Bury You

A good friend from high school, Kyle Strahm, has the first issue of his most recent comic hitting shelves tomorrow called WE WILL BURY YOU. Kyle's art is fantastic and if you're a comic book reader you should pick it up. It's written by Brea and Zane Grant.

Kyle found his way into our hometown paper, and I'm wondering if the last time he was in there was when they ran a picture of us on the front page for being the first people in line to see Episode I...

B&W

I started playing around with color correction a little and while considering just how much desaturation looked best, I kept knocking the sliders all the way into black & white, and I'd be lying if I said it doesn't look good that way.

Tease

Poster Concept

Wrap

After a very stressful week, and one tense weekend, All Those Yesterdays is in the can.

I spent most of the week freaking out that it was going to rain on the day when we needed to shoot downtown at the Arch. Early on it looked like there was an 80% chance of rain on Saturday so I moved the exterior stuff to Sunday. As the week progressed the prediction held. As we began our day on Saturday, the day when there was a pretty good chance of a downpour, the skies remained clear. We went through all of our interiors that had been re-scheduled and watched the weather report change to a 70% chance of rain on Sunday.

At eight o'clock on Saturday evening it began to pour and I figured it had twelve hours to get it out of its system. When I went to sleep that night it was still coming down. Hoping for the best was the only thing we really had left.

On Sunday morning I awoke before dawn. Opened my window and tried to tell if it was raining or not. It didn't look like it, and hoping not to jinx anything, I got ready for our last day of shooting. As I waited for my garage door to open I took a deep breath, imagining a typhoon waiting for me. What I found, however, was the sun bursting across the sky after two weeks of fog.

Thankfully the sun crept back behind the gray clouds and we were able to start. At one point it began to drizzle, but not enough to send us running and it happened during the perfect spot of a rather long scene. By 11:30 a.m. we were nearly finished with our day at the Arch. Libby had just completed her first take of our last set-up, but 3/4 of the way through the third we were stopped suddenly, not by rain, but by a hulking park ranger who informed us that it was a federal offense to film at the Arch without a permit.

Knowing we had enough to walk away without a fight, I quickly made sure that we could go across the street to finish by the river. He informed me that yes, if we crossed the street, that would be fine, but it would still be a crime if we turned the camera back around and got the Arch or any part of the Arch grounds in the shot. 

An hour later we were lugging the equipment back up the stairs towards the parking lot, ready to head out to our final location. Just the thought of moving to a secure location made the whole process begin to feel as though it were coming to an end. We finished up with some strong performances and wrapped the location and the film.

All of that, and it never rained like they predicted it would.