Princess Leia's Match.Com Ad

I've been patiently waiting for almost 2 weeks to see our Match.com Parody starring Princess Leia (me) from Star Wars and it's finally here!!  All the hard work, getting in shape, not eating my Chipotle on set until we were completely done filming was all worth it!

We had an awesome time filming our 3 parody's that day and there's one more that will be airing on YouTube next week to finish off our Trilogy!  I hope you enjoy it :)

Star Wars Match.com Parody

Almost 2 weeks ago it was time to shoot my Match.com Parody dressed as Princess Leia!  I had worked an insane weekend, doing a double shift the day and night before at The Garage and then Bar Lubitsch, but luckily my call-time was at noon and the shooting location was just blocks from my apartment.  Score!

Setting up our shot for the Match.com Commercial

When I got to set they were just finishing up with one of three Match.com Parody Commercials they were shooting that day so I got changed and ready for mine.  We had a script but did a little improv as well and since I know very little about Star Wars I was given some ideas but came up with a fun little fact that you'll see once the commercial is out ;)  It was a really quick shoot, as all locations were the same for everyone starting with the Confessional style part, then Princess Leia and the other female dater getting ready for the date, then we had our first meetings with our dates, and we finished with a shot of us walking off into the sunset.

Of course, as soon as the shoot was over it was Paparazzi time considering Princess Leia and Darth Vader were in the same room, and we wanted pictures with the rest of the cast and crew.  It was such a fun shoot and everyone was great.  I would love to work with our whole crew that was on set that day because it was light-hearted, we all joked around but got things done quickly and efficiently.  Honestly, it couldn't have gone any better than it did!

The Cast with our Director, John Siscel!

The Darth Vader Match.com Commercial is already up and you can see it here!

 Darth Vader's Match.com Ad

You're going to have to wait for my Princess Leia Match.com Ad as well as being the Dater for the 3rd Commercial we did and they should be up in the following weeks :)

Star Wars Election

This Saturday I filmed a Star Wars Election Parody with some friends whom I worked on the Web Series, 'Jules & Jess' with.  We shot the Internet/Commercial spots at Magnolia Park in North Hollywood in the gorgeous sunshine.

Basically, with the upcoming 2012 Election, this is making light of voting for our current candidates and turning to The Dark Side.  They needed people who had Star Wars Costumes and would dress up and talk about Voting for Darth.  Any excuse to get more use out of my Princess Leia Costume the better!

After arriving in Costume with Han Solo, himself, we saw that Darth Vader was getting dressed in his authentic costume.  It was an actual replica of George Lucas' vision, and even though he paid $4000 for the Costume, he can never get paid to wear it because it belongs to the Star Wars franchise!  That's a huge investment for something you love, so I give him props!  About a half hour later more people had showed up and we were ready to shoot some scenes.

Darth taking a Sitting Break in-between filming scenes...he was actually 6 feet tall!

All of us did a Confessional style, Man on the Street Interview, turning to The Dark Side and keeping it light and fun.  The point wasn't to be perfectly Star Wars (except for Darth) but for it to seem very normal that these people would be roaming the streets.  I got to do a scene where I stated I was voting for Obama/Biden (it was acting) but after meeting with Darth and feeling The Force, I switched over to The Dark Side.  We did it a couple different ways and then moved onto a group scene at a picnic table where we're discussing Politics with Darth, and someone asked a question, and he killed them with The Force.  Who would wear Wookie brown when you could wear black like Darth?!  

It was a quick shoot and I'm hoping to get some fun footage from it as well.  It was great to do some acting work and Improv and get the crew together again to film something :)