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Logging Town
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The Short Story: It's like Fargo meets Twin Peaks but real.
The Long Story: In August of 2014, Elizabeth Andrea (the producer) shared a story with me, knowing that I was a Twin Peaks fan. She had a mutual friend in common with someone who used to be a tour guide in the state of Washington. The man claimed to have been hired by a girl, whom he took through Snoqualmie and North Bend, who believed the events and town of Twin Peaks to be real. I mostly laughed it off but the thought of such a person existing along with my love of Twin Peaks and the filmmaker within, made me ask Elizabeth to see if the tour guide could prove his story.
In November, Elizabeth called me back. The man had video to prove it. Apparently, his client, the girl, had wanted to make a documentary out of her trip but the footage and files had somehow ended up in the tour guide’s hands.
Calling it a ‘documentary about a documentary’, I met with the tour guide who was now living in Pennsylvania. If I could see the footage and judge its authenticity, I would have a damn good story to tell. The man shared his strange story and even showed me the stranger footage but did not want any part in a film.
Not wanting to let go but not being able to do much about it, I made plans for a mockumentary instead with some elements inspired by the tour guide’s story. One of those elements was the fact that he watched Twin Peaks for the first time during his experience with the girl. What would it look like if someone watched TP for the first time…?
Going with that, filming began in March of 2015 with a different producer on board. Some scenes were to be shot locally in Pennsylvania and other in Washington at Twin Peaks locations if a Kickstarter campaign was successful.
The Kickstarter went up in May and failed to reach its goal by June.
While making backup plans to complete the project, I shared some of the footage with my old producer, Elizabeth. She, in turn, shared it with the tour guide.
And then, everything changed. The tour guide wanted his story told, after all. He still did not want his or his client's identity revealed or hand over any of the footage but we could use his story. After a brief round of negotiations, a deal was struck in June. He would lend his voice to the film so the story could be told in his own words and would provide the production with some key audio clips from the actual footage which was shot by the girl.
He became the 'Tour Guide' and the girl was dubbed 'Oddrie' with actors reenacting the events which transpired in his story.
Elizabeth came back on as the producer but the massive shift in direction, along with the fact that tickets had already been bought for Seattle for the previous iteration of the film, meant that everything had to move very quickly.
Thankfully, there was no need for an entirely new script since the reenactments would be based on the actual footage filmed by ‘Oddrie’. The scenes and lines were already there. In addition, since the real tour guide had already seen TP by now, the actor playing the ‘Tour Guide’ would watch it for the first time in order to get honest reactions. Outlining the story with establishing shots and embellishing it with the abstract character of The Chevron Man, the film went ahead with very little of the initial funds leftover from the mockumentary.
Filming on Logging Town began on July 30th of 2015.
If none of this makes sense, it only gets more and less confusing at the same time when you see how 'Oddrie' behaved. Yet, it is fascinating on its own and simply mesmerizing as a Twin Peaks fan.
Wanting to share this with fellow TP fans since last August, I invite you to ‘log with us’ on Facebook and/or register for updates at www.loggingtown.com.There you can also request to be interviewed for the film, share your personal bizarre TP story and be incorporated in the Logging Town Bluray.
Thank you!
Hopefully, this will be something both wonderful and strange.
-Ernest.
The Long Story: In August of 2014, Elizabeth Andrea (the producer) shared a story with me, knowing that I was a Twin Peaks fan. She had a mutual friend in common with someone who used to be a tour guide in the state of Washington. The man claimed to have been hired by a girl, whom he took through Snoqualmie and North Bend, who believed the events and town of Twin Peaks to be real. I mostly laughed it off but the thought of such a person existing along with my love of Twin Peaks and the filmmaker within, made me ask Elizabeth to see if the tour guide could prove his story.
In November, Elizabeth called me back. The man had video to prove it. Apparently, his client, the girl, had wanted to make a documentary out of her trip but the footage and files had somehow ended up in the tour guide’s hands.
Calling it a ‘documentary about a documentary’, I met with the tour guide who was now living in Pennsylvania. If I could see the footage and judge its authenticity, I would have a damn good story to tell. The man shared his strange story and even showed me the stranger footage but did not want any part in a film.
Not wanting to let go but not being able to do much about it, I made plans for a mockumentary instead with some elements inspired by the tour guide’s story. One of those elements was the fact that he watched Twin Peaks for the first time during his experience with the girl. What would it look like if someone watched TP for the first time…?
Going with that, filming began in March of 2015 with a different producer on board. Some scenes were to be shot locally in Pennsylvania and other in Washington at Twin Peaks locations if a Kickstarter campaign was successful.
The Kickstarter went up in May and failed to reach its goal by June.
While making backup plans to complete the project, I shared some of the footage with my old producer, Elizabeth. She, in turn, shared it with the tour guide.
And then, everything changed. The tour guide wanted his story told, after all. He still did not want his or his client's identity revealed or hand over any of the footage but we could use his story. After a brief round of negotiations, a deal was struck in June. He would lend his voice to the film so the story could be told in his own words and would provide the production with some key audio clips from the actual footage which was shot by the girl.
He became the 'Tour Guide' and the girl was dubbed 'Oddrie' with actors reenacting the events which transpired in his story.
Elizabeth came back on as the producer but the massive shift in direction, along with the fact that tickets had already been bought for Seattle for the previous iteration of the film, meant that everything had to move very quickly.
Thankfully, there was no need for an entirely new script since the reenactments would be based on the actual footage filmed by ‘Oddrie’. The scenes and lines were already there. In addition, since the real tour guide had already seen TP by now, the actor playing the ‘Tour Guide’ would watch it for the first time in order to get honest reactions. Outlining the story with establishing shots and embellishing it with the abstract character of The Chevron Man, the film went ahead with very little of the initial funds leftover from the mockumentary.
Filming on Logging Town began on July 30th of 2015.
If none of this makes sense, it only gets more and less confusing at the same time when you see how 'Oddrie' behaved. Yet, it is fascinating on its own and simply mesmerizing as a Twin Peaks fan.
Wanting to share this with fellow TP fans since last August, I invite you to ‘log with us’ on Facebook and/or register for updates at www.loggingtown.com.There you can also request to be interviewed for the film, share your personal bizarre TP story and be incorporated in the Logging Town Bluray.
Thank you!
Hopefully, this will be something both wonderful and strange.
-Ernest.