Shot over the period of two years (2014/2015) during weekends and between the actors (who all worked and/or studied full-time) schedules.
A lot of the elements of Paul and Desmond's career (being music journalists), were drawn from Lexi White's own experiences of directing music videos for Punk bands.
(40mins) Paul and Desmond sit against the railing of a lookout. This location was the Silvan Dam overlook in Victoria, Australia. The crew, consisting of Lexi White, Nik Shay and Producer Sarah Greene (doubling as location driver for the day) had headed up to mountain region to film exteriors for the entire Gacy sequence. It was a Sunday morning, and the shot on the overlook was done at around 8am in a hasty manner. Only feet away were tourists and families who were out with their dogs and getting ready for picnics, BBQ's, etc. The camera was set up at the other end of the car park and very much out of the view of the families, so for a while, all they saw were White and Shay dressed as their characters in filthy camo fatigues, face paint and sharing a bottle of whiskey (actually cold tea) back and forth. Throughout the scene, both actors are struggling to keep straight faces as they could both very clearly hear the nearby parents whispering to their children to "stay away from those men over there!".
Made with an estimated budget of $3,000 (AUD).
The origin of using the term 'medicine' for alcohol goes back even further. In 2019, Lexi White said, "I remember watching a documentary on serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Apparently he was an alcoholic during his teenage years and would carry a paper cup around high school filled with vodka or whiskey. Someone asked him what was in his cup and he would just smile and say, 'It's my medicine'. I thought that was one of the sickest things I had ever heard. Obviously, Dahmer did far worse than that! But there was just something about hearing the description of him calling alcohol medicine... it just made me very uncomfortable... and yet, I also found it really funny in a bleak way. It just stuck with me for a long time, and then eventually, I used to use the phrase when I would get drunk with Shannon. But in my head, I was always consciously referencing that story about Jeffrey Dahmer.".