We were not :-( selected as one of the winners in the Seattle Times 3-minute Masterpiece contest. Oh well it was a good expierence anyway. Now I may be a little biased but I just don't get the Grand Prize winner at all....you can see it here and judge for yourself. Yes, it's animation and it probably took a long time to make...but still. Also, while you're there check out "The Diary" and "Go Fish" I think those two were really good.
Don't forget voting is this weekend for "The Cost of Reform" at the Seattle True Independent Film Festival. Unfortunately tickets are available at the door only...arrive early!!!
Saturday June 3rd @ 11AM at Central Cinema (Central Cinema is located in Seattle's Central District neighborhood at 21st Avenue and E. Union street. Look for the Neon Marquee. The address is 1411 21 Avenue Seattle WA 98122. ) S
Sunday June 4th @ 11AM at The Market Theater (1428 Post AlleySeattle, WA 98101 - this is at Pike Street Market...hence the name...Market Theater).
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Saturday, May 27, 2006
Angry Mo Productions
In an effort to legitimize and/or publicize my creative efforts The Diary of an Angry Mo has spawned a companion website for Angry Mo Productions. So check it out and let me know what you think. Any questions, comments or advice is encouraged and greatly appreciated!!
Click Here to go Angry Mo Productions
Click Here to go Angry Mo Productions
Friday, May 26, 2006
See It Here..um..There
One of my moviemaking colleagues and friends has created a website. Why should you care?? Well you can view three of our projects....the one that started it all...."Boss and Vasquez", our Seattle Times 3-minute masterpiece entry, "Addiction" and our STIFF entry, "The Cost of Reform."
Check it out
At the top, click on the title you wish to view. If you don't have it already you may be asked to download QuickTime, and if you do have it you may be asked to update...just follow the directions...IT'S FREE.
Check it out
At the top, click on the title you wish to view. If you don't have it already you may be asked to download QuickTime, and if you do have it you may be asked to update...just follow the directions...IT'S FREE.
We've Done It Now
We've entered another 48-Hour film competition. Though this isn't your everyday competition. This is the original "48-Hour Film Project" the one that started it all and the one that every other one copies. That's right this is the national "official" 48-Hour competition. Click here to find out more...you'll see on the right hand side of the screen under the map is a list of registered teams and there we are, "Count It! Productions."
This is by far the biggest competition we've entered. The 48-Hour Film Project hosts competitions in 35 cities around the world. The potential exposure is HUGE...city winners go on to compete nationally. Actually with competitions taking place in Brisbane and Paris it could be international exposure.
The competition kicks off Friday July 7th.....I'll let you know what happens.
This is by far the biggest competition we've entered. The 48-Hour Film Project hosts competitions in 35 cities around the world. The potential exposure is HUGE...city winners go on to compete nationally. Actually with competitions taking place in Brisbane and Paris it could be international exposure.
The competition kicks off Friday July 7th.....I'll let you know what happens.
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
HELP!!!! UPDATED
***Updated information for STIFF Screenings***
This pertains to the June 3 and June 4 audience voting screenings...
The voting will be done by ballot: 3 points awarded for a first place vote, 2 points for second, and 1 for 3rd. Again, we need all of the people we can to come out and stuff the ballots for our short film titled, "The Cost of Reform," produced by Count-it! Productions.
Voting can only be done in person at one of the two screenings.
Also I believe that tickets are no longer avail online for the Sunday screening...tickets can still be purchased at the door...but admission is not guaranteed. At this point online ticket orders for Saturday are still be taken.
Finally, if you are going to be over this way over the Memorial Day weekend drop in on Sunday May 28th 11:00am at the Seattle International Film Festival to see our Seattle Times "entry "Addiction." Click HERE for tickets
This pertains to the June 3 and June 4 audience voting screenings...
The voting will be done by ballot: 3 points awarded for a first place vote, 2 points for second, and 1 for 3rd. Again, we need all of the people we can to come out and stuff the ballots for our short film titled, "The Cost of Reform," produced by Count-it! Productions.
Voting can only be done in person at one of the two screenings.
