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By Tony Vallone story, screenplay, associate producer

Today is the first blog in awhile because, as I predicted, my macbook broke a second time and I needed to send it in for "repair". Lets just hope it survives this time.

The first part of this entry is going to be mainly about what happens on set that isn't filming. If you sit and think about it for awhile, we don't really film for that long when we are on set. Most of the time we are getting ready to film. When we are not filming we do things like take pictures of ourselves pretending to work:



Our best boy likes to steal my camera and take his zoom+long exposure shots of himself in the mirror. I don't know why he does this because the pictures are on my computer - he can't even add them to his myspace or anything.



Here you can see vince and sam. Enough said.



Look at that big smile on Dan. Normally I wouldn't put up this picture but he has been bugging me about putting more photos of him on the site. check.



This is me after only getting a few hours sleep for two nights in a row. Either that or I just fell asleep watching a poorly scripted scene... (ha ha).



But that night we did actually get a lot done. We filmed three scenes in one night that covered nearly 8 pages of the script. to make it work we had to black out the windows when the sun started to come up so it still felt like night time.



Brad and I even took over camera for a few takes - Brad operating and I focusing. Not because we needed to, just because we wanted to. Here is a picture of us really working for real.



Next up is a picture of the close attention to detail our production design team has. We a million pictures of our two actors in various boyfriend/girlfriend poses. That was a fun afternoon. We took the best ones and planted them around the room.



We also needed to work in a crude dolly shot into the scene. It worked by making a sled out of an old wheelchair.



It was a fun night.