The "dance montage" featured at the midpoint of the film, where the characters mingle with strangers on the dance floor of a crowded club, was shot on location at the popular Midtown Bar & Grill in Charleston, South Carolina. The crew went into principal photography not having a location for the scene, as several options had fallen through. Their plan was to film at a small venue and use extras and camera tricks to make the club appear larger and more populated. However, on set two days before the scene was scheduled, Executive Producer and Composer J.R. Getches mentioned to Director/Producer Zachary Bucholtz and Executive Producer Sumyhr Harris that his band, The Louie D. Project, was playing at Midtown that Friday night and that he'd get them in to shoot.
Colleen Kinslow, Anna Brooks, Sam Rehr, Paul Vites, and Anna Omori - the actors in the scene - joined Harris and Bucholtz, who carried one handheld camera into the club during its busiest hour. Since two of the actors weren't yet 21, they were given special permission to enter under the condition they didn't drink. The scene was shot in less than an hour and highly improvised, with Harris and Assistant Director Omori recruiting people in the crowd to serve as extras in the scene and to interact with the actors, who used hand signals to communicate with Bucholtz as it was too loud to hear. The actors would then direct their extras, and many of the moments used in the final cut of the film are actually clips of the actors telling the extras what to do (such as when Anna Brooks mouths "just walk away" to a guy her character is flirting with).
Paul Vites, who plays the goofy and lovable Charlie Dunlap, had to be dragged from the club because he was getting hit on in character.
Colleen Kinslow, Anna Brooks, Sam Rehr, Paul Vites, and Anna Omori - the actors in the scene - joined Harris and Bucholtz, who carried one handheld camera into the club during its busiest hour. Since two of the actors weren't yet 21, they were given special permission to enter under the condition they didn't drink. The scene was shot in less than an hour and highly improvised, with Harris and Assistant Director Omori recruiting people in the crowd to serve as extras in the scene and to interact with the actors, who used hand signals to communicate with Bucholtz as it was too loud to hear. The actors would then direct their extras, and many of the moments used in the final cut of the film are actually clips of the actors telling the extras what to do (such as when Anna Brooks mouths "just walk away" to a guy her character is flirting with).
Paul Vites, who plays the goofy and lovable Charlie Dunlap, had to be dragged from the club because he was getting hit on in character.
The primary cast underwent a total of 14 changes from the start of pre-production through the completion of the film, including multiple parts that were recast and/or rewritten during production. This was due largely to an 8-month delay in the middle of production. Among the six leads, only Eric Lee Galloway and Paul Vites stayed on the project from start to finish, in the roles originally offered to them. There were, at different times, 4 Erins, 2 Skylers, 3 Carries, and 2 Nicks. Because the actors were allowed to modify their dialogue, bits and pieces from all the actors who left the project were kept.
The first scene where the six leads are all together, drinking around a table at a rooftop bar in Charleston, was actually the first time the six actors had all been together, as Paul Vites flew in midweek after shooting several of his scenes in Michigan beforehand. Director Zachary Bucholtz, stressing the importance of the dialogue, had all the actors arrive in and stay in character until the scene wrapped. While the crew set up, the actors, in character, mingled with one another and with the crew. To keep the illusion up, Bucholtz never said "action" or "cut," instead giving Colleen Kinslow, who spoke the scene's first line, direction to start the scene naturally whenever it felt right.
The original draft of the script was 87-pages along, and had to be cut in half to fit the short film length. Much of the deleted material came in expository dialogue that was condensed into the 7-minute opening credit sequence, but several scenes and subplots were also cut, including a scene where Charlie takes Shawn's car and runs a red light, and a filmed scene where Charlie asks Erin and Carrie about the importance of penis length. Another scene that was shot and cut for time involved four of the actors on kayaks in the Charleston harbor, and a cameo by Cinematographer Casey McDonough as their instructor (which was included in the bloopers at the end of the film).