All of the cast and crew were volunteers recruited from the Sacramento, California, area. The filmmakers shot the film around the schedules of the volunteer cast and crew from late 1986 through 1987, usually on nights and weekends.
Emilio Estevez's film Wisdom (1986) was shooting in the Sacramento area at the same time (circa 1986, long before "Jump Cut" was purchased for distribution) and locals frequently mistook the "Jump Cut" film crew for the "Wisdom" film crew in their attempts to locate Estevez for autographs and photos.
During the filming of one location sequence, one of the film's producers rushed the grips during the assembly of the camera crane, even going so far as to do some "hands-on" assembly himself. As a result, no one noticed that the crane's tracks were resting on an inclined section of the street. The crane tipped over, taking the cinematographer, the assistant cinematographer and the camera with it. Fortunately, there were no serious injuries, except for the director, Lawrence Gardner, who suffered several crushed fingers from trying to "catch" the nearly one-ton crane on its way down.
On another location shoot, the filmmakers moved ahead with a several hour-long crane and camera set up (during one of the hottest days of the year) inside a local historical preservation site... without the proper permits, only to be shut down that evening by park rangers, a scant few minutes before filming was to begin.
This film can be found on DVD with the film Twisted Fear (1994) on the reverse side of the disc. On the disc, "Twisted Fear" is titled "Altered Love".