Backyard Party

Photo by: Alison Midstoke

At Wrap

At wrap everyone descended on the food and goodies made by our amazing set design team they'd been eyeing all weekend:

Surprise!

I asked one of our actresses in one of our three backyard party scenes to crouch down in the front of the composition and pretend to take a snapshot with my iPhone of the birthday girl walking in. She gave me back all of these fantastic and fun images. Everything below is by our actress Lily Wen:

Photos by: Lily Wen

Protect the Candles

Lighting thirty birthday candles on a cake on what turned out to be an exceptionally windy weekend proved almost to be the death of us. It took shielding the cake with two 6'x6' flags, a black cloth held up on a third side, and the body of one of our crew members on the fourth to get the candles to stay lit just long enough for us to take the picture. It resulted in a lot of laughter, but I think we got the shot.

Around the Campfire

Here's how the rest of our night shoot went: