Earlier this week, I ran downtown to meet up with Joey from the Chameleon Theater. He's a local man-about-town, MC of the local film festival, and a magician - which oddly enough, warms my heart. (Yes, folks, I have a magician side to me, but that's for another post.)
While he's on board to let us use his space - it's small. It could work, but I'm going to keep looking just in case there's something a bit larger out there, something to capture the imagination of lost time and space. I ran to the other local theater and took some outdoor photos, and was pretty stoked that it was closer to where we're doing most of our main shooting, and there's a very large parking area. I'm hunting those folks down as we speak.
Blocks away sits the infamous Antique Mall - which is where I envisioned most of the shooting to take place. Owner Frank Paoli was there and we had a great chat about our plan. He's just as excited as I am to shoot this little ghost story in the shop, and when I said I loved the store, "It's like everyone's spirits are in the building," he mentioned that the store is actually haunted. 
A few of his staff have refused to go downstairs alone or without lights on, and then he showed me the newspaper article which tells the story of the antique shop ghosts. I couldn't ask for a better place to shoot my ghost story and Frank was really positive and supportive.
When I initially wrote this story, the one place I included was this little shop - so there's this inevitability about working there, and knowing that it's already haunted will really add to the spooky and dark nature of the film. I hope they welcome us with open arms.
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