What I have been up to...

I feel like it's been forever since I've updated my blog. I've been super busy with shooting two of my favorite book trailers so far this year for CITY OF FALLEN ANGELS and WITHER.

I've been busy reading some great books for upcoming trailers, like:

“It’s about a mother and two daughters who move to town and shake things up,” says de la Cruz. “There’s already a family of warlocks living there who aren’t too happy with their arrival…It’s based on old Norse mythology.”

"DIE FOR ME is the first of three books about Kate, a sixteen-year-old American who moves to Paris after the death of her parents. She finds herself falling for Vincent, who she discovers is not the typical French teenager he appears: he is something else entirely.
DIE FOR ME presents a new supernatural mythology presented in a city where dreams are sometimes the same as reality."

"At Winterhaven, Violet finally feels like she belongs. She quickly finds a close group friends and discovers that they too have psychic ‘gifts’—as do all the students at Winterhaven. But as soon as she feels settled she discovers the most intriguing and alluring boy she has ever met, and things quickly go awry. As the attraction between them grows, intense visions of the boy’s death start to haunt her. In her premonitions the secret he is unwilling to share begins to reveal itself. And to Violet's horror, she learns that their destinies are intertwined in a critical—and deadly—way."

Meanwhile I am working on a secret project and I need your HELP! If you like something or another of VLC Productions' let me know below... you might see your quote somewhere cool!

Also been shooting a bit too so check it out below:

Beautiful Darkness stills... as promised.

I realized I usually post stills from the trailer shoots but I had forgotten to post some from the Beautiful Creatures trailer.

So I have a few pictures to show but I'll start with the yummy John Breed. If you've read the book, you'll know what I mean. If you haven't, read it!

A cute pic of Ethan & Lena

Ridley:

And some of my faves:

And me playing around trying to do a little photo manip of Serafine:

So long those cold days...

You wouldn't believe the crazy that's been happening here. I am gearing for a fabulous shoot for an equally fabulous book coming out this spring. I am itching to tell you all we have planned but you'll have to wait!

I know, am so cruel!

I recently finished shooting for Cryer's Cross and Desires of the Dead and Bloody Valentine and I can't wait to share all that with you.

Bloody Valentine trailer came out this week and I had taken a few minutes outside of the shoot for the trailer to capture some pretty pictures of my gorgeous model!

Also, did the same with Cryer's Cross because I can't resist a pretty photo. What do you think?

OH! And I havent gotten a chance to share this yet, but I took some pics while in Charleston a few weeks ago and here's some prettyness from that day.

Funny at how these pictures look so nice and warm yet it's been FREEZING! But then again, Georgia weather is quite unpredicatable!

It's kinda bittersweet that the year's almost ending and I can't believe ALL that's happened this year. I still pinch myself. But more on that another day.

So what do you guys think?

Winning Book Shoot....

A few.. ok a lot of weeks ago I did a contest for a book shoot and got a huge response and SO many awesome teasers to choose from and one of the ones that grabbed me was Cory Jackson's..

I don't know if I can tell you much about her teaser (and maybe she'll share it on her blog!) but the character of her novel TOUCHED is a broken teenager that is extremely caring. I saw her as someone who's hiding (and she got reasons to) and would be probably escaping to deal with her issues.

So here's what I shot...

I miss shooting...

Book trailers take so much time and work from start to finish like reading (not that it's hard), making notes of characters, scenes, ideas as I'm reading, plotting out a story board, running it by client and elaborating on it with their script, searching for models, locations,costumes, props, shooting, editing, revising, editing video, revising video, passing it by the clients, editing some more........ And all this by myself. Usually.


You get the picture. So sometimes I enjoy just taking my camera and grabbing a friend (or stranger) and going off somewhere to shoot that isn't plotted out to the minutest detail. It's relaxing for me to just snap and not think and just let the camera, light and model guide the shoot and picture.

This is from one of those moments where I didn't think and we just snapped...

