Editing for episodes 17 and 18 will start soon, the writing staff has been working on the fifth season of Pahala Shore. Actually they're working on Nailah's storyline since her character will go through a significant change then and the arc actually starts this upcoming season, so to provide for continuity they are working on completing the storyline before converting season four's storylines into episodes and scripts.
We're thinking about changing some of Carli's storyline so we can send her away for a season, the downside to working with teens and minor actors is that they grow up so fast, we're trying to get a waviar for her to stay in her teen lifestage longer than usual, especially since she just signed with Division Heights in addition to Pahala Shore. We shall see since Pahala Shore really isn't a child-friendly set and she will have very limited storylines until the writers see fit for her to enter Pahala University.
Speaking of Pahala University, we've been holding discussions with some designers about creating a line of Pahala University apparel for fans of the show to wear sweatshirts and tees of Pahala University. Also we're going to host a photo shoot with the cast to create a line of posters with Adrian from Simmerville. I might send an email to the agencies I work with so they can submit profolio photos of thier talents for posters with the company as well. It was refreshing to see my sister-in-law on a poster, I am going to buy one, for memory sakes. I wonder how my nephew is doing and what on earth is my niece up to? I wonder if she's still roaming the jungles trying to 'find herself'.
besos
Friday, September 29, 2006
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Working Hard for the Money
Just finished reviewing episodes 15 and 16. They are officially complete and ready to be aired next month. This week the network will aire episode 14 of Pahala Shore. Been thinking about revamping some of the pages of Pahala Shore, I wonder if the background is too busy for reading, but so far no complaints.
Talked with Sam Warwick of Suburb Sim about the storyline in question with Nailah. They are similar, VERY similar...at first. Then we talked about the future of the storylines and I feel that they are going in opposite directions, so we're going to keep the Nailah storyline, besides, our storyline will be next season, by that time the Suburb Sim storyline might be complete or well on it's way to a resolution. I don't mind having the critics compare our storylines at first, but they are distinctly different and the future holds two seperate endings for the characters involved on each series, so they are different storylines in the end. The writers are actually thinking about speeding up the resolution of Nailah's storyline so that it will end next season, I think that we should extend it over two seasons, that would give the audience more time to accept the resolution.
With this issue out of the way, the storylines for season two are well on thier way towards completion. Once we have agreed on the final version of the storylines then we can start putting them in an episode format and start filming. Thankfully we have the first two episodes filmed for next season and they require only a slight modification in order to transition smoothly and then we can get wardrobe and sets complete.
Well, I'm off to a meeting with the writing staff, we are working on a storyline for Hazel Starr and Alexis and Beck but we're going to work backwards from the solution to create the problem.
besos
Talked with Sam Warwick of Suburb Sim about the storyline in question with Nailah. They are similar, VERY similar...at first. Then we talked about the future of the storylines and I feel that they are going in opposite directions, so we're going to keep the Nailah storyline, besides, our storyline will be next season, by that time the Suburb Sim storyline might be complete or well on it's way to a resolution. I don't mind having the critics compare our storylines at first, but they are distinctly different and the future holds two seperate endings for the characters involved on each series, so they are different storylines in the end. The writers are actually thinking about speeding up the resolution of Nailah's storyline so that it will end next season, I think that we should extend it over two seasons, that would give the audience more time to accept the resolution.
With this issue out of the way, the storylines for season two are well on thier way towards completion. Once we have agreed on the final version of the storylines then we can start putting them in an episode format and start filming. Thankfully we have the first two episodes filmed for next season and they require only a slight modification in order to transition smoothly and then we can get wardrobe and sets complete.
Well, I'm off to a meeting with the writing staff, we are working on a storyline for Hazel Starr and Alexis and Beck but we're going to work backwards from the solution to create the problem.
besos
Friday, September 22, 2006
Tired
Things are going well, the network recieved the stills for episodes 15 and 16, the show now has to be formatted to be viewed by the audience. I am tired-work has been hard with the editing for the next season, doing last minute edits to this season (we're cutting the number of episodes from 10 to 8 in order to end on episode 20) and the subsequent seasons. Also keeping track of where the characters are going/have been so that we can pull storylines from them whenever possible.
