1999-2000 Monty writes little character studies and shares a story of a Coffee sniffer with Jason who asks what he wrote it for. Monty's response was for a little play or something like that. Jason thought this was another one of Monty's millions of ideas that never come to fruition.

2001 Monty continues writing character studies and with help from a fellow West Jet employee over a few beer he comes up with the idea of a main character narrating the story of all the other characters which results in a great surprise ending. After finishing this rough draft he gets the idea of shooting this short story on a train. Monty then started talking to Jason from time to time about the possibility of shooting the story and how we could organize to shoot on a local train in Edmonton. Jason humored him the first few times thinking it was just one of his pipe dreams, but after the third or fourth conversation Jason's said, "We really need to shot this, this could be really good." At that moment we both started to believe that it just might happen.

July - We started looking for a place to shoot this story as Monty continued to write. After a while we realized that perhaps we were not going to be able to shoot on a train and so the script was re-written to take place in the restaurant. The next step was to find a restaurant that would allow us to take monopolize a section during regular business hours. Jason and Monty thought business cards might help the cause of presenting a professional image in hopes of convincing a manager to allow them to take over a part of their restaurant to shoot the film. Since in reality we knew just about nothing about making a film, Jason's dad was critical of the business card idea wondering why we were trying to scam people into believing that we were film makers when we were not. This lead to a really great discussion about what qualifies you to call yourself a movie maker or any artist. With business cards in hand Monty scouted out locations in Brooks, Calgary and Edmonton while Jason looked into using the resturant where he worked; Rock'n Robin's in Red Deer.

August - As time progressed we found that we could get permission to shoot just about anywhere we asked. Monty had really wanted to shoot at the Calgary Bus station to get the live action of such a busy place. Since location did not appear to be an issue we started trying to nail down a time, place and actors to shot this film. In Tilley we had our biggest resource to supply actors, our two families, however we did not have a good location to shoot. We talked to some family friends in Calgary who were interested but with Monty and Jason's usual last minute planning they were already busy.

Sometime just before this Tavis came on board. He was the only one of us with any filming experience because he had recently bought a digital camcorder and had been making little home videos. With Tavis on board we really needed to shoot this by the end of August because he was leaving to go back to College in Lethbridge in September. In order to secure a location to shoot the film we compromised a bit and decided to shoot at the Rock'n Robin's diner in Red Deer because we had easy access as Jason worked there. The problem was that when we committed to shooting there we did not have any of the actors we needed. We had no children and no actors that were over 25. We were worried that the look of the film would be compromised if it were just a bunch of kids at a train station. So Jason talked to his 30 something manager as the assistant manager about being involved. With these two people we were confident that we would be able to pull it off and if needed we could find any kids and shoot that one scene later.

Aug. 30/2001? The night before we shoot we went to Rock'n Robins to block out the scenes and work out some of the timing and cuts. Teri and Shawnte sat through hours of sitting in different locations while we shot them from different hours. While they went crazy with bordem we learned a lot about how we were going to shot this. We then took all the footage we shot of people sitting around and then cut together a film that consisted of the amount to time each scene would last. This helped us get an idea of the timing of the shots and established some shots that would be standard angles that we could keep cutting back to. Monty also had a revalation that night or the next morning. He thought is might be neat to have an artistic shot of each of the character that the server talked about. We thought we could shoot them and cut them out later if we wanted to. It was odd that Monty came up with this as he was the one who had to stop Jason from wanting things to be too artist and too complicated.

Aug. 31/2001? So we decided to show up at Rock'n Robins in Red Deer at around 21:00 and perhaps find some kids who happened to be eating with their family to be involved. We had to wait until 21:00 because it had to be dark outside so that when we cut between shots it would always be dark. We had everything planned out and ready to go, we were 3 amatuer film makers that had a script, a location and we thought enough actors. We had given up searching for an actor to play the main role as Monty probably had more acting experience the anyone else we could find and on top of that he enjoyed acting so Jason and Tavis figured he was the best guy for the job. The only other speaking role was the patron who we had hoped to fill with a 40 something average Kevin Spacey looking actor. However upon arriving all the older actors we had arranged were unable to participate and so all we had was Tavis, Jason, Monty, Teri and Monty's old room mate from Augustana who he had driven up to Edmonton to pick-up just before we got to Rock'n Robin's. Now with no kids, no one older then 25 and not enough actors our plans seemed to be falling apart. It looked as though we might not even be able to shoot our film. Then Monty who was a bit upset at the manager of Rock'n Robin's for backing out (although he had his reasons) decided he was going to start approaching people who were still in the resturant to be in our film until be was kicked out. However Monty managed to use his talking abilty to convince just about everyone he talked to, to be in the film. It helped that the first people he talked to happen to have a daughter who was in the film industry in Vancouver.

We were now off and running, we filmed the Coffee Sniffer, Magician, Kids and their mother using people who happened to be in the resturant just before it closed. We then got Kim who worked as a server at Rock'n Robins to play the Trade Fair Lady and we had a complete cast. We then spent the next 4 hours shooting the rest of the scenes. We learned more and more as we went along. Using Jason on Roller Blades to shoot moving shots and other stratagies we came up with on the fly. As time went on and although Monty kept messing up his lines we managed to get all the scenes shot.

