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“If you are someone who is not afraid of the darkness, that will not be the case after you see Myctophobia! This well acted, expertly directed short film will make you shudder in the dark for a very long time.”

I was beyond excited.  Truly good to get so many praises.  Hope that will spill over into the next project.

Meanwhile Rhoda work continues.  Taking awhile but I know it will turn out great.

So been working on a new project that I hope to turn into a feature film.  It’s going to be a messed up movie that I think is going to turn some heads.  We’ll have to see how it turns out.

Been wanting to get back into writing some fiction.  Has been a long time since I sat down and pounded out a short story.  I came up with an idea to post a free short story by numerous authors every day for the month of October for DZ.  Hoping I can get one cranked out to be the last story posted.  Going to be fun.

Other than that I’ve been working on the DZ Film Festival.  Who knew watching movies could be so exhausting?  But we’re going to have a great line up this year.

Freakwolf Productions is happy to announce that on Saturday May 12th at 7PM that their newest film Myctophobia will be having it’s world premiere at
Landmark Cinemas in Peoria, IL. Entry is free. Writer/Director Bryan Wolford will be in attendance to present this new film along with old short films and trailers along with fellow filmmakers Darrin Ford and Brandon
Lamprecht.

Landmark Cinemas has been gracious enough to offer their theater to local independent filmmakers to showcase their work and help spread the love of independent cinema to film fans.

Myctophobia is a short film that was shot in Bartonville, IL on February 25th and 26th of this year. It follows Kelly who has an intense fear of darkness. She is forced to confront it
when she is left home alone and the lights go out. Are the things she is seeing and hearing all just in her head or is something way more sinister happening in her house? The film stars Kitsie Duncan as Kelly, Eric Shellito as John, and Steve Christopher as Therapist Michael Dover.

This is the third collaboration between Freakwolf Production’s Bryan Wolford and Reality’s End Film’s Darrin Ford and Brandon Lamprecht. Their previous efforts Shadows and Whisper have gone on to garner many accolades at film festivals world wide. Whisper was nominated for A Rondo Award in the category of Best Short Film 2011.

The following films will also be screened:
Shadows – A man and son have a sleepless night after the boy claims there is a man hiding in his room.  Written and Directed by Bryan Wolford

Bookbinder – The Central Illinois Ghost legend of A. Manual Bookbinder is finally brought to life through the eyes of Dr. Zeller. Based on a true story.  Written and Directed by Brandon Lamprecht

Whisper – Mike moves into a new dorm room and finds something strange whispering to him at night in his closet. What is it and how far will Mike go to learn it’s secret?
Written by Bryan Wolford and Mathew Kister/Directed By Bryan Wolford

Bait – A man stops by a farmer’s house to get some of his world famous fishing bait only to find more than he bargained for.  Written by Tony Crumpton/Directed by Bryan Wolford

Praise for Myctophobia:
Myctophobia contains the perfect blend of horror and suspense and still manages to keep everything realistic, a big nod to the actuality of the film. From the opening scene discussing “Kelly’s” fear (yes, Myctophobia is a real thing, the fear of the dark) to the ending I did not see coming, Myctophobia will keep fans interested and engaged. Again, Duncan’s ability to accurately display emotions from relief to fear, and Wolford’s clear vision really helped bring this film together.
Michael DeFellipo – HorrorSociety.Com

Kitsie Duncan delivers a strong performance in director Bryan Wolford’s newest scare-thriller ‘Myctophibia’. Tackling the often-attempted, but often-failed topic of “why are we afraid of the dark”, Wolford handles the suspense wonderfully. A blend of classic and modern horror elements, Wolford plays not just with horrific monsters, but also with simple suspense elements that are often very underutilized, or even totally cast aside, in modern commercial films. But does it work? Well…I can’t remember the last film that made me afraid of a knock at the door…and the sound effects alone of the dark horrors are enough to make you want to turn on the lights. Beautiful camera work, strong acting
and legitimate scares make this film a blast to watch. If you like suspense horror, it’s time to turn the lights off and enjoy the show.
Ryan Pierson, Director/Producer – Apocalypse Salad

With Myctophobia, Bryan Wolford has produced a concisely-written, tightly-produced little gem that demonstrates his continued growth as a director / writer… and delivers some nicely creepy moments. Myctophobia — focused on humanity’s instinctive fear of the dark — moves with confidence and purpose, and Kitsie Duncan’s likeable, convincing lead performance seamlessly works with Wolford’s directing to smoothly draw you in for a chilling ride. Matt R. Jones, Author – The Hollywood Vampires series

