The Night Life, a student film I did for a USC grad student last year, will be showing on April 30 at The National Film Festival for Talented Youth up in Seattle. Wicked!
The Night Life in the NFFTY film festival
March 15th, 2010 ~ 5:13 pmModel 2.0!
March 13th, 2010 ~ 10:23 pmIt was a busy day today! I had the second callback for the feature and then a workshop and then I went to a downtown loft to do a photo shoot with Chris. It was awesome. Last year I did an outdoor shoot with him, but this time we did a studio shoot. I’m so excited to see them. He should have them all sorted and cleaned up in about a week or so. I think I did 5-7 outfits and changed my hair and makeup as we went along. They will be super rad. It’s fun because I get to wear all the random stuff I have in my closet that I rarely have an occasion for. Plus I brought the yellow dress again and we did a fun thing outside at the end. Other fun accessories included a motorcycle helmet, goggles, feather boa, etc. (not at the same time) It was a blast. Too bad I am too short and too old for America’s Next Top Model. Ha ha.
Then after I finished that I had one more audition. Then I made dinner and watched TV. Now we are watching Robocop, which is rad. I am pooped. Thankfully I didn’t schedule anything tomorrow so I get a real day off. Hooray!
New Bookings
March 10th, 2010 ~ 8:44 pmLooks like I got two shorts coming up. One this month where I play a male-impersonator/ ventriloquist! How rad is that? I’m so excited. I have a fitting this week and rehearsal next week. Woo!
Then I have one in early May where I play a drug dealer. It’s an Alice in Wonderland inspired story, so I’m like the Mad Hatter. Should be fun.
Then this weekend I’m doing some modeling with Chris Malcolm again. Those are always fun. I’ll post copies when I get them.
I also have a final callback on an indie feature this weekend. We did callbacks last week where they paired up actors to be married couples and they want to pair me with another actor this weekend. Hopefully it will go as well as the last 2 sessions. We did it all improv, which I usually find really intimidating, but I hit a really good stride with the character. Whether I get it or not it’s been really good having that experience. Dramatic improv is a lot different than comedy, but at least I’m getting much more comfortable with it.
Oh, and Leading Ladies is through with color. It’s all onto sound and titles and stuff. Woo! I’m hoping they will come visit soon so we can see it! They think April could work and it should be done then. Yay!
Hey, look! New site!
February 27th, 2010 ~ 5:48 pmIt’s not 100% finished, but it was finished enough to shift over to my regular domain. Woo! Still need to finish my photo pages and the links page. I went with a canvas-y look with paint-y highlights. Just for fun.
So far I’m liking the Wordpress system. It’s a big learning curve, but once I got going, it became easier to customize.
Site Update coming
February 10th, 2010 ~ 12:14 amHey folks. So Blogger is dropping ftp support, and I’ve been learning php and style sheets so I can build a wordpress site. Woo! Should have a new site up soon.
Not too much news. The video short from last month is like 95% done and looks rad. The editing is totally boss. Yeah, that’s right. Boss. They have an effect to put in and then some other little stuff. Then it will be done.
Leading Ladies is off to color and sound. Huzzah! Melanie and Shannon get to see it this coming weekend because Erika (and maybe DB?) is going out to NY. Me=jealous. They said they’d try to come out to LA soon though. I miss them. Looks like a bunch of the music stuff is going through so that’s pretty sweet. Once it’s totally cleared I can finally post the trailer! Woo!
Anyway, expect a revamped site soon. Probably an updated reel after that- with short hair footage! Probably. I’m kind of spending this month reevaluating everything I’m doing, both in normal job stuff and acting stuff and trying to strategize for the future. It’s all sort of coming together, gradually.
Ouija and spirits and aliens, oh my!
January 9th, 2010 ~ 8:47 pmThis week I had a short shoot. It’ s supernatural thriller. We did it faux documentary style, so it went mega fast! It was a good thing since some of the sites had people randomly wandering around or cars driving by to contend with. Plus one of the sites was an actual abandoned building where a security guard had to tell us to leave – life imitates art! He was nice though and let us shoot for a few minutes since we were just in our car.
There will be some effects shots that need to be put in, but it probably won’t take a long time before they finish it. It’s mostly just lighting effects which they can likely make in aftereffects.
