What a story: small-time Hollywood screenwriter Randy Moore (who hails from Lake Bluff) inherited a six-figure sum from his grandparents and decided to blow it on making a guerrilla film at Disneyland and Disney World, with actors and crew all posing as park guests. Disney is notoriously controlling of its intellectual property, so the shoot was conducted with the utmost secrecy and foresight. Moore shot with small, consumer-grade digital cameras, the kind people bring into the parks all the time, and the actors wore digital recorders taped to their bodies. The locations were carefully scouted and the scenes all rehearsed ahead of time; on location, actors checked their lines on cell phones, and shooting in black-and-white helped alleviate the problem of having to use available light. The company spent ten days in Orlando and another two weeks in Anaheim, then Moore used green-screen technology for some of the wide-angle scenes, showing location shots of the parks behind the performers.
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Directed by Randy Moore 90 min Music Box 3733 N. Southport 773-871-6604
