Shot on an arriflex camera with 16mm color film stock and edited with sync sound. A non-sync bolex camera was used for pickups. Beville was the only student in his class to use both color film stock and sync sound dialogue on his final semester project.
Yasko largely improvised his lines.
Took seven tries to get the squib to explode correctly. Jake's skater shirt was so thrashed with Karo syrup blood and firecracker burns that it was destroyed in a bonfire at the wrap party.
The President Bush quotes about Area 51 and skate punks featured at the end was said during a White House press conference.
The original stock footage-shot on a Bolex near Area 51 to be used for the establishing shots of Cobalt HQ-was confiscated just before editing by an unmarked government vehicle near the Area 51 "mailbox".
Made several years before armed officers were assigned to US campuses.