Last week we had a night shoot out at Dane’s Body Shop shooting some footage for Battle Bold. A group of friendly athletic folks of all shapes and sizes came out to share their techniques for the cameras and show off some of Battle Bold’s lineup. I almost felt bad for them as they had to basically do a workout in front of the camera repeatedly while Christine Chen and David Lackey both captured footage.

After we got through the first 3 days of production, the last 2 days became less stressful. This is the stage that I like to call “Meh.” Basically, after the initial shock factor of dealing with intense work schedules and a variety of temperamental problems, the entire team became so used to (and tired of) solving or accepting these problems that by the last two days any problem ceased to become a big deal. It is going to rain in 2 minutes? Cool. It is pouring outside? Cool. The data dump froze again right before an incredibly emotionally difficult scene to shoot? Okay.

Making “Two Roads” proved to be one of the more difficult projects I’ve undertaken, but it was also one where I learned a lot about myself as a director, an actor and an artist. I couldn’t be certain that the vision that Christine and I had formed in our heads would actually translate into a good film, but somewhere in the first day of shooting I realized that, yes! We were indeed, shooting something very good and I am proud of what we accomplished. With our dedicated skeleton crew and a handful of actors, we pushed ourselves to the limit because we love to create compelling films and I know we did just that.

You’d think what you’d remember the most about working on a film would be the actual working part. What happens between action and cut though becomes quite a blur after you’ve gone through the scene a few times. My memories mostly consist of what happened during the lulls between setup and filming, and the rides out to set. Is that to say I forgot everything that happened during filming? Not at all.