T Minus 1 Day — Here We Go Over the Edge of the Cliff…..

Okay — we’re REALLY up and grinding now. Last day before we start shooting so everyone is activated and we are receiving the equipment, the trailers, props. set dressing — all that stuff is being delivered; the pre-lighting of the sets is starting to happen; we had our final pre-shoot meeting with the production [...]

Michael Ironside and “Catch A Taxi Productions”

by Michael D. Sellers
As many of you know, Michael Ironside will be joining the cast of Way of the Dolphin for the Los Angeles shoot.  He’ll be playing the role of Captain Elias Blaine.  I haven’t spoken to him yet and I’m not sure he’ll remember me (I’m almost certain he won’t), but we’ve met [...]

Getting Started (Again)

Getting ready to shoot in LA is so much easier than shooting at a distant location. Here, there is just about everything you need within ten minutes of our offices in Burbank. So we got started for real today with a meeting of myself, producer Susan Johnson, and production supervisor (himself a producer in [...]

18 June Log (Updated at 5:40PM)

Updated 5:40 PM
Spent the last two hours on the phone with the 1st AD going over the detailed production schedule. For anyone not familiar — this is a very intricate process in which every scene is broken down into a “strip” and then all the strips are assembled into a “board” (kind of a [...]

Figuring Out the Boats and Other Dolphin Stuff

Yesterday some time was spent working on the “picture boat” situation (i.e. boats that will appear in the movie, as opposed to working boats that will be camera platforms, etc). The story involves depiction of elements of the US Navy’s Marine Mammal Program so we’re trying to “get it right” — correct boats, work uniforms, etc.

Welcome to an Experiment That May Become Mission Impossible

Welcome to my experiment at trying to “liveblog” my way through the making of “Way of the Dolphin” — a film I’m directing and exec producing this summer in the Bahamas.