Praise for Shadows:
Bryan Wolford’s SHADOWS delivers that rare combination of parental fear and kindertrauma that reminds the viewer, regardless of age, that there truly is something to fear in the dark. -Sean Keller – Screenwriter of GIALLO and MAMMOTH

They say the greatest trick the devil ever played was to convince the world that he didn’t exist. The same can be said for monsters that appear only when the lights go out. It’s cool to see what happens when a warned, but still unsuspecting father falls prey to such a monster.” -Sylvia Soska – Writer, Director, and star of Dead Hooker In A Trunk

Wolford’s ingenuity shows through his lack of budget with his creative use of lighting, camera angles, practical fx and CG. His story-telling brings the viewer back to the monster movies from back in the day. He does a good job of describing fear from a child’s mind and creates a dreamlike world both visually and literally.  -Tony Wash – Director of It’s My Party And I’ll Die If I Want To

This is a terrific little creeper, with a great twist on a childhood nightmare. Solid directing guides a likable cast in this resourceful and very entertaining production. It’s believable family make great protagonists, and the creative visual ideas have a really spooky edge. Great stuff! -David Schmidt – Director of House Of Black Wings

SHADOWS is an excellent example of someone with a passion for the genre and exceptional filmmaking skills bringing you something unique and intriguing.             -Miguel – FearShop.com

Praise for Whisper:
Whisper never takes itself too seriously, which is what makes the ending of the film that much more effective. It’s a decent effort that has a few genuinely chilling moments and a final scene that pops! -Doctor Gash – DreadCentral.Com

The episode I was asked to do was one called Bait.  I knew right away that I wanted Mike and Wes in this.  And to break with tradition on most of my films I didn’t ask Wes to be the monster/killer/shadow creature.  He finally got to just be a normal guy . . . that coughs up a lot of blood.  Come on.  Can’t let him get away with not at least getting dirty.

We shot over a Saturday back in October and had a great time.  Dave did the camera work and editing.  I think it came out really well.  We had fun doing it, it was super simple, and I think came off as fun.  Had a lot of praise for it.

Then at the end of February we shot my new short film Myctophobia.  I was asked to be part of a compilation called The Collective.  The idea is 10 filmmakers create 10 short films based on one theme.  This one was emotions and I was given the emotion of fear.  Right up my alley.  So I set out to gather my minimal cast and was super lucky to get Kitsie Duncan, Steve Christopher, and Eric Shellito on board super quickly.  It was kind of funny but after Whisper I promised to never shoot a film over one weekend again.  Just wears everyone out and can cause some stress trying to get everything done.  Well with this since I had an actress coming from out of town I knew I’d have to do it over a weekend again.  Luckily this was only an 8 page script as compared to the 18 page script from Whisper.

The shoot went very smoothly.  It helped immensely that a good director friend of mine Tony Wash (of Scotchwory Productions) came down from Chicago to run a second camera.  So we were able to get multiple angles all in one shot.  So we were able to breeze through set ups pretty quickly.  Unfortunately a lot came to a halt when we started shooting some of the green screen stuff upstairs.  Light for green screen can be hard and tedious.  Luckily Tony grabbed some of the reigns and we went downstairs to shoot some solo stuff with Kitsie.  We got some great shots and after starting at 10AM finished up at 3:30AM on our house location.  We got everything we needed.

I went home and collapsed in my bed.  I woke up to go meet up with everyone and shoot our scenes at the therapist’s office.  Those went super easy and we knocked them out in no time.  Overall we had a great time and I think after watching a rough cut that it is coming together nicely.  This is the first time we’re using CGI effects and I think they’re turning out pretty good.  I think everyone is going to enjoy it when it comes out.

One day I logged onto Facebook and saw that the Rondo Awards nominations had been posted.  Some friends of ours are always nominated for best podcast and we never seem to make the ballot.  So I decided to check out the ballot to see if we had maybe made the cut this year.  Always cool to see what movies and magazines get nominations so I started to go down the list and check out what had been nominated for what.  I was happy to see that some of the movies I had enjoyed this year had made the list.  I figured I might vote as I sometimes do but since DZ hadn’t made the list I probably wouldn’t.  But then as I was looking at the list I saw something that I had to double take.

