Sweaty Robot

Principle photography has wrapped on “Happy Birthday, Harris Malden.” That’s pretty fun to say.

I think we’re all very much ready to move on from the rigors of production. Another week of that, and I think my twitching eye would have exploded, and Matt would have finished that movie he’s been directing in his sleep.

It was amazing seeing the words in our screenplay come to life for the past month.

We’ll have a rough cut assembled soon.

We’re back at my grandma’s house (it is still hot in case you were wondering). This is the last day shooting here and the second to last day of shooting. Were gonna have to go into over time (so what’s $0.00×2) and earliest were getting done is 12:30a.m. Plus, on top of that call time is 8a.m tomorrow, so that means we have to get up earlier than that. But tomorrow’s the last day, so I’ll cherish every moment. Tomorrow we are shooting all exterior shots with about nine pages worth of script (from what I know), so it’ll be long day. Were shooting the end of the movie like now, where they have a second birthday for the new Harris and they get him two cakes one reads “Happy Birthday Harris Malden” and the other reads “Happy Birthday Hair Lip” (It’s pretty Funny). They also got some birthday scenes from the first party. They have to get a million different angles of the 2nd b-day shot, but it’s going pretty speedy. I’m gonna try to help out plus it’s hard to type without making noise.

Love;
Blazeral_B

Yesterday we wraped on the footage we had to shoot in the studio and everything turned out great. These scenes are the meat(lack of a better word) of the Melvin Malden plot, which is hilarious. Melvin becomes a hair model, that gets hired by friedreik (played by Chaba Lucas(sorry about misspellings)) at his job at the Paynone. The scene starts out with melvin arriving at the studio and first meeting Dusty(played by Ben Davidow), the jerk off production assistant. It plays so funny cause dusty hates melvin and they have a fued. All you need to know really, is Juan ends up in a yellow leatard and tights with a furry silver loan cloth and one furry sleeve and another key thing that I don’t want to ruin. Don’t try to imagine it, because you can’t. As of now I am still on set bloging on this 30″ LCD widescreen (and if you know me, you know I love electronics) and we are getting the last shots at the architecture firm. Good ol’ Dema (also played nerd in Hero Worship) is on set playing Derek the render nerd, so shout out to him. The movie is turning out better and better with each day, and after today there’s only two day’s left, so I will deffinitley keep up with the blog. As for now I got a train to catch.

Love;
Blazeral_B

Sorry haven’t been keeping up with the ol’ blog. Well yesterday(weds) was my acting debut as the character “Duck Duck,” it went well. We shot at a store on south street and we had to shoot before the place opened, so we woke up at around 3:30am and shot till 12pm(unfun). Everything turned out well except we didn’t get like one shot, so tomorrow we have to wake up at 5am and go to the store to get a shot then continue on to a eight hour day(kill me). But today, went really well. Melvin Malden (played by your, Juan Cardarelli) becomes a hair model in the movie, i don’t want to say to much but it’s so funny. He shows up to a studio to go to the rehearsal of his up coming commercial shoot and the scene is so insane. Lets just say it’s Juan accompanied by two hott models running around in front of a green screen fighting an alleged dragon(HILARIOUS!). The movies coming along great and there’s just about a week left of shooting.

Love;
Blazeral_B

As the title implies, today went well. We got done ahead of schedule for maybe the first time ever. So we shot at Tom & Tyler’s house (by the way special thanks to those guys and if anyone else lives there), friends of the sweaty robot gang, and to get to there section of the house you have to walk up two ridiculously long flights of steps (so that was fun). And in the movie this is where Paul (Harris’s best friend) and Grams (Paul’s grandma) live. The funny thing is their house is suppose to be next to Harris’s house in the movie, but in real life Harris’s house is in South Philly and Paul’s is in West Philly (that’s called movie magic). Today I got a pretty good story, Tyler’s has a black and brown pit bull named Bella (that is such a sweet dog) that he found one day kinda shaken up. So he’s taking her for a walk to the store and he goes to tie her up like usual (not that I personally would know) and this lady comes running up and starts saying that that was her old dog. The woman goes on to reveal that Bella witness the murder of her old owner! So it ends up this dog watched her owner get shot, thats how he died. Allegedly, the guys name was Homey (I’m quoting Eric Levy on this) and when someone said homey the dog would flip out. But the dog suppressed it’s past and doesn’t get to upset about it anymore. However I thought that was a very interesting story, and the dog is one of the nicest dogs ever. Be Inspired, Do Something Nice!

Love;
Blazeral_B

Hey! Blaze here, blogging on the set of the movie. All is going pretty well (even though were running a scene behind). Spirits are high and no ones too tired yet probably because we started shooting around 1pm (however I had too be up around 9:30 along with the sweaty robot gang). Were shooting at the Malden house-hold (which is my grandma’s house in real life) and it is always such an uncomfortable temperature. Last week we shot a scene at my grandma’s (which I don’t want to explain too much about (because it will take away from the magic)) where there’s a cardboard hallway and it made the temperature in the house about 1,000 degrees. Right now they are shooting a scene with a somewhat famous line in it from the Harris Malden short. Cousin Jason Malden (played by Matt Moore) gets a little to drunk at the party an says, “what did the boat say to the dingy?” “Don’t be a dingy!” Which I have not seen a take from this scene yet (because I’m typing this) but I’m pretty sure it’ll be a funny scene. And it also has the whole beer in your beard convo. from the original short. I gotta end this one because today is like the last day we are shooting at my grandma’s and we wrecked her house, so were gonna have to stay a while after the scheduled 10:45 breakdown to clean the place up. So I’m gonna start straighting up now.

Love;
Blazeral_B

Hey all you sweaty robot fans! This is Blaze Gregorio (sweaty robot member Nick Gregorio’s younger brother) here to keep you guys all in the loop on, “Happy Birthday Harris Malden,” the feature length film. That is correct, they gave me the privilege of being in charge of blogging on the movie status and any on or off set funny stories. For example, how the group of guys have so much anxiety that they have dreams about the movie and direct in their sleep. But I will get into this another time because I’m beat, seeing that they work me like a dog. Status wise we are shooting the birthday scene today(tues. 14th) & tomorrow(weds.15). So I will try to get some good stories for the blog.

Love;
Blazeral_B

Dan Gross wrote a quick blurb about us in the Philadelphia Daily News today.

Douglas dabbling in comedy

Former Eagle Hugh Douglas on Friday shot a few scenes for “Happy Birthday, Harris Malden,” at the Lions Gate retirement community in Voorhees.

Douglas plays a staffer at the retirement home in the comedy written, directed and produced by local comedy troupe Sweaty Robot. Drexel graduates Nick Gregorio, Eric Levy, Juan Cardarelli and Matt Sanchez, and Rowan grad Ben Davidow have created comedy shorts together for years, available at sweatyrobot.com. This is their first feature film. They hope for theatrical release. *

It’s been a long road, but today is the first day of shooting for Happy Birthday Harris Malden. We’ll be done filming on August 28th.