Author: Brian Tolle

We have been very lucky on this production. On the technical side we have tried our best to anticipate problems and filming went very smoothly, all things considered. We had redundant video and audio recording, all the footage is double-archived. In post we have been backing up all of our files. On Friday 7/26 we…

Our first look at ALL THE OTHERS WERE PRACTICE. Between April 25 and June 15 we had twenty-one 8-hour filming days. We were busy – averaging over an hour of footage every day. With over 27 hours of footage for our 90 minute film, we have a lot of work ahead of us. During July…

On Saturday June 15, we wrapped photography on All the Others Were Practice. We filmed the office cafeteria scenes, and it proved to be one of the more challenging days of the entire schedule. There were lots of food props and wardrobe changes, and we had more actors on set than any other day. We…

Our last day of filming is Saturday, 6/15. We will be filming the cafeteria scenes. I can not wait to see these scenes, they are some of the purest comedy in the film. When the cafeteria scenes play in the film they’re little bits that perk up the pace. We are filming them all at…

We couldn’t find a suitable office location. We looked at what we needed, and realized that all we needed was some walls. It needed to be claustrophobic. So on Sunday 6/9, Joe, Kerry and Eric helped me assemble and paint a small set on the rehearsal stage of Boxcar Theater. It is the only set…

On May 25, we completed 18 days of filming. We have a lot of amazing footage and performances, but there is still about 1/4 of the script left to film. On June 10 & 11, we resume filming with all of the office scenes. This will be the only sequence where we will be filming…

These are the boards that we used to help keep track of what angles needed to be filmed while we were filming each scene. The drawings seem simple, but they contain just enough information for me to remember what the various camera angles are that I need to tell the story.

For scene 91 – we rehearsed the scene, then we headded down to the intersection of Van Ness and Grove St. There were just five of us, two actors and three crew, and we were able to get four camera setups in less than an hour. The footage looks pretty good and the performances come…

While we were filming scene 151 at Terra Mia, the actors painted their props during the scene. We went ahead and had the pieces fired and they are really cute.I hope to use them in the closing credits somehow.