Showing posts with label saw. Show all posts
Showing posts with label saw. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

#32 Wine, Movies, and Beats

Before I start, I must share Little Spoon Productions newest creation! Pantene put together a contest for their new product line. Little Spoon came up with a completely unique concept that we hope will get the Pantene judges laughing. Check them out here...

"Shampoo Heads"
30 second spot

You can connect using facebook to "like it" by clicking the heart on the video. We put a lot of hard work into making these videos. We had a lot of help from our friends who were thankfully willing to look silly out in public. We hope people enjoy watching them! Wish us luck and I'll keep you updated!

We still don't have the final word on FedEx. We unfortunately were not one of the top 3 videos selected, however they are considering buying more videos. We are still keeping our fingers crossed! We are super proud of our FedEx commercial, and either way we have something great to show potential clients. Speaking of clients! Little Spoon might have landed our first client. Nothing is official yet... but if all goes well I will have lots to tell you about in my next blog! Think positive thoughts for us! This could put Little Spoon Productions on the map!

I also wanted to mention a side project that I am helping my friend Brandon Dermer with. He has a huge passion for music and his newest musical venture is Babe Lincoln. You can best describe his beats as electronica dance mixes influenced by 80's pop culture. His debut album is called 8086 and is debuting this summer. You can get a taste at his website http://www.babelincolnbeats.com/ . He will be collaborating with other artists including our favorite YoutTube famous comedian, Jon Lajoie. You may wonder what's my part in all this - well I am none other then the babe of Babe Lincoln. I am featured as his cover art and will be helping him when he gets his show put together.



Alright enough business talk! On Easter weekend my friend Gary invited us up to his place in Santa Barbara. This was my first visit to this beautiful county. I've always wanted to go because if you know me - I'm a huge wine-o! So needless to say he had me at "wine tasting." In one day we went to 3 wine tastings. Two of them were on an actual vineyard, which was just stunning walk around in. Melville Vineyards was my favorite because we had our tasting out on this porch area - sipping wine in the brisk country air. Then we went into this cute little town and visited a wine tasting there called Carivintas Winery. This place was very special to me because they rescue animals as well. They actually put a picture of the animal and their story on the bottle of wine. I had to buy a bottle from here, being the huge animal lover that I am. The rest of the weekend can be related to Hot Tub Time Machine.

Speaking of Hot Tub Time Machine... haha I love how everything in this blog connects. This was a terrible, terrible movie. One 'terrible' just doesn't do it justice. I thought it had its moments - one being when they first realize they've gone back in time and they ask if Michael Jackson is black or white. I thought that was hysterical! However, maybe it's because I'm a girl, I just couldn't get over it's chauvinistic humor. So it doesn't surprise me when a guy tells me that they liked it.


The only good thing about this movie-going experience was that it was at a drive-in! Yes, Hilary and I actually found one about 40 minutes away in Montclair. It is only $7 for two movies! How crazy is that?!?! I didn't think cheap theaters existed anymore. So we saw a double feature of KICK ASS and Hot Tub Time Machine. They even replay the first movie again if you missed it. So it's actually a triple feature for $7! I really enjoyed the movie Kick Ass. I thought it was visually amazing and had a great story. You will instantly be in love with Chloe Moretz and her Hit Girl awesomeness! The theater was great but these were both Rated R movies and you wouldn't believe how many kids under the age of 13 I saw there. They have ratings for a reason. Some parents need to grow up and get a clue. Kids are already growing up too fast as it is.

Just a side note on my life - I have a new roommate now. Dee has moved out and my friend Matt has moved in. Yes, we are now 3 girls and 1 boy. We'll see how this dynamic works! I think it's going to be a lot of fun. I already really enjoy living with him. A year later, our apartment is finally starting to look like a grown-up apartment! We finally have a kitchen table, nice couches, rugs, and a fondue pot! It's all coming together. And the cool thing is that location scouts for movies, tv shows, commercials, and more can choose to use our apartment for their shoots. We had a location scout for Toyota come look at our apartment yesterday for a commercial they are shooting. Hope that pulls through for us!

