Last Day! And another mention by Claycord...

Today is the last day of filming....:(

Claycord.com visited the set yesterday and wrote a follow-up article to the one they posted on Sunday...check it out here. It has some on-set pictures from where we were filming last night.

We of course are very thankful and appreciative of Claycord's interest in our movie, and hope everyone stays tuned during post-production and all the way up to when the movie will be viewable for audiences everywhere!

I'll post again later, I gotta get ready for the day...

--Adrian

There's really only two more days left??

Update 10:23 PM - We're finishing up scenes here at Melinda's house. After tonight, we will be done with scenes here....just a few last scenes to shoot tomorrow and then production wraps for Love, Concord. To say that's a bittersweet moment is a big understatement, really.

During snack/dinner time tonight, Kurtis, our 1st AD, serenaded us all with a rousing rendition of the song from "An American Tail"...and the rest of us are fervently planning our wrap party/karaoke jam at some Bay Area location to be determined. That should be fun.

So that's pretty much where we are, just a couple minor scenes to finish tonight and then just one more day/evening of shooting and we're done. Wow.

I did manage to interview Jorge today...I hadn't interviewed him yet, and it was perfect timing, coming right after the KPIX news segment and their interview with him the other day.

This pretty much sums up what's going on right now, as we are almost finished for the night.

There will be more posting tomorrow, so stay tuned as we finish what has been an amazing few weeks, in my opinion.

--Adrian

1:25 PM - *sniff*.

Yes, today marks Day 14 of production on Love, Concord. We only have one more day of filming left tomorrow (barring any last-minute makeups).

This has really been a wonderful few weeks for me...the cast and crew of the movie have all been so much fun to be around all day every day. After we're done shooting this week, and we won't be meeting up every day in the morning, it's going to feel pretty strange.

Anyway, yesterday we finished at around 1:45 in the morning, after shooting some scenes in the parking lot of the diner we visited waaaay back on Day 1. Today's call time isn't until 5 pm, so I don't really know what to do with all this free time. I posted more pictures on the Facebook page from our shoots the past week and a half, so check those out if you haven't already.

I'll try to get a post out later tonight when we're finished for the day.

It's been a fun ride so far, and it's sad to think that it's ending soon, but at the same time it's great to see the shooting schedule mostly working out as planned. That's a relief to everyone, of course.

Until next time...

--Adrian

Thanks to all the new fans!

We have to take some time out here and thank each and every one of you who "liked" the movie on our Facebook page and/or read this blog as much as you can!

The folks over at Claycord helped us out tremendously with that article on Sunday morning, as our Facebook fan numbers skyrocketed in mere hours after the post went up. The comments keep coming in on that article, too. I posted about the Claycord article Sunday afternoon from the hotel where we were filming the prom scene, and things have progressed nicely since then, statistics-wise. More and more people seem to be finding out about what we're doing, which is nice to see. :)

KPIX CBS 5's piece on the movie that ran on the news last night was a great help, too. Ann Notarangelo and her husband John did a marvelous job, and it was really neat to see ourselves on the big screen TV.

Day 13 has been going well so far, it's been a less eventful/more light kind of a shooting schedule so far. Maybe we won't end at 2 AM tonight, maybe we will. I hope not, though.

We were just on the news!! and Live Blogging continued...

1:22 AM - Yep, still here...but we're almost done for the day! We just wrapped Kevin Copps (Melinda's dad), and we're finishing up a minor scene...I'm so tired I'm surprised my fingers are hitting the right keys...but soon we'll be done and can all get home and "recharge the batteries" before we reconvene tomorrow for Day 13.

To any new readers and fans of Love, Concord - thanks for the support! If you saw the CBS 5 report on the movie and made your way over here for updates, we appreciate it immensely...stay tuned for more posts every day (throughout the day, if possible) right up until we wrap production later in this week.

Tomorrow's a very busy day, so come on back to this page tomorrow for more detailed tidbits of what we're doing with ourselves.

--Adrian

12:12 AM - We're still here at Melinda's house shooting a very important scene in the film...and I think we still have one or two more scenes to finish tonight....so sleep will have to wait. The call time tomorrow is 1:30 PM, and I plan to sleep in rather than wake up early like I did today.

The set is still pretty much buzzing about the news coverage from earlier, as it's really great to see the local community and press take notice about the film. It must mean we're doing something right!

6:50 PM - KPIX CBS 5 just ran a feature on us on the 6 o'clock news! We're all really excited about it...Ann Notarangelo and her husband John were with us in the morning and just now at Melinda's house...check out the video on the CBS 5 website and spread the word!! :)

--adrian

http://cbs5.com/video/?id=66842

Live-Blogging: Day 12

Here we are again, on set at Melinda's House, for another day of filming. Thankfully, the house has magnificent air-conditioning, which is much more comfortable than the 90 degree weather outside.

