Wrap on Principal Photography

Today was our last day of shooting. We will not be shooting anything new unless we need to do pickups. It's extremely relieving to have done.

The shoot this morning ran from crew call at 4:30 until we wrapped at 11:15. It would have been exhausting under normal conditions. But with limited sleep and an unpredictable environment, stress levels were running high.

We got some good shots but the mall, which doesn't "open" until 10 am was allowing people in off the street starting at 7 am. As a result, our audio and several scenes were compromised by people walking by, around and through our scenes.

Audio was the worst. We may have to try to ADR some of it, but the young boy playing "Kevin" is not necessarily a strong candidate for such a challenging assignment. We will have to work with what we have I guess. But we didn't expect that we'd have to compete with so much background noise until much later in the day when we were shooting scenes where the audio wasn't important (cutaways and dialogue free scenes were saved for last with that intention). This is likely to be the most difficult part of the entire process for me and my sound partner Trevor.

Anyways, we have some pics from on set that I hope I can get up this week some time. I also am hoping we can throw some of our behind the scenes footage together to post up here as well. A rough timeline is due to the EP's on Wednesday so we will see our story told in full then I guess.

Keep checking back regularly to stay up to date on the latest as we head into post production.