That's a Wrap!

Whew! Another 10 hours gone and another short film made. This is Murder on the Redwood Express. There is a miniature scale steam locomotive that runs in Tilden Park in the East Bay hills. We take Stella there all the time and she loves it, and I have been wanting to shoot something there for a while since it's an amazing location with lots of great visual potential. The 3 ingredients that we needed to have in this film were something purple, a broadcast and time elapse. We added our ingredients to the script that we already had worked out and headed for the hills to shoot. The folks who run the train couldn't have possibly been any cooler. They offered us special access to places where we could shoot and were very accommodating all around. And the folks who were there to ride the train were also very enthused to be around a real film shoot. The surprise that I mentioned in my previous post is who did our music. I would like to thank Mr. Trent Reznor for putting together his latest album of instrumental soundscapes, for releasing it under a creative commons license that allowed us to use it, and for running his own online film festival for people to make videos with his music. The tracks we used really helped set the tone of the film. We had a great and talented cast and crew for this one. These folks work very well together under a tight deadline, and I love working with them! So, here it is...