We're toying with Nailah's storyline again. We had thought about her storyline in advance, but watching Suburb Sim the storyline seems a little too close to comfort to thiers. We might leave it as is and see if the Suburb Sim storyline develops to be similar to ours, if so-since they published thiers first-we'll have to change her storyline yet again. We only want a season long story arc, followed with a multi-season arc that is already planned, but we feel it would be too soon to throw Nailah into this situation given how this season ends, so that makes things a bit difficult. Perhaps we'll simply have Nailah play a more supporting role next season since this season her storyline is on the forefront.
Since we're discussing storylines I need to have a long chat with Alexis regarding the direction we want to take Missy. If she doesn't agree then we'll have to find another character for that storyline, but I'm sure that she'll agree once we sit down and work out the details and how it will improve her acting chops. We're looking to add a permenant character to the series and I'm desperately watching Make Me A Model since I have my eye on one of the contestants to offer them a recurring role on Pahala Shore and I want to send the offer as soon as possible. I am crossing my fingers that they get eliminated, which I suppose isn't too nice of me, but I want her and I usually get what I want. O, if she gets eliminated we can sign her up for the next season and work her into a storyline with Nailah and that will serve as her introduction to the Pahala Shore group. Two birds with one stone!
I had originally packaged the role for Montana Rolfe after seeing her test shots, but I was a bit too late as she already signed with Lock Bay, a new soap that should be coming to the screens soon. I am curious as to what the concept is, it seems like it is more of a mystery related series. Also another soap, Division Heights, is supposed to premire this October, so all in all, there are many more soaps coming the screen, so we have to make sure that Pahala Shore is top-notch quality in order to entice and keep viewers watching each episode.
We're toying with Nailah's storyline again. We had thought about her storyline in advance, but watching Suburb Sim the storyline seems a little too close to comfort to thiers. We might leave it as is and see if the Suburb Sim storyline develops to be similar to ours, if so-since they published thiers first-we'll have to change her storyline yet again. We only want a season long story arc, followed with a multi-season arc that is already planned, but we feel it would be too soon to throw Nailah into this situation given how this season ends, so that makes things a bit difficult. Perhaps we'll simply have Nailah play a more supporting role next season since this season her storyline is on the forefront.
Since we're discussing storylines I need to have a long chat with Alexis regarding the direction we want to take Missy. If she doesn't agree then we'll have to find another character for that storyline, but I'm sure that she'll agree once we sit down and work out the details and how it will improve her acting chops. We're looking to add a permenant character to the series and I'm desperately watching Make Me A Model since I have my eye on one of the contestants to offer them a recurring role on Pahala Shore and I want to send the offer as soon as possible. I am crossing my fingers that they get eliminated, which I suppose isn't too nice of me, but I want her and I usually get what I want. O, if she gets eliminated we can sign her up for the next season and work her into a storyline with Nailah and that will serve as her introduction to the Pahala Shore group. Two birds with one stone!
I had originally packaged the role for Montana Rolfe after seeing her test shots, but I was a bit too late as she already signed with Lock Bay, a new soap that should be coming to the screens soon. I am curious as to what the concept is, it seems like it is more of a mystery related series. Also another soap, Division Heights, is supposed to premire this October, so all in all, there are many more soaps coming the screen, so we have to make sure that Pahala Shore is top-notch quality in order to entice and keep viewers watching each episode.
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Behind the Scenes
Some behind the scenes work has been going on these past several days, I've been quite busy jetting bewteen Apple Valley and Italy to visit family and take care of business.
Last Actor Adopted. Beck (Randy) was adopted by Roswell and his information is online now. Olivia (Lani) was adopted by Simmerville and A'ron (Meka) was adopted by Apple Valley.
Set Location Moved. The set location has been moved to another locale, it was hard to keep the relationships of the cast seperated from thier real-life relationships and some townies seemed to be always around the set. Well the move has been finalized and the two main sets have been transferred. The crew has finished building a beach set for next season with the ice cream shop and boardwalk shop, not to mention the sandy dunes and tropical plants to finish the set. The crew is scouting locations for a ski lodge set for next season as well.
Season One DVD in process. Found a source to host the last season's episodes. Technicians are putting the episodes in downloadable formats and uploading them to the network. Hopefully this work will be complete by the end of the year.
Episodes 15, 16 are completely edited and packed, I just need to send to network. Now the next two episodes need to be edited and sent to the network. I have been thinking of chaning the episode airing schedule this season to ensure that we end the season with episode 20, that means season two will need to be altered as some of the episodes will need to flow into season two. This isn't a bad thing since that means that the first two episodes of season two are filmed, but reworking the timing of the storylines will take some work.
