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Director Chase Bailey is discussing this shot with Visual effects supervisor, Brian Meanly. 
Director Chase Bailey working out the scene where a hearse drives through the scene and appears to “wipe” all the people off the street except for Bailey. This is one of the scenes that requires Visual Effects in Post Production.
On a previous post, Brian Meanly, Visual Effects Supervisor, answers questions about Visual Effects for the film.
Thomas Bailey, son of Chase Bailey and author of the backstory posts here on the Crooked Lane blog, took some footage of the challenges the crew faced in filming even the simplest shots on the streets of Portsmouth. Trying to get the film complete in a low-impact way often caused interesting delays like this one:
Van McLeod is the Commissioner of NH Cultural Resources. It’s his job to enhance the cultural resources NH already has, and to bring more to the area. He tells us a bit about what that and the film location means to him, and about his relationship to the film and friendship with Chase Bailey.
Leslie and Amy from Film POP! and Chase Bailey from Left Bank Films (Crooked Lane) are gathering together the candid photos and any candid video footage from the making of the film. As you know, we want to really bring people behind the scenes of this film (without giving away the plot, of course!), and that includes the viewpoint of the cast, the crew, the extras and anyone who stopped to watch and be part of the fun.
If you have photos or video from any day of the shoot, we’d love to see them and possibly include them. We’d also love to hear and include your story from that day. We’ve interviewed many of the cast members and crew members, but we also want to know what you liked about being an extra, or about the experience of watching a movie get filmed from the sidelines.
How do you get these things to us? Well, if you have already posted them somewhere online, you can:
1) Leave a comment here with a link to where you posted the photos or video
2) Put a link back to this blog in the video or in the description of the photos so people who find Crooked Lane from your content can then find out more about the film by coming here
3) Tell us your story – you can do that in the comments of this post, or you can send it to us with the correct links by email (we’ll tell you how in a moment)
And if you haven’t posted the photos or video online anywhere yet, you can:
1) Leave a comment here letting us know you’ve got content and will be sending it
2) Email it to us, with your story and a little info about you and why you were there
Leslie is going to be the main point of contact for this content gathering project, and her email is here. You can also send your content to Amy by emailing her here. Make sure to link to or reference this post prominently in your email so we know to allow your email through the spam filter!
I can’t wait to see the photos and video everyone took during filming!
I love this video of David and Brian. They had this quirky sense of humor the entire week of filming. They are talking a bit about sound mixing in a downtown location, and the noise of the RED Camera (and by “they” we mean David):
Chase talks about the weather, actors, script changes, and other challenges of film making in answer to your questions.
Keep those questions coming!
During a delightful (and mysteriously sunny) Sunday afternoon on the outdoor deck of the Oarhouse in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, I sat down with Chase Bailey, writer and director of Crooked Lane, over a light lunch and asked him about the inspiration behind the movie.
He leaned forward with a slight smile and breathed sharply through his teeth. “Ah, that,” he said at last. “A few years ago, I remember running across this remote graveyard in Brookfield, New Hampshire. I was with my wife and brother-in-law at the time, and they told me [that] this was one of the ‘unmarked’ cemeteries. I asked them why they weren’t marked, and they told me it was because there were no bodies buried there.” A slight wind picked up off the glassy surface of the Piscataqua, momentarily chilling the exposed skin of my forearms. I shivered briefly. No bodies?
No bodies. “I have now seen four of these cemeteries in various remote locations, and I began to hear this phrase – what was it again? – oh, yes … Les Cimetieres des Abbatus. Cemeteries of the Culled, is what it roughly translates to. I naturally began investigating.”
I asked him if the Internet was any help. “Funnily enough,” he said, “I couldn’t find much information on the web, but by talking to old-time residents whose roots stretch back generations, I found that these gravestones were put there for missing people. Missing people, all from the same families – and they all turned out to be women and children! Something was taking place in these families, [something] was just decimating [them].”
He sat back in his chair and took a sip of his wine. “Especially,” he said, “the women and the children. And that’s what piqued my curiosity and helped me start the process of writing Crooked Lane.”
… to be followed, again, shortly …
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