Phase 2 = OVER

Wow... that went fast. Hard to believe it, but it did. The days were extremely long sometimes, and sometimes I just wanted to pack up my things and leave... but it was completely and wholeheartedly worth it. The weeks of pre-pro prepared us as much as it could for what we've been doing since June, but even then, the amount of things I learned while filming were overwhelmingly better than anything in pre-production. You can spend all this time trying to prevent things from happening, from contacting people over and over, to trying to plan meals ahead of time and organizing paperwork, but the truth is, the minute crew call hits, all those plans go completely out the window.

I was extremely lucky, as the Producer, to be able to work with like-minded people in the Production core, or the "Cool Kids." You might not have known it (which is a good thing), but they all worked their asses off to try and prepare for each day of filming. I cannot even explain the amount of help Sam and Starla were to me throughout production, whether it was contacting actors/city officials/restaurants and collecting and distributing gas money, or sating the actors' requests and mediating between other crew members. Tara was a great help as a production-main crew ambassador of sorts, and we were able to work around all the problems.

I think a lot of other crew members have said a lot of the things I'd just be repeating here. The story was great to work on, and getting to actually make a film has and will be great, but it's really those connections you make while you're doing this thing for 2.5 months that make it all worth it. This crew has been so awesome. I am really stoked to get to work on the post- for this thing; according to Tim I'll be supervising the DVD stuff, which I'm really happy about because I'm a sucker for good DVD extras.

In short, this film has, and will be, ballin'. :P