My short film Whisper had been nominated for a Rondo!  I was not expecting that at all.  It came as a complete shock and I was flabbergasted.  Of course I voted immediately.  I tried to spread the word as much as possible but knew I was probably going to lose out to The Giant Rubber Monster Movie.  Thomas is a friend of ours and I was happy for him for getting nominated.  I knew that he had a ton of horror hosts in his film and has been touring the convention circuit so I knew he had a ton of people behind his film to help promote voting and such.  So I was going to have to settle for just being nominated.  And lo and behold I was right.  But it’s still pretty awesome to be the director of a Rondo nominated film.  Was really happy about that.

Other than that I’m gearing up to finally get Rhoda started with Brandon and Darrin.  This summer is going to be FULL of film making for that.  After that I have a few other things I’m going to want to try as far as film making goes.  Want to do a feature length at some point and have a few ideas.  Ideas of which I should be turning into a script for ScriptFrenzy this month but just haven’t sat down to get started yet and I know this month is going to be crazy with 2 Drunken Zombie Deadly Double Features, C2E2, and Chicago Fear Fest all coming up in the next 3 weeks.  Ugh.  But some fun things are happening and I hope they continue to get bigger and better.  Here’s hoping.

So I pounded out a script one night, sent it off to some hopefuls, and had a majority of my cast within two days.  It all came together really easily.  I am super lucky to get Kitsie Duncan to come on board.  She has an indie horror following and is going to be great as my lead.  And of course I can’t seem to do a project without Steve Christopher involved.  I had him in mind as Kitsie’s therapist.  Meeting with a few actors here next week to figure out who will be playing her husband.  After that we had a lucky break and was able to get a house that is for sale to use to shoot in.  We have full run of it and won’t be putting anyone out.

And with this one I decided rather than pay completely out of pocket I’d try to raise some cash to pay the actors and such.  So we’re up on Indie Go Go but still not close to our goal yet.  Hoping in the last few weeks we can get some last minute donations.  Here’s to hoping.  But if you’re reading this and still want to donate feel free: Myctophobia Donations!

The cool thing is that this is already set to premiere at the Days Of The Dead convention in Indianapolis on July 6th.  Going to be very cool to have one of my films playing at a festival that I will have a table at (with Drunken Zombie).  So lots of things looking up in 2012.  Just in time for the end of the world.

As with last year our good friend Lord Blood-Rah was kind enough to take some time out of his schedule to fly out here to MC the event.  The show went off without a hitch.  Friday night we had a lot of one day people showing up to check out some indie horror films.  Skew, True Nature, and Toxic Lullaby all played to rave reviews from those in attendance.  True Nature was one of my favorites that we were showing so I was glad that everyone that watched it seemed to agree.

Saturday started off kinda slow but it usually is and picks up later on.  Had a lot of people trickle in through out the day.  As with last year we had some great short films show on Saturday.  One of which was my latest short film Whisper.

One of the good things was we didn’t really have any technical issues all weekend. . . until Whisper hit.  Of course  the DVD player started glitching just as Whisper started.  But it never really failed completely so people got to see it none the less.  They seemed to enjoy it and I got a lot of compliments afterwards.  Whether they were being nice or honestly liked it who knows.  Either way I’ll gladly accept their praise.  So after the festival was over I finally got to relax.  We also filmed some fun stuff with Lord Blood-Rah for a DVD that will contain both Shadows and Whisper along with three other short films.  Can’t wait for that to come out.

After the festival I put Whisper up online and so far it seems to have gotten some good buzz.  Some fantastic websites like Horror Society, Dread Central, and Arrow In The Head have posted it.  Which is great.  Getting it in front of more eyeballs.  Going to start the fun (sarcasm) process of sending it out to some film festivals here soon.  Ugh.  Well if you by chance read this blog definitely feel free to take a gander at Whisper yourself below.

Whisper

So this weekend me and my awesome crew was able to film my upcoming short film Whisper.  It’s been a fun and exhausting journey but let’s start at the beginning.

Whisper actually came from a game of poker on Red Dead Redemption.  I play regularly with a few of my friends such as Mat and Steve from Deadlantern, Ronin from the Sleepy Cast, and Tony from the Deadlantern podcasts the eXpoldey Files and Cold Case Cinema.  We have some of the best conversations around that poker table.  One night Mat was telling a ghost story that is reported to have happened to a guy he knew.  In that story the basic plot of Whisper was laid out.  I couldn’t get the story out of my head as I lay down to sleep.  So the next time I talked to Mat I told him I wanted to do it as a short film.  Not long after I got the script in my email.  I read over it and could see the form of the film.

