Hello, everyone!  It’s Sara.  Just wanted to let you all know that production wrapped this past weekend, and we have lived to tell the tale!  We have officially finished shooting on the OC’s first feature film!  Those from California and New York have had safe returns, and the rest of us are glad to be back at home in WNC.  We are settling back into our regular routine and preparing to begin the  editing process in a few days.  We will continue to add posts throughout the post-production process, but I still have a few videos left over from production, so watch out for those, too!  I’d like to send out a huge “thank you” to everyone who survived through production with us…We appreciate your help and cooperation, more than we can say.  Talk to you all again soon!

Well, we’ve managed to make it to the fourth and final week of production, which means that we must say “good-bye” to Jockey’s Ridge, and “hello” to Cape Hatteras!  We packed up all of our gear and set pieces tonight that we had hidden in various places around the park, and in true Jockey’s Ridge fashion, it was windy and rainy all day.  However, we are so appreciative of the park for letting us invade their big piles of sand for three weeks, and we can’t say “thank you” enough to the staff for being so patient for our crazy requests.  Even so, here are a few of the things we are most thankful for:

Thank you for letting us plug our batteries into your wall under the little table in the office.

Thank you for the light in the pavilion.

Thank you for the Polaris.

Thank you for your public restrooms.

Thank you for your sound-side parking lot.

Thank you for that truck-sized parking spot next to the pavilion. 

And for one last “hurrah,” I leave you with a little taste of what life was like in the dunes.  Basically, for one of our locations, we had to lug our gear over more than 1/2 mile of sand. It took about 10 minutes to walk the distance, and carrying our equipment is never easy, even in normal circumstances.  (For example…a large generator.)  And of course, no crew member ever walked the trail there and back only once a day.  The good news is…we all lived to tell the tale!  Happy trails, to you.