Ben Flies in for the Night

By Tony Vallone story, screenplay, associate producer

So the other night Ben Savage (Patrick) came up for night to film his cross over scene with Autumn (Jaime) and Johnny (Nolan). He flew in just for the day but it was a good change of pace. Autumn and Johnny were starting to smell and we were already for a new actor.

The way we are shooting the film is one story at a time so we have our actors for each story fly up for about 8 days. Once we finish the Jaime/Nolan story, Autumn and Johnny will go back home and we’ll get a fresh shipment of new actors to film a different storyline. Since the storylines overlap a little, certain actors fly up for other story lines like Ben did. In a couple days Aaron Ashmore (alec) and Ryan Hansen (Anthony) will be up here for a night to film their crossover with the Jaime/Nolan story line.

Ben’s scene was outside a house party so we needed to throw a fake party. We gathered some local kids to be extras and threw them on the front lawn with those signature red plastic cups. If you were at the shoot you wouldn’t know it was a party scene because everyone was silent except for our talent. A cop came by during the shoot and just kept on driving without stopping. Someone made the point that if you want to throw a party with under aged drinking you should throw a couple lights up and say you’re filming a movie. The cops will just pass on through. Well, at least in Palo Alto that’s what they’ll do. The night went pretty well and we fought the sunrise as usual. I have to say we threw a pretty kick ass fake party.