Troma Internship NYC 4/29-4/30-5/1/11 (Chiller Convention) Bradley Creanzo

To start off I do not recommend ever driving into NYC! I left the house at 8:45AM and did not get to Troma until about 11AM. Over two hours just to get 20 Miles! Unbelievable and people cannot drive. Traffic in the Lincoln Tunnel and especially 34th Street was a nightmare! Aside from that when I arrived at Troma I picked up/loaded everything for the convention into my car and Matt (who works at Troma went with me to the convention). We arrived at about 2PM and began unloading all of the banners, shirts, dvds, equipment, etc. The convention for Friday started at 5PM and ran until 10PM. Spent a good amount of Friday selling merchandise at the Troma table. I did break away for a while and met with some stars. I met Rudy Sarzo (Whitesnake, MARS, Quiet Riot), Simon Wright (AC/DC, Rhino Bucket) and Craig Goldy (Dio, Giuffria). There are pictures on facebook of me with them. I talked for quite a while with Craig. The friend I was with knew him, so that really broke the ice. I ran into him several times thoughout my stay at the hotel. Lloyd wasn't arriving until Saturday, so Friday wasn't as busy as Saturday would get.
I did also pick up several items at the convention, which were very cool among which was a "Nightmare on Elm Street" board game from 1989.

Saturday was very busy. With Lloyd being there people were of course buying merchandise so he could autograph it. The hottest items were "Combat Shock", Class of Nuk'em High", "Cannibal The Musical" and "There's Nothing Out There". I also had my friend donate his time to the Troma Table and he dressed up as The Toxic Avenger. There are pictures on the troma facebook of him as Toxie and also some pictures with me helping and handling the Troma table. Lloyd really drew a decent crowd of people. I did spend some time also meeting with other celebrities like Britt Ekland (The Wicker Man), Maud Adams (Man with the Golden Gun), Kelli Maroney (Night of the Comet), Mark Patton (Nightmare on Elm Street pt. 2), Amanda Wyss (Nightmare on Elm Street) & Gary Busey (Lethal Weapon) to name just a few.
It's always fun to be among fellow actors and movie people at these conventions. I did some networking as well by handing out my business cards and talking to filmmakers and actors. I also got the contact information for some of the celebrities I met, so who knows once I have a small budget behind me I'll get them to appear in my films!

The Troma table was busy throughout the entire day of Saturday. At night there were several concerts going on from 9PM until 3AM. Gary Busey was supposed to sing Buddy Holly songs, but he appeared to be in a mood and didn't go on stage.

Sunday was not as busy as Saturday, but I did meet some more people; for example, Hal Linden (Barney Miller) and Claudio Simonetti (composer of many italian horror soundtracks). Merchandise at the table was selling especially since we did some special Sunday only deals. The most amazing thing was how much stuff I could fit in my car. Considering I have a camero no expects it to fit very much, but everything that we had at out table: dvds, shirts, banners, stands, etc all fit (just barely) in my car. Overall I made some contacts and enjoyed working the Troma table. Selling stuff is very fun. After the convention I drove everything back to Jersey City instead of having to drive into godawful NYC again. I like coming here, but hate driving hear. Doing coventions for Troma is the only exception to my driving rule.

Also it looks like I'll be helping out with another convention again in June with Troma at Saturday Nightmares in New Jersey from June 3rd-5th.

Troma Internship NYC 4/26-4/27/11 Bradley Creanzo

Spent most of Tuesday doing some at home work relating to the short film, "What Waits in the Dark". Began capturing footage and editing in Final Cut 6.0. The movie should be out around late September or early October. Also for my other film project "The Bible Belt Slasher Pt. 2" I've gotten permission from Lloyd Kaufman to use several Troma movie poster in my film. There are several scenes in a college girl's dorm room and it will have Troma posters all over the wall. A little product placement you might say.

The continuation of another project will be taking place soon. "Hour of Vengeance", which I shot some footage for last August will resume production as of late June. I'm getting ready to finish the script for it so I can get things going.

Also I'm helping out with the Chiller Convention this weekend: April 29th-May 1st at the Hilton Hotel in Parsisspany, NJ.

Troma Internship NYC 4/19-4/20/11

I spent Tuesday working on "What Waits in the Dark" in Union, New Jersey. Wednesday I came in and did some more office relaqted work. Website updates, which was mostly checking the running time of movies to make sure they were correct and I did some more artwork scanning to put up on the website. I worked with photoshop and had to resize some images and search through the Troma database for DVD box artwork. I ran some small errand also.

