loch ness – Casey Poma

I moved down to the glorious Los Angeles area to work in the movies, armed with a film degree and the naivety of one fresh from University. Now this is not a post to complain about the absolutely impenetrable wall that is Breaking In Hollywood, but a post to tell you that, after not working on as many productions as I would have thought (like practically none), I finally got to work in one of those places where a bunch of people are tired and starving and about to cry/give it all up at any moment: a movie set.

Well, it was more like a webseries set. Well, more like a webseries location (we were just at a dude’s house), but there was a fancy camera, real lights, an HD monitor, and sandbags, which all means this was a legitimate production (especially the sandbags).

The shoot was for the webseries coming out soon, titled Loch Ness, a show about a high-school folk metal band who tries to make it happen despite various complications. I don’t know if you read that closely, but it’s a show about a FOLK METAL band, which, if you don’t know, sits extremely high on my list of things I find interesting. It also sits high on my list of things I try to convince normal people are cool.

Kivimetsan Druidi — It’s really hard sometimes.

In addition to helping out the only day I was free (the other day was an all-night shoot, which would have been followed by a full day at work. Translation = YaIdon’tthinkso), I provided the art department with some awesome photos of my fake (real?) metal one-man project (band?), Linnalapsi. Back when it was still a joke, and had lyrics like “We are ready for battle/ we are quick like wolves, our enemies slow like cattle“, I ~~coerced~~ convinced a bunch of friends of mine to pose as your run-of-the-mill folk metal band with access to forests and facepaint.

Early on, I told my a friend that my main goal for Linnalapsi was to get someone to play one of the technology-restricted, midi-tastic Linnalapsi songs with real instruments. I mean, sure, the main goal now is taking the metal world by storm (like why wouldn’t it be?), but for the mean time, getting some people to play a song seemed a little more doable. After years of complete obscurity, I was down to settle for anyone to even notice or mention Linnalapsi at all. So the fact that a poster for Linnalapsi is featured in Loch Ness: The Webseries is still both cool and surprising to me. Check it out:

Loch_Ness_Linnalapsi_Poster — I apparently have a gig next month.

Of course, they could totally cut the scene it’s in and re-shoot it entirely or whatever, but as far as I know, this little poster will be among the others in the scene, which is pretty damn awesome. Someone might not have covered one of my songs yet, but if my little joke band can get this far after five years, will could it possibly go in another five?

Check out some of the production pics posted below, and then be sure to follow the show’s Facebook and Twitter and Instavine and whatever new social media has been invented in the last five minutes. I have to go now and practice for my May 19th show. Does anyone know where the Valkyrie Castle is?

-Casey of movie-sets and Linnalapsi

Production Pics!