Hello Everyone,

In case you haven’t heard, we are very close to the premiere of the film!

Here are the details:

• Palace will premiere at 7:15PM at the Carlisle Theatre on May 5th
  
• The premiere is expected to bring a large crowd, but don’t worry, the Carlisle can hold more than 900 people! Invite your family and friends!
• Admission is FREE
• We will be collecting DONATIONS. Half of the donations will benefit the Carlisle Theatre’s Save the Carlisle Campaign and the other half will benefit the Messiah College Film and Media Arts Department. We hope people will find themselves generous that evening because the donations will go to two great causes.
• Palace DVDs, Blurays, t-shirts, posters and other goodies will be for sale at the premiere.
• If you donated to the IndieGoGo fundraising campaign, your incentives will be there for you to pick up.
• The concession stand will be open with low priced candy, popcorn and drinks. Come hungry!

Please forward any questions to info@palacethefilm.com!

Thank you and we hope to see you there!

Finally! Here is the trailer!

Enjoy!

Hello Everyone,

I know it’s been a while since our last update, but we have lots of progress to report! I’d like to announce that the trailer for Palace should be coming out sometime this week!

Also, we’d like to announce that we have finished editing the film (picture lock) and have now moved into color correction and composing the original soundtrack. Our very excellent colorist is John Tissavary from www.postcollectivemedia.com and our composer is Matthew Wagner, another student from Messiah College.

We are all very excited about the progress of the film. Stay tuned for updates about the premiere!

So things have been very busy lately. We are in the process of editing and should have the edit done within two weeks! Expect a TRAILER shortly after!

Also, we are in the process of securing a professional colorist as well as a professional sound mixer. Once those two positions are lined up, we will get much closer to a release date and premiere. I have been attending meetings regarding the premiere of the film. I still cannot say exact details because the premiere is not finalized but what I can tell you is: expect a large premiere. That is all.

Here’s another frame grab!

Here is another teaser!

And the editing continues!

Palace has wrapped. I can’t believe that the shoot went by so quickly and so smoothly! When you decide to embark on a project of this magnitude for a student film, you tend to have certain expectations. There are the realistic expectations of a moderate amount of success. Then there are those unrealistic expectations of a project that encompasses the entire vision of a film perfectly. As the director and producer of Palace, I am proud to say that my crew and I reached that vision during this tiring, but fun nine day shoot. If it could have gone any better, I wouldn’t have known it!

My crew was the main reason for this massively successful shoot. I couldn’t have done it without them. Everyone from the production assistants that diligently and consistently worked all day, to the organized and efficient production office that included my line producer, unit production manager, and associate producer, to the wonderful camera and lighting department and my wonderful script supervisor. Everyone pulled their weight and they did it with smiles on their faces because we all knew this project meant something. It meant something to us as student and non-student filmmakers alike (thank you recent grads!) just as well as it meant something to the local Carlisle community including the Carlisle Theatre that opened up their doors with the most gracious hospitality I’ve ever seen.

The cast was so professional and so easy to work with. Ryan Preimesberger, Tom McNutt, Emily Mathwich, thank so so much for being a part of this project and donating your talents to this film and for making my job as a director SO easy! I can’t wait for the premiere so that you all get to see your wonderful acting on the big screen.

Everyone on the crew has left this shoot with a passionate spirit of filmmaking that I hope will continue to spread beyond Palace. We were a well oiled machine, and because of that, Palace will be a quality film. Thank you to everyone that has helped make Palace a reality: crew, cast, donors, volunteers, the Carlisle community and everyone else that has yet to be a part of this amazing project.

As we begin post-production, we hope to continue to match the consistent quality we put out during production. I have a great editor cutting the movie as we speak and a composer waiting to get his hands on the film. Post-production will also consist of color correction and sound design & mixing. We have a couple of busy months ahead of us to get prepared for the premiere at the end of April!

Stay tuned for more updates!

Here is another frame grab of the video we’ve shot! I will keep uploading different ones in the upcoming weeks to keep the suspense up!

Hi Everyone!

WE HAVE OFFICIALLY BEGUN SHOOTING! It has been an exciting couple of months of preproduction and the crew and I are very excited to finally be shooting. We have flown in our RED Tech & camera operator and his amazing RED Scarlet camera and have prepared an amazing camera crew that is ready to take on the day’s challenges. Today was our first day of shooting and everything went very smoothly and stress free.

