Our final day at Blankspaces and our last day of filming before our hiatus. We have shot the first three episodes in their entirety and stolen a few additional scenes while we had the locations. I cannot believe how much we crammed into a few VERY short days!!! Today was like a retrospective with a variety of folks dropping by for pick-ups or re-shoots based on my first pass of assembling the scenes. Erik and I shared some screen time with Marty, Ryan, and Matthew. Everyone was incredible, positive and prepared…could not have run smoother.

I was sad to pack up our little cubicle, but it offered a great sense of completion and closure. Alex’s office location is WRAPPED! Now it’s time to bury myself in Final Cut and hopefully sell the show to someone who will give us enough money to fund the rest of the season…or just count my pennies and save up to finish the remaining scenes. Thank you to all the amazing talent that brought this project to life. We have just under 70% in the can and I can’t wait to sift through it all!

Today shouldn’t even count as a day!!! Cooper found an amazing bookstore for our flashback. Erik and his friend Scotty met us and we took a handful of passes at the one line scene. Erik literally just had to lay down and sleep for fifteen minutes while Scotty woke me up. Great location! Great scene. Easiest day ever! Wish we could have packed more in while we had everyone assembled, but with such a unique location, you gotta take what you can get.

After the New York trip, we took 2 weeks off for people to recover and for me to log and sync all the footage. Everything looks and sounds fantastic. I feel like a tool waxing poetic about my crew all the time…but they’re simply amazing! After sifting through the footage (and making a little money) we are ready to tackle some more unique locations.

Cooper made the find of the century with Silver Dream Factory sound stage. They have a perfect Jail cell for Hank to spend the night in. We spent barely a half day there and easily got everything we needed. Sadly, we lost Sean for the remainder of filming…because Felicia Day stole him, but I guess I will allow it…just this once Felicia! But Justin Blakely turned out to be a great replacement and didn’t skip a beat making sure everyone sounded as good as they looked. Before we left, we poked around some of the other sound stages – I think we’ll be back for more when we complete the season!

This morning was your typical gray New York day…but it wasn’t raining. I called Jim and we met at the Rockefeller Observation Deck. The tickets up to the top are probably one of the best investments I’ve made yet. Anyone living in or visiting New York must see the city from this angle as some point. You can literally see everything and it’s not touristy like the Empire State Building where you’re in line getting pushed and herded around – people linger and sit to take in the view. The footage we grabbed will help save any transitions that we struggle with in post production.

We headed back to the apartment and then the fates decided we needed to repeat our travel experience. Our car service was over an hour late. Normally we would have just found another option, but there was so much equipment, I had arranged a van to drive us. We arrived at the airport too late to check bags. Again, an amazing Virgin America staff member took most of my crew through security and got them on the plane. Sean and I stayed behind with all the luggage…until the next flight the next morning! I tell ya, I’m gonna need a vacation from my vacation!

We wrapped New York finally letting our Co-Producer, Cooper Harris do what she does best…be a leading lady! Cooper portrays Hank’s main love interest and today we are filming most of her footage! We have a spectacular apartment right off Washington Square Park which will act as her character’s apartment. You can tell she’s been waiting in the wings…totally prepared and ready to bring Julie to life.

She had some subway action as well, but her most fun location was outside the Courthouse in downtown Manhattan. It felt more like organizing a heist that a film shoot. Again, we got all our shots and crashed before our trip home tomorrow. I’m sad to leave, but I cannot wait to get back and start assembling all this great footage!