Several events have aligned in the cosmos to delay the production of our... uh... production. Our director got a job on a different project that was actually a paying job, and I've decided to start a webcomic, which I've only just started to put together.
More on this webcomic as it develops. (Read: I'm gonna shamelessly plug the crap out of this project even though it isn't technically affiliated with Long Coat Productions.) It doesn't even have the "web" part established yet (or the comic part, really) but it's turning out to be a vaguely Robin-Hood-esque sword-and-sorcery high fantasy with Steampunk elements. It's the story of a lost princess, unaware of her birthright, raised by a bandit gang led by a swashbuckling rogue reminiscent of a hypothetical amalgamation of Jack Sparrow, Inigo Montoya, and Zorro. Okay, so it's a little bit like the plot of Final Fantasy 9. It'll be funny, it'll be tragic, it'll be epic. And when I say epic, I mean it in the sense of the word that was in use before it was commandeered by frat boys the world over. I mean it in the sense of the old stories. The one that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? But seriously. Read it. I'll post a link when it gets to being online.
By the way, Final Fantasy 9 is soooo much better than Final Fantasy 7. Sorry all you Sephiroth fanboys out. That's just a simple truth of the universe. I could go into a deeper analysis-rant, but I'll save that for my other blog. (Besides, I just alienated at least half of my potential fanbase.) Stop typing now? You betcha.
Monday, July 20, 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
Name Change
Shock Value Productions was the "company" I made up, but now that I'm working with other people, we've decided on a different name for us as a group.
As of today, we are officially Long Coat Productions.
Because it seems like every production company bases its name on an inside joke of the founders', and who are we to buck tradition?
By the way, it turns out that movies aren't made out of nothing. It costs, like, money and stuff. Anyone want to give us some money? Or stuff?
As of today, we are officially Long Coat Productions.
Because it seems like every production company bases its name on an inside joke of the founders', and who are we to buck tradition?
By the way, it turns out that movies aren't made out of nothing. It costs, like, money and stuff. Anyone want to give us some money? Or stuff?
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
We're Making a Movie
I'm not sure if it's a Western with werewolves, or if it's a werewolf movie with cowboys. But it's one of those two. Because every now and then, you just have to make a movie about cowboys and werewolves. You've gotten that feeling, right? Am I alone on that? Moving on.
I wrote Wolf Moon about a year ago. It didn't take long to write, which is obvious in that it's only seven pages in all. In theory that will equate to about seven minutes on screen, which suits me just fine. It tells the story to the extent that I feel is needed, and it won't take $100 million and ten months to produce. Which is good. When I wrote it, I never really thought it would be made. It was a fun little exercise to keep my writing muscles honed between semesters. But I showed it to some people and they seemed to like it, and one of them, Ryan Steiner, liked it enough to want to make it appear on film. He's directing it, as I'm focused on being a writer and technical thingamajigs like cameras and lights and actors scare me. At this point, I'm just along for the ride.
I wrote Wolf Moon about a year ago. It didn't take long to write, which is obvious in that it's only seven pages in all. In theory that will equate to about seven minutes on screen, which suits me just fine. It tells the story to the extent that I feel is needed, and it won't take $100 million and ten months to produce. Which is good. When I wrote it, I never really thought it would be made. It was a fun little exercise to keep my writing muscles honed between semesters. But I showed it to some people and they seemed to like it, and one of them, Ryan Steiner, liked it enough to want to make it appear on film. He's directing it, as I'm focused on being a writer and technical thingamajigs like cameras and lights and actors scare me. At this point, I'm just along for the ride.
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