TALLAMOUNTOOSTUDIOS

TALLAMOUNTOO PRODUCTION JOURNAL / MAY—OCTOBER 2026

HOW WE MADE
FREEDOM ST.

From the first shooting script to a near-finished cut.
A story built a scene, a shoot, and an edit at a time.

Watch the current cut
  1. 01
    WRITING

    The script becomes a shooting script.

    The final shooting script sets out the three-day structure: Jack’s ordinary life, the first fractures, and the isolation left behind. The central question is there from the start: what would complete freedom actually cost?

    May 31 shooting script
  2. 02
    PRODUCTION

    A familiar world, on camera.

    The first round of filming brings Jack’s everyday world to life. By early August, footage and Zoom F3 recordings are in DaVinci Resolve, ready to be synced and shaped into scenes.

    First day of principal photography
  3. 03
    THE EARLY EDIT

    Six hours. A minute and a half.

    At this stage, six hours of editing has produced around 90 seconds of rough cut. Syncing external audio, choosing performances, and finding the rhythm turns a small stretch of screen time into a much longer stretch at the desk.

    An early rough cut begins to take shape
  4. 04
    BACK ON SET

    The return to the familiar.

    The remaining shoot brings more gym, park, and street material, along with the final Freedom St. sign sequence. Returning to the same everyday places helps the story’s changing sense of recognition land.

    The second filming stretch
  5. 05
    THE FIRST FULL CUT

    Now there’s a whole film to work on.

    By mid-September, a complete rough cut of roughly 13 minutes gives the story an end-to-end shape. The work moves deeper into dialogue, room noise, ADR, music, and color.

    Rough-cut runtime, not a final runtime
  6. 06
    THE CURRENT CHAPTER

    About 90% of the way there.

    The edit is now around 90% complete. The current work-in-progress version shows how far the film has come, while the final picture and sound work continues.

    Watch the current cut on the film page
ON SET / FREEDOM ST.BEHIND THE SCENES

THE PEOPLE.
THE PLACES.
THE WORK.

Production photographs from the house and night shoots.

Crew members filming an actor seated beside a house, with a phone camera and boom microphone.
THE HOUSE / ON LOCATION
Behind the camera during a dining-table scene, with the cast seated and crew recording sound.
THE KITCHEN TABLE / BETWEEN TAKES
The Freedom St. crew checking equipment on location during a night shoot.
THE NIGHT SHOOT / SETTING UP
Four crew members gathered under the Freedom St. street sign with their camera and sound equipment.
FREEDOM ST. / THE CREW
THE WORK BETWEEN THE MILESTONESSMALL DETAILS / REAL DIFFERENCE
01 / THE PICTURE

Finding the rhythm.

Choosing a performance is only part of the edit. The length of a pause, a familiar face, or the moment a cut arrives can change how we feel Jack’s world slipping away.

02 / THE SOUND

Listening closely.

External audio has to meet the picture. Gym hum and background noise need attention. Some dialogue is revisited through ADR. The room around a character is part of the scene too.

03 / THE FEELING

Making it connect.

Music, color, silence, and recurring places all come back to the same story: the difference between being free and being alone.

SEE WHERE IT IS NOW

THE CURRENT CUT.

Watch the approximately 90%-edited version of Freedom St.

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