Posts Tagged “Fan Film”

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.

Funny little side note to this project: A friend of my wife and I is also currently working on a Star Wars Fan Film. Michael Mergenthaler is playing Darth Garin in “Star Wars: The Forgotten”. Check out their site here.

For a quick glimpse at Michael’s character, scroll to the bottom of this page.

Hey Merg!

I’ve started downloading the footage from last weekend’s “Fan Film The Movie” shoot this weekend. And with the biggest drawback of shooting on DV tape on a consumer camcorder being that it downloads in real time, I have lots and lots of time to sit in front of my computer and monitor the download making sure no frames get dropped, scenes at are indexed, etc. So I figured why not start on the poster and see what I can come up with using the fantastic photos Dave took during the costuming  photo shoot we had Sunday afternoon. I have some more ideas for the poster, but I liked how this turned out. Gotta love Photoshop filters!

NeoZAZ wrapped up primary shooting on our latest film project, “Fan Film: The Movie” (tentative title, but that’ll probably be what it’s called). It was a marathon of Indie Guerilla film making – 23 hours over 2 and half days resulting in 5 hour and 20 minutes of great footage. All with the help of 6 friends of ours with a lot of enthusiasm, patience, and trust in that Dave and I knew what we were doing.

With everyone’s help we got everything that we wanted, and more. We even had time for a photo session to make a kick-ass poster for the project.

It was a lot of fun to film and should be just as much fun to put together.

I’d once again like to thank everyone that gave up their whole weekend – both day and night – to get this done. So thanks once again to Karen, Dave, Chris, Gregg, John and Sunday, as I might have mentioned, I truly appreciate your help on this project and can’t wait to put all the pieces together.

There’s more to say, but I unfortunately have to leave the state on business tomorrow and should probably get some sleep. Once Gregg can get me a copy of the production shots, that’ll jar some memories and stories to share.