Actor Bio - Joseph Constantine - Bartholomew and Bandit

Joseph Constantine

Characters, Bartholomew and Bandit

Joseph’s main interests are: Languages, History, Reading and Writing.
 His favorite subjects in school are: Linguistics and Anthropology.
 Joseph’s two favorite movies are: Enchanted and Gnomeo & Juliet.
His thoughts about one of his characters: “Bartholomew is pretty funny.  He was kind of animated and a bit dramatic.”
What he liked about being involved with the movie: The fun hanging out with friends, getting to know people better and the amazing acting.
Other interesting things about Joseph: he is in college and likes many obscure things.
Other productions he was in: Teenwork’s Florence Nightingale as Florence’s father, Teenwork’s The Life and Death of Every Man as God, Teenwork’s Little Woman as John Brooke, 4-H Drama Club’s Beauty and the Beast as Prince Andres and Peter, and 4-H Drama Club’s Olivia Twist as Artie.
Joseph’s jobs were: Boom-operator; he also helped move supplies around and clean up.

Trailer

Official Movie Trailer....

Actor Bio - Director

The Director

Emma enjoys drawing, horse back riding and reading. She likes most of the subjects in school especially literature, science and writing. Emma’s favorite board games are Clue and Monopoly. Besides being the Director, she was the Extra Inn Maid and thought her character was “more the silent type.” What she liked about being involved with the movie is what she learned and being able to see her friends every week. Other interesting things about Emma is she enjoys contra dancing, she likes Lima beans and spinach. Other productions she was in was HPA's Sound of music, HPA's Seussical, various homemade movies and is currently in HPA's Wizard of Oz as Miss Gulch. Emma was the director, an actor, a camera man, editor, worked with sets and is an associate producer.

Actor Bio - Executioner and Bandit

Characters: Executioner and Bandit


Interests: drawing, Civil War

Favorite subject in school: History

His take on his character: “It was fun playing the Bandit”

Favorite book: Killer Angels

What he liked about being in the movie: Camaraderie and epicness of the filming

Other interesting things: He enjoys contra dancing.

Other productions he was in: HPA's Brigadoon, various homemade movies and currently in HPA's Wizard of Oz

His jobs were: actor, camera man, boom operator and sets

Actor Bio - Paul Steven - Leopold Kendrick

Paul Steven

Character: Leopold Kendrick (overprotective brother, rich lord)

Interests: weapons, hunting and nature

Favorite subject in school: Science

His take on his character: “I thought he was interesting to play, but he is a little bit “two-dimensional” because he is always getting angry.”

Favorite color: green

What he liked about being in the movie: the people

Other interests: Paul also enjoys going to swing dances.

Another production he was in: Lansing Christian’s “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat”

His jobs were: actor, sets and weapon supplier

Tom Sawyer on Ransoming

"Ransomed? What's that?"

"I don't know. But that's what they do. I've seen it in books; and so of course that's what we've
got to do."

"But how can we do it if we don't know what it is?"

"Why, blame it all, we've GOT to do it. Don't I tell you it's in the books? Do you want to go to doing
different from what's in the books, and get things all muddled up?"

"Oh, that's all very fine to SAY, Tom Sawyer, but how in the nation are these fellows going to be
ransomed if we don't know how to do it to them? -- that's the thing I want to get at. Now, what do you reckon it is?"

"Well, I don't know. But per'aps if we keep them till they're ransomed, it means that we keep them till
they're dead. "

"Now, that's something LIKE. That'll answer.  Why couldn't you said that before? We'll keep them
till they're ransomed to death; and a bothersome lot they'll be, too -- eating up everything, and always
trying to get loose."

"How you talk, Ben Rogers. How can they get loose when there's a guard over them, ready to shoot
them down if they move a peg?"

"A guard! Well, that IS good. So somebody's got to set up all night and never get any sleep, just so
as to watch them. I think that's foolishness. Why can't a body take a club and ransom them as soon as
they get here?"

"Because it ain't in the books so -- that's why.  Now, Ben Rogers, do you want to do things regular,
or don't you? -- that's the idea. Don't you reckon that the people that made the books knows what's the
correct thing to do? Do you reckon YOU can learn 'em anything? Not by a good deal. No, sir, we'll
just go on and ransom them in the regular way."

"All right. I don't mind; but I say it's a fool way, anyhow. Say, do we kill the women, too?"

"Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on. Kill the women? No; nobody ever
saw anything in the books like that. You fetch them to the cave, and you're always as polite as pie to them; and by and by they fall in love with you, and never want to go home any more."

"Well, if that's the way I'm agreed, but I don't take no stock in it. Mighty soon we'll have the cave
so cluttered up with women, and fellows waiting to be ransomed, that there won't be no place for the robbers. But go ahead, I ain't got nothing to say."

