Friday, June 13, 2008

Tasty!


Michelle "Ame" Mahoney and Morgan Mayhem get up close and personal in the It Haunts segment of TWISTED FATES.

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Don't Look Under the House!!!!


Here is Michelle "Ame" Mahoney as Kelsey in the It Haunts segment of TWISTED FATES.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Alma and Natalie



Here is Doom Grrl as Alma Heggs in the It Haunts segment of TWISTED FATES. Nice red sweater and nice graveyard!



Here is Amanda Bounds as Natalie in the It Haunts segment of TWISTED FATES. Nice shades!

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Blood Red Pants!

The Pants Made Her Crave The Taste of BLOOD!!!!!

Here are a couple of pics of "Blood Red Pants," the cheesy b-movie that Kelsey watches on TV in the It Haunts segment of TWISTED FATES.



Monday, June 09, 2008

Twisted Fates Rolls On

More progress on TWISTED FATES - Decided to switch out the VideoDrone story (which I had set-up no less than 4 times and each time it fell through) for another story, It Haunts.

Here is the synopsis: Young Kelsey, having just broken up with her boyfriend, takes a housesitting job in the remote countryside. The homeowners seem nice enough, but soon after they leave, strange and disturbing things start happening. As Kelsey makes startling discoveries about the homeowners, nightmarish visions appear. Cell service is spotty and a kindly neighbor warns of the road washing out. Shock builds on shock. Darkness falls as shadows of dread grow. Will Kelsey survive the night or loose her soul in this haunted house?

Starring Michelle "Ame" Mahoney as Kelsey, John Bowker as Ollie, Doom Grrl as Alma, Joe Scott as Luther, Morgan Mayhem as Loretta and Amanda Bounds as Natalie. Filmed at the eclectic Atomic Bonfire Art Studio in the real ghost town of Peoria, Oregon.
Michelle and Amanda played major roles in John Bowker's PLATOON OF THE DEAD, planned for a 2009 release from Tempe Video. Morgan, Doom Grrl and Joe Scott also appeared in that movie. In addition, Michelle, Doom Grrl and Morgan appear in my almost-done thriller DEADLY PREMONITIONS. In one sequence, Michelle will be watching a cheesy b-movie on TV called "Blood Red Pants," which will feature Amira, Barb White and Tom Stedham, all from DEADLY PREMONITIONS. Tom has also appeared in Steve Sessions' TORMENT.

Shot the bulk of It Haunts in mid-May and finished up last weekend. Here's a few photos (more to come over the next several days):





Went up to Mike's twice for more work on DEADLY PREMONITIONS - he's going to run a filmlook test next.

John Bowker was in town the other day. We uploaded some of the PLATOON OF THE DEAD behind-the-scenes stuff I shot into his editing system and also did some sound work for the opening and finale with iMovie and GarageBand on my iMac.

Bob Olin reports he had someone drop out of the Welcome Sister segment for TWISTED FATES, so we are bumping shooting back to August.

More soon...

Friday, May 09, 2008

House on Bloodbath Hill


A couple of movies I worked on for John Bowker are coming out in a double feature "grindhouse" package called HOUSE ON BLOODBATH HILL.

On THE SEEKERS, I was Director of Photography and also handled lighting and sound. In HOUSEBOUND, I played Gordon, one of the "men in black." I was also Director of Photography, handled lighting, assisted with sound effects, was in charge of practical special effects and assisted with costuming.

Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Busy Busy Busy

Have been juggling a lot of work, family and movie stuff over the past few weeks and will be very busy over the next month or so. Posting may be light for a bit...

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Beetle Maniac!


Here it is - the final bugman mask. I hot-glued the wig on the back, filled in some spots with black paint and painted some grey veins on the eyeballs!

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Bug Man Mask


This was my initial concept sketch. I had already thought of using the plastic easter eggs for eyes as well as having the two mandibles and using hair to accent it.


I took a foam wig head and wrapped it tightly in a brown paper bag. I attached a few wads of paper bag with duct tape as well as two rolled-up pieces of cardboard for the mandibles. As I was tracing the easter eggs onto a piece of cardboard I got the idea to have THREE eyes to make it even weirder. After I traced the open end of the plastic egg halves, I cut the holes out and then cut a border around the holes, wrapped duct tape around it and attached it to the front.


Here is the first layer of paper mache.