Been calling back actors for some scenes to be reworked. Thankfully we have new technology to make things a bit easier.
In Italy met with some family members and we looked through my brother and sister-in-law's assets-including the fashion house A. Petragnani. Right now there are not any new collections, but I wonder if we should revive the fashion house-at least to clothe the cast from Pahala Shore. We're having a hard time finding items for Jasmine's character (Nailah) since her style is comfy casual, but not college grunge. Also, Tatiana (Sierra) wears a lot of ethnic inspired clothing which is hard to find. I hate that this, but it's something we can look into.
besos
Last Actor Adopted. Beck (Randy) was adopted by Roswell and his information is online now. Olivia (Lani) was adopted by Simmerville and A'ron (Meka) was adopted by Apple Valley.
Set Location Moved. The set location has been moved to another locale, it was hard to keep the relationships of the cast seperated from thier real-life relationships and some townies seemed to be always around the set. Well the move has been finalized and the two main sets have been transferred. The crew has finished building a beach set for next season with the ice cream shop and boardwalk shop, not to mention the sandy dunes and tropical plants to finish the set. The crew is scouting locations for a ski lodge set for next season as well.
Season One DVD in process. Found a source to host the last season's episodes. Technicians are putting the episodes in downloadable formats and uploading them to the network. Hopefully this work will be complete by the end of the year.
Episodes 15, 16 are completely edited and packed, I just need to send to network. Now the next two episodes need to be edited and sent to the network. I have been thinking of chaning the episode airing schedule this season to ensure that we end the season with episode 20, that means season two will need to be altered as some of the episodes will need to flow into season two. This isn't a bad thing since that means that the first two episodes of season two are filmed, but reworking the timing of the storylines will take some work.
Been calling back actors for some scenes to be reworked. Thankfully we have new technology to make things a bit easier.
In Italy met with some family members and we looked through my brother and sister-in-law's assets-including the fashion house A. Petragnani. Right now there are not any new collections, but I wonder if we should revive the fashion house-at least to clothe the cast from Pahala Shore. We're having a hard time finding items for Jasmine's character (Nailah) since her style is comfy casual, but not college grunge. Also, Tatiana (Sierra) wears a lot of ethnic inspired clothing which is hard to find. I hate that this, but it's something we can look into.
besos
Friday, September 15, 2006
Showtime
The show premires today-we won't know how the reviews are until next week, but until then I'm simply enjoying my day off. Yes, I took the day off. I've been napping, shopping, and preparing the house for the premire party this evening-well, I've been giving orders on how to prepare the house and watching others do it.
I've been considering opening a VIP area for the show where the biggest fans can see the episodes early, be eligible for special prizes and discover information about the show that only VIPs know (think uncut footages, future storylines, etc). Also thinking of revamping the cast pages to reveal more about the characters themselves, but this would reveal information from past episodes. I'm still mulling over it and the possible need to expand our webspace. But I have so many plans for the Pahala Shore website:
I think I'll sleep on the list and slowly start making changes. I know that the cast pages will probably be revamped soon, but only the permenant cast would have these special pages, supporting/temporary cast would have smaller pages, but the other changes will have to be thought about in more detail. Thankfully, the Pennelson Production website is complete with it's changes. There might be some minor tweaking of some details, but otherwise it is finished.
The storylines for the second season are pretty much established, the writers are making some edits and taking the storylines and applying them into episode formats, once that is done-filming will restart, but filming also won't start until the episodes for the first season are edited and sent to the network. I plan on having the editors finish episodes 3 and 4 and package those to be sent out this weekend, but I have a busy week ahead of me with other business that who knows.
Thankfully the stills for episodes 3-5 are completely done, the other episodes' stills are almost edited and then editing can continue on that-editing is the longest part of the process, but since we have clear storylines and episode guides with the needed scenes and sets, filming doesn't take as much time. I want to be able to have this season edited and sent to the network by the end of Oct/mid Nov and then start on the filming for the next season and have at least the first batch of episodes sent to the network by the mid of December. This doesn't seem to hard, but I also wanted to put out a movie or two, and seriously consider the possibility of adding another series or mini-series, but it seems like this will have to wait until next summer when Pahala Shore is on hiatus. Which is well since I haven't found any scripts that captivate me as of yet-there are a few that intrigue me, but I need to reread them and I refuse to do that until the editing is complete for this season.
