Day 13 is the last full day at the Ward house with some great interaction at the breakfast table, car scenes and some night time tension to finish it off. Then Day 14 we move outdoors to a secluded location northwest of Austin which is completely covered with bluebonnets.

Now that we are about halfway into production, we have settled into a rhythm and are grinding away to create the piece of cinema we had always envisioned.

I felt like doing something a little different today as we remember how the next two production days went. Since humor can help smooth things out a bit, I thought I’d shoot out some possible thought bubbles for the cast and crew in these pix. Have fun with it!

The troops should be refreshed and ready to grind out this next week at a new location. We checked out several houses in the Lockhart area, but instead found a great one right in Hyde Park, a historic area of Austin. Turns out, Byron, a friend of ours and a fellow filmmaker, had the perfect place for our needs.

Day Five Create a 1959 gas station, populate it with vehicles and people of that era, and then shoot it in a dramatically believable way - that’s the ticket. Oh yeah, that was our goal for the day. Could be a stretch for a low budget indie, but we were game for this...

Sometimes ‘simplifying’ might mean compromising, which can happen on indie films. Day Three almost didn’t happen for a couple of reasons and Day Four had it’s share of challenges as well. Just normal days on an indie.

The day had finally arrived … the first day of production. Yes, this first day is always special, a real high you’d like to ride all the way through production. You can feel, sense, and even at times, see all the potential this film could be.