Hold My Beer Made The News!

Specifically, Vancouver, WA's very own local paper, The Columbian.

Big thanks to reporter Scott Hewitt for the terrific write-up, and photographer Taylor Balkom for taking some great pictures at our Pearson shoot (the one above isn't his, it's ours. Didn't want to step on any copyright toes). If you subscribe to The Columbian, you can read the online version of the article here. And I know you're a subscriber, right? Right?

Day Six Is A Wrap!

Day Six of filming - and principal photography in general - for Hold My Beer is officially a wrap!

Huge thanks go out to Hailey and Xavier from Pearson Air Museum and to all the wonderful people who participated as extras, braving the heat and the tedium (spoiler alert: filmmaking is not as glamorous as it looks) while helping to make the afternoon a resounding success.

Also, the publicity machine for the film is charging up! Check out this article in the Summer 2024 issue of Spectrum Life Magazine, and also the official Hold My Beer website.

Now, on to post-production...

Day Five Is A Wrap!

Day Five of filming for Hold My Beer was a success!

Yes, we braved the triple-digit temperatures and managed to get all the shots we needed. Fortunately, both locations that we were at for the day were nicely air-conditioned: my house, where we recorded ADR ("automated dialogue replacement" - another odd filmmaking term, because nothing about the process is automated) tracks for both Days Five and Six, and Bader's Beer & Wine Supply, where we shot one scene plus part of a montage.

As usual, our cast and crew did a fantastic job, and big thanks goes to Quintin Murchison, owner of Bader's, for graciously allowing us to use his store.

Up next: Day Six, the final boss battle!

Even More Location Scouting

More recon missions! This time, my band-slash-production team took a field trip to Bader Beer and Wine Supply in preparation for our upcoming Day Five of filming for Hold My Beer.

Of course, we've been there before (or in our drummer/brewmaster Kyle's case, many, many times before), but this time was to take establishing shots of the exterior, buy some grain to be used as a prop, and to map out a part of the scene that will be taking place there.

Stay tuned for more updates!