So you might have been wondering why this blog has been so quiet lately...and that's because the very LAST SHOOT for LoliGirls is THIS Friday, July 31st. That's right, the Lolita Fashion Show has finally arrived!!

The LoliGirls crew has been busily preparing for our last and biggest shoot. We've had two productions meetings in the past two weeks and we're finally organized and ready. It's been a bit difficult getting answers from the CTcon folks (although it's perfectly understandable, they have a lot on their plate!), but with the help of a very very wonderful person we've got the stage dimensions and film crew passes.

The Fashion Show will run from 5:30PM-6:30PM and will have two breaks. During one of the breaks we will show a very special 8-minute LoliGirls presentation. Behind-the-scenes shenanigans, photos and a new trailer will be displayed.

So please stop by and check out the event, it's going to be EPIC!

Sunday was our LAST shoot for LoliGirls before the Fashion Show! It was an exciting, and kind of a sad day. I'm going to miss all the fun shoots! I've really enjoyed filming the LoliGirls...and I'm sure they had lots of fun as well. I'd like to say a special thanks to my dedicated crew who've done an amazing job helping behind the scenes and, most importantly, dealing with me when I'm stressed!

So the day's shoot started at Julia's sister's house in West Hartford. All of the models for the show arrived at noon for Julia's meeting. All the details for the big day were discussed, included what type of loli each girl would model (I will be modeling sailor evidently!). After that Julia took each girl/guy's measurements. Once that was done we were supposed to jet over to Blue Back Square, but Julia informed me that the Fashion Show needed a short commercial to be played during opening ceremonies at CTcon. So we all brainstormed and quickly storyboarded a few ideas. I won't display the commercial here until after the show...I'd like it to be a surprise for the con:)

After that shoot we headed over to Blue Back. It was reaching 3 PM by this point and the air had warmed to a sweltering 85 degrees. The girls huddled under parasols, but I can only imagine how hot they were under all those layers!

I was hoping that filming in Blue Back would get us some good reaction shots from the public. I wanted positive and negative comments to use during a certain point in the interviews when the girls spoke about people taunting them in public. But...everyone was super polite! One group of tweens ran up to the LoliGirls and started asking them about their outfits and complimenting their shoes! All the vox pop interviews we collected were positive and encouraging. Although I was a little disappointed that we didn't get any critical comments, it was refreshing to speak with folks who were supportive of lolitas:)

A blurb for the Lolita Fashion show is up on the Connecticon website! This is the big show our 3 lolitas are organizing and modeling in. We'll have cameras (if all the permissions go through all right...) set-up at the event slated for July 31st. If you'd like to help out with the crew that day please let me know!

I'm very sorry to report that one of our lolitas opted to drop out of the documentary. It's too bad, but I understand that life can get complicated really fast, and I'm positive that we can still make a pretty kicka$$ documentary with the 3 lovely ladies of The Court.

That's my main announcement for today! In other news, I met with Linsey, who will co-produce this documentary with me, yesterday. Over some delicious vegetarian food (I love It's Only Natural) we discussed our ideas for the doco and attempted to come up with some sort of a storyline. Of course without filming anything yet it's hard to tell exactly where this documentary might go. For now it looks like it will be mainly informational, with a side story of these 3 lovely lolis who are preparing to put on one of the biggest lolita fashion shows ever seen on this side of the U.S. Of course we also discussed funding (or lack thereof). It would be amazing if we were able to garner some support for this film, especially since it'll be the first of its kind, but we're not going to depend on money and, thus, it's a low/no-budget doco. Funding will limit us in some ways, but forces us to think outside of the box and get creative. I will certainly use this space to describe how creative we get with our filming methods, in case you're at all curious!

Linsey and I are going to start putting together a treatment for this doco and will post it up here as soon as possible! So stay tuned!