THE EVENT is Coming! 9-20-2010

Dear Readers,
 

We'd like to take a moment to give a sincere thanks to our Props Department.  Not only do they work tirelessly every day to make sure all of the details are correct in our episodes, but they've also created many of the cool items that you see featured on this website -- from the trilobites on Dempsey's desk to the stone tablet that Dempsey used to predict the future; from the ancient scroll to Sean's bag of goodies.  They are an amazing group of people, and we salute them.

Thank you, Ross, George, Gretchen, and Reba!

It is an emotional time here at The Event as we film our final episode of the season.  There is still plenty of work to be done.  We have a few more days of filming at various locations.  Then, the post-production, visual effects, and music departments will work their magic.  We are very excited for you to see the final episodes.  It is going to be a wild ride for all of our characters over the next month, and we hope you come along with us.  Just remember to buckle in and don't stick your hands outside of the moving car.   


Keep your fingers crossed for Season 2!

For the past season, Brian and I have had the sincere pleasure of writing for The Event's website and filming some of the clips you have seen.  This has been a dream come true, and we hope you have enjoyed the content so far! 

One of our New Year's Resolutions was to post more on our blog, but in between eating healthier and starting that pesky new gym membership, we have been falling down on that promise.  

So, without further ado...  

We are all busily writing, shooting, editing, and prepping for the launch of the last half of our season on Monday, March 7th.  It has been a lot fun, and we cant wait to show you these episodes.  We are very proud of them.  Dare I say that they are even better than the first half?  I dare.  And I do.  

Production on a television show can seem like a perpetually sexy, action-packed process.  But it is, at times, tedious... and decidedly un-sexy.   Then you get a day that makes it all worth it - an EXPLOSION, STUNTS, HELICOPTERS.  And that's what we got last Friday.  

We had the pleasure of watching not one, but two buses blow up.  We shot a little behind the scenes film about our Special Effects Producer, Gary D'Amico, his talented department, and the preparation that they put into making that dramatic moment of fire, shockwave, and debris.

As Gary put it, "It's like having a very temperamental actor and then asking him to get it right with only one take."

But at 11:30pm, after many hours of rigging, testing, taping, and trouble-shooting, the bus blew up perfectly as planned, only a hundred yards from us. 

For Episode 109, "Your World to Take" we shot a chase scene through cornstalks in Piru, California. Berg, one of Dempsey's agents, was ordered to capture Leila and inject her with an unknown substance. After he fired on the Sean, Leila, and the Sterns at a gas station, Berg chased them into an adjacent cornfield. The pursuit climaxed when Sean blindsided Berg, which lead to a violent scuffle. Sean was pinned and nearly choked unconscious, but he was able to bludgeon Berg with a nearby rock.

The Event is written, filmed, and physically produced at Sunset Gower Studios, an historic film studio in the heart of Hollywood. The writing and production departments are housed in offices on the lot, while the show is filmed on Stages 12 & 14, as well as various locations in Southern California. The storied past of both the studio and the land its built upon parallel the development of Los Angeles and Hollywood as the film capital of the world. 

In the opening scene from episode 104 "A Matter of Life and Death," Lonner chases Sean Walker and Agent Collier from the FBI Offices in Yuma, Arizona after the two narrowly escape a shootout.

The Locations Department was tasked with finding a road that could double as Yuma, Arizona and was a long enough stretch to give the actors plenty of time to get through their dialogue. Due to the aggressive driving in the scene, production had to shut down 3 miles of road in Acton, California (40 miles outside of LA).

Greetings, everyone!  As mentioned in Nick's blog, we - Brian Beal and Adam DaSilva - are joining the ranks of the NBC.com Digital Content team.  We are honored and excited to be selected, and in the coming months, we hope to make Nick and the digital department proud. 

To give you a little background on ourselves -

Brian has been on staff at The Event since production began on the Pilot episode. As an aspiring director, he has worked closely alongside our director and Executive Producer, Jeffrey Reiner. He hails from Austin, Texas, where he first started working for Reiner on the award-winning NBC show Friday Night Lights.

Adam came aboard The Event shortly after the series was officially picked up for production.  He is a native of Boston, Massachusetts, and is a both an avid sailor and writer. Most recently, he worked on 24, both as a webisode writer and as the assistant to Evan Katz (now the showrunner of The Event).  

Ever heard that saying?  In other words, like you and me, they've been living and learning way before we enter their lives, and (unless we kill them) will continue doing so long after we're through with them.  

And our characters are no different.  So before we meet up with them tonight, check out their TWEETS and what they're up to.  It'll be your only chance to get to know them as they once were, because as of tonight, their lives will never be the same -

SEAN:  @SeanBWalker
LEILA:  @LeilaBuchanan
VICKY:   @Vicky_Roberts
GREG:  @GregKervin
THE OLSENS:  @JBLovesMarla

...that brings us - not really - to my second blog topic of the day. Our stand-alone show posters that will be, or maybe already are, adorning a movie theatre near you. Right now one of them is adorning our hall, and gotta tell you, it's the coolest, freakiest thing ever.

Couldn't be at Comic-Con this year? That's ok, cause we have the ENTIRE "The Event" panel right here!

A BIG OL' HEY! from my laptop with the letter keys rubbed out from too much typing. My name's Leyani and I'm one of the writers of The Event.

....and just in case you're wondering... No, THIS IS NOT THE EVENT.

Sorry, couldn't resist. This is my first blog ever, and I'm digging it. Not sure what to talk about yet, and I'm digging that too. So I'll just start with giving you all a briefest-of-brief summary of what's going on right now. We're in the middle of breaking episode four, and like all of our episodes, it is turning out kick-ass.