“Halloweed”

(click on the photo for a flickr set of all the thumbnails; photos by basselal)

Our third film, “Halloweed” is almost done being edited, but it won’t be publicly available as we are going to try to submit it to film festivals.  Wish us luck!

Written and co-produced by one of our founders, Tena Lewis (who did a great job on both fronts), “Halloweed” is a comedy that takes place at a college Halloween party.  Two stoners meet these hot chicks dressed as zombies and then try to hit on them.  Problem is… they actually ARE zombies.  This shoot was lots of fun.  For the first time, we had makeup and wardrobe people on board.  We were lucky that the folks at Closed Casket Creations were willing to help us out for free.  We also had a costume person help us out, someone who wants to break into film, and she was amazing, the way she found costumes for our extras.  The look of the film was perfect.

We started at around 5pm on a Saturday night and went all the way through to 6am the next morning.  And let me tell you, it was BRUTAL, but we got it done.  Again, I worked mainly behind the scenes (I basically managed the crew), but I learned so much about the process.  It really helped me to be prepared for our fourth film, “Tomboys” which I directed about a week and a half ago.

The director we had onboard for this one, Shaminder Dulai, works at the local newspaper as a multimedia guy.  He makes short documentaries on the fly for the paper’s website.  In the final product (sorry I can’t show it yet), you can really see how experienced he is, with the creative framing and movement and whatnot.

Another thing we have (we actually had this in the previous film, but I forgot to mention it) is an original score.  I am VERY excited about that.  Our resident musician/composer, Eric Helin, has been great about writing music for us.

Alright.  In the future, I’ll try to post sooner after our shoot dates (this was shot at the end of March) so I can remember more of the details.