So that is all for now! I'm going to leave you with a nice picture of me playing around with a Saw prop at work! This is the infamous Bear Claw! I was hoping they'd let me wear it all day at work so I can scare the people who come in for meetings. Unfortunately, it's extremely heavy and pure metal. Oh well I'll just stick to hitting people with a rusty nail baseball bat. Bye!

Monday, March 22, 2010

#31 Sundance/Evolution

Man this year has started off with a BANG!

Before I get started please check out the FORD FIESTA advertisement I am in! It is now airing as an ad on Hulu and hopefully will make it to TV! It's amazing! I can't wait to get my Fiesta back!

Ford Fiesta Commercial

First things first... Sundance! I had the amazing opportunity to go to the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. I had never been to this festival before and couldn't believe that LitPost was going to take me along for the ride! As I mentioned before LitPost had worked on 2 films that were headed to Sundance: "Frozen" and "The Perfect Host." For those of you who don't know Sundance takes place in Park City, Utah. When we arrived there I felt like I just walked into my mom's snow village that she puts out every Christmas.

It is definitely one of the cutest town's I have ever seen. Out of all the films I saw that week, I am still proud to say that the 2 we worked on were the best - and I would have no problem admitting defeat. There was a lot of competition and I wish I could have seen them all! While I was there I also was given a free L'Oreal makeover and was interviewed by The Sundance Channel. A day after I put up this blog the GM of the Sundance Channel had read my blog and found the L'Oreal advertisement that I was in! Anita, one of the producers, contacted me to with the link. They shared it with me so I get to share it with you! Here it is!

Sundance Channel L'Oreal Beauty Ad

I went to plenty of films, but I soon found out that Sundance is one of the greatest spots for networking. I'm sure people go there just for the parties! The party atmosphere was nonstop and around the clock! Lucky for us we had no problem getting into some of the hottest spots! Each event was completely different which made it that more fun! I didn't have to pay for a drink the whole trip because it was all open bar. Some of the celebrities I saw at these parties: Orlando Bloom, America Ferrera, Adrian Brody, Gerard Butler, Kevin Connolly, Harvey Weinstein, and Elijah Wood.

After Sundance, Frozen was distributed by Anchor Bay Films to a limited number to theaters across the country. However, it did not do well enough to expand to more theaters. I was able to see it again on the big screen in LA. It was amazing to see my first on screen credit! That was one of the best feelings ever - which just verified my love for this business! Make sure you keep a look out for it when it comes out on DVD. It will definitely make you question your love for skiing! It is a really great film and I wish it would get the recognition it deserves!

When I came back from Sundance I was offered a job at Evolution Entertainment/Twisted Pictures. Evolution Entertainment is the management side of the company and Twisted Pictures is the production side! Twisted is best known for the SAW franchise! This company is vastly growing, which will allow me to learn and grow as well. I am filled with excitement about my new position, however I will miss the guys at LitPost. LitPost was a great first job to have out here in LA. I will forever be grateful for their kindness and guidance.

As for our production company, Little Spoon Productions just entered our first contest of the new year. FedEx is launching a new campaign called Think FedEx First and they reached out to the viewers to create videos with this theme. Our company created 2 campaigns for this idea.

"All the Small Things"


"FedEx Guys"



You can easily connect to this website using facebook if you want to "Like" or comment on our content! We are thrilled with these spots that we have created and hope that FedEx likes them too! "All the Small Things" is #1 in popularity out of 153 entries! Wish us luck!

Hope you all had a happy and safe St. Patty's day! My first St. Patty's day in LA was filled with celebrity sitings! I ran into Chris Pine from StarTrek, Kevin Durand who plays Keamy on Lost, AND Mindy Kaling who plays Kelly Kapoor on "The Office!" All sorts of craziness on this green holiday!

Now that I'm all settled in my new job - I will be better at keeping up with my blog! Sorry to keep you waiting!