Day One.

Greetings from Louisville, Kentucky, two days after the Derby.

After a half-night's sleep, I woke up early in an attempt to re-set my internal clock to Eastern Time. I'm not completely exhausted. Yet.

Truth is, I'm exhilarated. This is the part of the process of making a film that can be really fun. The part we're you're driving around, searching for locations in which to shoot, making friends with the locals, being in the world you're going to depict onscreen, meeting your creative team or getting to know them better and vice versa. It's the convergence of the social and the professional with all focus on what will end up on screen.

Today, the production designer, James Wise, drove me around the city in search of a few key locations: a coffee shop, a fancy tennis club, an upscale casual restaurant, and our hero's house. Among the many places we visited, we found possibilities for each. I'm very pleased.

One scene in the film is a date in which the couple wanders through a scenic spot in Louisville. A new park on the Ohio River was opened recently (or is scheduled to open). It's perfect. Now all we have to do is figure out how to light the thing at dusk.

Here are a couple of snapshots.