Thursday, October 28, 2010

Filming almost wrapped!

It's been a very hectic 2 weeks for the OFF SEASON crew. Principal photography started at our beach house location on October 16th, and we just finished shooting yesterday, with a few scenes remaining to be filmed in November. It's been a lot of hard work, with early morning shoots and many late nights, but the rewards have made it worth it.

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Our location itself has become a huge part of our production -- for both it's
photogenic-ness, and it's ability to relieve stress. It's been a surreal experience to be able to live on set while we're working, with the crashing waves just outside our windows.

There have also been all sorts of wildlife perusing the neighborhood as we shoot. Monarch butterflies passing through on their migration, families of deer that come to feed in our yard each dawn and sunset. We've seen a few fisherman surf casting and catching giant Sea Bass right on the beach in back of our house, though we haven't had the chance to try and wrangle one ourselves yet.

As for the film itself, our talented lead actors Liz Lee and Kimani Shillingford brought their A-game to every scene. Our supporting cast of actors, Abe Koogler, Dan Odell, Mchale Bright, Jun Naito, Chesley Calloway and Kimberley Shoniker, were no less entertaining to watch, and lovely to work with.

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Overall it's been an amazing experience. We're not completely finished filming yet but we can already see that we've got a really great film on our hands.

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That's all for now though until our next shoot. Have a safe and spooky Halloween!

-The OS Crew

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Production Update - Week 1

Our first week of production for OFF SEASON went exceedingly well! We started off nice & slowly on Thursday, with an afternoon of still photography shot by the talented Chris Vongsawat of Chamber Images.

The photos came out great, and will be used in some newspaper props as well as in our news broadcasts within the film.

Friday we met up with Mike Quirk, our talented voice actor who is giving life to the character Charles Rampling who did an excellent job. Then Saturday we headed out to Long Island to do some last minute location scouting and to check out the area surrounding what will be our new home for the next few weeks.

Then we rounded out the long weekend on Sunday filming our Newscasters, both on location and in the studio in front of a green-screen.


This week we had a great rehearsal with our lead actor, Kimani Shillingford and supporting cast member Abe Koogler, then we head out to the location today and principal photography begins on Saturday!

Expect lots more updates through the weeks -- we'll be busy but we'll do our best!




Love,
The Cold Hands Crew