01/16: A Flash Slideshow to celebrate our director of photography Peter J. Dowty:

Flash Slideshow

01/16: A Flash Slideshow to celebrate our producer David Groves:

Flash Slideshow

01/16: A Flash Slideshow to celebrate our director Neil McCay.

Flash Slideshow

1/16: September: One last scene for 2005.

We shot a scene back in old own Fairfax, in the basement of the bar Auld Shebeen's (or something like that). It was another fun scene with Emory Kristoff as Percy Groot, giving a spoken word presentation.


Percy Groot is one of two very eccentric characters in our script. He's extremely extroverted and is into street performance, spoken word, and otherwise outwardly audacious attention-grabbing behavior. Underneath it all, he's a very sensitive character fighting his own demons within.


A local businessman, (ok, ok he's a manure salesman) Ron Price ends up asking Percy to star in his low-budget horror thriller as the son of Lucifer. Believe it or not, our film was inspired by a true story.

Our Director of Photography, Pete, consults with the actor.

Our audience of extras was lured to the bar with promise of free beer.

Cheese!

Director Neil and DP Pete discuss amongst themselves.

Justin, one of our beloved production interns from Radford University, marks the scene with the slate.

This scene was a lot of fun to shoot that night. Or maybe I was just drunk.

Our assistant director, the lovely Jessica Hutsko, then a production assistant also hailing from Radford University.

I heard Pete looks like this when he first wakes up in the morning, too.

Hi Jessi!

01/15: update on " | | "

We filmed this back in September. It's a small scene in the beginning of " | | " where Ian is tying up some loose ends before he leaves his town for where he grew up.

He stops by his friend Charlie's apartment to give him his acoustic guitar. It was a pretty quick shoot, and it was at my place (Deanna's) in Virginia, so the commute to the set was a quick one.

We actually used Deanna's apartment interior as Alex's place, where he and Shelly have a little dialogue and then she freaks out in the bathroom. But, shh, don't tell!

We also filmed several scenes at George Mason University. Here, Jim Green is being interviewed on a local morning show as the mayor running for congress.

Our interviewer was a very talented lady and the scene was pretty fun, I think we got some good outtakes from the banter between Green's character and the reporter's.

There's Neil, the director, checking out the looks of things in the monitor. We even had to evacuate for a stupid fire drill in the middle of it, which was annoying.

Afterward, we went into a lecture hall to film the scene where Jim Green is being interrogated by the press. It's an intense scene of just him standing in a blaring light and all of us out in the audience firing questions at him and flashing cameras. We're off-camera, though, you don't see us at all.

Hee hee here's Jessi!

Neil is giving the actor some direction...

Director of cinematography Peter J. Dowty

Jason Hornick sticks his neck out as our Still Photographer.

Producer: David Groves in the back.