When we were making "Naughty or Nice," the full-length Christmas comedy-drama in our house for six months, the biggest location concern we had was whether our kitchen floors needed to be mopped yet again.  But as we embark on our second film, and are anxious to get out of our house, we have entered the strange and exciting world of location scouting.

Here are a few things I've learned so far:

1) Very small airports are extremely responsive to struggling filmmakers.  However, a hangar and a chain-link fence might not look very authentic doubling for Logan.

2) If you want a coffin designed like a racecar, you can get it.  "It goes from zero to heaven in sixty seconds," is what we've been told.

3) If you send a mass mailing to everyone in a neighborhood you'd like to use for exteriors, be wary of giving people your cell phone number, because they very may well call you everyday insisting that every member of their family are shoo-ins for every major part in the film.  Not having read the script, this is pretty impressive on their part.

4) The number one question asked by representatives of potential locations:  So this movie you're making...it's not porn, right?

5) People in the restaurant business are extremely busy.  Yet so far, very helpful.  Will I be able to con free food out of them?  Only time will tell.