Well, who would have thought I could ignore this blog for three years? Yikes. It's not that nothing has been happening -- I'll catch you up on some of that today -- it's just that much of it is stuff that has to remain private until the movies actually become real. So far, the big movies have not yet become real. Maybe tomorrow.
May 2008 saw the release of my first DVD, the concert film VETERANS OF VOLUME: LIVE WITH EIGHT CAMERAS for the band Jucifer. It was a monumental amount of work and time-consuming beyond all belief, but I think it turned out great and no self-respecting Jucifer fan should spend a single day without owning several copies. You can check out a four-minute trailer and buy it cheap ($10 + postage) at www.JuciferDVD.com. It was professionally replicated via a glass master and the packaging is a really amazing-looking six-panel DVD digipak. Oasis Manufacturing in New York did a wonderful job with the manufacturing of it all. The DVD also features five music videos (four of which I directed since I last blogged here), a nine-minute trailer of all the band's major releases, a rock poster gallery with 60 posters from past Jucifer tours, 100 photos, five rare or unreleased studio recordings (plus mp3s of those), and more. This was the first "for sale" product I've ever put out there into the world, and it has been interesting seeing it catch on. I'm really pleased with the results so far. Hopefully there will be another DVD down the line. Actually, here's the trailer:
But that's last month's news. The new project is BROKEN AUGUST, a five-minute short film I'm making with Dirty Little Films. It's sort of the origin story of a really damaged superhero, but not really. It's about revenge: a optimistic woman (Alaina Huffman) is brutally attacked, her view of the world is completely changed, and she goes out into the night looking to find thugs and teach them a few things about right and wrong. Something like that. It's actually just the tip of the iceberg, this short. There's definitely enough story to make a feature, so we're shooting this 1080p even though 720p would probably be perfectly acceptable (and would save us a ton of drive space). We're shooting on the Panasonic AG-HVX200 (the "P2 Card" camera), going tapeless until it's time to back everything up permanently. We're recording VO tonight and hope to have a finished movie in September or October. Eli Logavi and Camelia Adibi are producing. Jack Waldrip is cutting it. Martin Carrillo is doing Sound Design. Kevin Manthei is composing the score. I'm stoked.
That's all for now. I'll blog again in 2011.