So at 04:00 Tavis and Jason went back to Teri's parents for a few hours of sleep. While Monty took his 3rd trip to Edmonton and back in 24 hours to take Dustin home. A few hours latter at 06:00 Jason and Tavis got up and Monty returned from Edmonton, we started editing. Started putting shoots into the computer and tried to edit them. However even Tavis had not used the program and so we stumpled around trying to learn how to edit things. Jason gave up after and hour and had another 2 hour nap before he went to work.

Sep. 01/2001? In the evening we all got back together and with Monty and Tavis neww knowledge on how to edit we managed to cut together the video for the first few minutes of the movie. Once we got going things went pretty smooth. However we could only work for a few hours before Tavis had to move to Lethbridge. This was the end of working together until we managed to get back together a month later in Lethbridge.

In between filming and final editing we spent most of our time coming up with possible names for our "company." In the end we came up with over 100, and could narrow it down to 10 or so but the three of us could not decide on a single name.

Sep. 28/2001? We finally managed to organize a time where we could all get together. Jason had bought a 40 Gigabyte Hard Drive so that they would have enough space to fit the whole film on the computer. That night at Tavis Jason installed the hard drive and we talked about editing.

Sep. 29/2001? We woke up early the next day and spent the whole day editing together the video. The only break we took was a lunch break where we ate some order in pizza outside. Other then that we spent the whole day in Tavis's room editing. In the evening we had hoped to start doing the voice over, however Tavis roommates started planning their steroes so loud it was hard to think. We assumed their was no way we would be able to recond the voices we need: Monty recording his voice and Tavis recording his voice to the character that Dustin had done that acting for. Despite the loud music we decided to practice doing the voice over and discovered that despite the music being so loud it shook the floor, the microphone did not pick it up, so we were able start doing voice over.

Sep. 30/2001? In the morning we went back to doing voice overs. We had a lot of trouble matching up the voices because we were unable to watch the video we were voicing over while we were recording the voice. So Tavis and Monty would watch the clip over and over doing the voice and then try and record it and see if it matched. We spent a good part of the day doing this. The other task was to add the music to the artist scenes and decide which songs to use. We set 17:00 as the time when we had to have everything finished and make copies of the video for ourselves. While Monty and I were working on the music, Tavis took his video camera to Costco to record some back ground noise that would pass as the background noise of the resturant. As time rushed by and 17:00 got closer and closer we tried finish everything off but realized that we were not going to do it. Monty's goal was to take home a tape of the film in a rough finished form. Tavis wanted to do credits and Jason wanted to put outtakes into the credits. Finally we decided we were not going to finish by 17:00 and we kept pushing back our time line. About this time we realized that we need to decide on a name. We had spent all kinds of time over the past few weeks, but when the crunch came we had to make a decision and the 3 of us liked Undone Films so we went with that. Looking back we made a great decision and didn't waste much tim doing it. Finally around 19:00 we had a basic finished product, Tavis really wanted credits so he worked on that as Monty and Jason Packed up. Tavis made some very impressive credits, we made a tape of the video and then Jason took the new hard drive out of Tavis's computer to take home.

Oct. Over the next few weeks Jason worked on adding outtakes to the credits on his computer at home. As well he adjusted some of the voice tracks to help them match better.

Oct. Tavis came up to Red Deer and he and Jason used his camera to transfer the film from the computer to a video tape. Tavis and Jason quickly realized that that they had to watch each recording of the film to make sure that there were to blips in the copying.

Oct 2001 Jason and Monty worked on the cover for the video. Monty had come up with the basic idea of 9 pictures set on a croupled paper back ground. Over the next few weeks they worked on worked though various designs, changing little details and designing the back cover based around Tavis idea of using Jason's screaming picture as a background. Then Monty and Jason got together to create the final cover, when combined with the Video cases Monty bought years earlier we had a final product.

May./2002 Tavis, Jason and Monty meet in Red Deer to attend the 3 day Red Deer Film Festival. On the second day when college's student films were going to be shown we spent the day chasing Monty around with a camera creating a bit of a mocumentry about the festival. We then stayed up all night and finished editing it at about 3pm the next day. However, technical difficulties prevented us from putting the film onto video and so all we had was a CD. Our hope had been to have it shown that night at the festival, we gave it to the lady in charge and she liked it but the CD format prevented it from being used. Our disappointment was overcome four hours later when the awards were announced. There was a first overall and two honorable mentiones named after the screening of all the films (A number of which where Canadian National Film board films which made us feel bad that we had even submitted ours. We were talking about how they should have separated the expert ones from the ones like ours.) However, while we were talking the announced a CNF film shot in Drumhellar as the first honorable mention and then "Starter Dough" as the second. I'm still pretty sure that one of us must have bribed the judges. But Monty ran up to receive our award before they could realize their mistake.