And that's a wrap

     This week- er, month in DarkTriforceFilms, we have officially wrapped on "principle photography" for BACON! (and that is why this is a special Monday edition of The Report!) After a month of balancing schedules, driving from location to location, hot dogs, and repeating bits, we have officially finished filming the next installment in the Buddy Cops universe! It was one of our biggest projects yet, probably coming in right after Buddy Cops 3, and it was a ton of fun to do! To start, I have to give a big shoutout to Woody who was the lead of the entire thing, even down to originally having the idea for what the series would be! Due to the ol' day job, I wasn't able to be on set as much as I'd like, so Woody did a lot of the directing and general organization for Bacon, and he did a great job! Even with the days we were behind schedule or had to switch up what was being filmed due to people not being able to make it, we still managed to wrap everything up on the scheduled last day.
     And following that, another big thanks to the star himself, Cameron Kaercher, our Chief Bahcon, for being so great to work with in everything we ever have him in! Chief Bahcon wouldn't be the character he is without Cameron, and without that this series would've never have happened! Alongside Cameron, we had of course all of our returning cast, John as Anonymous, Emily as Kyra, Julio as Governor Brekvist, and of course Charles and Alexis filling out the universe as a variety of extras, and this doesn't even cover the people who weren't there for photos like Kip, Carlota, and more! Big thanks to everyone for coming back and being just as excited to continue this story as we were! 

     We also had new additions to the Buddy Cops universe, and just to DarkTriforceFilms in general as well! That includes Heath, who plays the late Jules Bahcon, and Hunter, who plays a character I won't name in fear of Woody yelling at me for spoilers! Both of them were great in their respective roles, and fit in very quickly on the set of a DarkTriforceFilms production. We got both Heath and Hunter on the production after our first ever audition process which I believe I talked about slightly in one of the other editions of The Report - Bacon was full of new things for us, and that was the first of them. We posted a listing on the website Backstage, and went through a small process and I think we ended up with the best versions of the characters we could've gotten by casting Heath and Hunter!

     Most days on Bacon were full days, filming from early morning to night - to the point where with everyone's schedules we'd practically have a day shift and a night shift team, and much like most DarkTriforceFilms productions, everybody was doing every job. Especially the TASCAM we use to record sound was passed around I think between every one of us at one point or another. Even some people like Nola who weren't involved with the project in any way other than being nearby when we were filming! 
     Continuing mine and Woody's want to have more varied filming locations this year, Bacon was filmed all over the place, thank you to everyone who lended their homes, apartments, or backyards to us - and Cafe Deli-icous and The Open Book for letting us film in their businesses for a couple of scenes as well. 

     Following production, it's time for Woody and I to put our heads down and get to editing - looking for a Fall release for the series, and of course soon enough there'll be trailers up, most likely one by me and one by Woody like we've done for BC2 and BC3. But for now, we're gonna take just the slightest bit of time to get some rest and relaxation. We had the wrap party for Bacon just a few hours after the end of shooting, and it was a great way to celebrate actually getting this crazy project done. I don't think I mentioned it before, but through all 5 episodes of the series, our script totaled just a couple pages over 100, so I'm sure you can imagine what the workload was like as we were chugging our way through this, which is what the delay of the other videos we had been shooting this year and talking about in the previous editions of The Report was from. So expect just a big slate of DarkTriforceFilms content this fall - while we weren't originally intending it all to end up there, I'll be more than happy as long as everything is able to come out at all!

     This special edition of The DarkTriforceReport will pretty much wrap up here,  just wanted to update on where we've been the past month and what to look forward to in the future! I would've given more details on what it was like on set or other little jokes and stories, but just like with Buddy Cops 3, we'll have a Bacon BTS video coming out (again edited by the wonderful Alexis Ebanks), and that'll do the job much better than I can with my little memory and sporadic times on set. Expect some trailers soon and then we'll wait anxiously for the official premiere of BACON and the other DarkTriforceFilms videos that will follow it this year. So until then, this is Logan, signing off!