 2 weeks these scenes will be on!

This picture that was in the paper is actually of our row boat! That little red boat is ours... how funny! They used it for the day. And the club got paid pretty well for the shoot. One of the lifeguards I trained growing up actually got to lifeguard at the shoot and made a couple hundred bucks for the day.

My dad couldn't believe how LONG it took to film such short scenes. It took the ENTIRE day and will probably boil down to 30 minutes total shown over 2 weeks of show. And that whole day process cost the show over $100,000 just for these scenes. That is crazy to me how much money flows through our entertainment industry. And this is just one production of hundreds that are being made right now. I would have liked to see how the whole process works.

So there you go, my little Lake Shawnee is still New Jersey's best kept secret... but now just a few more people know about it! :)