Nothing else coming up yet. Been getting more commercial auditions, which is rad. I had a few over the holidays, including a call back on a snickers ad. Things are picking up. I did a mailing to theatrical agents and sent postcards to casting offices. I’m doing another agency showcase soon. Still doing casting work shops weekly. Had a great one today. He spent a lot of time with each person. One of the people joked it’s because he took a while off workshops until recently and wasn’t sick of us actors yet. Ha ha.
In other news, Leading Ladies is basically picture locked. I’m saying basically because I think they are still working out the music rights on some stuff, and if they can’t secure the rights then some of the music numbers will have to be recut to different music. Making movies is complicated. Right now I’m keeping my fingers crossed we get into SXSW. They will announce in February, so we have a while to wait. I know people who will probably be going there anyway, so it would be extra great to get to show them the premiere. Send happy thoughts to Austin! Happy lesbian ballroom dance thoughts!
2009, pretty damn good.
December 30th, 2009 ~ 2:09 pm2009 Highlights
- starred in a feature, Leading Ladies, which will be released in 2010.
- trained in ballroom dance for a month.
- let them cut my hair short (over 10 inches).
- shot on location for 5 weeks.
- have had 8 new credits added to my IMDB page this year.
- worked on almost 20 indie projects.
- half were leading roles
- used fight skills, dance.
- full facial prosthetics, plus hair pieces.
- learned to smoke a pipe.
- ranged from TV, theater, film and commercial.
- Got a Commercial agent
All in all, I can say 2009 has been great for me acting-wise. And I’ve already booked a short film shooting next week. 2010 is already looking pretty good.
My goals for 2010
- to get a Theatrical agent which will hopefully lead to more paid roles.
- I’d like to be getting co-stars and roles in bigger budget films.
- I’d like to become SAG eligible, but I’m still not interested in extra work, so it may take me a bit longer since fewer productions Taft Hartly lately.
- I am considering doing more physical training (dance, fight, etc.), but that will depend on money and time.
- I’m currently writing a screenplay (who isn’t, right?) so I’d like to have that finished, hopefully in the first half of the year.
Just an alien, looking for love.
December 21st, 2009 ~ 1:33 pmYesterday was awesome. My pals at Funbox Comedy are working with this director, Joy, and they are producing a sci-fi comedy web series. I auditioned for the lead, but did not get it. Joy really liked my read though so she had me come and be an alien for their faux dating site ‘Date a Human.’ I was a cat-like alien with tall blue hair and another girl was a sparkly fish-like alien. I had full on prosthetic appliances, airbrushing, synthetic hair. I remembered I still had fangs from The Night Life so I got a ride over to my place and got them. I wasn’t really paying attention, but I’m sure we got some funny looks. I looked like a Who from Whoville.
The whole process took over 4 hours! I will post pictures as soon as I get them. They took a bunch so I didn’t think to take any for myself.
We alternated shooting still shots and video. It was part scripted and part improvised. Some were over a green screen to use in the series as a sort of hologram and others were just inside and would just be for the website. They got coverage of both since they weren’t sure how they would use it in the series. They may end up using both styles if it works in the effects.
I was surprised all that stuff on my head didn’t itch at all, though the slits for the nose holes were limited so I did a lot of mouth breathing all day. She stuck it on really well, so I could move my face without worrying about it coming loose. Then it took like an hour to get it off at the end. And I had to take a long hot shower to get the remaining little goobers and paint all over. I probably still have paint on me today. But that’s ok because it was super rad. I can’t wait to see it. I love that type of thing. Even if it takes 5 hours.
Red Cross quicktime
December 8th, 2009 ~ 12:05 pmI contacted the company and they sent me a quicktime of the spot. Huzzah!
L.L. Trailer VO
December 7th, 2009 ~ 9:44 pmI went over to my friend Lawrence’s recording booth and did the VO for the trailer. It’s harder than I expected to get myself to sound natural reading copy like that. I’d be good on like half a take then go weird and stilted and back. It’s like there’s the ‘idea’ of what a trailer VO sounds like and then there’s just being a person talking. There were plenty of good takes and at least one where I did the whole script totally solid. I’m sure DB will find what he needs.
Looks like I could use a VO class if that’s something I want to start doing.
Anyway, hopefully the trailer will be all finished and ready to go with music and such soon. I want people to see it! It’s so great!
