About the production

When I sat down to start writing the script, it was under the circumstances that the project was going to be completely self funded (let alone by someone who lives in the most expensive city in the country) therefor it needed to be as budget friendly as humanly possible. This spawned a challenge, can I tell a compelling story in one single blank room? From that idea, and the knowledge I’d only be able to fit about 4 actors in said room, spawned a script sculpted and inspired by those limitations.

We shot the whole film in one day with a cast of 4 and total crew of 7 myself included, made up entirely of my generous roommates and coworkers. The majority of the budget went to feeding 11 people 3 meals each including snacks, as well as renting the sound equipment (shoutout James for the setup) so luckily props/costumes/set expenses were extremely low. We shot in an empty room in my apartment in Brooklyn as we just had a roommate move out leaving the space vacant.

It’s easier for me to explain what I DIDN’T do in the production of this film. Day of I had someone running sound, an assistant director, and 4 PAs, aside from that all responsibilities were mine, including every element of post production and editing. The score was a particular challenge, as unfortunately I play no instruments and can’t read music. I had to resort to using 10-15 second royalty free instrument samples. The entire score took 64 different samples layered, looped, slowed, and pitch changed to imitate an orchestra.

It was a wonderful stretching of my creative muscles, but needless to say I'm excited for my next film to have more than one room.