Portrait of a Memory

I have to say that I had a FANTASTIC time on this shoot. Joanna did a great job! (loveee herrrr!) So we shot at our apartment. oh my. It was FULL of equipment. The first two days were fun, getting to know everyone (over a game or 5 of Mario Kart). We met our future neighbors (Cory, Eric and Tommy) and are pretttty cool guys. Looking forward to having them around!

The main actors are super fun. We all got along great. We shot on the balcony, the front door area and downstairs by the garage. I wasn't there until later the second day because of work :(



The next place we shot at was a loft near Universal Studios, and WOW it was sooooo nice! The loft was owned by some famous british guy, who by the way was falling down drunk when he got home and we were wrapping. The highlight of the night was when we filmed Reanna's breakdown scene. She was amazing. Seriously. And I just have to say that David did a FANTASTIC job as the D.P.

The next day of shooting was the park and Dan's house for the funeral scene. The park was interesting, (with our homemade gravestone and the lawnmowers) but fun. The best part was definitely when we were filming the "home movies" part. David handed the camera to Reanna and then let Tommy try it too. Needless to say, it was a hilarious experience, and i'm definitely glad all the funny stuff was recorded for us to watch later. :) Then we headed to Dan's for the funeral scene. (Thanks Dan!) That went well. I had to be background in the scene, hopefully I won't be seen! Jo's dad was in it, dressed very spiffy playing Daniel's dad.


The last day was really cool. We woke up and left by 5:30am so we could make it to Venice beach before the sun was up too high. It was really fun, except when we had to lug equipment 15 thousand miles across the sand. I've got tons of sand in my car now, fantastic. After that we headed over to the school to shoot the scenes in Dr. Michael's office. It was interesting trying to shoot in such a small space, but it worked out!

Here's some more production stills.

Love this picture of Neil , who plays Daniel

David Van Eman, D.P. and Joanna Chrost, Director

Neil and Reanna (who plays Natalie)

Joanna talking to her fantastic actors

Cory Peterman (who looks pretty tired)

Annie Rader, the magnificent A.D.

Shooting in that great loft.

Eric Vasquez pulling focus.

Tommy Hughes, looks super excited to be holding an expensive camera.

Theres no sleeping on set, boys!

5am is the perfect time for a beer after a 10hr shoot.