First Day of Production!

By Tony Vallone story, screenplay, associate producer

The first scene we shot was in a laundry mat with Nolan (Johnny Lewis) and Jaime (Autumn Reeser). It is a cute scene between the two characters after they’ve just met.

Since this is the first day of shooting we gave ourselves a lot of time. The shot list consisted of four shots and one insert. We had the laundry mat for ten hours total and used three for set up, one for break down, and six for shooting. Now you’re probably wondering how much dicking around we did to only accomplish four shots in six hours but the truth is we were pretty much on the ball the whole night. A lot of work goes into lighting set up and rehearsal time. Even more difficult is shooting on location because we have to be respectful of the area and are only allowed a small amount of time to do everything we need. In fact, if we were in the laundry mat for even one minute past 5am we would be charged another $100.

Anyways everything went smoothly and we were mostly out by 4:30. Tomorrow is going to be big though because we have 18 shots and they are all outside.