Updates...

Worked with a few new actors on Saturday. Bruce McIntyre whom I met at Fangoria Weekend of Horrors in June 2009, Keith McMahon and Keith Dunn, both whom I am connected with through Facebook (on a side note: I feel Facebook and other social networking sites are great for connecting with like minded people and rallying together people to make movies, music and other forms of art).

Keith McMahon arrived at my house a few minutes prior to the train arrival of Keith Dunn and Bruce and when we picked them up we went to get lunch and then came back to the house to shoot scenes of the Senator being strangled by Big Bruce.

Shortly after we finished the scenes there, we moved to the compound to get visuals of the Senator being killed by Big Bruce.

Shortly after that we shot the scene of Keith McMahon on the phone with Chris (which we had shot the day earlier). We did many different takes - if it's one thing I have learned about the process of making films it's to always get as many takes and shots as you can. I made sure to get both hand-held shots as well as shots on the tripod.

The 35mm lens adds to the effect because you have this interesting background and the talent in front of the background and the background is blurry - which is what a lot of filmmakers look to get with their films, especially if they're working on low to no budget films like we have been for the past few years. I also think its preference. Stanley Kubrick had mostly wide angle shots in "The Shining" where you saw the whole atmosphere rather than a shot with a blurry background - yes, there were shots like that but most of the shots in the film were wide because the hotel itself was a character to the story.