It’s Saturday morning, and as I’m writing this, I’m on a conference call which will probably go on for hours. This upcoming week, we are shooting our big money scene where we are shooting in the Toledo Mudhens stadium, doubling it for a Major League stadium, and shooting a Home Run Derby which is the climax of the entire film. For a little movie like ours, this is a major undertaking.

We are shooting and crewing out of Detroit, and now we have logistically pick up the entire cast, crew, and equipment, move them to Toledo, shoot in a minor league stadium to double for a major league one, shoot half of the third act in 3 days, then pick back up and move back to Detroit. If that sounds like a logistical nightmare, you would be correct.

Baseball is hard to shoot for many reasons. A major one being that your players on the field are so spread out that coverage is a big issue. Now most of the baseball we are shooting is on Little League fields, which are sort of containable. But on a minor league field, it’s huge. So shot lists, storyboards, and a huge amount of planning is the only way we are going to get all of the story points we need to.

So we wake up, get on calls, and keep working through the weekend. Will it be successful? I think so. I wouldn’t be making this if I didn’t think it was going to be.