Also I believe that tickets are no longer avail online for the Sunday screening...tickets can still be purchased at the door...but admission is not guaranteed. At this point online ticket orders for Saturday are still be taken.
Finally, if you are going to be over this way over the Memorial Day weekend drop in on Sunday May 28th 11:00am at the Seattle International Film Festival to see our Seattle Times "entry "Addiction." Click HERE for tickets
Monday, May 22, 2006
HELP!!!!!
So I'm reposting this e-mail blast that Travis sent out over the weekend.
WE NEED YOUR HELP!!! Travis, Jason, Jason, Justin, Frank, Jeff (that's me), Lauralee and Joel with the help of Carmen, Michelle, Michael-Ellyn, Barry, Vincent, Colin, Steve, and Rachel have entered the Seattle True Independent Film Festival's 2006 Weekend Film Challenge. We were given a character, quote, prop, and genre on Friday at 7p and had until Sunday at 7p to have a written, shot, cut, and scored short film submitted. We have come up with a piece that is way cool, BUT the judging is done by the audience for this one. Sooooooo, this is where our wonderful friends and family come in....
If you are available, please plan on attending one of two screenings as linked below:
Saturday, June 3rd, 11:00am, OR
Sunday, June 4th, 11:00am:
Our team name is Count-it! Productions and the name of our film is "The Cost of Reform." We need your support to cheer for us as LOUDLY as you possible can at either of the two venues!
"What's in it for me?" you ask. Well, here is the scenario:
1. You purchase your ticket and attend one of the screenings.
2. You do your part by cheering so loudly for our film that people in neighboring states wonder what the heck all the noise is about.
3. We win the Grand Prize, which is $2500 in services from Victory Studios (a prominent transfer house in North Seattle.)
4. We use the prize to create our next piece, which will be a wonderful short story shot on super 16mm film.
5. This film is well received and the major studios begin a furious bidding war for the rights and we finally settle on an 8-figure deal.
6. Using this money, we charter a private jet for all of you and head somewhere sunny and warm with white sandy beaches and drinks with umbrellas where we party for a week! (Please retain your ticket stub from the screening as this will be necessary to get you on the plane...)
THANK YOU in advance if you are able to attend! We are all grateful for the support given to us by all of our friends and family!
Please pass this email off to anyone who loves short films and would like to attend!
See you at the movies!
-Trav-
WE NEED YOUR HELP!!! Travis, Jason, Jason, Justin, Frank, Jeff (that's me), Lauralee and Joel with the help of Carmen, Michelle, Michael-Ellyn, Barry, Vincent, Colin, Steve, and Rachel have entered the Seattle True Independent Film Festival's 2006 Weekend Film Challenge. We were given a character, quote, prop, and genre on Friday at 7p and had until Sunday at 7p to have a written, shot, cut, and scored short film submitted. We have come up with a piece that is way cool, BUT the judging is done by the audience for this one. Sooooooo, this is where our wonderful friends and family come in....
If you are available, please plan on attending one of two screenings as linked below:
Saturday, June 3rd, 11:00am, OR
Sunday, June 4th, 11:00am:
Our team name is Count-it! Productions and the name of our film is "The Cost of Reform." We need your support to cheer for us as LOUDLY as you possible can at either of the two venues!
"What's in it for me?" you ask. Well, here is the scenario:
1. You purchase your ticket and attend one of the screenings.
2. You do your part by cheering so loudly for our film that people in neighboring states wonder what the heck all the noise is about.
3. We win the Grand Prize, which is $2500 in services from Victory Studios (a prominent transfer house in North Seattle.)
4. We use the prize to create our next piece, which will be a wonderful short story shot on super 16mm film.
5. This film is well received and the major studios begin a furious bidding war for the rights and we finally settle on an 8-figure deal.
6. Using this money, we charter a private jet for all of you and head somewhere sunny and warm with white sandy beaches and drinks with umbrellas where we party for a week! (Please retain your ticket stub from the screening as this will be necessary to get you on the plane...)
THANK YOU in advance if you are able to attend! We are all grateful for the support given to us by all of our friends and family!
