With the theoretical coming of Spring over a week ago (it's snowing outside, as I'm writing this), we've had to scramble to finish every shot that might need snow on the ground.

A couple weekends ago, we got Ximon, Darin, Cory and Mark together at Brookwood Pet Resort ( http://www.brookwoodpetresort.com/ ) to film a couple scenes outside the clinic. It was a little problematic, because it was bright and sunny. There was still snow around the parking lot, at least, but the sunlight was a bit too much of a contrast with the scene we filmed in Barrington a while ago, which is supposed to take place in between these two scenes. So, even though each scene came out great, the transition isn't terrific. I'm working on grabbing some shots that I can insert between them, which will hopefully smooth it out a bit.

This past weekend, we went down to Jamie Picon's in Methuen and filmed the scene in which Jonathan, Larry and Kelton discover the corpse of Jake Dunlap in the basement. Unfortunately, our corpse (Grant Garvin) was sick with the flu, and even I'm not cruel enough to make a sick man lay on a cold, damp cement floor. But Jamie happened to be hosting a gaming event upstairs, so his friend, Ben, stepped in to be our dead body for a couple hours. This worked out fine - we'll just have to do a couple close-ups of Grant in the burn make-up, when he recuperates.

Basically, we're done with outdoor Winter shots. We managed to get a quick couple shots of Jonathan being dropped off by the side of the road this weekend - I'd just about given up on that, so I was psyched that we got some snow this weekend, and were able to grab it. There are a couple scenes that are still technically "outdoor Winter scenes", but they are both at night, and both in cars, so I'm not terribly concerned about the snow melting, before we can film them. Besides, my cast is convinced I have some strange ability to make it snow, when I need it for a scene, so they made me promise to stop wishing for it.

This puts us at two-thirds done, and even though this may seem like a lot left, the last third was really the toughest part - waiting around for it to snow, but not so much that we couldn't make it to the locations, then freezing to death, while trying to keep the camera from being waterlogged. Except for the two mentioned above, all of the remaining scenes are either indoors, or written to be filmed on warm, sunny Spring or Summer days.

Well...with the possible exception of a brief scene involving a goat...