Not wanting to use CGI, or any other green screen or digital effects, the film was shot entirely on location on the freeways, in traffic. The filmmakers drove over 1000 miles during the course of the shoot to get the shots needed.
On the day of the scheduled for the helicopter/aerial photography, the crew had to wait for pilot Lance Strumpf to fly Los Angeles Laker Kobe Bryant from LAX to Orange County Airport, for a last minute charter.
The films directors, Dave Cohen and Marc Wasserman met the film's DP Ford Austin on the festival circuit a year earlier, at the Bare Bones International Film Festival (where they took home Best Picture Awards for there respective films). The three filmmakers both had ideas for films that take place in cars on the freeway and decided to collaborate on COMMUTE.
Dave Cohen and Marc Wasserman have been friends since they were 8 yrs old and had always dreamed of making movies together.
The Producers are planning to take to the road and "Commute" from Los Angeles to Oklahoma, in April 2008, starting with a kick off premiere in LA and driving along historic route 66 while stopping in several small towns to screen the film, ending up at the Bare Bones International Film Festival. The entire road trip will be part of a documentary surrounding the commuting problems that plague Americans throughout the United States.