With shooting wrapped it was time for post-production. First step: picture editing. Once again Geoff was editing it at home and I was going to visit for some long sessions. On the pilot we realized just how long everything takes after the picture editing is done so we got to work right away. After all, we needed to make our PAX deadline!
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So here we were, the final day of shooting and it presented us with the biggest challenges.  We had to shoot our outside scene and we still weren’t totally sure where we were doing that.  And then it wasn’t just back to the apartment for the rest of the day, we’d also scheduled another quick scene in the bedroom at the end of the day. To add to it all, we hadn’t been able to schedule the last rehearsal we wanted for this episode.  Basically we had our work cut out for us.
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Part of our production plan was to give ourselves much more time than we had on the pilot.  We figured an episode a day was doable but we also wanted to shoot some promos.  Our plan was to release the promos a few weeks in advance to try to score some viral marketing.  So we started day 2 with these promos, but it was a rough start.  The first promo was something I wrote and really liked but we haven't released.  There’s a ton of dialogue and I didn’t get a chance to rehearse any of it with the actress.  And let me just reiterate that she had a lot of dialogue.

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If you’ve ever worked on an indie film set you know that things are always going to take longer than planned.  A scheduled 12 hour day easily turns into 15.  That’s just the way it always is.  However we had a bunch of friends and other folks volunteering for 2 consecutive weekends and I promised them 12 hours days and damnit I wanted to keep my promise!  Spoiler: I did.  For the most part.
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