From "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain

Actor Bio - Anna Therese Lynn- Josephine Pickering

 

Character Stats

Name: Josephine Pickering
Profession: Lady's Maid
Quote: “Miss, how am I going to accompany you?!  I was not trained to become a foot soldier.  I’m sure I would die if I had to walk!  What am I to do?  Oh!  Please reconsider, stomping horses are very frightful!” (Typical Josephine hysteria, she tends to talk in exclamation points).


Actor Stats

Name: Anna Therese Lynn
School: High School
Movie Jobs: Actor, Scriptwriter, Costume Designer, Part-Time Boom Mike Operator, Part-Time Hair and Make-up Artist
Interests: Acting, Sewing, Art, Horseback Riding, Music, Writing
What Anna Thinks About Her Character: "Josephine is high strung and very hysterical.  She's also very temperamental when it comes to "protecting" Molly.   She was an interesting character to play.  My favorite part about acting Josephine was pretending to get mad at Eliza.  I also liked being disdainful to Bartholomew and Wallace.  One of the most difficult things to do was to act flustered when my lines weren't all the way memorized."
Acting History:  Anna has acted in many home movies before, as well as an advertisement for Harvest Sun Homes (a real estate company and one of the producers of Ransomed).  She also was in HPA's theater productions of The Sound of Music, Suessical, Brigadoon, and is currently rehearsing for The Wizard of Oz.  She has attended a film camp at Compass Film Academy.
Favorite Subject(s) in School: History, Science, Fine Arts
A Few Things Anna Liked About Being in the Movie:  The fellowship among the cast/crew and making the costumes.
Anna's Favorite Color(s): Purple and Blue.
 

The Last Day of Filming

The "siblings" Molly and Leopold

Fafika

     We had our last official day of filming today.  It's rather odd to have no more days of shooting ahead of us (just days and days and days of editing!)  The cast, though, decided to drag out the filming as much as they could, I think, for we got our record of the most takes (47!) today.  Besides a few camera issues and a few (okay, allot!) of giggles on camera, everything went well.

Cast and crew going over various...important...documents

    Keep watching the blog, as we are going to be putting up actor and crew bios every week!  Should be interesting as we delve into the deepest, darkest secrets of these people -- like what their favorite kind of cereal is.

Lady Sarah's House

Today we filmed some of the scenes at Lady Sarah's house.  The Benavides' were kind enough to let us film in their beautiful home, which is amazingly decorated and looks great on set.  Everything went well, the acting was great (though we had some bloopers, which were hilarious).

Roma Camp Scene

Today we filmed the scene in the Roma camp.  A lot of folks came to help by being extras.... THANKS!!!  We had a total of 9 extras of all ages.  Everyone did great!  We also had a bunch of people come just to do sets, which was very helpful.  Overall, a good shoot!

To the left is a picture

of the building of

one of the tents. 

Garden Scenes

The weather was perfect for filming our scenes in the gardens at the English Inn today.  The staff was kind enough to turn the sprinklers off for us so we could get some cool shots down by the river.

(This was helpful since they didn't really have sprinklers in the Georgian Era for some weird reason.  Of course, a history buff will soon inform me that they did indeed have some sort of watering system).

 We also got some fun shots by this lovely little pond they had with a bench by it and a fun fish fountain (say that five times fast) in the middle (they did have fountains in the 1800s, though we ended up turning it off).

We also filmed scene 3, which went well (even though a few of the actors did get stepped on by the horse and, strangely, by each other).

Inn Shoot

Today we shot a few scenes at the English Inn.  It went well, the staff was great working with us.  We shot in the Windsor Suite, pictures of which are to the left and below.  (The electric fireplace was awesome for shooting!)  As Molly woke up in the movie, she also got to pretend to sleep in the super-comfortable awesome bed, which she said was heavenly.

 

Want to be in the movie???

We are looking for

extras

for the movie shoot this Friday (8/12/11).

We need all ages.  Families with a parent or two would be best.  Everyone would need to be at our house at 11am on THIS Friday (8/12/11).  Shooting will go most of the day (could go as late as 9pm). 

We will be shooting a scene in a gypsy camp.  Basically all extras would just be hanging around the camp, not saying anything - just acting like gypsies (no creepy gypsy rituals, though).  If anyone plays an instrument (like violin, viola, guitar, flute, or dulcimer), we would like to know as we might have a gypsy or two playing an instrument and/or singing.

If you (and/or your family) are interested in doing this, please contact us ASAP at epicsummermovie@gmail.com (we want to work on story boards Wednesday night and Thursday, so we will need the  "extras cast list" finalized before then).

Everyone who comes will need to bring:
    Sack lunch and dinner
    Snacks
    Water bottles
    Any gypsy-like clothing you have (scarves, skirts, shawls, shirts, pants, etc)

Please do not be offended if we end up not using your clothing.

