White Out began life as a proposed play back in 1999 while writer David B. Grelck hosted a weekly college talk radio show called Reality that focused on controversial subjects. With a few friends, Grelck developed the idea for a play to be called (oddly) Nobody Likes You and Neither Do I and he wrote much of a first act. Soon after, the group grew bored with and abandoned the project, then about a radio host who simply decides that a marathon on the air (for four days straight no less) is the perfect antidote to his girlfriend's infidelity. The plan was to involve the administration, as well as the rest of the nation, all listening to this talk show host who won't stop talking. But the project was put away for seven years, Grelck periodically pulling it out and tinkering with it.

In Summer of 2006, just after completing his stint as Director on the last episode of CNGM TV's Television series Irving Renquist, Ghost Hunter , Grelck saw a short film by friend and co-worker Eric Lipe and Justin Haward called Drive Radio. Lipe suggested that he and Grelck should do a film together, and the radio station setting of Drive Radio reminded Grelck of his aborted radio station play.

Grelck gutted the play, retaining less than 10% of the original material and went to work on a screenplay using the roughest outline of the initial ideas, the cheating girlfriend (who became his fiancee), the marathon on the air (now due to a blizzard). What was invisioned as a farce in play form, quickly became a drama with comedic elements in screenplay form.

Realizing that he would need a strongly opinionated co-producer on the project to keep Grelck's own participation in check, he looked to his co-executive producer from Renquist, and also that series Director of Photography, Michael P. Noens. Noens identified with the themes of the script, and the lead character's plight and decided to come on board not only as a producer, but as DP as well.

Determined to be as economical and efficient in production as possible, Grelck and Noens planned out a lengthy pre-production schedule that included four months of rehearsals with the principal cast. This strategy would allow the entire film to be shot quickly, as the cast would get on set, perform and move on to the next scene. After some minor casting difficulties, Grelck had his cast. The part of Reality host Nick Watson went to Jonathan C. Legat after Grelck saw him audition for Noens' play Over the Tavern. Grelck immediately wanted Michelle Higgins to play Hannah Lorenz after having worked with her both in Irving Renquist, Ghost Hunter, and CNGM Pictures film Please Wait to Be Seated, which he wrote and co-produced. The part of Andy Wolcienski was to go to Eric Lipe, who would bring an antic spontinicity to the lead trio.

As rehearsals progressed from readthroughs to performing, Grelck honed the script, trimming, adding, taking down improvisation from the cast and putting it into subsequent drafts. Meanwhile, Noens began to develop the style he wanted for the look of the film, deciding on the green color scheme for inside the studio early on.

At the beginning of December, 2006, the cast was ready, but the beginning of principal photography was still a month away. Noens and Grelck, eager to begin lensing the film, took a scene that was scheduled to be shot later, the flashback scene between Nick and Hannah, and moved it up front. On December 16, principal photography officially began on White Out, ending two months later. The bulk of the film was shot in the week between Christmas and New Years.