I painted it but then felt like there wasn't enough 'face' to the mask, so decided to tape on these two halves of plastic jelly beans. It kind of looked like more mandible/mouth stuff. Note the three white (they are actually a light speckled blue) plastic eggs for eyes - they look a little plain so I think I'll add some veins or something to them - but no pupils.


More paper mache


I stapled a strip of elastic to the back, then paper mache'd over where I'd stapled the ends. Eventually, I will cut the band in half and put some velcro on it so it can work as an adjustable strap.


More black paint plus some white & gray on the mandible things in the front. I took an old black rubber snake toy I've had since I was a kid and sacrificed it, cutting it in half and using epoxy to glue each half into the ends off the cardboard tubes. I also cut some groupings of hair off of the wig I had and just used more black paint to "glue" it on to the edges of the face.


Here you can see it a little better. The rubber snake halves wiggle greatly whenever there is movement. I tucked it into the mask for this shot, but I also attached a black t-shirt around the back of the mask with staples and duct tape. I'd cut straight across the shirt at the armpits to remove the sleeves and neck so I basically was left with a tube of fabric that will cover the rest of the actor's face and neck.

Next is using some more black paint to cover where the rubber snake halves go in, doing some more detailing on the mandibles and eyes, and figuring a way to attach the rest of the shaggy black wig to the back of the mask.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Dr. Squid Egg!



Behold the Dr. Squid Easter Egg!

Mailed off footage I shot recently for WAVE Video's Sleepwalker Strangler, Luc Bernier's Cold As Soul and Falcon Video's Into The Woods projects. Also mailed off a copy of Housebound to the Mid Valley Video Fest folks for possible inclusion in their Friday Monster Madness Series (director John Bowker said his copies were buried under boxes somewhere and I had some copies within easy reach). Now back to my own stuff!

Death Nurse for Truly Dreadful Tales is done - just need to export to tape.

Worked on the bugman monster mask some more, adding mandible thingees and doing some more painting.

Worked a bit on a few scripts.

Many balls in the air...

Sunday, March 16, 2008

War of the Monsters birthday cake

This year my son wanted a birthday cake based on the War of the Monsters video game. In the game you play one of a dozen or so giant monsters who beat the snot out of each other while smashing the city around them. The game is a lot of fun. So here is the cake:



I started with a plain white cake, then added a couple of icing roads, pushed a couple of toy cars into it and then created some fires and a whole bunch of girders and debris with icing. The idea was to create a bunch of demolition for the monsters to tower over.

My son picked out the two monsters from the game that he wanted to have fighting. I penciled them out on paper and inked with a magic marker. Then I scanned the drawings so I could resize them and printed each out on card stock. I colored them with colored pencil. I put the rock monster guy on the wall and rubbed a black pencil over it to get some texture. Then I cut the monsters out, taped several wooden skewers to the back of each one and stuck 'em into the cake!

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Toni Draggon: Trooper

Have been busy with family stuff for a bit and then down with the flu for several days.

Shot scenes with Toni Draggon last Sunday for three different projects: one of mine and two by other filmmakers. Shot at the wonderful Atomic Bonfire Art Studio and everyone had a swell time. Toni not only endured multiple costume changes and having to convey a wide range of emotions in short order, but having her hands tied with rope and even a bathtub death scene! She's a trooper!


Death Nurse segment of TRULY DREADFUL TALES is pretty much done. Just need to check some sound issues and master to tape. Put together this title card for it.

Friday, March 07, 2008

Bit by bit...

Almost done with editing on Death Nurse segment of TRULY DREADFUL TALES. Composed a scary little piece of music for it. That was fun.

Shot some DVD extras footage last night with Darla Doom and Amanda Bounds for PLATOON OF THE DEAD. They were hilarious.

Shooting scenes on Sunday for a couple of projects being made by other directors. Going to be working with Toni Draggon again - should be fun.

Tom Stedham (whom I was lucky enough to work with on DEADLY PREMONITIONS and PLATOON OF THE DEAD) will be appearing at OmegaCon next weekend, March 14-16 in Birmingham, Alabama. Tom rocks!

Sunday, March 02, 2008

John Polonia - Rest in Peace


The news of John Polonia's passing hit me hard. John was a few years younger than I am, and like me had a wife and young son. Seeing the subject of that first e-mail was just shocking - my heart sank and I just felt so sad for John's family. I went right upstairs and hugged my son.

I'd e-mailed with his brother Mark a few times, but unfortunately I can't say I knew John personally - I knew the kind of person he was from watching his work and from what others had told me about him.

