LR 11. The Reception
Title: The Recetption
Release Date: 12.13.07
Production Dates: 2007
Format: Video DVD Region 0
Price: $10.00
The Reception is a feature length narrative/documentary hybrid shot entirely in 12 hours. Guests of the faux wedding reception ate and mingled as if at a real reception, with cameras rolling. A screenplay worked as a framework for a film where everyone used their own personal background to improvise strikingly realistic exchanges.
A small two-camera high definition video crew captured candid conversations in a documentary style along with the scripted narrative. The result is a film that is funny, honest, and at times uncomfortably real.
The DVD includes: two feature length commentaries with selected cast and crew including Jason Mitchell, Rock and Roll Ray, Joseph Larsen, Derek Sandbeck, Tony Wagener, Amanda Goodman and Josh Gonzales; nearly 20 minutes of deleted and alternate footage; a 37 minute behind the scenes documentary shot by R.P. Whalen (Mondo Collecto); and a gallery of trailers for films produced in the Twin Cities area.
Watch the Trailer
Jason Mitchell at The Wells Center
The Reception on Myspace