Cinco de Mayo Massacre to become a novel (0)

Posted on 13 October, 2008 in Cinco de Mayo Massacre, Writing Projects

Well, while I sit around waiting for this economy to get a little better - and by better I mean where people will want to invest in my films again - I am going to start g on the novel for Cinco de Mayo Massacre.

As I sat on the script for the last year I began realizing that there was so much more to the story that I wanted to tell. I had been toying with the idea of doing a novel for a long while now. Way back in the day I had actually written a number of novels, shorts and poetry. As my creative side boils over with ideas I think it may be best to start churning out more of these as novels.

The nice thing about a written story is that the MPAA can’t tell you what to cut. You don’t have to argue with producers over the script and there are no technical issues with telling your story. All you have to do is get the words out onto the page

As far as who will publish the story and so on, I have no idea yet. I’m going to write the book before I market it. If you guys like my films, then I know you will love the original stories. If everything goes according to plan, I want to a novelization of Slaughter Disc next.

Tags: Novel, Story, Writing

Shadow Ward - Site Launched (0)

Posted on 11 October, 2008 in Web Projects

The Shadow Ward is a website dedicated to ghosts and other paranormal phenomena that have been witnessed in Hospitals. I have enough other projects keeping me busy, but I need to let this let this start maturing on its own.  Right now it is a work in progress. If I keep the project tangled up in my brain, nobody else will ever be able to share their ideas and stories with me, so I need to start somewhere.

Since I am a health care worker - and I work the night shift - I have heard some interesting ghost stories.  Either fortunately or unfortunately I have never seen an actual ghost myself, although I may have and simply didn’t realize it.  I have several friends who swear they have seen something paranormal in the hospital. 

I figure that a hospital is a perfect place for a haunting to occur since people often die there in a variety of tragic, painful and horrific ways.  The people I have seen pass away at work are often sad and/or depressed and have some kind of unfinished business in this world.  Why their spirits would want to wander around such facility, I don’t think I’ll ever know until I die myself.  Unfortunately I will probably learn the answer to that sooner rather than later.

Hopefully I will be able to gather a wealth of information with this project.  If I do gather enough information, I am strongly considering starting a podcast devoted to the topic.  Only time will tell.

The official blog for the project can be found here: http://www.shadowward.com/blog/. I will be posting all of the major news for the project over there and not on this blog.

Enjoy.

Tags: Podcast, Web Design, Web Development

Hospital Hill - On Hold (0)

Posted on 11 September, 2008 in Hospital Hill

You know, I’m starting to get sick and tired of this “business” I call a hobby.  It seems every time I have depended on something or somebody on the last couple of projects, they have miserably let me down.  I know that this is all part of this “business” - but when you are a struggling filmmaker, it can really suck sometimes.

I was getting ramped up to film Hospital Hill this fall and I just recently learned that the studio I was planning on renting has gone out of business.  This really sucks because one of the sole reasons I was going to make this film was because they had an awesome medical set with this brutal looking hospital bed that I planned on using.

At this point we don’t have the resources to film these scenes someplace else locally and we certainly don’t have the $3000 to $5000 dollars a day that the hospital set studios up in LA wants to ass fuck us for.

So, unless somebody has an operating room we can film in, or somebody wants to donate $10,000 so we can film in LA for 2 days, I am officially shelving this project at this point in time.  Luckily, it’s a sweet and short script, so it’s easy to dust off.

Oh well.  Fuck it.  Again.

I’m sleeping in tomorrow.

Tags: Delays, Pre-production

Casting Call Posted for Hospital Hill (0)

Posted on 3 September, 2008 in Hospital Hill

I published the casting call for Hospital Hill today and the actors are already pouring in.  It looks like there will be some fresh, promising talent this time…  Check it out at http://www.steelwebstudios.com and see if there’s a role you are interested in.

Tags: Casting, Pre-production

Hospital Hill - Script Completed (0)

Posted on 17 August, 2008 in Hospital Hill

I am extremely happy to announce that I have finished the script for Hospital Hill!  I actually finished it two days ago, but I have been reading over it a few more times just to make sure it was ready.

This is by far the shortest script I have ever written for one of my Horror projects.  I have written a few comedy skits for things I did in the past, but that was about it. The grand total on this puppy is 6 pages long - not including the cover page.

I have already drafted the character breakdown and whipped up some concept art.  Next I’ll start with the storyboarding.  I’m 80% sure of my filming locations as they are mostly all studio based, so location scouting is pretty much done too. 

I have an idea of a few of the actors I want to use, but I’m still going to be holding a casting call because I am very interested in casting an awesome femme fatale for the role of evil nurse I have created.  

Be sure to sign up for the Steel Web Studios Newletter if you are interested in working on this film with me. All official casting/crew calls will go out through the newsletter.

Tags: Pre-production, Screenplay