My friend Co once wrote of me that he admired me because I "made movies because no one told me I couldn't." I take that as a compliment - that sometimes you just have to plow ahead and make what you want, as best you can, with what you have. I feel like Mark and John Polonia were like that.

I am reminded of how I felt when Don Dohler passed away. Don made movies as best he could, with what he had. Don was always kind and helpful to fans, and his passing was a great loss for our moviemaking community.

The Polonia's inspired so many of us - from having made one of the early shot-on-video movies picked up by rental chains to being so prolific, making gobs of movies that always had a particular homemade charm.

I pray for Mark and for John's family.

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Dreadful

TreeSpirit is done! Currently editing the Death Nurse short starring Laura G of W.A.V.E. fame. About halfway done building a three-eyed mutant bug-man mask for the next segment for TRULY DREADFUL TALES (formerly Nigel Cheeseball's Monster Files).

Finished editing an interview segment and behind-the-scenes segment for PLATOON OF THE DEAD, as well as a couple of title screens.

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Good Times

Had a swell visit with my BLOODSUCKING REDNECK VAMPIRES partner Mike Hegg over the weekend. He captured all of the segments of DEADLY PREMONITIONS into his system and we did a little bit of fixing up here and there. I'll need to schedule another visit and hopefully we can fix some sound stuff and author a DVD!

Did a little work for John Bowker's PLATOON OF THE DEAD tonight. Waiting to hear if he likes it.

Met with Robert J. Olin and Rob Merickel to go over plans for shooting the Welcome Sister segment for TWISTED FATES. Robert has some ambitious iddeas and wants to make this really intense. We agreed to plan for an early June shoot so the weather is nice for scenes in the water. I'll be trying to shoot the VideoDrone segment before that.

Onward....

Thursday, February 07, 2008

Monster Movies!



Check it out! Here's the entertainment section of the Salem Statesman-Journal and BLOODSUCKING REDNECK VAMPIRES (and specifically William Bradford as Cletus) made the cover! The story can be found online right here:

http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008802070305

Tuesday, February 05, 2008

TreeSpirit Title



Made the title screen for the TreeSpirit short tonight and have started working on music and sound. Comes in around 17 minutes or so.

Who is the Guy in the Red Shirt?



I found a picture of me, Lloyd Kaufman and a couple of Salem directors in an article about the upcoming Mid-Valley Video Festival on the Salem-News.com

The Salem Statesman-Journal interviewed me last week for an article scheduled for this Friday about the Monster Madness Fridays film series. Hope it turns out well!

I have the initial edit of the TreeSpirit short done. Tons of sound work and color correction to do.

Heading up to meet with Mike Hegg this weekend and work on final post and dvd work for Deadly Premonitions. Speaking of which I put up a new bunch of photos on that page, pulled from the dvd photo gallery file.

Sunday, February 03, 2008

Lloyd Kaufman - Troma-rific!



So this was the flyer that went up at the Northern Lights Theater Pub in Salem, Oregon. BLOODSUCKING REDNECK VAMPIRES was screening again, to be followed by a new Troma release about killer racoons and then a midnight appearance by Lloyd Kaufman. So long story short, there were some problems with Lloyd doing his patented head-crush demonstration, so the Mid-Valley Video Festival guys asked if I would do it between movies and I said I'd be happy to. After all, we did a Lloyd Kaufman-inspired melon-head-crush in BRV anyway so it seems a perfect fit.



After a killer dinner at Buster's Barbecue and some beer at a nearby bar, we headed over to the theater and got our tickets. "RBV?" Hell, I don't care if the letters are jumbled on the ticket - they're still showing my movie!



My BRV co-writer, co-producer, editor, etc. Mike Hegg and I. We are so excited!



After BRV was over, Ross set up a tarp and I got out the melon I'd bought on the way to the theater. This crazy thing cost almost $9! Remind me not to do a demonstration with a melon in the middle of winter. Anyhow, here's Rob Merickel slicing a bit out of the rind to make sure the insides spew out towards the audience.



Getting ready to smash with a big rubber mallet!



Here I am making a point about something after the smash.



Hey, I at least wanted to get a bite! After the demo, we found out that the movie they were going to show next was actually WITH Lloyd. Not only that, but he was over an hour away in another town.



