The first images of our hero lipstick shoot are available for viewing this week.
The very first image is below. Additional images are available to our Kickstarter backers, through the supporter login. We are also making some images available on jpgmag.com and flickr. We'll post links to those shortly.
Today, we had a half day of shooting in Santa Monica. It was fun to feature the beach side of life in L.A. and the weather, which had been forecast for rain and gray skies, was actually wonderful.
We also shot at South, on Wilshire Blvd. The owners and staff were fantastic and gracious. (And the menu was great, too!)
Below is a "self portrait" (purposefully cut off!) that could appear in the film...
Tonight we shot a setup I had been dreaming about for months -- the opening shot of the film. It came out great!
Carole and Chris did fantastic work, as always. I'm thrilled with the footage, and can't wait to cut it into everything!
We've just launched our Kickstarter.com fundraising campaign!
Kickstarter is a a website that helps people fund creative projects, through the sale of items such as photos, credits, etc.
Please check out our campaign at Kickstarter, and pass it along to your friends!
After several days of filming at our hero loft location, we've just wrapped our first location shoot.
We shot a few fun scenes at 8 1/2 Taverna in Studio City. Fabrizio and his entire crew there were fantastic and very accommodating. And the food was phenomenal!
We planned all of the photo shoot scenes for the beginning of the schedule, and it looks as though we've finished that work!
All of our models did a terrific job, as did our primary cast. Footage and stills look fantastic.
We'll be launching a supporters section of the site over the weekend, which will have access to many of the stills from the shoots.
In the meantime, here's a quick glimpse of the cast, director and producer:
(Yes, the lipstick is for the role!)
Wow, what a crazy-busy two days we've just had! The first two days of the shoot featured the majority of our photo studio scenes -- which basically means we shot six different models in 16 hours, all with a variety of looks and across a number of scenes.
Everyone's exhausted, but in a good way. We got some really great footage (and stills!), and feel like we are off to a really solid start.
It is so exciting to finally be shooting the movie, and I can't wait to keep going next week! The actors and models all did really phenomenal work, and our tiny crew is doing fantastic!
After months of preparation, the first day of shooting is almost here!
A couple of days ago, we shot material for a Kickstarter.com campaign, which will hopefully help us raise money to cover some of the costs of production. We'll post a link as soon as that video's online.
Even though we're shooting a feature film for an insanely small amount of money -- it's still funds that are coming directly out of my checking account. That makes quite an impact on my account, even if it's a fraction of a day's hot-cost for a studio film. So we really hope that people are drawn to the film and the story and are interested in contributing -- and we'll have some great rewards as part of the program.
In the meantime, we're off to the races as photography is about to begin!
Yesterday, we did some test shoots of the main concept for Ryan and Olivia's fine art project -- a lipstick bodyart series.
We found a great makeup artist in Lee Komet, and a terrific model, Laurie Mannette. The shoot went really well, and the concept looks like it's going to work beautifully!
Rehearsals continue to go extremely well. The characters and story are really becomes their own creatures now, and it's an incredibly exciting time.
We begin shooting in one week - on Wednesday, March 23.
It's a mad rush to get to that point, but we're all thrilled to be so close!
We're pleased to announce that we've settled on some fantastic actors for many of the key roles in the film!
Improve veteran CHRIS ALVARADO will play Ryan Stiller, the male lead.
Belgian actress CAROLE WEYERS will play Olivia Finch, the female lead.
EMMA DOCKER will play Tess, the girl who could come between Ryan and Olivia.
CAMERON KLIPPSTEN will play Duncan, Ryan's best friend.
We are very excited to have these extremely talented actors on board for the film. Rehearsals have been a dream, and we're all very excited to begin filming soon!
