Pre-production

With a skeleton crew, each of us was treated to multiple hyphens in our titles.  The writer-director is a storyboard artist, who also builds props, and is now a producer.  The other producer is an actor and editor, and teaches at a film school, and so on. 

The storyboards and script shaped production.  Even though they vary from the final cut, their influence is clear.

Some shots were translated into photo-boards, fitting the drawings to our locations, or to test visual effects.

 
One official tap handle was reproduced in plastic to create a row of them, so the main character could surmise he was in a heavenly bar.