I often forget that I am shooting a feature film in my apartment, surrounded by neighbors who are not shooting feature films in their apartments. “Dude, why the fuck are you banging on my wall at 12:30am? Trying to sleep? Don’t be a pussy. I’m making art.” That’s the thought that jumps into my head when my actor is singing his guts out and the angry pounding begins. This being both a horror movie AND a musical you can probably imagine just how many weird sounds are floating through my walls. I’m surprised the police haven’t arrived yet. Lot’s of screaming, both argumentative as well as murderous. Door slamming,  high note hitting good times. But I can’t blame my neighbors for getting a little grumpy, especially this late into the game. I will just have to get creative with t he schedule and not do such dramatic scenes so late at night.

Weekend 6 was good. A few bumps in the road but nothing unclimbable. What truly amazed me this weekend was the fact that we shot scenes that occur in the climax of the film. I was looking back over my storyboards remembering all the act 1 and 2 stuff we shot. Seemed like a lifetime ago. Here we are on the fast track to the finish line.  There are 3 more weekends of production and all are scaled down to just 2 days instead of 3. The final weekend of production will be a bit of a treat. We are renting a house in the desert to shoot the secondary story line of the film. It involves heavy make-up effects and lots of fun bits. So our tiny crew will finish up this movie and then crack open a few bottles of celebratory suds and rock the desert proper. It will also be the first drinks Shannon and I have had in the 2 and a half months we will have been at this. For those just joining us, we vowed not to touch a drop of booze until production was wrapped (we really like booze, so this is big for us). We look greatly forward to accomplishing our first feature together and then tipping back our first drink together in ages. The moment will be sweet.

I’m so excited for the world to see this movie. It still has a long journey ahead of it before that happens, but when it does I promise you all something unique, fun, scary and heartfelt. Long live the independent spirit!

Much love

Travis

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