Here is our first production still!

Stay tuned for more updates from the set!

-Rolando

Hi Everyone!

So we made our goal on our indiegogo campaign! Woohoo! $7240! Now it’s time to start preparing everything before the shoot! We have to get all sorts of things finalized including: locations, equipment, wardrobe, art direction and food! We also just got our final draft of the script done. Everything seems to be coming together very nicely! We will update you all as things progress on this final stretch before shooting begins on the 13th!

-Rolando

Hi Everyone,

Here is a quick video update on the progress of Palace so far!

Stay tuned for more updates!

This past Saturday, we had the pleasure of inviting 7 of the actors back to show us their best performances. We gave them a week to prepare with the whole script and let them soak in the stories of their characters to prepare their best interpretations. During the couple of hours we had on Saturday morning, we wanted to test how each of these actors interacted with each other to test their chemistry and compatibility on screen. This was a really fun experience that brought additional depth to the characters once they came alive off of the script. It truly is amazing when the characters you’ve imagined in a story are brought to life by talented actors.

After the long morning, the crew and I felt that everyone present did an amazing job. The selection process was a bit tricky and difficult seeing as we had such good talent on our hands. The decisions ultimately came down to the compatibility across all three actors and how they could each represent a separate generation of movie goers. We have selected our Leo, our Derek and our Melanie and we are very excited to get them all booked and confirmed so we can let you know!

Tune in next time for more updates on the Cast!

-Rolando Vega

Director & Producer

Hello Everyone!

Today marks the launch of our fundraising campaign being run through the popular crowd-funding platform: Indiegogo. We need to raise at least $7000 to make Palace a reality and we need YOUR help!

Click here -> http://www.indiegogo.com/palace to take a look at our campaign page and contribute to the film!

Here is the video that we made to promote the fundraiser!

Please spread the word as much as possible! Click below to share this article with your friends on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks!

Hey Everyone,

Here is a quick video update from our casting session.

Tune in for more updates!

(P.S. That funny guy behind me is Billy Martel, one of our co-writers. He’s taking a break after a couple of hours of reading for the auditions.)

Hi Everyone!

Here a few quick updates of what is going to be happening this weekend:

• Video casting submissions will be coming in on Friday night for us to review
• The first casting session will take place all day Saturday. We will be casting for the main roles in the film: Leo, Derek, Melanie and Young Leo.
• Our artists will be finished with the concept art they’ve been working on for the last couple of weeks.
• Mitch and I will be finishing up the Indiegogo promotional video for the Palace fundraising campaign
• We will launch the Indiegogo campaign next week!

Things are sure getting busy around here, but so far, everything seems to be going well! The crew is getting excited about casting and we can’t wait to share the Palace filmmaking experience with everyone. Stay tuned for more updates!

Hello Everyone,

Just yesterday we received some goodies in the mail. In an effort to raise awareness about our film, we decided to make business cards to hand out. In a world of digital media and communication, the most important stationary object is the business card. It’s a physical connection that can give a good (or bad!) impression about someone’s professionalism and business identity. Since filmmaking is extremely reliant on the art of networking, business cards are a must since they connect your physical audience to your own internet brand and product (in this case, our film!). If you get the lucky chance to run into any of us, hopefully you will come out of the exchange with a (cool!) business card that will point you to this lovely website or our Facebook page and Twitter page.

Here are a couple of pictures of what they look like!

Remember to check back for updates on the pre-production process!

Hello Everyone,

This past weekend, we had the privilege of visiting the Carlisle Theatre with the crew. During the business meeting that I had and the theatre tour that our crew was given, the Carlisle Theatre staff was very hospitable. The crew was extremely impressed by the theatre’s beautiful architecture and decor. During our time there, we also shot a video for the fundraiser we will be running in a couple of weeks on Indiegogo. Here are some sneak peeks into that day and we hope that you stay tuned for more updates!

Hey Everyone,

This site will serve as the professional web interface of the short film, Palace and will be a place where up-to-date information is posted. Check back regularly for updates on the pre-production process as the Palace team starts to get into the hard work that is making a quality film. We hope you enjoy this journey as much as we have already.

- The Palace Crew