So the guys asked if they could make the evening a Joe Sherlock double feature by showing UNDERBELLY. I said that would rock! They broke the news to the audience, showed a great comedy/blaxploitation short called BLACK SANTA'S REVENGE and then, after I did a short intro, played UNDERBELLY. People seemed to dig it OK even if it didn't really fit "Monster Madness Fridays." There was so more downtime before Lloyd finally showed up sometime after 1 a.m.



Lloyd was entertaining, dropping one-liners here and there, but overall was passionate about his work, about independence, and about how the world is consolidating left and right, squeezing out the little guy.



After the Q&A, Lloyd cracked open a box of DVDs and posed for photos.



I'm all out of BRV copies for sale, but sacrificed one of the three personal copies I usually keep to give one to Lloyd. Unfortunately, this one got melon juice on the cover. But Lloyd gave it a thumbs up anyway!



Robert J. Olin had Lloyd sign a script he had with him that I had written. Lloyd initially said, "I can't sign this, I didn't write it." But then he said, "What the hell." Crazy!



Here is Lloyd and I with Salem filmmakers Josh Dent and Scott Hartmann.

I managed to crawl into bed sometime close to 4 in the morning, but it was a great night! Thanks to the MVVFest guys, Northern Lights, Lloyd and everyone who showed up!!

Monday, January 28, 2008

Bloodsucking Redneck Vampires Screening with Special Guest Lloyd Kaufman!

It's on! BLOODSUCKING REDNECK VAMPIRES shows on the big screen at the Northern Lights Theater Pub this Friday, Feb. 1 around 9 p.m.

BRV shows, followed by COONS (a b-movie about rednecks and killer racoons) followed by special guest Lloyd Kaufman, the man behind Troma films and such classics as The Toxic Avenger and Class of Nuke'em High. Lloyd plans to demonstrate no-budget fx like the head smash and the arm rip!

Did I mention the theater is a bar, too?!

Two crazy movies plus Lloyd Kaufman for $5. Such a deal. Let's pack the place and get rowdy!

Northern Lights Theater Pub, 3893 Commercial St. SE in Salem, Oregon. Directions, menu and beer & wine list at www.northernlightstheaterpub.com

Sunday, January 27, 2008

10:24

Well, I have 10:24 of TreeSpirit edited together so far. It continues to be rough as Tom deviated many times from the script and a few sections I don't feel work at all so I'm doing my best with what is left.

Busy week ahead so not sure how much editing I will get in, but plugging away...

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Deconstruction

Looking at February to meet up with Mike about getting the DEADLY PREMONITIONS pieces put together for DVD.

Started importing the footage Tom Shaffer shot of my short script TREESPIRIT. After some consideration, I'm going to deconstruct the NIGEL PUDDING'S MONSTER FILES project. The UNDERBUG segment has always been rather tame, esp. since it was written around my young son (8 or so when I shot it), and doesn't quite fit with the themes of the other segments shot so far. I'm going to put UNDERBUG as an extra on the EATER dvd when I put that together later this year. Meanwhile, I'm going to edit TREESPIRIT and the GHOST NURSE short that Laura G. shot for me. I've got two other segments I am lining people up to shoot. Just need to do some finish work on the monster masks and if everything else lines up I can get those productions off and running. Making plans for a new narrator, but no news to report as of yet.

And so it goes...

Monday, January 21, 2008

Preggers!

Finished photoshop work on the DEADLY PREMONITIONS photo gallery - imported the pics into iMovie, reordered them and dropped them into a timeline. Added a title and a montage of music from the movie and exported it out to tape. Have been e-mailing with Mike Hegg about the final post/dvd work.

Also exported the PLATOON OF THE DEAD cast interviews and behind the scenes imovie files to tape.

Worked a bit on a couple of horror scripts I have underway and came up with some new ideas for one of the TWISTED FATES stories - just ways to add a little visual interest to one of the scenes in the "VideoDrone" segment.

Have been e-mailing with Robert J. Olin about shooting the "Welcome Sister" segment of TWISTED FATES. His February is full so we are zeroing in on a weekend in March.

Found out that an actress I'd worked with before is pregnant. I'd written a werewolf short designed for her to star in, but it looks now like it will have to wait a while or I may need to recast it.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

5 Left

Last night I went through the 100 photos that Tom Stedham took of the DEADLY PREMONITIONS shoot, picked out the ones I wanted to include in the DP photo gallery dvd extra, cropped/resized/photoshopped all but 5. Definitely on track to have it finished by the weekend.

Monday, January 14, 2008

Awesome!!!


And the crowd goes wild!

