Special Announcement:

The Event is Now being held at the MAIN THEATER
on the San Jose State University campus.

Available seating has increased tenfold,
TICKETS ARE NO LONGER REQUIRED!

Please invite, friends, family to the LIVE show.
Live chat with the cast & crew immediately follows.

www.exitstageleft.tv

Directions to the San Jose State University Theater:
See attached PDF - Main Theater is closer to 4th street,
on San Fernando, next to Martin Luther King Jr Library.

Public Transportation:
Transit buses and the lightrail line connect to downtown
San José and the campus from throughout the county,
the airport and the Amtrak/CalTrain San José depot.
Call 408-924-7433 for specific routes.

Parking:
Parking is free on the street after 6pm in downtown San Jose,
a public parking garage is available across the street from
the theater, on the corner of 4th & San Fernando ($3).

Twitter:
For last minutes updates on the show, to share the event with
friends and neighbors, please follow us on Twitter for the most
up to the minute news and announcements.
http://twitter.com/EXIT_Stage_Left

Greetings everyone,

Time for a Special Announcement concerning our Season Finale. Episode 12 is launching on schedule on June 10th, but the 13th episode will be a much bigger production.

So here it is, I'm excited to announce that our web series' Season Finale will be performed as a live streaming web event!!

That's right, live. Streaming to the world, June 25th.

If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, and would like to join our LIVE studio audience, just send an email request to: tickets@lowrythteatercompany.com

We'll be seeing you!

Where's the new episode?
(Good Question)

EXIT Stage Left has successfully been releasing new episodes on the 10th & 25th of each month, and now with only four more episodes we have decided to move the most recent episode (episode 10) to the end of the month.

We apologize for those of you that were waiting for it, but the good news is that we will be launching episode 10 & 11 at the same time. Both will come out together on May 25th! And the final episodes will launch on schedule on June 1oth & 25th.

Plus before then, we will be announcing some special things for the final two episodes, so be sure to check back and check in with us (a very special announcement is coming May 18th).

Thanks for watching!

In this previous entry, I talked about our simple lighting setup. We used Lowel Rifa lights for the actors and some fresnels for enhancing the background. Since I wrote that post, we have added locations to the show and have run into new challenges. When shooting in our original location we were challenged due to lack of space. When we added the new location to the show, we had the opposite problem. Too much space.




The new "Lowry Theater Company" is a massive space. A huge theater, big stage, large prop and wardrobe rooms, and a large black box theater, left us in need of more lights. Luckily Prompter People came through. We were able to use several of their new LED lights, called Flolights. We use three LED 500's and five LED 1000's



These lights provide a broad and long throw without the heat. The barn doors allow us to control the spill of the lights as well. The first thing you will notice is that on close ups, we finally have the lights to properly accomplish 3-point lighting. You can see in episode 8 how that tool changes the look of the show. With all of our lights, we now have enough light to accomplish the 3 point lighting for multiple cameras. And we no longer run the risk of throwing the breakers! These lights use considerably less power than equivalent "hot lights." In fact the lights consumer just one-tenth of the power.

If you notice the credits to Episode 8, you will see that Chris Faulkner is listed as the Director of Photography. Chris has been shooting with us since we moved to the new location and has been handling a lot of the gaffer duties during these shoots. I had a job that required me to travel to Germany for a week, and during that time, EXIT Stage Left had 2 shooting days. Chris took charge of the camera department during that time, and used the new LED lights to great success. Those two shooting days resulted in footage for all of one episode and most of the next one.

I resumed my duties as the Director of Photography a few weeks ago and have been delighted with the LED lights. These lights, when diffused with frost gel provide some extremely smooth and powerful light. The built in dimmers give us the infinite control of the light. The throw from these lights are several times more than fluorescent light fixtures as well, and are an excellent replacement for both Hot Lights and Fluorescent lights. This allows us to move the lights back from the actors and give them more space to move around. This is extremely important when we are doing the improv elements to the show.

Welcome to the 2nd Episode of Backstage at the Lowry Theater Company.

The new behind the scene look at the cast and crew of EXIT Stage Left, with interviews, bonus footage and insights into the making of the show.

This episode spotlights Annamarie Macleod (of the clan Macleod) who plays Terry Nichols our resident star (and unofficial cooky-person). Take a moment to listen to Annamarie's insight in playing such a character and how she finds her, where she thinks she is going and how it feels to be playing a crazy person.

Sinohui and Joel Hinojosa have been hard at work not only on EXIT Stage Left, but they have also been covering the Cinequest Film Festival with Inside Cinequest.




To see the whole series of videos from Inside Cinequest visit http://insidecinequest.blogspot.com/

Ilea hit the airwaves this morning in Sacramento to discuss her "My Grammy Moment" win and give a quick shout-out to the show, thanks Ilea!

Check it out!



After you watch the clip, go ahead and hit the white scroll button (on the lower right) as check out a second clip where Ilea and Wes discuss the making of the video.

Welcome to the 1st Episode of Backstage at the Lowry Theater Company.

The new behind the scene look at the cast and crew of EXIT Stage Left, with interviews, bonus footage and insights into the making of the show.

Our first episode spotlights Ilea Matthews who plays Violet Parker on the show and has just won the "My Grammy Moment" video contest, where her video played during a live performance of Katy Perry on the Grammy Awards and on the CBS Early Show was awarded a $5,000 check as the Grand Prize Winner.