Jaylyn Photo: 2013

THE PROPOSAL: Access Granted

Last fall, our friend Grant asked us to help him film a fake movie trailer so he could surprise his girlfriend, Kerri with a marriage proposal while she was at the movies with her girlfriends.

We loved the idea and immediately got to work asking all of our resources if they would like to participate in the production. We were fortunate to have a great response from friends and suppliers. Even Empire Theaters Universal Music, Geek Freaks from Randy Jackson's Dance Crew and Travelodge Hotels came on board and sponsored the project. We filmed the whole thing in two days in the Durham Region of Ontario.

We called the fake movie THE PROPOSAL: Access Granted. It mimics an action film about how a drug lord kidnaps the Governor's daughter and her friend in order to strong arm him to pass a bill to legalize one of the main ingredients in a new batch of methamphetamine being marketed as plant food. Grant Haire plays a renegade cop set out to save the Governor's daughter whom he has been dating. Along with his partner played by Nick Bateman (Hobo With A Shotgun, Mr. D) they race the clock to find Kerri and her friend Sarah (Celeste Desjardins) before the drug Lord played by Pedro Miguel Arce (Land of the Dead, How I Met Your Mother, CSI) implements his terror. The movie trailer also features upcoming talent such as Paul Nadeau (police chief), Hernan Sanchez (lead henchman), Tazito Garcia (S.W.A.T. officer), Petey Loung (henchman), and Brandon Zakkai (the snitch).

The trailer was directed by Shawn Haynes and myself and co-produced by LAC Productions and Crooked Seas.

On October 5th, Kerri and her friends showed up at Empire Theaters in Ajax and entered theater 2 where we had filled the seats with the cast and crew acting as normal movie goers. Hidden cameras captured Kerri's reaction as the trailer plays out....Watch as it all unfolds:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-rTYq3jys