Good Mood Food Update

 Well, we just finished our first shoot for "Good Mood Food", and it went absolutely fantastic. This particular scene was of the main character, Jake, being bullied by a group of preppy douchers because of his immense love of Arbys. The bullies also be sure to throw in jabs about his alcoholic father and mother who was killed in car accident because of him on Christmas Eve. Sounds like a heartwarming story right? We are really excited to further explore this incredibly melodramatic story that centers around a boy's intense affection for the fast food conglomerate.

Despite a few hiccups, (we had to completely re-route all our lights when each one went out in the middle of a take) I thought the shoot went pretty smoothly. Kyle did a great job as our DP and got some footage that I can't wait to take to the edit room. We also had one of our actors use an iPhone to record the bullying first hand, which will provide some gritty first person footage to cut back to. I am really excited to keep the ball rolling and get going on our next shoot, which will probably be in the next coming week.

Arby's Project Update

So we literally just finished filming one of our scenes for the project and it went great. We filmed the scene in which (Jake) the main character played by Erich Westfield is being bullied in school on his birthday. The scene consists of a posse of 5 bullies who all make fun of him about his love for Arby's and the fact that his mom was killed in a drunk driving accident by his father. Kyle Vorbach (DP) did an excellent job filming the scene. He used a lot of great close ups and wide angle shots. He did the entire scene without a tripod in order to add to the atmosphere of the bullying. He wanted it to feel as if you were in a group of people spectating this in a school. We ended up filming in a hallway of the CHS building, where it looked most like a high school. We filmed for about 2 hours and are getting ready to plan our next shooting date, which will probably be early next week.