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LAKEWOOD RANCH — A Summerfield couple who are shooting their own independent romantic comedy in and around Lakewood Ranch are looking for 100 extras to populate Main Street on Saturday.

“There’s no compensation, but it’s perfect for the person who has always wanted to be in a movie or see what it’s like to be on a movie set,” said Richard Siggins, who is teaming with his fiancee, Brooke Reid, to create and produce “Wasband.”

The title stands for “a husband who never was,” Reid said.
RICHARD DYMOND/rdymond@bradenton.com From left, Eddie Duffy, Richard Siggins, Lauren Duffy and Brooke Reid stand near the fountain on Main Street, where Siggins and Reid are making a movie.

Siggins says the movie is about a man who finally finds the person who “wants one extra kiss before he goes to work, who he wants to call or text during the day for no reason and who he wants to rush home to at the end of the day.”

The extras, who can be any age or sex, are asked to dress casually and come to Main Street between 6:45 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday for a two hour shoot that will begin at 7:30 p.m.

Anyone under the age of 18 has to have a parent or guardian with them at the shoot to sign for them, Siggins said.

Siggins and Reid, who met chatting online two years ago, named their movie company, “Siggybunk,” which is short for Siggins and “Bunk,” Reid’s childhood nickname.

Reid’s son, Eddie Duffy, 14, who will be a freshman at Lakewood Ranch High next fall and daughter, Lauren Duffy, 11, are in the movie as extras.

“Wasband” is being made for about $9,000, part of a rising number of films with “micro” budgets, which means less than $25,000, Siggins said.

A low budget film is less than $1 million, Siggins added.

“Micro” budget movies generally are not action or science fiction since those usually require computer generated graphics.

Through a few connections and Craigslist, Siggins and Reid got 15 professional actors who agreed to be paid only if the film becomes a success.

“They are working for reels,” which is the film term for resume material, Siggins said.

They also found Eric St. John, a composer, who created original music, and Rich Hubel, an experienced director of photography.

Most of the expense, which is coming out the couple’s savings, involves use of a high tech digital camera, Siggins said.

The scene to be shot at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, among the film’s final 10 of 46, calls for leading man Michael Newman’s character to get to know leading lady Angela Austin’s character in a romantic setting.

Candice McElyea, Schroeder-Manatee Ranch’s pro- motions and public rela- tions manager, suggested the filmmakers use Main Street, with its music, boutiques, restaurant and fountain, for a portion of the shooting. The filmmakers agreed.

Siggins and Reid have shot scenes at the Polo Grill, Big Olaf’s Creamery and Arts A Blaze on Main Street.

They have also shot at Woody’s River Roo in Ellenton, the Pink Pelican in St. Petersburg and Eckerd College, among other local venues.

They have gotten permission for two days of shooting at Lakewood Ranch Medical Center later this month.

“We really had no idea what to do when we started but we just decided to get out there and try,” said Reid, who describes herself as a romantic comedy lover who has seen “When Harry Met Sally” umpteen times.

Siggins and Reid plan to enter “Wasband” into the Sarasota Film Festival in January in order to launch it.

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The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away..

Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.

The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!

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The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.

CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shiveringgrasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. 

America is stunned by the sharp contrast.

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green.’

ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the group singing, “We shall overcome.” Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper’s sake.

President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper’s plight.

Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on theant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.

The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopperdoesn’t maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood.

The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.