Written in longhand in L.A. as Heath McKnight's friend Bryan Krandle slept after an all-night edit session, June 2003.
Shot six months after the first draft was written (December 2003), and one month before Heath McKnight's next film, A Reminder. It marked the first time Heath and his friend Jon Fordham, the Director of Photography, worked together, and was shot on the new HDV camera, the JVC HD10.
Originally planned to star Bryan Krandle and his roommate, and to be shot on a GL1 in Bryan's Long Beach, California apartment.
The title comes from the Radiohead song, Morning Bell, found on the albums Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001, called Amnesiac: Morning Bell). The song is about a couple going through a divorce.
The rings that the married couple wear are actually video magazine writers Michael Silbergleid and Mark Pascatore's wedding bands. Also, the SUV the wife gets into is Michael's, and has a sign that references a video and HD codec.