After some juggling of schedules, we finally got Cory, Darin, Lily and Ken's jeep together in Rollinsford on Sunday, to film the Tollend Road scene.

When we'd first scouted out this road, it looked ideal - out of the way, no traffic. But we soon discovered a problem we hadn't anticipated: dogs. More specifically, people walking their dogs. Apparently, everyone for miles around considers this road to be a dog park. We couldn't believe how many cars started pulling into the area under the railroad trestle. They never let up, the entire time we were there.

Fortunately, the cars weren't actually driving down the road, because it would have been impossible to work around that. The road was only wide enough for one vehicle at a time. Once I'd gotten over my initial despair at the amount of people milling around, we were able to go ahead and film, anyway. The biggest concern was not flying around the corner with the jeep and running some poor dog over, but we managed without any mishaps.

Technically, we ran into some snags. The jeep had been in a collision a couple weeks earlier, so the passenger side door couldn't be opened, which made it difficult for me to get in and out. Also, the back seat couldn't be pushed all the way down, so laying Lily down flat was impossible. And in general, the space was just very cramped to film in, with a lot of background noise from the vehicle.

Lastly, it started snowing pretty heavily at times, so the camera lens kept getting streaked with melting snowflakes (otherwise known as "water").

But despite these minor problems, filming went relatively smoothly, and we got some great footage. When I edited it together on Monday, I was really happy with it. The acting is good, and dramatically I think it works really well. My half-assed attempt at digital effects didn't work out brilliantly, but hopefully that can be remedied.