production diary

On Set for The Joke

"Walters, puppyish, is appealing as a manchild"

- ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

Well. I am in upstate New York. A place called Hunter Mountain. It’s a ski resort with mountains and snow and now actors and cameras and crew people. The Joke is a short based off a chekov short story of the same name. We drove up yesterday. Meeting at 6am! Early early morning. We drove …

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The Penny: One more day of filming (for Brian and me)

"Walters, puppyish, is appealing as a manchild"

- ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

The Penny: One more day of filming (for Brian and me) Sitting on set, inside. All week has been interior scenes which has been a woderful contrast to the bitter cold of weeks past. Apparently in film there is no comfortable temperature… You are either having your toes fall off from frostbite OR suffering from …

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The end of the movie (but not the end of the shoot)

"Walters, puppyish, is appealing as a manchild"

- ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

It’s roughly 3:30 in the morning, been shooting for hours, hyped up on multiple types of caffiene, hanging out at the final location. They have split up the filming of the last scene into three nights (late nights!) of filming. We have already filmed the beginning, tonight (this morning) is the end, and Monday will …

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Week Two: Catch-Up

"Walters, puppyish, is appealing as a manchild"

- ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

Kyle talking: Sorry it has been a few days since an actual post. We have been on a surreal shooting schedule all week. Basically shooting from 11pm til 5 or 6 in the morning. When your morning jog happens during sunset, you sort of wonder what the heck is going on. A couple things that …

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Week 2 Begins!

"Walters, puppyish, is appealing as a manchild"

- ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

Brian: ‘Bout to get started on Week 2 and we’re both pretty excited. It’s a 10pm start, and we’ll be getting right into shooting the first of the final scenes. Who knows how late we’ll go (wanna take bets?) but we’ve been off 4 days and have watched ten movies (son of rambow and reservation …

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Shooting: Day Three or the shoot from the black lagoon

"Walters, puppyish, is appealing as a manchild"

- ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

So it is 5 in the morning right now. Driving home from a twelve hour shoot that can only be described as the bitter winter. My kyphone said it was 30 degrees which isn’t bad… But you add in the wind and that fact that the location was ten feet away from a lake. The …

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The Penny: Sooooo cold

"Walters, puppyish, is appealing as a manchild"

- ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

Snow, awesomeness and wildlife Hey! Brian here. Last time we posted I mentioned a flurry… a “flurry” of snow. Well. That didn’t last long. See, we were sitting in a car, during a scene where our characters pull over onto the side of a deserted road, and in the far distance, to the left, we …

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Shooting: Day One

"Walters, puppyish, is appealing as a manchild"

- ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

Shooting: Day One Location: sidewalk outside Temperature: 32 and windy! Kyle: so we got up really really early. What I learned was that I need to wear more layers when I go running in the arctic tundra (Wisconsin). Last night we were rehearsing a car scene. I had the idea of using the coffee table …

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