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