Troma Internship NYC 4/12-4/13/11 Bradley Creanzo

More of the basics this week with uploading dvd box art for movies on the Troma Website. Scanning and uploading is pretty much what I did for most of this week. I did some odd and ends running errands, but nothing that was any different from what I've been doing. I've spent some time also working on my Bible Belt Slasher Pt.2 script. I just filmed the doctor's office scene about a week ago and it came out pretty good. Just need to edit it together now. My friend Rich's movie begins production next week and I'll be working on that aside from my project and I also purchased more gear while at the internship in NYC(boom pole, more lights for my kit and some gels). The movie I mentioned above is "What Waits in the Dark". I'll be doing several key jobs: Actor (I'm playing the killer), Lighting, Camera/DP and assistant director.
The movie is a haunted house flick (it's not "Paranormal Activity", thank god)! More like a cross between "Halloween" (Carpenter's 1978 classic) and "Home Sweet Home" from 1980.

Troma Internship NYC 4/5-4/6/11 Bradley Creanzo

Spent a lot of time on line doing more website updates. This time I had to scan artwork for movie titles that did not have artwork onto the website. Some titles were, "Prime Target", "Luther the Geek", Pep Squad", etc. I did a lot of titles. This took up most of the day and the next day I continued the same for most of it along with running some typical errands: weighing boxes for shipping, packing boxes for the Tromadance film festival and other things: T-shirts, book, dvd, pins, etc. I was busy the whole day and left a bit early due to the fact that I needed to prepare to film my movie "The Bible Belt Slasher Pt. 2". Oh also, I had to go to B & H to pick up some equipment. I also bought myself a boom pole and some gels for my lights while I was there. Damn boom pole cost me $ 130! What a rip-off. A great pole, but I think I gopt raped on the price. B & H shopuld really be inspected by better business bureau because they royally rip people off it seems.

Troma Internship NYC 3/29-3/30/11 Bradley Creanzo

Today at Troma I did some more website work in putting up titles and correcting any mistakes among them. I also filmed 2 different short interview pieces with Lloyd Kaufman, which some one is using as extras for their dvd movie release. Can't remember what it's for, but the interviews are comically based and relate to being on the set of a movie, which Lloyd actually wasn't on, so he made up stuff to say and the other was some Mexican/Spanish type of interview piecc which revolved around questions that related to something of a Mexican/Spanish nature. I have the question script somewhere, but for right now I think that sums it up pretty good.

Troma Internship NYC 3/22-3/2311 Bradley Creanzo

This week at Troma I spent a lot of time working on creating links for the Troma store. Most of the titles on the website have the option to link to netflix (to view the movies online), Amazon.com (to purchase movies), Troma Store Link (for purchasing also) and also Youtube (to post trailers to get people to notice). I spent the whole day doing this basically. At the end of the day I had to help out with a short Toxic Avenger promo. I had to crush a man's head with my boots.

Troma Internship NYC 3/15-3/16/11 Bradley Creanzo

Did a lot of running around today: post office, dropping something off at broadway video, etc. Wasn't in on Wednesday due to my grandfather's funeral.

Troma Internship NYC 3/8-3/9/11 Bradley Creanzo

Trains were running a bit late today, but I managaed to make it in on time still. Today was a lot of basic internet work. I was putting up screen grabs for a lot of titles on the troma movie store page. Some titles were "Back Road Diner", "Beg!" and "Bloodsucking Freaks" among tons of others. I also had to find some animation cells for the "Toxic Crusaders" in the basement. The animation cells were in pretty beat up shape and I only found a few that were useable. It was for some kind of promotional thing. I also had to find some digi-beta tapes that were needed for transfer reasons. And once again I spent a good amount of time in the stock room finding dvd's.

Troma Internship NYC: 3/1-3/2/11

Today was an entertaining day at Troma. First off I continued to do some more dialogue list work. This time transribing a movie called "Killer Yacht Party". After that I was talking with Matt and he asked if I would help out in April at the upcoming Chiller Event in New Jersey. Since I have a car I agreed to help, so it looks like I'll be at the Troma table at Chiller, which means naturally I'm getting a free pass for the weekend to the event. I'm also going to check at Kean about having Lloyd Kaufman possibly do something with Kean. I'm going to get more detail on this. The other part of the day I helped set up the green screen and lights to film a short segment featuring an actress I've never heard of who does modeling and has been in several low budget horror film. It was a very revealing shoot (by revealing I mean basically nude poses she was performing). For the rest of Wednesday I spent time in the stock room finding dvd titles and helping with various tasks like finding label distrubition files.

