Short Horror

Tonight we picked-up a few shots for a film I was in for the 48 Hour Film Project. A week an a half ago we stayed up for 22 hours of straight filming and produced this little gem. It was so much fun to work on, even though we were all exhausted by the end. This is the same crew I'll be working with for "Paranormals" so it was great to get to know everyone better. Then last Wednesday we went up to Salt Lake for the screening and it was a huge hit. Sadly we were late getting our film in, but it was still a great success. It was, in my humble opinion, the best film in our group by far. The audience just loved it and so many people came up to us and told us how much they loved it. A lot of people were trying to hook up with our director and cinematographer to work with them in the future. It was a great feeling. So, after the great success at the screening my director and the DP decided that they wanted to fix some stuff up. Tonight we re-shot a couple of scenes and added some stuff to tighten it up and clarify some parts. I'm really excited to see the final project. I'm also really excited to shoot "Paranormals" now. It's going to look amazing.

Zip Snip!

Jeff Blake asked me to do a short spot in a commercial for the Zip Snip that he had been commissioned to make. Apparently they really liked it and are going to put it on TV! So, if you're watching TV at about 4 am you might see me in an infomercial for the Zip Snip. Let me know if you do!

P.S. The ad they have on their site right now is not the one I was in. The new one is much more awesome.

P.P.S. Here's a link to a terrible version of it that someone put on YouTube. You get the idea.

Scheduling

This week we were supposed to be filming the pilot episode of "Paranormals", but the lead actor decided to up and go get his appendix taken out on the spur of the moment. Rather silly if you ask me. He should have planned on that ahead of time. Now the whole project has been pushed back until the end of August. In his credit David (I don't remember his last name) was a great trooper about it. He had surgery the day before we were supposed to start filming and called the director and said he felt up for it still! Jeff told him to just take it easy and recover. The extra time would be useful in pulling things together.

Well, this change in plans created a problem since I am leaving in two weeks to fly back home to Boston to attend the Stanislavsky Summer School at Lesley University. This five week program won't conflict with the new filming schedule, but I will be on the other side of the country. Well, it turns out that Jeff is willing to fly me out for the week of the shoot and then fly me back when we're done! How cool is that! I sure feel all fancy.

Also, check out the poll I put up under my picture on the right.

Commercial for BYU

This post is a bit late in coming, but two Fridays ago I filmed a commercial for BYU's Spring and Summer Continuing Student program. It was a fun little piece to encourage students to attend classes spring and summer. It was just me and my friend Adrienne Eror and a small film crew of two plus the producer. The commercial consisted of us at different locations doing fun things and talking about how awesome it is to come for spring and summer. We got to race around a go-cart track, and go bike riding, and lay in the grass, and Adi got to go down a water slide. It was a very fun project and a long and exhausting day. I can't wait to see the final product. I guess they'll probably use it mostly next year since spring term is ending. The biggest thing I learned about acting from this project is how hard it can be to keep producing a high energy response for the camera after a very long and hot day, and after you've already done about 20 takes of the same shot. It's quite demanding. But fun.