besos
I've been considering opening a VIP area for the show where the biggest fans can see the episodes early, be eligible for special prizes and discover information about the show that only VIPs know (think uncut footages, future storylines, etc). Also thinking of revamping the cast pages to reveal more about the characters themselves, but this would reveal information from past episodes. I'm still mulling over it and the possible need to expand our webspace. But I have so many plans for the Pahala Shore website:
-VIP section for exclusive members (access to mailing
list, special uncut episodes, hints about future storylines, prizes)
-Backstage section (include filming schedule,
bloopers)
-Revamp Cast Pages to include character
information
-Package previous seasons into
downloadable formats and store on another site to free up webspace
-Rename page names for better organization (should
retroactively do this?)
-Rename stills for better
organization
-Move to a new webspace
-Add poll about Lani-Russel-Meka
I think I'll sleep on the list and slowly start making changes. I know that the cast pages will probably be revamped soon, but only the permenant cast would have these special pages, supporting/temporary cast would have smaller pages, but the other changes will have to be thought about in more detail. Thankfully, the Pennelson Production website is complete with it's changes. There might be some minor tweaking of some details, but otherwise it is finished.
The storylines for the second season are pretty much established, the writers are making some edits and taking the storylines and applying them into episode formats, once that is done-filming will restart, but filming also won't start until the episodes for the first season are edited and sent to the network. I plan on having the editors finish episodes 3 and 4 and package those to be sent out this weekend, but I have a busy week ahead of me with other business that who knows.
Thankfully the stills for episodes 3-5 are completely done, the other episodes' stills are almost edited and then editing can continue on that-editing is the longest part of the process, but since we have clear storylines and episode guides with the needed scenes and sets, filming doesn't take as much time. I want to be able to have this season edited and sent to the network by the end of Oct/mid Nov and then start on the filming for the next season and have at least the first batch of episodes sent to the network by the mid of December. This doesn't seem to hard, but I also wanted to put out a movie or two, and seriously consider the possibility of adding another series or mini-series, but it seems like this will have to wait until next summer when Pahala Shore is on hiatus. Which is well since I haven't found any scripts that captivate me as of yet-there are a few that intrigue me, but I need to reread them and I refuse to do that until the editing is complete for this season.
besos
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Angry
The office has been a mess today-largely thanks to yours truly. Things were well until after my lunch I ordered that the newest issue of STAR be brought to my office along with some rose petal gellato. The interviews were great, gossip was tasty, but then I threw a fit! My plans for the talk show had been leaked! I was angry and started ranting and raving and throwing things-my assistant had to calm me down. Thank goodness I hired a good assistant, otherwise a lot of sims would be walking around headless. My assistant said that there isn't any indication that it was MY talk show that had been leaked since it simply said A talk show and listed three of the hosts we were considering. Also that those three sims were very popular at the moment, especially Gloria after her Golden Star win. That made sense, so I celebrated by going out for espresso and doing some shopping while the assistant made sure that my office was cleaned.
While sipping my espresso I saw Tatiana in a corner, it looked like she was reading STAR as well and looked as if she were...crying. I suppose she had gotten to the part about the object of her little crush, Chad, being a player. I wonder if I should make the writing staff observe the cast of Pahala Shore in order to generate ideas for the show. They are one...interesting bunch. Cheating spouses, forbidden loves, secret grudges, who knows what will happen next! As long as they do thier job, then I don't particullary care about thier off-set activities. Besides, they have free will, you can't control thier behavior.
There have been some minor complaints from the cast about stalkers from the hood, so we're considering moving the set to another location on Bottom Beach for the safety of the cast and crew. Now would be a good time to do the move since the cast is on holiday until filming resumes for the next season. Besides, we still need to build a few sets and scout out some locations...I'm thinking of using some of downtown Apple Valley for a few scenes, but it is so hard to control the onlookers-perhaps I should give Chang Lee a call and ask for some advice.
I'm anxious for some reason, I would like to add a new character since the college students are slowly aging out of college, but for now things are stable. We have a new actress for the new season, Montana Rolfe. I must say, she is perfect for the devilish role we cast her in. Speaking of roles, we're drafting the contract letters for the next season, so many of the cast will find out if they have jobs or not.
besos
While sipping my espresso I saw Tatiana in a corner, it looked like she was reading STAR as well and looked as if she were...crying. I suppose she had gotten to the part about the object of her little crush, Chad, being a player. I wonder if I should make the writing staff observe the cast of Pahala Shore in order to generate ideas for the show. They are one...interesting bunch. Cheating spouses, forbidden loves, secret grudges, who knows what will happen next! As long as they do thier job, then I don't particullary care about thier off-set activities. Besides, they have free will, you can't control thier behavior.
