Category: All the Others Were Practice BLOG

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.

Today we had a long and grueling day as we filmed the final scenes of the film. It was day 13 of 22, and I had a bit of trouble getting into the spirit of the scenes. The actors helped me rally and we pulled off a tremendous day – with great performances and one…

On Thursday 5/9 we were fortunate enough to film at the Lookout in San Francisco. The bar was open to the public, and a bunch of great friends came out to fill in the crowd. Our production was so small, most patrons probably didn’t even realize we were filming. We didn’t add any lights –…

When we found ourselves down a diner location at the last minute, the St. Francis fountain was gracious enough to let us film in the Candy Kitchen. The space used to be where the candy was made, but now it’s an extra dining room that mostly seems to be used on weekends. So, we had…

Every day we have at least this much to guide us on how much and what we are going to film for each scene.

We took over a small office in SF on Saturday 5/4 to film 9 scenes and whopping 14 setups.It was a long day but we got a lot of great little scenes.Eric and Eve and Tim stopped by to play some office workers in the elevator, and Tim got to play the part of the…

Gia at Peninsula Beauty was kind enough to stay after work and let us film a pretty funny scene. Thank you Gia! Our production footprint is so small that we were able to setup and film the entire scene – a page-and-a-half of dialogue and 5 angles – in less than an hour.

In golden gate park for b-roll.