Headlights, Camera, Action!

but we needed a good night scene in the woods. Los Angeles offers beautiful landscapes, but lacks the dense, green forests of the east coast—West Virgina enter stage left. After traveling for hours, making layovers, and dealing with getting our gear through airport security we finally made it to the quaint town of Eleanor, WV. There was nothing there. There couldn’t be more than 1,000 people in the whole town, which is weird for me because more people than that attend premier events. I told myself we were only going to be there for a four days. I grew up in Massachusetts so I thought I could take four days roughing it. The first two days of the shoot went a lot slower than I thought. We had a few locals helping us out—showing us the area, moving our gear, operating some equipment. At the risk of sounding like a pompous jerk, I must say that they were complete