Trailer -- day one
Topic: Trailer

Location: Michael Caruso's loft, Downtown Los Angeles

It sure is nice to be back.

It's impossible to convey exactly what it feels like to be back on set working with such a great group of people. Once again, multiple talents are converging to bring our project to life. Rob's characters, my words ... saying it's fantastic barely scratches the surface.

Everyone was immediately comfortable again. It was as if we had simply taken a short vacation, rather than a brand new project separated by nearly five months.

Compared to future shooting days, today was rather tame. All of the scenes revolved around the two lead protagonists, Donovan and Jesse. Most scenes were dialogue heavy or no dialogue at all, the feelings conveyed with only a look.

At first glance, I thought today would be a quick day. No stunts. No extended scenes. Only two actors. But when you take into account multiple takes at different angles, it takes quite a bit longer than simply snapping a few takes and moving on to the next scene.

All of today's filming was done at Michael Caruso's apartment building. We really didn't hit any bumps. We paid a security guard $20 to keep quiet, but all of the tenants were cool.

Oh yeah, when we were about to film a pick up scene in an alley, two guys at the end, separated by a fence, pissed into the alley. Just hung their tiny johnsons out for the world to see and did their business. Too bad cameras weren't rolling. We could've had a Microcosmos sequel on our hands.

The shoot went just about as smoothly as possible. We did a bunch of dialogue scenes, some brooding shots, and one special effects shot pulled off by yanking on a string to make a glass slide across a counter.

Simply put, we got off on a great start.