When filming, meeting, etc. we would like people to wear modest clothing.   Please nothing that shows thighs, cleavage, or belly; this would include any non-gypsy clothes you may wear upon arrival or departure (also nothing extremely tight or with obscene words/pictures).

    Any gypsy-like jewelry and/or trinkets you may have (rugs, necklaces, earrings, BANGLES, belts, odd knick-knacks, candles, old-fashioned fake weapons, etc).

Filming "On Location" at the English Inn!

We are blessed to be able to film the Inn scenes at the beautiful English Inn located just outside of Eaton Rapids.  They have been so gracious to work with us.  On Tuesday we will film indoors on the staircase and in one of their lovely B&B rooms.  Then, on Wednesday we will film out back in their beautiful gardens.  THANKS again to the English Inn for supporting this youth project.  You can show your support to them by checking out the English Inn's Website or their FB page.

Battle Scene

 

We filmed the Battle Scene today.  Very fun and exhausting!  You never think of all the blocking and takes (and takes, and takes, and takes!) that go into even a short battle scene while you're sitting watching a movie.

A Bloody Awesome Take!

Well, today we learned how to make Molly look bloody, and as one cast member said, she looks "bloody awesome"! 

Thank you God for the rain and fog, which helped make this scene even cooler!  (And for holding off the severe thunderstorm until we were done filming).

Bruises and Cuts.

We filmed a very intense scene today, and found out how to make awesome looking bruises and cuts.  We can now say that we have poured out our blood, sweat and tears...and filmed it!

This tree on the left was transformed into an amazing set with an intense life-or-death situation.

Gunsmoke

Here's a small video to get you guys excited for the movie.

Capture Scene

Filming of the Capture Scene went really well this yesterday!  We got great footage of the runaway horse and gunshots! (Done safely with fake guns...but real firecrackers...hehehe).

The film has been named... Ransomed

Despite incredible heat... filming continues on the EPIC SUMMER MOVIE:

Ransomed

Yes, the movie now has a name!!!!

The original message that started it all!

We would like to make a movie over the summer, and want to hear our friend's ideas and what they would like to do.

We'd like it to be in the Georgian Era (1714-1830).

When filming, meeting, etc. we would like people to wear modest clothing. Please nothing that shows cleavage or belly, shorts no higher than finger tip, and skirts not above the knee. Also nothing extremely tight or with obscene words/pictures.

Jobs we need people for:

*Co-Director* (Need someone 16+ who has experience working with people and home movies and/or theater and is willing to devote time and effort to this project). (Could have level 1-2 acting role, but not required)

*Scriptwriter* (Need someone who has experience writing and is willing to work with us on story ideas). (Could have any acting role, but not required)

*Camera Supervisor* (Need someone who has experience working with cameras and is willing to oversee people on several cameras). (No acting role)

*Cameramen* (Need several people who have experience working with cameras. Own equipment is ideal, but not required). (Could have level 1-2 acting role, but not required)

*Tech Operator* (Need someone who has experience with tech stuff and will be in charge of miscellaneous equipment. If owns lights/sound equipment, that would be awesome ). (Could have level 1-2 acting role, but not required)

*Set Designer* (Need someone artistic and flexible working with director's ideas). (Could have any acting role, but not required)

*Production Coordinator* (Need someone who can be at shoots to make sure everyone and everything is in the right places and wearing what they need to be. Think stage manager for a movie). (No acting role)

*Hair/Make-up Stylists* (Need a few people with LOTS of experience working with this kind of stuff and are willing to work with director's ideas). (Could have level 1-2 acting role, but not required)

*Schedule Coordinator* (Need some who is very organized. Doesn't need to be at shoots but makes sure that the shoots get scheduled at the right places with the right people and things at them). (Could have any acting role, but not required)

Jobs we've already found people for:

*Director* Emma ***

*Costume Designer* Anna ***

*Co-Costume Designer* Amber ***

*Animal Supervisor* Amber ***

We also need various levels of actors:
(All actors need to be willing to work with a director and be patient and flexible).

*Level 1* (Extra, would come to a few shoots. Needs to comfortable in front of camera, but won't need to say anything).

*Level 2* (Semi-extra, comes to a few shoots. Needs to be comfortable with saying a few lines).

*Level 3* (Semi-main, not as much shoots and lines as a main. Needs to have experience acting or willing to learn).

*Level 4* (Main, lots of time invested learning lines, shooting, etc. Needs to have experience acting or willing to learn).

Can audition for all levels, or just a few.

We would like to have a coordination meeting sometime the week of June 6th-10th when the people interested in the jobs above will meet and figure out what we're doing. The majority of the filming will be done in July and early August.

Please message us on which positions interest you.

P.S. When filming, meeting, etc. we would like people to wear modest clothing. Please nothing that shows cleavage or belly, shorts no higher than finger tip, and skirts not above the knee. Also nothing extremely tight or with obscene words/pictures.