"September Push" Index posting...

The past few days down at Rancho Sordo Mudo were NON-STOP ...

DAY 1	DAY 2
DAY 3	DAY 4
DAY 5	DAY 6

Day 6

The race cars!

Pro drivers & stuntmen from Hollywood showing up and rally car action on a private closed course ... what more could you want?













First up was scouting the track & picking the angles.





Then, checking out the cars...






Liz & Eddie got prepped...





Then the cameras started rolling!










Close quarters to the action...

Day 5

Day 5 was all about water. From making rain to trying to drench dogs & the inside of Surburbans, day 5 was all wet.















First up was the rainmaking truck:





Fire-chief Eddie would be our rainmaker for the day.








Josefina's hiking scene was next up.
Director & D.P. indicating things are going well:









T.C. setting up the next water shot.








Luke & Eddie demoed proper water filling technique:

Day 4

Day four would be spent nearly 100% of the time at Rancho Sordo Mudo. Shots included filming of classrooms, dorms, and the property itself.





The day started with meeting a group of three cyclists from England who happened to ride by RSM. They were in the midst of a ride from Canada to Argentina!



Then it was off to start filming in the first of the classrooms.









Much of the process involves adjustments to the lighting, setting up dolly tracks, and then coordinating the action itself.








Filming in the boy's & girl's dorms:












One of the more difficult tasks was getting the talent to not look at the camera. Certain cast members came up with some inventive ways to bend the rules...

The end of another good day.

Day 3

Day 3: Traffic Control

From herding cows to shutting down a Mexican highway, day three of the September Push went as smoothy as one could hope for ... at least as smoothly as herding cows and shutting down major highways can go...

T.C. & Dave were scoping out the shots...



The talent was getting warmed up...

Set was ready...

The cows, while late, performed admirably.

THEN IT WAS OFF TO CLOSE MEXICO HIGHWAY 3!

Our highwaymen were at the ready...




Camera truck (courtesy of Steve Sundown) was loaded & ready.





The bus hits the highway...

TIME FOR THE HIGHWAY CRANE SHOT

Highly successful day of filming.

Day 2

Day 2 began with a very early start ...

Cast & crew departed for Ensenada around 6am. Unsure of what the day would hold as we would be filming in a recently refurbished park (very popular), on a Sunday, on the same day as the Mexican Independence Day parade...




First location would be the park in Ensenada where Ed's first encounter with the deaf in Mexico took place. This "chance" encounter with a deaf shoe-shine boy made the decision for Ed to move his family to Mexico.




The crew was doing their thing...










Next up was filming of the phone call ...
Scouting the location & setup...




T.C. working the phone call shot.





Following the phone booth, the crew moved to two separate storefront locations - one to film the inside and one to film the outside of the place where Ed Jr. & Isabel Everett "officially" met after their first encounter years prior.









T.C. setting up inside the store.

Day 1

September's "Big Push"

In the free flowing traffic of Southern California's pre-dawn freeways, three vehicles and around 10 people made their way four hours south to Rancho Sordo Mudo. Over the next week, around 20 cast and crew would converge on RSM to tackle a very ambitious production schedule...





Lighting & locations play a key role in most any filming production, and RSM delivers in spades...

T.C. & Dave were soon prepping the first scenes for the day.





As Luke would later mention, these were scenes recalling a very dire time and were difficult to watch even as they were filmed...

Rancho Sordo Mudo Pre-Production Trip

On August 31st, a group of Hearing Everett volunteers, braved crossing the border during a civil uprising and temperatures well over 100 degrees, to spend 2 days at Rancho Sordo Mudo preparing for the important September 14-20th production shoot. A special thanks to Kyle Gilbertson, a Biola University film student, who made the trip down with a group of guys twice his age. Enjoy the pics taken during the 2 day set design, location scouting and casting projects.

Changing the Ranch Bunk House into the 1970 Shelter

"The Hawk" Meeting On How To Start Tractor

Set Designer - Steve Sundown - Barking Orders

Part of the "Cast"

The "Three Set Building Amigos"