The production had some bumps along the road as all productions do.  With some missing sound pieces, a problem with the lense, and a few parking tickets later we wrapped around 12:30pm feeling really confident about the apartment and kitchen scenes.  

Today, on September 26th we shot the final scene for the pilot episode of The Dreamers outside of the movie theatre with Kelsey, Callie and Michael.  

We are officially moved onto post-production for the pilot episode and thank everyone who has donated so far to helping fund this incredible show written and directed by the amazingly talented Kelsey Jorissen.  Kelsey has worked her butt of scheduling, emailing, scheming, and memorizing to make this come to life.  As an Assistant Director I couldn't be more proud of a passionate hardworking director, and the cast and crew she leads.  

Stay tuned for updates about post-production and maybe you'll get to see some stills :) 

- Dane Ohlrogge, Assistant Director.  

Claude, our lighting expert, kept everyone looking sharp on camera as he tweaked and adjusted lighting for our footage. Daniel, our boom microphone operator, made sure we could hear all our lovely voices on camera. 

Our first day of prinicpal photography was exhilerating. We battled wind, thunderstorms, and some pretty nasty traffic, and yet we all arrived in time for our first take. 

Gas: 30$

The DePaul Art Museum was kind enough to let us in at 8:30am, so the alarms didn't go off. As much as my crew and I wanted to stage a museum heist, we knew filming was our priority today.

Location fee: 75$

On set we had the fabulous talents of Tosha Fowler and Will Von Vogt, two actors that I met through my alma mater at DePaul's Theatre School. They are both fiercly talented performers and bring the opening moments of THE DREAMERS in with a bang.

Talent: 50$

It's nearly impossible for me to pick a favorite moment from today, but if I had to it would be when we had our Director of Photography, Cisco Corral, being pushed in a wheelchair (otherwise known as a poor-man's camera dolley,) across the gallery for our tracking shots. Dane Ohlrogge, who worked second camera for us today, was wheeling Cisco back and forth about 30 times. I couldn't stop giggling, but we got the shot we wanted!

Director of Photography: 100$. Second Camera Operator: 50$

After we got the shots our hearts desired we realized we were famished! None of us had eaten because we were too excited to take a break. When we got that last shot for the day our tummies were rumbling. Hellooooo Trader Joe's Snackies.

Food: 50$

And when we got back to watch the footage we got today we saw we hit 416$ here on Seed and Spark.

Your contribution: Priceless.

Keep on spreading the word for THE DREAMERS. Help us break even on our next shoot, and even better help us reach our goal by Nov 1st!

Hello you wonderful people you,

Tomorrow we start principal photography.

Our cameras are packed, our lenses are cleaned, all of our shot lists have that just-printed sheen.

We've readied our actors, we've locked down our location, not to mention a stop at the gas station. 

In exactly 8 hours we will be all systems go. Those slates will be poised, those boom mics a loft,  a happy director, DP, and second cam op.

So in turn we thank you, our loyal supporters. Today we reached 1% of our goal, and I know we be 100% come November in full.