There have been some minor complaints from the cast about stalkers from the hood, so we're considering moving the set to another location on Bottom Beach for the safety of the cast and crew. Now would be a good time to do the move since the cast is on holiday until filming resumes for the next season. Besides, we still need to build a few sets and scout out some locations...I'm thinking of using some of downtown Apple Valley for a few scenes, but it is so hard to control the onlookers-perhaps I should give Chang Lee a call and ask for some advice.
I'm anxious for some reason, I would like to add a new character since the college students are slowly aging out of college, but for now things are stable. We have a new actress for the new season, Montana Rolfe. I must say, she is perfect for the devilish role we cast her in. Speaking of roles, we're drafting the contract letters for the next season, so many of the cast will find out if they have jobs or not.
besos
Monday, September 11, 2006
Season 2 Pre-Production
Pre-production for season two has begun. I've been having frequent meetings with the writers to determine the direction of some characters for the second season. We have finalized Erika's storyline and we're working to finalize Roxy's storyline. Nailah's storyline gave us some trouble, we had originally planned for a significant change in her life to occur during the second season, but we feel that this change is much too soon. As a result, her storyline for the second season was a blank slate, but now we seem to have settled on an idea for her and it will probably affect the future of her character greatly. Other characters' storylines are being refined and some are completely deleted. Hopefully we'll have the storylines finalized by October so we can begin filming for the second season. Also, once we get our mid-season reviews in October/November I can send out contract renewals with the possibility of bonuses-depends on how popular the show is.
The network has requested ten episodes a season and two seasons a year, so that means we need to get started with the second season in order to produce those episodes to the network by January, well at least a significant number of the episodes.
Finally got the Pennelson Productions website complete to my desire, for now. We're working on the Pahala Shore website, adding additional cast pages, creating templates for the behind the scenes pages-not to mention trying to put out publicity about the show's premire this Friday-I hope the cast takes plenty of photos, they're in for a wonderful night! Hopefully the show will be a success, but more importantly it will deal with real issues and real choices, not cliches. Well, I have another meeting with the editors tonight-we're trying to wrap up editing for episodes 3 and 4 in order to ship them out at the end of the month.
besos
The network has requested ten episodes a season and two seasons a year, so that means we need to get started with the second season in order to produce those episodes to the network by January, well at least a significant number of the episodes.
Finally got the Pennelson Productions website complete to my desire, for now. We're working on the Pahala Shore website, adding additional cast pages, creating templates for the behind the scenes pages-not to mention trying to put out publicity about the show's premire this Friday-I hope the cast takes plenty of photos, they're in for a wonderful night! Hopefully the show will be a success, but more importantly it will deal with real issues and real choices, not cliches. Well, I have another meeting with the editors tonight-we're trying to wrap up editing for episodes 3 and 4 in order to ship them out at the end of the month.
besos
Friday, September 08, 2006
That's A Wrap
Filming for the first season is complete. The writers are working on the remainder of the scripts for season two while the actors are reviewing the first script of the season. Jasmine is at home-hopefully on bed rest-she gave us quite a scare. The cast has a holiday until the premire date, Sept 15th, when I'm hosting a viewing party at my condo. Then Tatiana, one of the actresses is having a dessert reception afterwards. After the premire, they return to a relaxed schedule with minor filming, wardrobe and rehearsing.
Now that the actors have a break, the real work begins, editing the episodes, preparing for the next season, ordering the contractors to build the sets, not to mention altering the website to include more features and working on the Pennelson Productions website as well. Perhaps I should be more detailed.
Editing the remaining episodes. The scenes are filmed, but we have to edit eight episodes and package them to be sent to the network. Also, we have to change the way we save the stills...maybe not, we could just renumber the remaining ones to reflect thier changing from episode 1 to episode 13, etc.
Preparing for the next season. The writers have to finish the scripts and finalize the storylines, thus far they compressed Erika's (Daphne) storyline so that Blake and Jake's contract can be a bit shorter-(strictly budgetary reasons, not talent, besides, the storyline was dragging a bit much and I hate it when they drag) and created an one season storyline for Roxy (Ruth). They're also going through and revamping some of the other storylines, especially Carli (Hazel Starr) since we had to cut her scenes from the first season and brainstorming for the direction of the second season. Once that is done, then we move on to...