We're filming some pretty intense and sensitive scenes today, so it's a closed set for most of us. Only Gus, Kosei, and the camera & sound guys are involved right now, the rest of us are in the kitchen staying away from the commotion so as to allow the actors to get in the "zone".

Later today, the CBS 5 news people are coming back! We're changing locations, and a news crew is going to visit the set at around 6 pm to report LIVE from our location. So yeah, we're all pretty excited about that. When I arrived at our location today around 1 pm, the CBS van was parked outside and a reporter was interviewing Jorge...she had already interviewed Angelina and Gus, so they're going to have a lot of good footage for the piece.

If you are in the Bay Area, please tune in to CBS 5 tonight at 6 pm, as their piece on Love, Concord is set to be broadcast during that time slot.

It's really exciting to see all this attention for the movie. It's great that people are noticing our commotion everywhere we go, as well as the fact that Love, Concord truly will be making history once it is completed. That was one of Gus's motivations for creating this movie, and it's really cool to see the public and press appreciate it as they are right now.

I'll be back later with some more on-set tidbits, I have to charge my computer a bit first....

--Adrian

So apparently we were on the news....

UPDATE @ 11:24 AM...I just received word that a news crew is coming out today to interview Gus and some of the crew, as well as film some of the set as we are working! We're all really excited for this, as it will help spread the word about the movie even more! The Facebook page has been growing in numbers frequently the past couple of days, and I can only see this helping that even more! I gotta go find a good shirt to wear, since we will be on television and all.... :)

CBS5 ran a short news piece about Love, Concord on the 10 PM and 11 PM news broadcasts last night...but I missed it. Had I known it was going to air, I would have been glued to the TV...I've tried to find the video online but it doesn't seem to be up yet. Needless to say, we're all very excited about that kind of coverage and hope the clip becomes available online soon.

We finished the prom scenes last night, and officially wrapped Blake Rosier ("Peter") and Logan Svenson ("Caitlin") for the film...which is bittersweet. When you start wrapping actors, that indicates that things are almost coming to a close...which they are, as this IS the last week, of course. :(

Anyway, we have a later start today (1 pm) before shooting more scenes at Melinda's House...so I should go and continue resting up before it's time to go. I'll be back later in the day...

--Adrian

Live Blogging is....Live!

6:30 PM Wow. BIG things just happened.

A CBS news van was parked outside of the hotel we are filming at today, and a cameraman came onto the set and shot some footage with a big video camera...apparently CBS might run a piece on Love, Concord and what it means for the city...it's pretty exciting to see this kind of buzz forming about the movie!

Also, Claycord.com just posted an article about our production this morning...and it already has fifty or so comments in just a few hours. I guess the "first movie ever set in Concord" aspect of the film is making people pay attention!

Read the article here.

I'll update more about this soon if there are any other developments.

5:11 PM I just finished some really nice chicken/mashed potatoes/vegetables, courtesy of Sandra...we're running a bit behind (due to the complicated nature of these types of scenes) but things are still going well. Jimmy's been hounding me about live blogging and how I haven't posted in 3 hours or something but I've mostly tuned him out. Hopefully he'll calm down a bit. (haha jk lol).

The scenes are going well, but they've been time-consuming. Complex scenes like these involve many different angles and close-ups and such, so it's been pretty interesting to watch each specific angle/close-up set up in the room. The extras have done a great job so far too, as the fake quiet dancing has been pretty convincing.

Zach just walked by me screeching like a pterodactyl....from anyone else in life that would probably be a bit frightening and off-putting, but since it's "Xachary" it hardly surprises/bothers me at all.

Alex just asked Kosei "do I look consistent??", which made me chuckle a little bit. Oh, film set humor.

I'll be back in a bit....

2:18 PM Whoa....this hotel has free wi-fi (complete with a little ticking clock intimidatingly counting down until 22 hours from now when my free window expires)....so this is a blog posted from the movie set.

We've been here since 9 AM...it's now 2 pm, and the Prom scenes are going well...the extras are doing a great job silently dancing to muted music while dialogue scenes are filmed. I was a bit bummed when I got here today that I couldn't be an extra (since my suit is down in LA) but I can't dance for real, let alone fake dance to silent music. That takes some serious skills.

Today's going smoothly so far, the scenes are looking great...we're filming some important scenes in the movie...so I should go and continue my behind-the-scenes stuff. I'll check back in a bit later.

--Adrian