We are on Day 7 of shooting Why I Murdered My Roommate. We are going into a night shoot tonight. And its cold!!! I'm kind of mad at my character Lush for being a dress and heels type of girl in the middle of winter. But then I think, hold on, its technically spring and its still cold as sh@!. This east coast weather madness reminds me why I live in Cali.
But a huge perk of shooting in a place like Buffalo is how welcoming it is. You don't get too many film productions here so securing locations and background people on a low budget is alot easier than a place like LA. The production value of this project is looking amazing but if we were in NYC or LA there is No Way we could have managed with the same budget. The location costs alone would be astronomical.
Another cool aspect is the quirkiness of the envirmoment. There's old silos, and quintensential 2 story homes and a holiday i have never heard of before called Dyngus Day. Its a polish celebration of fertility the day after Easter. Girls run around hitting boys with pussy willows and boys squirt girls with squirt guns...I mean this is the cool stuff you can't just make up. We got the jump on the back of a flat bed truck yesterday to be part of the Dyngus Day Parade in Character. It was pretty wild. I have never experienced anything like that as an actor before. Especially when i was squirted in the face with a gun filled with beer from the crowd! You kinda have to just go with it. Haha Here's a selfie as Lush with the Buffalo crowd!
Check out my instagram photos @ nicole_dionne and our productions Why I Murdered My Roommate facebook page aka #WIMMR
to stay in the loop of all the antics we have been up too. LUKIA AND MIKE Costello on the social media squad have been amazing!!
Another cool bit of news! Bobby & June : Impulse got into the 15 Minutes Of Fame Film Festival in Florida. It will officially screen on April 25th or 26th. Its a fun short i shot with Cary Mosier, directed by Mike Darling and written by rhe witty mind of Annie Wood. You should definitely check out what these kids are up to. We are official when we get Laurels! wooohoooo!
Find Cary Mosier at Cafe Gratitude LA and Gracious Madre LA
Find Mike Darling at Evalation Media Productions
Find Annie Wood at Anniewood.com
It was a long night shooting that ended in the rain. We got a big day tomorrow!! Signing off!
Xo
nicole
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