I gave the script a quick polish to get it more inline with my vision of the story (Mat approved of my rewrites) and began the quest to find what I would need for a location: a dorm room with a big walk in closet.  After many many inquires I decided that this was going to be impossible to find.  When I talked about this with my lovely girlfriend Amanda she looked at me and put the biggest puzzle piece in place.  “Our bedroom could easily double as a dorm room and we have a big walk in closet.  Just shoot it here.”  With that blessing the decision was made to turn our apartment upside down to turn it into a dorm room.

The next piece was that I needed a cast.  And I REALLY needed a cast that wanted to play ball.  Who was willing to push themselves to the limit.  I saw another local filmmaker was having auditions and asked if I could piggyback my auditions on with his.  So we saw a bunch of actors but none really jumped into mind.  And this isn’t a slight against their ability.  It’s just I had a pretty well formed idea of the characters and the actors I saw just didn’t work for what I wanted.  I want to do more projects just to get to work with some of the actors I met that night.

So I was a little worried that I hadn’t found my actors.  But a good actor friend of mine told me he wanted to set up another audition for some more actors he knew that hadn’t made it to the audition before.  It was set up and I walked in to the audition to see two guys and one girl.  “Oh no!”  I thought.  I wasn’t going to get a good volume to pull from.  So I introduced myself to everyone and they seemed really nice.  One guy seemed dead on for the character of Denny.  But could he act?  So the three actors went up on the stage and just did the script.  I sat and watched with a smile on my face as I saw the words leap off the paper and all three just completely nailed it.  I didn’t want to play my hand right away so I told them I’d be in touch.  I wanted to cast them all right there but decided to wait a week to make sure I was ready.

Zachary William Thomas as Denny

The week passed and I notified them that I wanted them in the movie.  Zachary William Thomas accepted the role of Denny.  I was ecstatic.  He was exactly what I had in mind for the character.

Paul Iutzi as Mike

Then Paul Iutzi accepted the role of Mike.  Our lead.  I knew he was really going to bring it for the role.  Again I was overjoyed.  Then I waited and waited but never heard back from the actress I offered the role of Alice to.  I tried multiple ways to get a hold of her but couldn’t get a response.  So once again I was without an actress.  And I really needed an actress that was willing to go through a lot for the role.

So the date we were hoping to shoot this was fast approaching and I had no actress.  What was I going to do?  So I reached out to my cast actors for any suggestions.  Paul suggested an actress so I reached out and had a meeting with her.  After a read through and discussion of the role I knew I had the actress I both wanted and needed.

Sarah Tongren as Alice

So there on the spot I offered her the role. Without a moment’s hesitation she accepted.  The biggest motivation was that she might get to do some stunt work.  So I finally had my lead actress!  I began to fill out my supporting cast.  I had a seen a couple of actors in the first round of auditions that I liked that I thought would fill out the supporting roles quiet nicely.  So I sent out some offers and quickly got some responses.

Wes Melton as The Librarian

First to respond was Wes Melton.  He plays the Librarian who informs our leads of the mystery they have stumbled into.  I really wanted to have this played as if someone was telling a serious tale around a campfire.  The story had to have some weight and atmosphere to convey how serious things were happening.  During his audition he brought it.  I knew he was going to be perfect.  If the librarian didn’t deliver on his info then the movie would be sunk.

Brittnay Lynch

We also needed a girl for the end scene.  This was also important as the short has very little time for the audience to connect to this character.  My friend Steve Christopher is a life saver as he recommended Brittany Lynch.  She was game.  I had my full cast!

So the weeks leading up the shoot date I sat with my awesome friends and crew Brandon Lamprecht and Darrin Ford to come up with a lighting scheme and set design for the film.  We threw around some awesome ideas for how to light, shoot, and decorate.  How we were going to transform my bedroom into a dorm room.  How to convey certain things about the set and the mood.  It was really coming together.  I met up with the cast and did a read through of the script.  I could see that the chemistry was great between all three of them.  I was super excited to see how this was going to play out on camera.

Well the weekend fastly approached.  As we got closer my anxiety shot through the roof.  This was only my second time directing anything.  Self doubt really creeped in.  I had decided that this was the last thing I was directing.  I just wasn’t good at it and couldn’t imagine myself enjoying doing it.  I was worried that I wasn’t prepared. That we’d start shooting and I’d have no idea what to do and where to go.  But like it or not it was time.