The screening last Friday of TRAILER PARK DOUBLE WIDE TRILOGY OF TERROR at the Northern Lights Theater Pub in Salem, Oregon was awesome! The crowd really seemed to get into it and hooted and hollored and laughed and seemed to have a swell time. Lots of questions in the Q&A, too! Right after it turned Midnight, it was my buddy John Bowker's birthday, so I got the audience to all sing to him. It was great. I gave him a ZOMBIE COP dvd! All kinds of cast and friends came for the showing and I thank them all for being a part of my own movie madness!


Holly played "Bob" the cleaner and Micah played a skull-faced fiend!


Joe, Darla Doom, Michelle and Brent seemed to have a swell time.


Darla thought Amanda was scared of the zombies....


David C. Duncan starred in the "Zombies At The Door" segment.


A big thanks to Ross from the Mid-Valley Video Festival who arranged the screening!

All of the segments of DEADLY PREMONITIONS have been edited and mastered out to tape, as well as a bloopers segment. Dubbed the segments in order to VHS yesterday and need to sit down with a notepad and make note of any fine-tuning that needs to be done. I know sound levels vary a bit. Hoping to hook up with Mike Hegg towards the end of January to work on assembling the pieces.

Have all of the photos resized and polished for the DEADLY PREMONITIONS photo gallery that Tom Stedham didn't take. Going to tackle his cd of 100 pics over the rest of the week.

Finished the behind-the-scenes segement for PLATOON OF THE DEAD - lots of funny stuff.

Monday, January 07, 2008

DP / POTD / TPDWTOT

Mastered the finale segment and bloopers reel for DEADLY PREMONTIONS to tape over the weekend. Still some sound work left for the Frankie and Cherry segment and the photo gallery to do. Going to be meeting with Mike Hegg this weekend to chat about him helping me with post-production/DVD authoring work.

Imported about 80 minutes of behind-the-scenes footage from PLATOON OF THE DEAD and cut together a cast interviews segment. Currently working on cutting together the behind-the-scenes segment. Lots of laughs on set.

Also finished a first draft of a script I was asked to write. Going to take a break from it for a few weeks then come back fresh to work on expanding it a bit more.

Need to get ready for the Friday night screening of TRAILER PARK DOUBLE WIDE TRILOGY OF TERROR at a theater pub an hour or so north of me.

Busy busy busy.

Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Maxwell Smart

"Missed it by...that much."

OK, so I didn't get DEADLY PREMONITIONS totally done before the end of 2007, but I'm still going to call it good because I am so dang close. Did some fine tuning on the "Frankie and Cherry" sequence early this morning and just finished up a new piece of music for it.

What's left? A few more music cues for the Frankie and Cherry section and sound effects for the big finale segment. Then double-checking sound levels and exporting to tape.

I'm also about 2/3 of the way through the bloopers segment, leaving just a photo slide show to put together. I'd say I'll have all the "pieces" done by the end of the week.

Saturday, December 29, 2007

Home Stretch

Juggling multiple segments of DEADLY PREMONITIONS right now. Have almost 4 minutes of the big finale together (hoping to have 5 minutes for this) and have the 2-minute epilogue done and am tacking the end credits onto it. Waiting on a reply from someone about name(s) they want used to finish the end credits. Just finished the opening credits and I think they turned out way cool. Amazing what you can do with a plastic skull, a jumbo light bulb and some fireworks. Took a track I had previously made in GarageBand (for the jogging sequence) and edited and reworked it a bit to use as the opening theme. Cool! Should be wrapping all of these segments up shortly and that just leaves "segment 8," including the Frankie and Cherry stuff I shot a few weekends ago. I have all of the bloopers pulled aside in a file, so that should go together pretty quickly. I've easily got 200 photos from the various shoots, so that will be a little bit of work to make some sort of a photo gallery file.

Haven't gotten a confirmation but the last I heard the Mid-Valley Video Festival guys were thinking of showing TRAILER PARK DOUBLE WIDE TRILOGY OF TERROR at the Northern Lights Theater Pub in Salem, Oregon on January 11.

Had a great Christmas visiting with family and friends. Got a lot of great KISS stuff!

Friday, December 21, 2007

Evilmaker Double Feature DVD Now Available!!!

