We are currently working with our new equipment and preparing for preproduction of My Wife the Alien… We are very excited with the equipment and the possibilities ahead. (We are going into production with two Sony FS100U cinema cameras and one Canon 5d Mark II) Also the results of tests with the new glidecam have been very promising!!! Check back for more!!

We are currently looking for actors/crew members in the Youngstown area for a full length feature film.

Please email us at palo@baconave.com with some photos, previous work (if any), and availability.

If you are looking to make a name for yourself or gain experience we would love to talk to you about the film and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

One of the most important ingredients of Bacon Ave’s success  is finding the right people, and I am very confident that I have some great  people helping me.  Therefore I couldn’t  think of a better way to start my production blog then to give a little background  on my team… who we are and where we come from.

 

For starters there is, well… me. Am I being selfish by  going first? Probably, but that’s okay since I am the one writing this blog. My  name is Jonathan Palo and I come from a small town called East Palestine, which  is a little south of Youngstown Ohio.   There  in this small town  I found that at a young age I loved to make  films with my friends, most of them silly with the worst production values  imaginable… but they made me and my friends laugh. That was huge for me. I  have also always loved to make people laugh, and my sense of humor is probably  my greatest asset (although my superhero chin is a close second).  It’s very tough to put me in a situation that  I won’t find humor in.

 

I suppose that growing up this got me in trouble on occasion,  such as when I wrote an essay answer for an anatomy test about the path blood  takes through the body as a first person narrative. That might have been funny,  but it didn’t get me a good grade. I think my humor was lost on my  teacher, who to the best of my knowledge hadn’t  laughed in years.

 

Regardless my sense of humor began to work into my other  hobby, which is writing stories. I love to write and I have written many  different short stories, screenplays, and I have even started full length  novels. On occasion I will email them to my friends and family, probably to  their dismay, but have never really tried to get published. That all changed  four years ago when I wrote a screenplay based on my experiences in retail, and  I started to think about the opportunities available in making my own feature  films.  From there I started to do  extensive research on how to make a feature film, while continuing to develop  my stories.  Then  not much happened… I saved my money and  continued to write for years. Over the years I have actually made four  different screenplays that I want to see made, and hopefully  the success of the first one will help me  achieve this goal.         Ah… the first one.

 

Interestingly the screenplay I have chosen for our first  feature film was originally written as a short narrative for a lost love of  mine. Strangely she was into aliens and would tell me about all these  conspiracy theories regarding a reptilian alien race ruling the world in  secret.  This crazy story, which amazingly  people actually believe,  got my mind  working on a story where you show a family secretly dealing with aliens in our  society. No… not like fucking ALF, but rather a hard look at love and how a families  can endure turmoil in however extreme the situation. My dark humor saturates  the story and gives life to characters that are both extreme and complex. I  don’t want to give away what I mean by that, but I want people to watch the  film and instantly relate to the characters… even if the story is out of this  world.

 

So now is the time to see if we can do it. The years of  waiting are over and the extremely exciting prospect of producing something  special is at hand. Leading the way I have two people as my right hand men.  Well, I suppose it would make more sense if one was at my right hand and the  other was at my left hand… anyway that sounds gay. Moving on.       Joe Pilolli and Joel Renzenbrink have been friends for a  very long time and bring a lot to the table with our production.  For starters they both have experience in shooting  different events through their production company, P&C Productions. This is  great as I am counting on them to help me figure out all the technical aspects  of our shoot. That being said I have also found them to be a tremendous  resource in keeping me in check. I have the habit of getting overly excited  about ideas or opportunities and they have continually been a voice of reason  to keep me in reality. I throw ideas off them and they may indeed throw them  back at me, but they give me angles to improve my idea. I cannot thank them  enough and I am confident that during the shoot they will be even more and more  useful.

 

Rick Gustafson is in charge of our website, something that I  know nothing about. I had classes on some aspects of film in college but am absolutely  clueless about web design. I guess that I need to give Rick more material for  the site, as right now it is rather bare. I need to get working on it! As we  get content I look forward to see how the site evolves and know it is in good  hands with Rick.

 

The next blog I write I would like to dive more  into my inspirations and what drives me. What films have influenced me and  maybe even things I dislike about many films. Until then