So the first night we decided to shoot Brittany’s scene’s first on Friday night as we were setting up the set.  It was a pretty easy shooting order and should have been pretty easy.  She arrived and we got everything ready.  The camera rolled.  I hit the clapboard.  I yelled out the first of many directions “Action!”  Immediately all the anxiety and fear I had been feeling melted away.  I knew exactly how I wanted it and how to convey it.  The shoot went off without a hitch.  We finished up and thanked Brittany for her time.  She was super awesome and it was great to have her on set.

After she left we realized that the last shot we did we had to keep the camera locked down for a mirrored shot with Sarah the next day.  So for fear of hitting the camera and screwing up our shot we realized we were not going to be able to set up the room until after the first shot the next day.  Which meant way more work the next day.  Our first hurdle.  We decided to hit the hay as we had to be up the next morning for the actor’s call time of 8AM.  8AM came quickly.  The actors showed up and we launched into it.  The first shot with our leads was complicated as it was sort of a stunt that included a harness and some rigging.  The shot went off great.  We were off to a great start.

Zach and Sarah on a smoke break

So we decided to give our actress a rest and went on to some easier shots.  The actors came out of the gate running.  They were just nailing everything.  So we had another rigging scene to do and started shooting.  In the middle of take we heard a loud snap and I saw my lead actress falling!  Luckily she was only a foot off the ground.  No one was hurt but now our rigging was broken.  So we fixed it and began to shoot again.  We started rolling and once again there was loud snap and my actress was plummeting the foot to the floor.  Luck was on our side as no one was hurt.

At this point it was decided this wasn’t going to work.  We had been lucky to get a few shots while it had worked so we just had to move on and shoot around  what we had and what we needed.  We’d make it work one way or another.  So onward we went!

Dorm room set

By the time we hit lunch we had a pretty good groove going.  We were rolling along.  The chemistry on film was great and the chemistry behind the camera with me, Brandon, and Darrin working together was even better.  We were coming up with ways to shoot this and making it interesting.  To keep the mood on the set light we had a flipcam that we were shooting goofy stuff happening with the cast and crew between takes.  Everyone was having fun.  That was the most important thing for me.  I’ve worked on a few indie movies where people are jerks to each other, don’t have a passion for it, and just don’t seem to enjoy what they’re doing.  So my mission statement has been to make this fun.  It’s supposed to be.  Especially on a horror movie set.

Mike's haunting

So fun was being had. A movie was being shot.  Laughs were happening.  Wes showed up to play a ghost for an important scene just after lunch and we got him into the fun of being cramped up in the closet with a sheet wrapped around his neck.  It was obvious he was having a great time.  We only had him for a few hours but they were well used hours.

After 8 hours the cast was starting to wind down.  Sarah passed out in the living room while we shot some scenes without her.  Zach fell asleep on the floor.  But to give all these actors credit no matter how tired they were or even just seconds after being woken up they delivered on all their scenes.  It was great to see how motivated they were.  They had a great love of the story we were telling.  They wanted to give it their all.  That made me want to give it my all which kept me going for hours on end.  The day was just flying by and I had no idea how late it was getting.

Steve, Sarah, Zach, and Paul

Before I knew it dinner had arrived.  We all sat quietly and chowed down on some pizza.  We were hungry and getting worn down from the 12 hours of work we had just put in.  I think the thing that kept us going was knowing that the scenes we were putting on camera looked amazing.  The interaction between the actors even off camera was addicting.  It was great to have that energy on set.  Kept us all in good spirits.  So after dinner it was time to get back into it.  We were shooting in the transformed dorm room.  Honestly I think the set looked great and I stopped even thinking of the room as my bedroom and thought of it as Mike and Denny’s dorm room.  We were living in this room.  Creating these experiences between these characters.  The setting really seemed to add to it.  It had become a dorm room for these two.  Spending all day in this room with each other was building that comradery that these characters needed.  Denny needed to have a sense that he thinks Mike is overreacting but isn’t insulting about it.  That really flowed between them.

