Felicia Day

I wanted to do more to help charity and other people with their creative visions in 2009, so to kick it off, I am very proud to partner with Humanety.com in a charity auction!
The winning bidder will win a live broadcast, 30 minute chat with me, to be edited and posted later as well on their website. 100% of proceeds go to the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation, a charity that gives out musical instruments to needy school systems and school children (the former violinist in me). I think this is a really cool project and a really web 2.0 way of supporting a charity, so when they approached me, I was automatically in. Watch the video I made on the Humanety website with more information about the auction, and check out the auction in the cool widget below! I appreciate it!!!

Drawn By Pain

This is a great indie webisode that uses an animation/real action combo that is just stunning, especially considering 2 people put the whole production together!  Really cool project.

 I wrote this article for Web Video Report, a site about new media and web videos.  If you’re looking to market your short/webisode, here are my tips!

How to: Getting Video Noticed, Guerilla Style : How-To : Web Video Report

I’ve been wrapped up on a TV/Movie watching kick for the last few days. I wildly set my Tivo to record every show I haven’t watched in the last 6 months to catch up on where a bunch of series were headed, because if I get a last-minute audition for Ghost Whisperer or something, it’s good to know that the ghosts don’t look pretty when they talk to the main character, and the tone is different from the similarly-themed Medium. And it has a lot of excellent hair and skin

With half the shows recorded, I ended up fast forwarding to the end, because it’s really hard to just jump into an episode when I don’t know where the characters are coming from. It was refreshing to catch something like Law and Order, because it’s a nice tidy story that I can immediately leap into, unlike Grey’s Anatomy where the lineage of “who’s slept with whom” is critical to understanding why one person is tiffy with another I did start to get into Bones, and the new Flash Gordon is so cheesy I can’t help like it. A little bit. Oh, and Weeds is GREAT. That went on the list of “Shows I want to watch without thinking like an actor”.

The best thing I’ve seen in my spree movie-wise is the Russian movie called “Nightwatch.” I think visually, it was the most interesting film I’ve seen in a long time. Most films seem like the director storyboarded all the cool shots in the beginning 15 minutes, and then after that, it turns into standard cinematography. This movie, even if you were like “What the hell is going on in this scene”, had breathtaking visuals that kept you wondering “how they did that?!” I was thrilled to see that the director has a big Hollywood film coming out called “The Wanted” with Angelina Jolie. Can’t wait to see if he retains his flair in English!

Lastly, I’ve watched like 6 Westerns. The best part of being a actor for me, is the part where I get to immerse myself in cultures/research that I’m not familiar with. Boy, do I have my hands full with this one I don’t want to be specific as of yet, but I am currently working on a role that has both Western and Religious themes, two of the areas which I most avoid in my daily travels. When I was a kid I ate up movies, but I tended to avoid Westerns and Military pics. I’ve rounded up a lot of DVD’s and am plowing through them, crash course in the genre. I’m starting to enjoy them! They have a set of cliches that become a little predictable, but the characters are interesting, and I try to ignore the total political incorrectness of vilifying American Indians and mowing them down like they’re James Bond henchman. If anyone could recommend any specifically with strong women characters, or religious themes I would love to add titles to my growing collection of research!