As the creative team was getting ready to fly to London, Atlanta and LA to record the actors in early 2020, the pandemic hit and they were shut down. Despite the challenges of executing a scripted fictional podcast thriller with a full cast of actors remotely, the creative team was eager to move forward and broke new ground in podcast production in June 2020. The podcast creators and the iHeart team created a completely remote technological process and each cast member was sent a "Studio in a Box," which included important materials from a professional studio microphone to tutorial videos. These materials enabled the cast to record studio quality "scripted" audio from the safety of their own homes, while still performing together as they connected virtually via teleconference across multiple continents and time zones. The director, producers and actors would connect virtually daily for six hours to record - and over the course of two weeks, the production captured over four hundred pages of material with twenty different actors.
"The process to develop this scripted show and the ability to capture the connection, emotions and overall dynamic between the cast members while recording remotely, from across the globe, was unlike anything I've ever seen," said Conal Byrne, President of the iHeart Podcast Network. "It's an unbelievable feat, and I'm so impressed with Beau Flynn, Psychopia Pictures, and UpperRoom Productions for rising to the occasion to create such a spectacular podcast."
