bonds

I did the production design for Bonds; a film written and directed by Janice Lee. If anyone remembers the show Ready or Not, the woman who played Busy is the star of this film.

Unfortunately due to massive need to be in classes, I could only be on set for a couple of the days, but the wonderful Crystal Basaez took care of the on set art tasks while I was away.

Here's some stills from the two main locations:

It will be screening on the evening of April 20, 2010 at the Price Family Cinema at York University. Can't wait to see how it turns out!

barbell boy

As previously mentioned HERE, I worked on a film written and directed by Taylor Bateman in February as the Production Designer. I got to design and build my first set in the film studio at York University. It's meant to be an imaginative/creative teenage boy's bedroom. It was exhausting, but a lot of fun to build! I was sooo happy to see it once it had been properly dressed and the actors and crew came in to shoot.

Here's some random stills from the production:

I haven't seen a finished version of the film yet, but it'll be screening sometime near the end of this month. Can't wait to see it! :)

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production designer habitat, originally uploaded by avalilly.

Last week's photo. I was busybusy times on set, so I just snapped this really quick at lunch time since I didn't have time to do a planned photoshoot of any kind.

'Tis the set I designed and built in the sound stage at York! I now want tinfoil stars and christmas lights everywhere in my life.

I'll upload a selection of production stills once I catch up on all the work I've been neglecting to do in liu of this film~

fear

I Art Directed another 4th year York University film recently; written and directed by the fabulous Shannon Fewster (cutester!). It shot from November 19-23, 2009 on many locations with many characters! I only have snaps from a couple of the days though; the classroom and the car scenes. The actual classroom was very bare bones, so we needed to make it fun and math-y looking. The car scene was pretty light for my department, but I got to wrangle some raindrops and how often can you say you've done that~

This still kills me. I know it's so she can see the monitor better, but it still looks like a lunch bag to me.

Check my raindrop skills.

The film won't be completed until the end of the school year, same with Boycatt, so unfortunately I won't know how either of them turned out until I get to see them at the end of year screenings.

Fortunately, I was recently contacted by my director for It's Raining and he's sending me the completed copy of the film. Can't wait to see it! I may be working with him again on his next project, so perhaps you'll be seeing more updates from me on that front.

And now, back to my many remaining final projects for the semester...

boycatt

I worked on another film over this past weekend. It was directed by my ol' roommate Tess Marie Garneau. It shot from October 22-26 for a 4th year York University student film production in quite a variety of locations. Unfortunately I was too busy to take stills in a few of the places, but for the park day I had some spare time to run around with a camera.

The majority of these photos will be from the outdoor pet show scene. We shot in Trinity Bellwoods dog park and it was a gorgeous fall day!

Our AD taking a break under a tree at lunch.

Is this not the dog from the Sand Lot?

This is 'Lole', he's a little down on his luck.

Our Production Manager doing a little dance.

I had to make a giant cheque for our pet show winner.

Cinematographer.

The pet show set.

The make up team.

The evil encyclopedia salesmen mafia.

Our lovely director... being lovely.

 The main cast, sans Milo the cat.

It was an interesting five days. I learned a lot, had some fun, and worked with some pretty rad people (for the most part).

My roommate will be editing it, so when he gets around to sorting out the footage I'll see if he can provide me with some stills from the film to show ye alls. The colours in this movie are going to be beautiful, I can't wait to see the final product.