The Apprentice

Friday, May 21 found me still searching for a couple actors for the shooting Saturday night. A stroke of luck or something found Amy Muthersbaugh driving right behind me in Eastgate. I called her and got one of the contestants for the Apprentice. The other was Eric Gray, who was nice enough to take time out of his busy night of studying to help me out. As for Donald Trump and his man advisor I went with two tried and true actors from our last shooting Reynolds Engelhart & Peter Lacey. Finally I rounded out the cast with a new actor to Canwell Films April Beiber as the woman advisor. Thank you to all of you. Look forward to this show, especially the glares of Trump and his advisors. Priceless!

The Last Albino Mohicans

The Last Albino Mohicans

The Last Albino Mohicans

It took 5 hours to film this particular scene. It is for the movie channel. We shot in the Fackenthall's backyard, a great place for movies. Peter Lacey lead soldiers Reynolds Engelhart and Caleb Nelson in trying to take over the land of The Last Albino Mohicans. Phillip Sherwood is the chief Mohican. While Tori Shelton & Anika Clark stepped in at the last minute as Mohicans. Thanks. Andrew Wyman kept things under control as Microphone Technician. I was impressed with how everyone worked well together. Even through all the violence, they were still friends when the day was done. Thank you actors and Andrew for the time spent making this scene. It's going to be a winner!

A Tennis Match

Sunday, April 2 we shot video for the sports channel. It was a tennis match between Andrew Wyman & Aaron Hays. It was quite a battle. Both had on shorts that stayed true to the name, "shorts." It was a fun, quick little shooting. Things get pretty heated at the end of the match, when we find out the competitors aren't as good sports as we would hope. One tennis racket was harmed during the shooting of this scene. Thanks to Allison Wyman for making an appearance as the ball girl.

The Mean Green

In every great Canwell Film there is going to be scenes that don't quite make the cut. Over Spring Break I was in Fairmont, B.C. and filmed one of these types of scenes. It was a commercial for The Mean Green, a device created by Johannes Fackenthall. It's not that the device was lacking. And it wasn't the actors; in fact we had a star-studded cast including Devin, myself, and my sister and brother-in-law Chelane & Johannes. No, it had to do with the lack of planning, no tripod, bad lighting, and in-camera editing. Yes, it might make the extras on the DVD, but not the movie. Canwell Films has a name to uphold, and by golly it's going to uphold it with style!

Animal Crackers

Here are screenshots from our first day of shooting on Sunday. I was privileged enough to recruit the acting abilities of Aaron Vizcarra, flown in from Southern...and Tori Shelton, fresh off the stage of The One Acts. This is a scene reminiscent of the animal crackers scene from Armegeddon...only a little bit less scandolous. I was able to talk Aaron into an onscreen kiss. I didn't post any pictures of the kiss, so you'll just have to wait and see the movie!