Building the sets. We will need new sets for the second season for a few additional locales, like Kevin's (Jake) apartment and Willis's (Blake) beachhouse and a sorority house and (my personal favorite) an ice cream shop on the beach. Also we determined that some sets were a bit too small, like Erika's (Daphne) office and the medical school set and we're going to try and work that in as a side storyline to the action.
Altering the website. I want to add some new features to the Pahala Shore site, such as a behind the scenes section with a filming schedule, bloopers and extra stills that didn't make it into the episodes. Also links and credits to the wonderful international set designers and wardrobe designers.
Good news: two of the adoptable actors have been adopted, in fact one is signed to Pennelson Talent Agency. Speaking of which, I want to edit and alter that site as well. Add a more user friendly layout with seperate pages for the films, mini-series, and series, also a section for the Talent Agency. Jaedon has pretty much given the reigns to me for the moment, I believe he's taking an extended break in Italy to handle some business.
All in all, things will be rather busy with these behind the scenes things, so the cast probably won't get much acting/filming in the next couple of weeks, mostly wardrobe and make-up for thier scenes for the next season, rehearsals and of course publicity tours. But let's not forget that yours truly will be taking plenty of holidays and relaxations in the midst of all this work.
besos
Now that the actors have a break, the real work begins, editing the episodes, preparing for the next season, ordering the contractors to build the sets, not to mention altering the website to include more features and working on the Pennelson Productions website as well. Perhaps I should be more detailed.
Editing the remaining episodes. The scenes are filmed, but we have to edit eight episodes and package them to be sent to the network. Also, we have to change the way we save the stills...maybe not, we could just renumber the remaining ones to reflect thier changing from episode 1 to episode 13, etc.
Preparing for the next season. The writers have to finish the scripts and finalize the storylines, thus far they compressed Erika's (Daphne) storyline so that Blake and Jake's contract can be a bit shorter-(strictly budgetary reasons, not talent, besides, the storyline was dragging a bit much and I hate it when they drag) and created an one season storyline for Roxy (Ruth). They're also going through and revamping some of the other storylines, especially Carli (Hazel Starr) since we had to cut her scenes from the first season and brainstorming for the direction of the second season. Once that is done, then we move on to...
Building the sets. We will need new sets for the second season for a few additional locales, like Kevin's (Jake) apartment and Willis's (Blake) beachhouse and a sorority house and (my personal favorite) an ice cream shop on the beach. Also we determined that some sets were a bit too small, like Erika's (Daphne) office and the medical school set and we're going to try and work that in as a side storyline to the action.
Altering the website. I want to add some new features to the Pahala Shore site, such as a behind the scenes section with a filming schedule, bloopers and extra stills that didn't make it into the episodes. Also links and credits to the wonderful international set designers and wardrobe designers.
Good news: two of the adoptable actors have been adopted, in fact one is signed to Pennelson Talent Agency. Speaking of which, I want to edit and alter that site as well. Add a more user friendly layout with seperate pages for the films, mini-series, and series, also a section for the Talent Agency. Jaedon has pretty much given the reigns to me for the moment, I believe he's taking an extended break in Italy to handle some business.
All in all, things will be rather busy with these behind the scenes things, so the cast probably won't get much acting/filming in the next couple of weeks, mostly wardrobe and make-up for thier scenes for the next season, rehearsals and of course publicity tours. But let's not forget that yours truly will be taking plenty of holidays and relaxations in the midst of all this work.
besos
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Episodes 1 & 2 Shipped
Today episodes 1 & 2 were shipped to the network. I was able to view them and they look rather well. Thankfully we have some better camera equiptment so future shots should be of better quality. The only thing we had to worry about was the numbering of the episodes. Should we start over-which was the naming tradition with the photos or continue the previous number. From now on, future stills will be named by season#episode#scene# or some variation of this.
Another actress, Montana, flew in for a small role, so we're going to send her through makeup and wardrobe along with Jack. She has a small role, approximately five episodes, but we're not near ready to start filming those scenes. The sets haven't been constructed-considering she appears in the second season. Until then, we're going to use her as an extra for some other scenes, of course she will be paid.