Troma Internship NYC: 2/22-2/23/11

I did a decent amount of work this week, which included more database entry work. I also helped to locate animation drawings for "The Toxic Crusaders" series, so that the images could be posted onto the Troma site and Youtube. I also had to locate some digi-beta and beta tapes for several film to be transfered over. Some films I searched for included Eve's Beach Fantasy and Witchcraft. I also did some restocking of DVDs on the shelves in the basement section. I also spend time filing dialogue lists for "Story of a Junkie" and "Trailer Town".

Most of the second day of this week was spent doing a dialogue list for a retro slasher film called "Blood Junkie", which was filmed in 2009, but the director tried to make it seem like it was 1988. This movie is not the best retro style of film. I know the 80's and this film doesn't take full advantage of the 80's. This film also suffers from slow pacing. There are some funny moments, but the body count and execution of the murders are not great by any stretch of the imagination. It's surprising how long it takes to transcribe a film's dialogue onto paper (excel file actually). In 4 1/2 hours I only transcribed 48 minutes of the film!

Troma Internship NYC: 2/15-2/16

Today at Troma I spent most of the day filling orders for DVDs. After that I completed packaging the merchandise and typing up shipping labels for delivery. A very straightforward day of similar tasks. I also watched a couple more film festival enteries. Nothing of too much merit. Film viewed included "Bear Scary" and some other forgetable short films. I also checked the new Troma website because certain images for movie box art were not showing up under certain internet browsers. Turns out there's some sort of problem with the pictures files, so they're being fixed currently. Also this relates to last week Lloyd gave me a copy of a treatment for the "Class of Nuk'em High" remake, which Starz wants to do sometime in the near future.
The following day I did more of the same with entering video titles onto the Troma database. I had to gather synopsis's and quotes to go along with list them.

Troma Internship NYC: 2/8-2/9/11

This week at Troma so far as been busy. Most of Tuesday consisted of doing inventory. Troma recently won a lawsuit against a comapny that were holding tons of Troma DVD's and the DVD's were sent here a few days back. From 10AM until 3:30PM, I spent most of the time organizing the DVD's in the storage/stock room. It was also a lot of moving things; for example, boxes, tables, tvs' and other various items. Also later in the day I viewed some film for the Troma Dance Film Festival. It's amazing the kind of things people will film and I don't mean that in the most positive light. Among the enteries was a documentary from Iran about cockfighting. Other unwatchable enteries included "Slasher Hunter", which had nice box art however, that's were the good stuff ends. Another entry was "Year of the Donkey". Bad use of CGI! The by far most mind boggling was "Cheerleader Camp Massacre".

Troma Internship NYC 2/2-2/3/11 Bradley Creanzo

It was mostly more of the same. I finished adding movie synopsis to the new Troma Website that's going to be launched on Feb 11th. I was also sent downtown to pick up and drop off some movie material. I went down to 49th street to a place called Broadway Video and dropped off some material. After that I made my way down to 100 6th Ave, which is a place called Postworks. Once there I picked up what were the original trailers for "Mother's Day", a 1980 Troma Film that going to be re-released this mother's day with DVD extras.
Also I submitted my film "The Bible Belt Slasher" to the Tromadance Film Festival, which will most likely be at Asbury Park.

Troma Internship NYC: 1/25-1/26/11 (Bradley Creanzo) Film 4700*

On the first day of starting the internship things went very well. To bad I can't control the weather. If I see anymore snow I'll go nuts, but anyway on the first day I helped out with a PSA. I was greeted by Lloyd as I walked in the door for my first day and he later went down to directed the PSA. The PSA had to do with PETA. A bunch of actors (male and female) were locked in cages like animals and for the finale of the PSA, a caged person was slaughtered by a butcher. Basically a typical slaughterhouse effects. The slit throat looked very good! Nice flow of blood and the person getting their throat slit twitched nicely.
I helped out by doing some basic crew work, which consisted mostly of lifting heavy stone and concrete pillars (around 50 of them) and I also helped unload gear and other materials once everything was brought back here to Troma.
Among other things I was entering information as well for most of my first two days for Troma's website. I updated their movie catalog (it was about 200 or so titles I entered). Also I was told about the other things I'd be doing throughout the course of the internship. Overall a very good start. Everyone seems helpful and nice especially Lloyd, Michael and Merris.