Andrew, Hilah and me on the green screen. (photo by Liz McCormick)
I guess it’s kind of customary for people to write a year-end wrap-up. I’ll do my best, but 2009 was an incredibly strange year for me. I feel like I accumulated at least 5 years worth of life experience in the past 12 months.
Last day of the Austin shoot. (Photo by Liz McCormick)
The first few months of the year were spent on
pre-production for The Spider Babies. Script polishes, storyboards, schedules,
costume design, casting, production design,
location scouting, etc. Regardless of how things eventually turned out, I remain incredibly proud of the team we were able to put together for this project. The cast, crew and creative team were all top-notch. It was truly my dream team.
Shooting at the Scoot Inn in Austin, TX. (Photo by Kyle Terry)
However, early in the year we began suffering a series of setbacks that started with our leading man getting hit by a car and culminated in losing the warehouse where we were going to build all the sets a few days before we were supposed to shoot. This meant we had to completely rework the shooting schedule. You can read about all of this in previous posts, so I won’t get into it again. I’m just going to give you some highlights from the rest of the year.
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I’ve been working with Big Ol’ Tire Fire over the past few weekends on a new short film. If all goes well, you’ll be able to check it out at SXSW2010. Here are a few behind-the-scenes photos.
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