We expanded the wardrobe and found some new items for the cast to wear. We're trying to develop each character to have a distinct style, but since many of them are in college, thier style is pretty casual, however there are differences. Like Ruth's character, Roxy. She's artistic in nature, so her wardrobe is often brighter and contains more colors than Alexis's character, Missy, who wears a lot of neutrals, well-actually at the moment Alexis's wardrobe is pretty drab. Her character is not comfortable with the extra weight and she tries to mask it with larger clothing. I think the writers are going to allow her to lose the weight, but I think I would be interested in having a plus size character...mmm, perhaps if Lucy Bright from Make Me a Model doesn't get to the final round, I'll try to tap her for Pahala Shore. Look at me, I think far too much in advance sometimes. But there is a vast source of talent out there and I anxiously want to use it. Thankfully we have a lot of stories coming up that can tap that talent, also thankfully, the writers are not clingy with the characters, pretty much no one on the set has job security, we're already letting go of one cast member this 3rd season (watch for episode 22) and two other cast members are scheduled to leave (perhaps temporarily) during season 6 and we're toying with the idea of increasing the permenant cast and opps, no more spoilers for you.
The writers are trying to wrap up Erika's story so we will know how long Blake and Jake will be needed, or if they will be offered more permenant roles on the soap. I love listening to the writers brainstorm about the characters. They seem to have a knack for putting them in situations where there is not a defined good or bad, right or wrong. Like Lani's triangle for instance. Lani is torn bewteen her childhood love for Meka whom she have always held a torch for, but who has never returned the feelings and her high school love, Russel, who loves her dearly, but whom she doesn't love quite as much as Meka. Futher complicating the storyline are the personalities of the two men, does Meka really want her or does he want her because someone else has her? Does Russel really love her or is he in love with love? They don't let her get the easy way out with letting one be an serial killer and the other saves puppies from being hit by cars. Ok, that's enough scoop for you.
Pahala Shore will aire the 15th, not the 8th as planned. Publicity and marketing have backed the date by a week, but don't worry...I might give a teaser link from here so you can view it early.
Another actress, Montana, flew in for a small role, so we're going to send her through makeup and wardrobe along with Jack. She has a small role, approximately five episodes, but we're not near ready to start filming those scenes. The sets haven't been constructed-considering she appears in the second season. Until then, we're going to use her as an extra for some other scenes, of course she will be paid.
We expanded the wardrobe and found some new items for the cast to wear. We're trying to develop each character to have a distinct style, but since many of them are in college, thier style is pretty casual, however there are differences. Like Ruth's character, Roxy. She's artistic in nature, so her wardrobe is often brighter and contains more colors than Alexis's character, Missy, who wears a lot of neutrals, well-actually at the moment Alexis's wardrobe is pretty drab. Her character is not comfortable with the extra weight and she tries to mask it with larger clothing. I think the writers are going to allow her to lose the weight, but I think I would be interested in having a plus size character...mmm, perhaps if Lucy Bright from Make Me a Model doesn't get to the final round, I'll try to tap her for Pahala Shore. Look at me, I think far too much in advance sometimes. But there is a vast source of talent out there and I anxiously want to use it. Thankfully we have a lot of stories coming up that can tap that talent, also thankfully, the writers are not clingy with the characters, pretty much no one on the set has job security, we're already letting go of one cast member this 3rd season (watch for episode 22) and two other cast members are scheduled to leave (perhaps temporarily) during season 6 and we're toying with the idea of increasing the permenant cast and opps, no more spoilers for you.
The writers are trying to wrap up Erika's story so we will know how long Blake and Jake will be needed, or if they will be offered more permenant roles on the soap. I love listening to the writers brainstorm about the characters. They seem to have a knack for putting them in situations where there is not a defined good or bad, right or wrong. Like Lani's triangle for instance. Lani is torn bewteen her childhood love for Meka whom she have always held a torch for, but who has never returned the feelings and her high school love, Russel, who loves her dearly, but whom she doesn't love quite as much as Meka. Futher complicating the storyline are the personalities of the two men, does Meka really want her or does he want her because someone else has her? Does Russel really love her or is he in love with love? They don't let her get the easy way out with letting one be an serial killer and the other saves puppies from being hit by cars. Ok, that's enough scoop for you.
Pahala Shore will aire the 15th, not the 8th as planned. Publicity and marketing have backed the date by a week, but don't worry...I might give a teaser link from here so you can view it early.
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