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days? Cory brought on Matt Grego and between the four of us, we had all the production and post- production bases covered. Cory would shoot and edit. Matt would do sound and color. Keith would handle the business of things, and I would write and direct. The ap- proach was to write something we could do. Keith had an idea about four people stuck in a basement. I took that and ran with it. I knew Keith and I would play two of the roles and once we had Annelise and Timothy, I could really write it for the actors we had. The param- eters were real and they dictated a lot of the story. I tried to focus on story and dialogue with minimal effects that we knew we could do. I felt that if the dialogue and perfor- mances could help us tell an in- teresting story, an audience might stay with us. We had to spend our time on building suspense, not jump scares and we were going for creepy instead of gory. The bound- aries we created for ourselves Doug Bollinger, Keith Collins, Timothy Laurel Harrison, and Annelise Nielsen NJ STAGE - ISSUE 59 INDEX 138