This Tuesday I have a friend and model, Amanda, joining me on a shoot. I started trying to plot it out minutely and just settled on planning the location. A lake. I'll keep you posted on what happens.

Should be an exiting day!

Also, Hilary Duff's book trailer is coming out this week and you should keep an eye on it and also her book, Elixir, comes out this Tuesday! As well as BEAUTIFUL DARKNESS!

Waiting for you to take me home...

This is a follow up shoot to the Punk Princess shoot I did a few weeks back, perhaps before the tour?

I had posted some of them on Twitter, or maybe all of them... You know, I can't keep good things hidden for long.

Anyways, here's some pics from my other shoot.

enjoy!

Smart Chicks Kick it Tour

First off, I'd like to apologize for not posting much updates. For anything more up to date follow #SmartChicks hashtag on Twitter or me as @ReverieBR for pics, gossip and just fun nonesense.

Secondly, HOLY MOLY how tired I am but yet am having such a blast meeting everyone and hanging with the chicks. I am surprised they haven't kicked my crazy ass out by now so at least for that I am indebted!

I was a bit awestruck on Monday as I made my way into the Austin secret signing/press area and introduced myself to Melissa. But behind all the awesome is by far the most talented and sweet and caring person I've met. ALL the chicks have been so great and HILARIOUS! I wish I can share half the jokes that happened while out with the likes of Sarah Rees Brennan, who I found out is a master story-teller. Or that Rachel Vincent is so cute and adorable, but don't ever mention that to her face. Or that Kimberly Derting wanted to be a trucker chick....

I would share all those jokes, but I am bad joke teller. All I can say is if you can make ANY of the final stops (see below) you HAVE to! These girls are beyond awesome and funny and worth the drive, or wait or weight of carrying all those books!

Here's some pics of who I've met and why I am still jumping up and down with excitement that I am even here!















AND... I got to meet most of my book trailer authors!


Lisa Desrochers and Kimberly Derting WHO I ADORE!!!! Love you girls!


And then Heidi Kling showed up and surprised me! I miss you already, hon!


And these two go without saying since they are like m family!

Stay tuned for more pics and a big post on where the chicks have been and done while on tour!

For more pics of the tour check out MY FLICKR.

For more info on the Smart Chicks Kick It Tour.

Remaining stops:

September 20th, 2010 6 PM @ VROMAN'S, Pasadena, CA
Melissa Marr, Alyson Noel, Kelley Armstrong, Rachel Caine, Melissa de la Cruz, Rachel Vincent, Margaret Stohl & Mary Pearson

September 21st, 2010 6 PM @ Encinitas County Library, hosted by MYSTERIOUS GALAXY, San Diego, CA
Melissa Marr, Alyson Noel, Kelley Armstrong, Mary Pearson, Rachel Caine, Rachel Vincent, Carrie Ryan, Margaret Stohl & Kami Garcia.

September 22nd, 2010 7 PM @ Wentz Concert Hall at North Central College, Hosted by ANDERSON'S Naperville, IL
Alyson Noel, Kelley Armstrong, Melissa Marr, Jackson Pearce, Jennifer Barnes & Carrie Ryan
NOTE: for this event, it is free with the purchase on one book by a featured author or $5 without purchase.

September 23rd, 2010 7 PM @ BOOKS & CO AT THE GREENE, Dayton, OH
Alyson Noel, Kelley Armstrong, Melissa Marr, Jackson Pearce, Jennifer Lynn Barnes & Kami Garcia.

September 24th, 2010 7 PM @ JOSEPH BETH Cincinnati, OH
Alyson Noel, Kelley Armstrong, Melissa Marr, Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Jeri Smith-Ready, & Margaret Stohl

September 25th, 2010 2 PM @ CHAPTERS BRAMPTON (52 Quarry Edge Drive) Brampton, ON
Alyson Noel, Kelley Armstrong, Melissa Marr, Melissa de la Cruz, Jeri Smith-Ready, Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl