Short Horror follow-up

Just to let you all know that our little film project won the audience choice award for our group. Hooray! Truth be told if we had gotten it turned in on-time I think we would have won some of the other awards as well. Oh, well. Maybe next year.

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.

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.

Paranormals

I have just been cast in a webseries called "Paranormals". It's being produced by a small, upstart production company here in Provo called Lost Lake Studios. The quality of their stuff is really good and they are making quite a name for themselves here in the Valley. I'm excited to get to work with them, especially with Jeff Blake who co-starred in "The Book of Jer3miah" with me. He's a really great guy and talented and full of ambition.

The series is about a group of college-aged kids who live in a very haunted town and start up their own little ghost hunting/investigating group. I will be playing Leslie. He's one of the lead parts and he's the brainy, analytical one in the group. He's very passionate about hunting ghosts, but he goes about it in a very logical and methodical manner. It looks like it's going to be a great project. The plan is to then pitch the pilot to get funding to film the whole season. I really hope that works out! I would be great to get paid and to have something like this on my resume and reel. I'll keep you posted on how it all goes!