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Hello! Thank you! Lets do this...

1. Pretty sure the liquor is fake in the dancing scene, however it was real in the drinking scene in the car. We were all very wasted that night, however the trippier stuff in the car drunk scene with the camera going in and out of focus was actually shot the next morning because we got so plastered that we were worried we didn't get enough shots of them actually taking drinks. Pretty sure the memorable dancing scene shots were all Jeremy, because he wrote that scene into the script with the hallway in mind. Here is a video of us shooting that scene. http://youtu.be/V91lUXisuFs Keep in mind that you either see or hear all 6 of our daily crew in the video... So this video is exactly how the shoot was throughout. 2 or 3 days we had a makeup artist or two come out to help.

2. O. hannah Films is definitely not just for this movie, in fact, it's actually a name of another script by Jeremy that involves a king cobra. (O. hannah is the technical name for the king cobra). Currently I refuse to shoot that film because, king cobras are extremely extremely dangerous, even stage cobras. Jeremy, Adam (Mickey), and I are the core 3 of O. hannah and have at least 6 ideas we could shoot next, but some are more ready than others. There is an idea for The Orchard, which would be a sequel to The Battery that can also stand alone as its own film, so that we can grow the audience, rather than limiting it to only people who saw The Battery. It would start where The Battery left off, I'm just saying you don't need to know the full backstory to enjoy it. Don't know if or when that will happen, as we really want to spin another genre into something new. I write scripts as well but all my ideas are drama/comedies right now, so I'd expect a 99% chance we're filming what Jeremy writes. I'll probably co-direct with Jeremy and Adam will produce. Unless Hollywood swoops in and steals Jeremy first, which they should.

3. Yes, he does. Don't think that's going anywhere until (and if) he is forced to shave for a role.

4. There isn't THAT many of these names! Our credits are way too long for how many people actually made the movie. I'm probably in there 8 times because I did so many jobs. There are only 3 actual Stellas... Me (director of photography, producer, sound design, foley, score mixer, color correction), Elise (production manager, fresh slut zombie), and Alicia (editor, sound editor, foley). Those other last names you mention, those are from our list of zombie extras... We don't actually know them personally, just put a call out in the local paper and it was a small town so entire families came.

5. Elise is my wife. Bummer for you. Today marks 9 years we've been together actually. Alicia, the editor, is my sister. She is with the other editor.

Though are credits are long, the people on set every single day were Jeremy, Adam, Me, Elise, Nick Bohun (sound guy), and Kelly McQuade (Makeup, set design, Jeremy's girlfriend). Then in post production, it was Alicia and Michael (editors), Me, and Ryan Winford (composer) with Jeremy and Adam overseeing post.

Yeah, what you see in that video of us shooting the dance scene is all of the equipment we had, other than a cheap plastic tripod from Best Buy. One camera, 2 lenses. $68 Opteka shoulder rig. The camera was a 5D Mark 2 which I owned for my normal job as a food photographer. 90% of the movie was shot on a $2,000 Zeiss 21mm lens that I rented for $125. Drunken scenes like the dancing scene were shot on a Canon 50mm 1.4 wide open to make them dreamy and drunken.

As far as bands, we were simply huge fans of Rock Plaza Central and asked. Once they said yes and got friendly, we asked Chris Eaton, the lead singer, to record the song for the opening credits. Today, we can say he IS a friend, but we started as fans. He is the one who got us in contact with The Parlor who provided 2 songs. Then Wise Blood is a friend of Adam's and Sun Hotel is a friend I used to wait tables with. I went to a Sun Hotel show to ask them to use their music and met El Cantador there, bought their CD, and months later asked them to use their song in apple orchard sequence. They've become friends of the movie as well. There's a great mutual respect between us and the bands. We're all scraping by to do what we love.