We began March with finishing Principal Photography for Episode 2 of The Templetons, shot all on HD in a studio against a professional chroma screen.  Work continues on that to get the effects done, as Writer/Cartoonist Matt Voss draws all the backgrounds.  The Templetons Episode 2 was shot by Tom Krymkowski and will be screened / released sometime in Fall 2009.

April projects in production:

• Postproduction continues on Hella Fresh’s production Devious, Inc. (which incidentally was also shot by Tom Krymkowski)
• Matt Voss and I did a quick stint on Michael Schrecker’s music video for local band Fingermonsters (moving animated backgrounds)
• In association with Scary Cow Productions, I’m lighting Digant’s Kasundra’s hysterical new “cult movie,” which this time is literally about a cult… shot by Tom Krymkowski. Hmm, is there a trend here?
• We’re in “effects trials” preproduction for my personal project, a horror-themed short film. On camera is… uh… Tom Krymkowski. What is the deal with this guy?

Maybe I should get Tom to work on the Finger Monsters video!

Also in the works: a short project with some gory special effects I’m running with other members of Scary Cow. I’ve very psyched about this project.

Of course, the editing and postproduction on Devious, Inc continues– it’s a long haul!

I am hard at work editing first the trailer, and getting some of the scenes together.  The trailer will debut at the Scary Cow Showcase at the end of January 2009 (or beginning of February?  Gah!).  The release for the film is currently scheduled for Summer 2009.

I am also editing Alan Dunkel’s music video for “The Waiting Game,” which I’m pretty psyched about.  That too will screen at Scary Cow.

As for me, I am now officially the editor for Devious, Inc.. I am very excited to be a part of the core team. We’re going to start with a zany trailer and jump straight into the musical numbers.

Preproduction work continues with Matt Voss’ The Templetons 2.

I’ve decided to recruit more crew for my Chaayaa Samaadhi (Mindful Filmmaking) production technique. We’ll be shooting a series of “park bench scenes” for this effort, early in the mornings during the week. My goal is to crank out at least 4 five-minute shorts using this technique.

…aaaaaand Digant Kasundra continues slogging through the editing process on S is for Psycho. It’ll happen!

We shot principal photography over two weekends and one weekday evening– the first weekend we shot some car scenes in my driveway (with a chroma screen in the background), and rented a room in the Fort Mason Center to stand in for a police station briefing room, for the first and last scenes. The second weekend we shot on location at Sharon Huff’s house… as we did for Cursed. Maybe we’re stuck in a rut, I dunno. The last day we shot the bedroom scene in Diggy’s apartment.

We ran a little over our allotted schedule this time, so we ended up shooting the remaining shot (just one!) with just me and Diggy playing the guru. That was a fun shoot though; we started editing immediately afterwards.

Diggy’s editing the film for a October 5th screening at Scary Cow Showcase at the Victoria Theater.

I’m also on the crew for Samantha Sullivan’s Hella Fresh Films/ Scary Cow production of Devious, Inc.. It’s the story of a boy who grows up on a shoe farm (you know, where they grow the shoes) who dreams of taking over the fetish shoe world and save his farm, but to do that he must clash with the nefarious fashionista “Bitch.” Written and directed by xuxE.

I may have bitten off a bit more than I could chew this round with Scary Cow; I edited The Templetons, which I directed, but I also edited the music video for Sagar by Salman Ahmed, also appearing in Scary Cow. So I’ve spent the last few weeks getting not enough sleep and doing nothing but editing and rendering.

However– it’s done! After the trailer is screened at Scary Cow, I will be posting it online.

Now notice that this is the TRAILER for The Templetons… Matt Voss and I are working hard on the real deal to submit to more film festivals, in addition to the next round of Scary Cow in three months. I’m assuming Matt is working hard on background drawings, because he keeps sending them to me, but for all I know he drew them all in advance. That would be sneaky.