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Episode 2, “Attack of the Cast” is now online!

You can view this, and Episode, on the new site www.fanfilmtheseries.com.

Finally! It’s Here! Fan Film The Series has finally launched, along with its new website.

The NeoZAZ.com original production is now on-line.

After all the filming, editing, and numerous troubles with… ah, forget all that. Just CLICK HERE.

Here’s a sneak peak at one of the DVD special features David’s been working on. It’s the “Inside the Actor’s Studio” parody I posted about a couple months ago. Special thanks again to Steve Bost for helping us out with this.

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One of the questions that came up while filming an interview with the Fan Film cast was “Where’s Gregg?” As it turns out, he’s made his way on to Japanese television. We can only hope he made it on to a show as good as this:

4 days into the new year, and I’ve still managed to keep to the production schedule I set for myself. This ting may just get done on the deadline for a few key submissions we were hoping to hit early this year.

Here’s some stills for the latest work – no clip this time, sound isn’t done yet. It’s another opener. Episode 3 I think.

I got a big opening scene/ joke done today, and posted the clip on our home site, neozaz.com. Check out the clip here.

If you’ve been wondering on the status of “Fan Film” both the movie and the series, I can sum it up in 4 words “Hurry up and wait”. All the footage is shot, the scenes edited and re-edited, and now I’m on to the movie version edit before I go back the series.

So, the “hurry up and wait” part. Up until now, I’ve been exporting the files with factory preset with no regard to compression, quality, etc. Now that the files final destination are to a DVD for people to actually view, I’m taking a little more time to pick and choose the settings. Furthermore, the file sizes are huge in comparison to the website files, thus – waiting and waiting and waiting for the computer to render the files. So, it’s edit a bit, then wait for render. Edit a bit, then wait for render. Edit a bit, wait for render, lose track of time playing Guitar Hero, back to editing.

That’s the short version. I could go on, but the render wait is nearly over on this file.

Well, here’s the announcement everyone probably expected:

The release date for “Fan Film The Series” has been pushed back for Dec 19th to Jan 2nd 2009.

There’s a handful of reason for this, but I’ll spare everyone the boring details. The main thing to relay is that a big reason for this move is to free up more time to final edit the Film Festival version the best it can possibly be done in time for the Sunscreen Film Festival submission dead line of Dec 31st.

And, really, no other reason other than time factors – everything is coming out great. Everything is coming out better than expected. We’re not tinkering with any kind of creative edits to hide/fix/re-arrange anything. Basically, we have a great series coming up and the editing is taking longer than planned to showcase this great thing we have in its best possible light.

David Smith met up with Dave Fox and Chris Irons to film the one last remaining elusive Pennsylvania scene.

The reason behind its elusiveness was due to the fact that I was running the camera the first time we “shot” that scene in August. Apparently the large green circle with the word “REC” and the large red circle with the word “STOPPED” is not large nor green or red enough for me to notice if the camera is actually recording or not. So yes, I didn’t hit record the first time. I did manage to film the moments before and after that didn’t have anything to do with the movie or series if that counts for anything.

This is the primary reason I write and rough cut the projects. I leave the things that need the attention span longer than that of a gnat to David.

So once again, thanks to Everyone – David, Dave, Chris, Karen, Gregg, John, Sunday, Steve, and my Parents Bill and Jackie for finally making the PA portion of “Fan Film the Series” and “Fan Film the Movie” a 100%, no doubt, in the can, send it to print, wrap!

Well, I guess that’s a misleading headline, since this post is actually the announcement. So I guess it should have said “Release Date to be announced in the next few sentences.” Or I guess it could have said “Release Date Announced, see below”. Or, just “Release Date” now that I think of it.

What was I saying again?

Oh, right – the release date.

The release as of this post for the first episode of “Fan Film The Series” is December 19th, 2008.

Everything’s on track to hit that date, and actually currently on track to be done before then, knock on wood.

There may even be time to a new trailer between now and then with the new footage and re-shoots, but time will tell on that one.

When the release happens, which should be December 19th as earlier stated, this blog will re-direct to its new home at www.fanfilmtheseries.com. Feel free to visit it now if you’d like, it has the trailer if you haven’t seen it already. We’re also toying with some QuickTime H264 codec encoding. The current trailer is our first attempt so the files a bit large. We have high hopes of improving the quality/size ratio soon.