WAVE
Premiering on Amazon Prime November 18, 2022
Trailer
Synopsis
Set at the end of the summer of 2010 and the beginning of the class of 2011’s senior year. Dean Alexander Karsten is a young music prodigy and high school senior from Panorama City, California. Looking to make the most of his final year of high school alongside his best friends and bandmates. But struggles with meeting the fine line of what’s expected of him, as his family struggles to get by, his music career radiates, and his ambition to get away wonders.
Script
As the script is 69 pages, I did not include the whole thing.
Written and created by Chris Cifuentes Weitzman and developed by Noah Kalal.
WAVE is an exciting and nostalgic trip back to a familiar time with high stakes, lovable characters, and an unforgettable sound of the surf-indie music scene.
A full decade in development and more than three years in production. Starring an amazing ensemble cast lead by newcomer Tristan McDaniel.
WAVE is an exciting and nostalgic trip back to a familiar time with high stakes, lovable characters, and an unforgettable sound of the surf-indie music scene.
A full decade in development and more than three years in production. Starring an amazing ensemble cast lead by newcomer Tristan McDaniel.
Starring: Tristan McDaniel, Tony Voss, Dexter Farren Haag, Esteban Vasquez, Mikal McEnany, Ava Bohlman, DJ Hernandez, Doug Kaback, Marco Bizio, Alejandra Guzman, JB Shabazz, Natalie Carrera, Sofia Norschau, Arthur Donahue, and Sebastian Benites.
Behind the Scenes
My Role
During my time on this project, I was responsible for recording and mixing the audio, with a Zoom H5 recorder, as well as operating the boom microphone for portions of the shoot, although I mainly relied on another crew member named Gino to help with holding the boom microphone. My other main responsibility was figuring out where to place the microphone myself and Gino as to not interfere with the shot but still get the clearest audio possible. During the concert scene I had to figure out on the fly how to use the venues sound board and link that as well as all of the microphones and equipment to the recorder.
Fundraising
As this project was an independently funded project our director Chris provided a huge financial contribution to the project but alas it was not enough. We then had to get creative and start selling merchandise and starting a GoFundMe to raise money as well.
Social Media
Something that was very important was to promote our tv pilot this was mainly done on Instagram. The team also put together a promotional poster shown below.
The End
After we finished filming it was very important that we have somewhere to showcase all of this hard work. The director was able to talk with the people over at Amazon Prime and get us a spot. Wave was filmed October 2021 - March 2022 and will be premiering on November 18th, 2022.
