06/07: Pics from our Official Wrap Party

Our Official Wrap Party for principal production on the film Eleven was held on Saturday evening, June 3rd, in Fairfax, VA. We took over the second floor of the Firehouse Grill in the heart of old city Fairfax and it was mad crazy fun. We got to show off our official film trailer (due up on Hi-Concept Films .com in the near future) and unveil our movie poster, which was all looking pretty good! Check it out yourself:

The mark of the beast.

My best friend Heather, our actors Emory Kristof and Joshua Zirger, our director Neil, me, and Jesse involved in a little group action.

Our director of photography, Pete Dowty, our director, Neil, and our production designer, Alessandra.

I love Pete! He's the greatest.

Jessica Hutsko and her man.

Pete and my man.

Emory got down on the dancefloor.

He did the worm!!!

I dared Jesse and Emory to hold a Dance-Off.

 

Mmm. Guiness.

My girls Deanna and Heather posing with Pete.

Me pretending to grab our male lead actor Ryan Mulkay's butt as he stood in line for a beer.

Producer Dave, Director Neil, Production Designer Alessandra in one of the most hilarious pictures to come from Eleven out of thousands taken.

Jessi, Pete, Myself, Heather

A director and his production designer.

I'm posing with our film poster-- you can see my name on the bottom in the credits!! (-:

05/01: Preparing for our Final Shoot

This past weekend was spent on the gas tank as we drove to NYC to chill with a favorite and much missed friend, then down to Burke, Virginia for a production meeting on our final big shoot.

First, we met at everyone's favorite location, the Frat house, and post-initiation party might I add, to capture the acoustics for voice overs that will be used to narrate parts of our film.

Director Neil mics our main guy.

Notice the George Mason University frat pictures there on the wall.

Outside said Frat house.

We took a break for some beers and talk across the street at good ole O'Toole's.

Next, we trekked to the City of Fairfax to scout our location for the May 14th shoot. It's the perfect location for our congressional campaign rally!

Myself, Neil, and producer Dave discuss possible blocking of our characters and extras.

This may have been where we were talking about the port-o-potties.

This is what a production designer looks like when she scouts her location!

We headed to GMU's Innovation Lab so Neil could capture a photographer's camera flash to use as a transition into a scene.

Smile!

We met up at HiConcept Films Studios to capture the voice overs recorded earlier in the day and screen some of the final cut of our film.

There's still so much I've yet to see, but from what I did see, I am extremely, EXTREMELY pleased. They've picked the indie music for many of the scenes and I am very enthusiastic about their choices. "Eleven" is going to be great! If I were you, I'd find a way to Fairfax, VA on May 14th for an afternoon, your last chance to be a part of something that's really going somewhere. More Info here: Calling all Extras!

04/12: Be an Extra in Eleven!

Casting ALL Extras!!


WHAT/WHEN:

Hi-Concept Films is in need of extras for the feature film, 11 on May 14th! The shoot will go from 2:30 pm till 5:30 pm.


The scene we are shooting is a Campaign Rally for the mayor of a small town

who is running for Congress.


EVERYONE IS WELCOME AND ALL ARE NEEDED!!


WHERE:

No matter rain or shinethe scene will go on!


Primary Location-

City Hall in Fairfax, VA

10455 Armstrong St.Fairfax, Virginia 22030

Parking available on Armstrong St.


Secondary Location (in case of rain)

Student Union Building 2, 3rd Floor, in the Ballroom (AKA-SUB 2 Ballroom)

on the George Mason University Campus in Fairfax, VA

4400 University Dr.

Fairfax, VA 22030


Parking available in Parking Garage directly across from SUB 2

-From Braddock Rd., take Roberts Rd to your first left into GMU.

-At Stop Sign take Left.

-Next Stop Sign (at Crosswalk) take your first Right.

-Parking Garage will on your left, and SUB will be to the Right.


Both Locations are only mintues away from each other!


BONUS!

FREE Food and Drink while you are there!

MOTHERS DAY Raffle, including gift certificates from Eclips Salon and Day Spa, Bed Bath and Beyond, Outback Steakhouse, Best Buy, and much more!


Please reply to hiconceptcasting@yahoo.com letting us you know you will be there!

Write CONFIRMATION in the subject header!


Please note, this is NOT a casting session, headshots and resumes are NOT needed.

This is a non-union shoot and there is no pay.

Please only serious individuals, who can and will make the shoot need reply!

Anyone under the age of 18 must have parent or guardian with them.

03/12: Angela Award ceremony

We gathered at George Mason University in Fairfax on a Sunday to hold a photo shoot of many principle actors for the film's poster. We hadn't seen one another in months so it was a very nice little reunion! Everyone looked a little different.

There's our producer, Dave explaining something to Dave Coyn, who plays the character Ron Price.

Our still photographer, Jason Hornick, eyes the lighting situation at George Mason University's Star Lab.

Josh and JJ each wait for their turn to be photographed.
Then, we broke for lunch.


Lunch makes us happy.

We then trekked down to one of the electronic classrooms to film a scene that is shown briefly in a !SPOILER! montage at the end of the film. Mary Lechter, who plays Angela Lynch, accepts a film award at a large Golden-Globe-esque ceremony. I made up a background to project onto the video blackboard behind our actor.




We had our extras dress in tuxedos and gowns, so I suggested that we pull one of the guys to be our 'award presenter'.



In the actual film, the shots will be a lot tighter, so composition-wise it will look more like this:

I didn't get great shots with my digital this time around, but I took better pictures with my Nikon 35MM that I will have processed soon.

I modeled the scene to be a cross between a photo I found of Blythe Danner and one of William Shatner, both accepting Golden Globes:


..I really liked the contrast of gold on vivid plum-blue, and the photos from the shoot don't show it very well, but we had Mary in a sparkling gold dress. The analysis of the scene for me was that the narrator, DE Randall, had spun a tragic tale of a terrible film that was made some years ago, and Angela Lynch was the only good thing to come from it. In a sense, Angela Lynch was DE Randall's human trophy. We made her gold and sparkling like the award she was accepting. Also, the rest of the film has very bold verticle and horizontal black lines in virtually every scene, for "11", this scene was to show that Angela rose above the tragedy surrounding the movie Lucifer Cicero, so I specifically designed a circular backdrop. Lucifer Cicero's spell had long since been broken, thus, no more parallel lines.