You can pick up this loaded double-feature DVD at www.tempevideo.com for just $12.99! Here is the rundown:

• Two movies! EVILMAKER and EVILMAKER 2: ABOMINATION
• Audio commentaries for both films with the director (that's John) and cinematographer (that's me!)
• EVILMAKER blooper reel
• EVILMAKER behind-the-scenes
• 44-minute, extensive ABOMINATION featurette
• Trailers



THE EVILMAKER (2000, 99 mins.): First time available on DVD! Serena returns home after escaping an abusive relationship to spend time with three of her friends from high school. A weekend at the beach seems like an ideal way to relax and relive the old days until their car breaks down near an abandoned house. What starts out as a creepy night turns into three days of hell as they experience terror around every corner while they fight to survive The Evilmaker! I was the dp and co-editor on this one plus did some sound effects and a little music.

ABOMINATION: EVILMAKER II (2003, 79 mins.): A year after tragic events struck four close friends, the mystery of their disappearance still has not been solved. One family member dares to hurl herself into a web of darkness and evil in order to find out what really happened. The evil unleashed from her actions will have a terrifying consequence for everyone as they combat The Evilmaker! I was the dp on this one.

If anything, it's worth picking up to see the BAD DREAMS AND BLOODY SCREAMS, the behind-the-scenes featurette on the making of ABOMINATION. Mike Hegg documeted the entire shoot and managed to cut almost 24 hours of candid behind-the-scenes and interview footage into 44 minutes. You'll see the agony, the troubleshooting, the wee hours of the morning, the moviemaking addiction, the dedication, the tricks and the magic. Seriously - it's pretty damn cool.

Monday, December 17, 2007

2007 Year In Review

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Frankie and Cherry

Shot the last sequence for DEADLY PREMONITIONS today with Michelle "Ame" Mahoney and Darla Doom, both of whom recently worked on John Bowker's PLATOON OF THE DEAD. Both of them were great and Rob Merickel came along to play the killer and do some bloody effects make-up. I'll post some more pics later this week, but here's one of Michelle, Darla and I.



Also made some great editing progress on DEADLY PREMONITIONS Friday and Saturday.

Prepping my end off the year wrap-up post and let me tell you, 2007 was a zillion times better than 2006.

More soon...

Sunday, December 09, 2007

Done...Done...On To The Next One...

PLATOON OF THE DEAD wrapped today. Lots of zombies, lots of craziness, lots of cool shots. It started to snow today! Luckily it was brief. Can't wait to see the thing put together.

Back to finishing up DEADLY PREMONITIONS. More editing to do, shooting the last remaining sequence on Sunday.

Then back to TWISTED FATES in 2008.

Go...go...go!!!!

Sunday, December 02, 2007

Moving Ahead....

Finished the "guts" effects on Morgan for DEADLY PREMONTIONS (a little frame-by-frame of her guts spilling out as the killer slices her open). Sweet. Also composed some cool music for the bellydance scene using GarageBand. Finished editing that segment and have started yet another one. Tonight I put together a sequence using original footage from 2005 plus parts of two versions of some pick-up shots done a few weeks ago, one with the actress having a wig on (that was too long) and one with her current shorter haircut. Believe it or not, with some quick cuts and extreme angles, it all cut together very well!

Just got the rewrite for the last two days of shooting on PLATOON OF THE DEAD. Gotta get storyboarding and planning as John will be here Thursday night to meet about it. So much to do!

Took a little time last Sunday to put together this music video for a crazy song I did with my son and his friends. Check it out!



I also put together this little animated opening sequence for the movie's newscaster, Link Masters:



Cast, location and time are just about set for the last "killer" sequence I need for DEADLY PREMONITIONS. Was going to shoot today but a storm and probable power outages made me cancel it. Hope to get it shot within the next two weeks and wrap this puppy up!

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Mr. Popular

Now that the 9-day shoot for PLATOON OF THE DEAD is done, I'm trying to make some headway on my own projects. We do have 2 more days on PLATOON, but I need to wait until I get John's rewrite before I can storyboard.

In recent days, I've had to tell a few folks that I was just too busy to help with their projects. Then today, I was asked to co-write and direct a new project. When it rains, it pours! I told him that I could probably help with some writing but I had plenty on my plate at the moment.

Have been working on editing for DEADLY PREMONITIONS. Bit by bit.

Robert J. Olin found a couple of actors for the very last sequence I need for DEADLY PREMONITIONS - we are looking to shoot on December 2.

Worked a tiny bit on TWISTED FATES tonight as well.

Also got several packages together that I've needed to, but since tomorrow is Sunday, they'll have to wait until Monday to go to the post office.

It's almost 2:30 a.m., so I guess I'd better go to bed.
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