Redress - Script Update (0)

Posted on 29 March, 2008 in Redress

Wow - 2008 is flying by fast. On that note, the month of April is here! I wanted to start filming bits and pieces of Redress this month, however the script is not done yet. My writing partner Kreg and I have been diligently meeting and writing and the story is much more focused than it was a month ago. There is far more character development - in fact, I’m very sure the story could stand by itself even if we removed all of the horror elements. We’re getting close - not just close enough to film yet. The nice thing about being a small studio is that nobody breathes down our back - the bad thing is that budgets are small, so sometimes day jobs and errands get in the way of a good writing session

Once the cameras finally start rolling I plan to send out a press release and hopefully have a trailer ready in time for Comic-Con.

On other fronts, I have been busy designing our new company shirts and promo items for the Fangoria Weekend of Horrors in Los Angeles at the end of April. I think our table is in a great place this year, it’s on an end over by some of the bigger booths, so traffic should be kind to us - I hope…

Tags: Pre-production, Screenplay, Script, Writing

Locations and Bugs and Trailers - OH MY! (0)

Posted on 1 March, 2008 in Redress

While Kreg and I are busy wrapping up the script for Redress, I have been scouting locations in my free time and beginning to gather a number of the props that will be needed for the shoot. This film has a number of locations in it which will be a definite challenge when it comes to filming, but I know we need them. I have found a wicked looking park which you find a picture of in the teaser poster that is floating around and we have our psychologist office all lined up also.

In other news, we will be using a number of live animals in this film as well - not anything like lions, tiger and bears (Oh My!), but more like real maggots, worms and crows (Fuck Yeah). I don’t want to say too much about how we plan to use these little critters, as they refer to some ultra awesome twists in the plot, but I’ll give you a hint. As we all know, dead things are eaten by a variety of bugs, worms and other animals when they die. Maggots love to devour dead flesh and how many times have you seen a crow picking at some flattened animal on the side of the road? It’s not anything too major, other than the fact most people have told be they don’t want to be anywhere near me when I’m filming the scene with 10,000 maggots. Did I just say 10,000 maggots? Oh, no the corpse - errrr…. the cat is out of the bag now. Look out, I smell something terrible crawling this way.

As the Fangoria show rapidly approaches, I find myself getting ramped up for the event. I have been designing new stickers, we have a cool-new vending machine we will be using to give away DVDs and I have started creating the trailer for Redress. All I have is some music, text and b-roll stuff for now, but by the end of March I’ll have the full-blown thing.

Oh, I’ve got to go. My test video is done rendering

Tags: Location Scouting, Pre-production, Props