Outtakes & Behind the Scenes
Outtakes and behind-the-scenes clips hand selected from the hundreds of hours of data that went into making Lights in the Old Fort.
A Box or a Crate
While writing, we always had to strike a balance advancing the story through dialogue without just describing each object in the scene to each other. How many different things could a square shaped silhouette of a square be?
A Jolly Tune in His Heart
Anything can happen when we recorded live run-through sessions at Pettitshire...
Brotherly Shorthand
We eventually knew the dialogue so well that we developed a short hand to speed read throughs.
Options
Patty is the most interesting woman in the world and yet has just one line in the program. Here Valeri gives a few options
Who's in the Van
We had originally written Dr. Amsler as an elderly Austrian man, but the role ended up being female. Some of the original lines didn't translate very well after the switch
Let's Tell the Tale Twice as Fast
Timing Anthonio and Dathaniel's gushing simultaneously for the first time. The second take was used in production
It's Rudimentary, my dear Dathaniel!
We tried to underscore important details frequently throughout the story to help ensure that listeners wouldn't get lost. We might have over done it a few times
Pettit Bros. Direct
Dan and I envisioned Nick and Linda Pettit as playing off each other along the lines of Nick and Nora Charles in The Thin Man. Alex Fleig capably takes direction before his scene
Scene Marker
We figured out some tricks to distinguish session takes. This helped jump to the correct location with in hours of data in the raw audio track