It Starts With Paranoia

After shelving my door-opus "OPEN", I've decided to move into grittier ground with my adventure/drama short "The Road".

The idea began when I was leaving work one evening. I often park at our company's fenced in lot. Most parking downtown charges so I feel like I'm being a bit thrifty this way. The parking lot is a few blocks down, so I walk for a bit, but it's free, so...

At night, the lot is usually empty and my truck is all alone under the single street lamp, surrounded by darkness. I've often held my pocket knife in my hand just in case. There's always homeless people or people who have just hit the plasma place down the street. You never know.

So it starts from paranoia and goes into kidnapping, ransom and violence. And for this task, I've recruited two actors who I feel are opposites. I think that they both have talent which has yet to be really measured.

The guy in the green shirt is Quinn. I literally picked him off the street during the filming of "A Matter of Time." He's looking to dig himself deep into a good role. I don't know if this will be that role, but it's got definite possibilities.

The guy in the grey, button up was also in "A Matter of Time." His name is Mike. His role should have had more meat to it, but due to a loss of a character, it got trimmed. He's been in a lot of indie films around town and does voice over work. He helped me do the voice over work for my film.

I have a feeling that this film is going to be a real challenge, but I'm looking forward to it.

Since we don't have very many sets, I'm hoping this will be a two day shoot, but I'm prepared for four. I think that four days are much more realistic, but I think that working out the details for this film will give us all a chance to get the most out of a two day shoot.

We'll rehearse two days before we shoot and try to get as much blocking done before we get to the actual locations.

And then there's "CODE"...

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