Will here. This is my first attempt at blogging, so bear with me.

We are now over a month into the on-and-off production of Live Ones, and I hate to contradict what Nathan wrote in our last post, but God Damn this film's been hard to make. We're extremely limited by our schedules- we have a cast and crew who all work full-time jobs on different schedules, some of whom are out-of-state. And add to that the fact that the film is explicitly set in the summertime, but being made in the fall and winter. So please ignore the dead corn and yellow leaves...

Between hypothermic conditions shooting on Lake Michigan, equipment breakdowns, miscommunications, crappy weather, stress, and rushing to shoot more locations each day than is physically possible, I have to say that this film is completely exhausting me.

But I can't shake the thought that everything we've had to deal with in the shoots is completely worth it. This is the best script of David's I've ever read (and I have an entire file full of unproduced David Orr Scripts). It's silly and goofy like some of the other stuff we've made, but I feel like Live Ones has an underlying emotional weight and sense of purpose that I haven't seen in anything else he's written. And at the end of each exhausting weekend of shooting, I watch the footage we've collected and all the nuance and level of detail in the script comes through perfectly in the performances. That's what keeps me going with it from week to week.

It feels like the elements have been aligning against us to stop this movie from being made, but as long as we actually make it through everything and get it done, and I'm confident that we will, it's going to be fucking good.