When we started the day I informed the actors that the plan was to shoot as much as we could that day but that at any time if they felt like they couldn’t go on anymore and had to go home to let me know.  We started at 8AM and by 11PM Sarah couldn’t stay awake anymore.  I completely understood.  We only had one scene left to shoot with her and all she had to do was lay in bed.  When I explained this Sarah was a trooper and hung out to get the last shot of her.  We put that next and nailed it.  She went home tired and happy.  I was worried about her sleep state and made her promise to get an energy drink for the 45 minute drive to her bed for the night.

After Sarah left it was time to quickly knock out the last few scenes with the two guys.  We weren’t going to get everything done we wanted but Paul was a trooper and offered to come back the next morning to shoot his solo scenes.  So we wrapped up Zach and Paul’s last few scene together and then sent them off on their way home for some much needed sleep.  As soon as the door closed from their exit we all collapsed and slept.  It was now 1AM.  We had just had a 17 hour shoot.

The next morning we woke up and Paul arrived promptly.  We jumped into it and luckily most of Paul’s scenes were in one spot that we could just keep going with minimal resetting.  So we plowed through those real quick.  Paul was great and willing to throw himself around for the shots we needed.

Wes, Paul, and Sarah in scene

After all those were done we packed up to go meet Zach, Sarah, and Wes Melton for our library shoot.  We got there and I was happy to see my two friends Mike Patterson and Michael Carlson there wanting to lend a hand to help out.  Two more of my best friends involved.  This was a great project to have so many friends helping out with.

So we immediately went into a dolly shot of going past rows of books in the library.  It looked great and we found some fun things at the library to insert into the shots.  Also since Mike and Mike were nice enough to lend a hand I wanted to put them in the shot.  So Michael Carlson is a book enthusiast in the dolly shot.  The scene turned out great and I love the way we did it.  A wheelchair makes a great dolly.

So after that it was time for the big info scene.  Wes stood behind the counter and dropped some knowledge on these college students.  His performance was everything I wanted for this scene.  He read it exactly like he did in the audition.  I didn’t have to give him any direction.  Nailed it off the bat.

Winston being a BOOM OPERATOR!

So we did our shots on the librarian scene and after the last shot I had a bittersweet moment.  I started clapping my hands and announced “Ladies and gentleman!  That is a picture wrap for Wes, Sarah, and Zach!”  Many claps were given to show our appreciation.  I was sad to see these actors leave but was beyond happy with their performances and the work they did.  We had been through two crazy days of shooting but I felt like we had been working together for months.

Zach, Paul, Sarah, and Wes

But as sad as that moment was we still had shots to do with Paul.  We transferred our equipment to another part of the building and went to work.  We said our goodbyes to our departing actors and it was time to go back to work.  Paul nailed his next scene pretty quickly.  We had one scene left to shoot.  It involved Paul running intently through a hallway.  While were shooting someone noticed a pretty awesome stairwell and the scene became Mike running down the stairs.  We got a great overhead shot of him running down numerous flights of stairs that looked great.  Being an evil director I made Paul do it 5 times.  He was very winded and out of breath when another bittersweet moment happened.  I started clapping and announced “Ladies and gentleman!  That is a picture wrap on Paul!” Everyone clapped to show their appreciation for his hard work all weekend.  After thanking him we wished him well and began packing up.  Luckily the packing had begun while we were shooting our last scene so it didn’t take long.  We loaded up our equipment and I was exhausted.  Then I realized I still had to go home and put my bedroom back in order.  I almost cried.

Whisper in the library

So I started this shoot with anxiety and fear.  It ended feeling fulfilled and excited.  Over this weekend I realized I loved doing this and was pretty decent at it.  At least in my opinion.  Some I’m sure would disagree.  But just the feeling of being on the set creating something with these people brought so much life into me that I began to think my thoughts of this being the last time I directed anything seem silly.  How could I not do this more often?  I got comments from all the actors that this was the most fun they had ever had on a set.  Is that just them being nice?  Maybe.  But they all seemed to really be having a great time.  No one ever had to be talked down from storming off.  No one had to be convinced to do anything.  They were game.  It was official.  I had collected together the best crew and cast that I could have ever found.  We had created this with excitement, fun, and the passion to do the best we could.  I hope every shoot I do has that on it.  So now onto editing.  Luckily Darrin and Brandon are doing the hard part of that. But all the excitement I just wrote about is flowing through them for the editing part.  So it’s in good hands.

After this past weekend I am beyond exhausted, beat up, and just downright drained.  I’m already thinking of ideas so that I can gather these people to do it every weekend to try and keep the fun going.  Who’s with me?