Of course, we couldn't angle for live-action without a trailer right. So, we planned it out and were gonna do all these VFX w/ destroyed environs, alien ships over the city, full post-apocalyptic baby! It was gonna be stellar! But remember that negative budget thing? So, here's what we shot sans FX.

In our opinion, she absolutely dropkicked the audition and did it again, on set, while I'm sure her core body temperature had dipped a degree or two. But judge for yourselves.

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All right. That's it for now. "Wait! YOU FORGOT GLORIA!!" you're certainly screaming at your phone or computer screen. Nope. I'll post her monologue in Pt. IX along with the teaser trailer we shot.

Thanks for following along! And my bank account has yet to recover from this shoot.

Magellan and Amelia...

Magellan...

Then we get our first monologue with Neely (not seen) recording Yeti.

We had to have parents ferry their kids back and forth to cars to keep them warm. Eventually, we got another generator and frigidly muddled through. First up, a few stills from the shoot. And I’ve apparently lost more than half of these.

This particular January day was the coldest day in Dallas, TX history. That may or may not be meteorologically accurate. But it was in the teens, our generator broke and we had all of these kids on set. I was like, welp, guess who’s getting sued for frostbite related medical expenses?

Gloria - Alex Michon

Magellan -Tyler

Amelia - Natalie

Yeti - Apphia Yu

My apologies to Tyler and Natalie for forgetting their last names.

Cinematography: Noe Medrano Jr.

Writer/Director: Me

Producers: Rod Douglas and Me

Location: An old silo a guy turned into his home.
Our casting search was held at the UT Arlington. We saw a lot of great talent but four stood out:

Okay. Six monologues just got cut to four. Gloria, Magellan, a new character, Magellan’s little sister, Amelia… uh… and Yeti. We good.

Straightforward. Simple. Let’s have some of the characters in a prison camp secretly transmitting their experiences over the old fiber network & a few not in the camp. Location, monologues, a few lights & thigh bone crew (not enough for a whole skeleton). But even that's over budget, you say.

We looked at our budget and decided we really needed to get higher paying jobs. As for the then and now of it all, we checked SAG budget tiers and went with… what’s five levels below Ultra-low? Okay. So, under that. With our bank accounts overdrawn, and car titles held, we crafted our story.

…what would that evolution look like for Solstice? I think it became pretty Prassa Beach water clear Solstice would absolutely translate to live-action. Now, we just had to figure out what story we wanted to tell, how to tell it and how much it was going to cost us to tell it. So, off we went.