Producer’s Blog: Dragon Con & Scarefest Back to Back!
So this was one of the toughest shoots I’ve been involved in so far. It’s not because this show was so tough to shoot. It’s simply due to timing. One weekend we were at Dragon Con, the convention from episode one of Con Trek, and the very next we went to Lexington, Kentucky to shoot Scarefest. So I settled into this shoot already exhausted from Dragon Con. It’s challenging to go into a lengthy shoot and not be at full energy. Thankfully Mike and our guest PA Stephen Zimmer were fantastic help and they really played a big part in keeping the production moving forward.
Scarefest will end up being our Halloween special for the XBOX and I’m actually really excited about that. We managed to get some fantastic interviews for this episode! The final look and feel of the episode will more than likely be a cross between Dragon Con and Wonderfest. There’ll be costumes and crazy programming but there will also be solid interviews with industry professionals. Some of the interviewees include Danielle Harris (Halloween 4 and 5, Halloween I and II, Urban Legend) and Doug Bradley (Hellraiser). Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th films) also offers up some great Q&A plus he chokes Alan out which is always fun. As soon as the episode goes live we’ll have a full episode guide entry right here! Here are some pics taken by Mike at the show: http://digs.by/KZ9
Along with prepping this footage for post production we are also working on assembling some video from a Halo 3 event we shot at a cool gaming store called The Score (www.thescoreonline.com). Brittney and Alan hosted the competition and we interviewed some of the players about videogames and more. This video will be made available in a number of ways to be announced very soon. On top of all of that I’m starting to look at the script for the season finale to be shot in late October. This episode is still very early in development so I don’t have a lot to say about it just yet.
At Dragon Con we were given to panel opportunities. Suzie (co-producer) and I hosted the first one and Alan joined us for the second one. Both panels went great with nice attendance, especially considering they were scheduled for 10pm. We showed the complete Dragon Con episode of Con Trek and we showed several scenes from our feature film Fans and Freaks: The Culture of Comics and Conventions. I posted a few images from this year’s Dragon Con here: http://www.mania.com/13-cosplay-photos-from-dragon-con_article_117506.html