Behind the Scenes

From script to screen, page to

stage, in case you're curious

(or just bored).

Setting up to shoot With This Ring....

For you nostalgic tech-heads, that's just the camera.

The VTR - about the size and weight of 2

stacked cinder blocks - is below frame (1986).

Actor Chelly Hartl, looking stylish in the latest

workplace fashion, tastefully accessorized with

handcuffs. The Mind of the Circle (1989).

Rhonda studies her...um, lines between shots on

The Mind of the Circle (1989).

A somewhat surreal photo of actor Curt Harris

clowning with Rhonda at the makeup table during

A Place of My Own (1991).

Actor Nate Bucholz gets into costume (and into

character) for A Place of My Own (1991).

The director of Somewhere Else exaggerates his

manhood. Co-director of photography Art Chan is

suitably impressed. Sound recordist Kathy Dolan

has heard it all before (1994).

Actor Christine Sparks models an ultimately

discarded look for her character in

Somewhere Else (1994).

Actor Mimi Smith models her favorite bustline-

enhancing costume from Somewhere Else (1994).

Patrick decides he's missed his calling as a Fairy

Gawdmutha. Actor Ron Beckner isn't so sure.

Somewhere Else (1994).

Christine wistfully contemplates her impending

stardom on the set of Somewhere Else (1994).

Always in character, Nate Bucholz chills between

takes on Somewhere Else (1994).

Another bruised and battered actor, Jake Nelson,

in an effects makeup continuity shot for

Somewhere Else (1994).

Actor Jim Jenkins drops his bad guy persona in a

costume test shot for Somewhere Else (1994).

Christine in a playful mood during a publicity

photo session for Somewhere Else (1994).

Actors Sarah Nokes and Bill Honl in character for

Road to Nowhere (1998).

Actor Kirah Soloman confers with crew member

Don Seybold as she touches up her "Cat Lady"

makeup for Got Candy? Note production

storyboards on table (2000).

Matt Stoutenburg is caught in the Cat Lady's flash

as the camera crew shoots the reverse angle.

Got Candy? (2000).

Julianna Weir's clever poster design for

The Mystery of Marie Roget...by renowned author

Edgar Allan Poo [sic] (2005).

Actor Dave Gager is suitably stoic, in character for

The Mystery of Marie Roget (2005).

Bill in costume in an unused promotional still for

The Mystery of Marie Roget, photographed in

Astoria's Flavel House Museum (2005).

Actor Tara Finch checks her cue during a rehearsal

for The Return of the Never-Before-Seen Thing

From the Sea (2006).

Actor Bill Honl as Detective Webber in a scene

from CRIMPS (2007).

Actors Brandy Bierly-Hussa and Nancy Montgomery (seated) rehearse a brothel scene for CRIMPS (2009).

Special effects makeup artist Christina Kortum applies prosthetics to actor Jason Hussa for CRIMPS (2008).

Director Mick (left) and cameraman Aaron Goodwin (from the TV series Ghost Adventures) line up a shot for CRIMPS (2008).

Actor Briana Ledford as Madame Chandler in a faux-vintage portrait for CRIMPS (2008).

Walt checks the CRIMPS script on the Dockside Tavern set (2009).

Walt, Mick and actor Marcella Laasch share a laugh between takes on CRIMPS (2008).

CRIMPS's very pregnant associate producer,

Wendy Jo Downing (left), and assistant director

Susan Funk (2008).

Briana is ready to eat on the Fulio's Restaurant set of CRIMPS (2008).

Co-producer Mark T. Cox shares his popcorn with actor/music composer Phil Poling on the

Seaside Promenade during shooting of With This Ring...(1986).

Assistant director Jane Zafiratos checks the script while femme fatale Rhonda Dedmon rehearses a scene

for The Mind of the Circle (1989).

Actor Ron Beckner breaks during a publicity shoot for The Mind of the Circle.

Co-star Chelly just wants a nap (1989).

From left: Yvonne Dedmon, Mark Kelly, Rhonda Dedmon, Walt Plummer, Mary Jean Dowell

in costume for the Prom Dream sequence from A Place of My Own (1991).

Mark and Walt backstage. A Place of My Own (1991).

Co-producer/costume designer Rhonda dresses Christine for the wedding scene in Somewhere Else (1994).

Actor Dave Bryant (right) rehearses aboard the M/V Forerunner as assistant director Patrick DiRenna

looks on. Actor Robbi Stimmler fills in as a reflector holder, while Christine (left) awaits her cue. Somewhere Else (1994).

Having wrapped the fishing boat location, Patrick, Ron & Robbi head for the nearest pub.

Somewhere Else (1994).

Ron gives Christine a quick neck massage as the camera dolly resets for another take.

Somewhere Else (1994).

Somewhere Else was a rough shoot at times. Here, Robbi shows off her neck wound in an effects makeup

continuity shot (left), and recovers from additional (pretend) injuries on the hospital set (1994).

On location for Somewhere Else in Portland's Waterfront Park. Permits? We don't need no stinkin' permits!

(1994).

A clipping from the Lower Columbia Business magazine article on Somewhere Else (1994).

Mick chats up filmmaker Ken Burns during a party for the latter's documentary on the

Lewis & Clark expedition. Ken, for his part, feigns interest (1997).

From left: Sarah, Nate Bucholz (in character, naturally), and Bill in an unused promotional still for

Road to Nowhere (1998).

Lori Honl (center, kneeling) pretends to be kid-sized as focus is set for the opening shot of

Halloween short Got Candy? (2000).

Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean (left) with co-producer Don Seybold and Rhonda during production of

Alan Bean: Artist, Explorer, Moonwalker (2001).

The sumptuous set for The Mystery of Marie Roget; designed by Craig Shepherd,

dressed by Sen Incavo and Bobbi Brice (2005).

Whose line is it? Bill Honl and Walt Plummer rehearse on the set of The Mystery of Marie Roget (2005).

First script reading by the cast of The Return of the Never-Before-Seen Thing From the Sea (2006).

The writer/director of The Return of the Never-Before-Seen Thing From the Sea poses with his cast.

Never underestimate the importance of a firearm in the rehearsal process (2006).

Day 1 on writer/director/actor Laura Spitze's (third from left, seated) feature Portlandia.

The location is Slow Bar in SE Portland (2006).

Rhonda applies makeup to actor Walt Plummer for day one, shot one of feature film CRIMPS (2007).

Actors (from left) Jennifer Weaver-Neist, Kimberly Kulczyk, Nancy Montgomery and Brandy Bierly-Hussa in character for CRIMPS (2009).

Assistant director Jayne Osborn slates the opening scene of CRIMPS (2008).

The crew shoots actors Lori Wilson-Honl and Walt Plummer in the Maritime Museum main hall for CRIMPS (2008).

Christina adjusts Jason's costume in preparation for a green-screen effects shot in CRIMPS (2009).

Shooting a scene in the tavern location for CRIMPS (2009).

The crew films Walt and Marcella on Astoria's 39th Street pier for CRIMPS (2008).

Susan and Mick discuss the day's work at the Skipanon mooring basin location for CRIMPS (2008).

CRIMPS on location at the Columbia River Maritime Museum (2008).

2001 Productions / Michael Alderman Film & Video