Here I am giving Kara Doherty, who will be playing our main character's little sister, some direction at our cast readthrough. She was chosen from a pool of 30 candidates and we're excited to have her on board. In addition, we have finally completed our casting, tying up the loose ends of Dan's parents (Society Allegra Holmes playing Mom and David Simon playing Dad) and Raj, the Indian security guard, played by Sunjay Kelkar. For anyone who has read our blog to this point or anyone who will continue to read our blog despite Rich's posting of pictures of our production office (doesn't it look great? send money. please.), we are about to enter crunch time. Our shooting begins this Saturday, April 14th at Boston Beer Works near the TD BankNorth Garden. It's getting exciting and hectic as our shooting dates continue rapid fire (April 15th, 21st, 22nd, 27th, 28th, 30th, and May 5th).
From my point of view, things are coming along quite smoothly (as the rest of the crew curses me silently). I'll be having two more rehearsals this week with the majority of our lead actors in preparation for this weekend as well as future challenging scenes. But overall, I've been very pleased with the work our actors have put in to defining their characters with me, right down to defining every relationship and interaction even hinted at by the script. What's the deal with R.A.s Katelyn and Jeff? Our actors know the answer.
Speaking of Katelyn (Marie Polizzano) and Jeff (Timothy Aden), to the left is the best picture to result from our first publicity shoot. Possible captions include: "Living With Herpes, But Still Loving Life!" and "Cialis: Making Every Day Better" (feel free to post any more caption ideas here). The picture was also one of three (the other two were magnificent cast photos) sent to Variety to be included in an upcoming special educational issue. For those of you who don't know what Variety is, it's simply the only thing guaranteed to be read by everyone in Hollywood (or at least by their assistants/interns) on any given day. Not bad press for a student produced television show. The contact came from BU's Film and Television Department Chairman, Charles Merzbacher, who we all owe much thanks to.
From the standpoint of publicity, which I am teaming up with Susanne Dahl to tackle, we are getting things lined up quite nicely thanks in large part to a great deal of help from other BU students. Our logos are being designed by COM Senior Derrick Taylor. Our set photographs are being taken by COM Senior Emily Berl. And COM Senior Liz Osaki is, in addition to acting for us as a featured R.A., aiding us in coming up with a PR plan for our planned mtvU airdate in the fall. With their efforts combined, we hope to put together an effective strategy to be noticed outside of the Boston University community, as the plan is, of course, for Res. Life to air at colleges and universities nationally.Every member of the class has faithfully blogged during our pre-production phase, even if a few felt the need to call me out on my nagging them to do so. Susanne and I hope that even during the crazy time that is production, each member of the cast will find the time to write once, and then once more after production has wrapped in reflection of their efforts and the post-production to come for our editors. Perhaps if you are lucky, Rich will take some photos of the production truck and explain how we will possibly fit all of our equipment inside.
Until then, keep an eye out here for more announcements, including the launch of our website. Okay, well I guess I can let you in on just one secret: the address.
http://www.reslifebu.com
Pat
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