Please pass this email off to anyone who loves short films and would like to attend!
See you at the movies!
-Trav-
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Update on the Google and Stuff
I wasn't one of the 10,000 finalists....DAMN YOU TOM HANKS AND YOUR CRAZY EURO-MULLET! Oh well.
I saw our finished 3-minute film for STIFF....it is AWESOME!! I should hopefully be getting a DVD with this one and the other ones that we have done. So's the next time we come to the crack I can show y'all.
In the meantime...check this out....I didn't haven't anything to do with it but the Rasta Man is the same guy that played the lead in our short film "The Ideal Wife". It's pretty funny.
Chuck Norris Rap
I saw our finished 3-minute film for STIFF....it is AWESOME!! I should hopefully be getting a DVD with this one and the other ones that we have done. So's the next time we come to the crack I can show y'all.
In the meantime...check this out....I didn't haven't anything to do with it but the Rasta Man is the same guy that played the lead in our short film "The Ideal Wife". It's pretty funny.
Chuck Norris Rap
Monday, May 15, 2006
...And We're Done!!
Another 48-hour film competition under our belts!!!
Friday night we met for dinner and then headed to the meeting spot in downtown Seattle. It was kind of interesting how they did this one. There were about 15 teams and they drew, 1 character (P. Flowers: A Politician), 1 line of dialog ("More like 28, right guys?"), and 1 prop (pocket change) that ALL the teams had to use. Then each team drew a genre. I don't know what every team got, but we got drama and the team next to us got horror.
Other possible genres included: comedy, action/adventure, thriller, mockumentary, propaganda, musical, western and sci-fi. Oh yeah...the time constraint is that the finished film has to be at least 3 minutes but no longer than 6 minutes. It will be interesting to see if anyone got sci-fi or musical....I think those 2 would be really really hard to do in 48-hours.
After the drawing was over we took over the Il Forniao seating area at Pacific Place on 6th and Pine. We banged out our story in about 3 1/2 hours and recruited one of the security guard to appear in our film, (we got his number and called him Saturday morning and told him where to be and he actually showed up!!) he turned out to be fantastic. He played a double agent in charge of protecting a Senator (Peggy Flowers) and her family, but also works for a group of assasins that are targeting the Senator. Through the course of the story he gets found out and is killed by one of the assasins he is working for. He died beautifully!!!
Probably the most amazing thing that happened was that our lead actress knew someone who owns a house in the Finn Hill area of Kirkland and got permission for us to use the house as the location for the Senators house. HOLY CRAP...this house was amazing...on a bluff overlooking Lake Washington with views of downtown Bellevue, Seattle and Mt. Rainier. The inside was just as amazing as the outside...marble floor and marble columns in the foyer that lead to a sunken 2-story living room with floor to ceiling windows framing that AMAZING view. We estimated that the house had to be worth at least $3.5 - $4 million.
It was fun but really exhausting...I worked all day Friday and then went right to Seattle...didn't get home until about 11pm. Then was up at 6:30am and at our first location by 8am we shot at 3 locations, 2 in Bellevue and the Finn Hill house mentioned above. I got home about 9pm. Luckily, the last location was at the house of our team leader where all the editting equipment is so the editors were able to start editting while we finished up shooting the last couple of scenes.
We are thinking the films will be viewed and the winners announced June 3rd. I'll surely post results here!
Friday night we met for dinner and then headed to the meeting spot in downtown Seattle. It was kind of interesting how they did this one. There were about 15 teams and they drew, 1 character (P. Flowers: A Politician), 1 line of dialog ("More like 28, right guys?"), and 1 prop (pocket change) that ALL the teams had to use. Then each team drew a genre. I don't know what every team got, but we got drama and the team next to us got horror.
Other possible genres included: comedy, action/adventure, thriller, mockumentary, propaganda, musical, western and sci-fi. Oh yeah...the time constraint is that the finished film has to be at least 3 minutes but no longer than 6 minutes. It will be interesting to see if anyone got sci-fi or musical....I think those 2 would be really really hard to do in 48-hours.
After the drawing was over we took over the Il Forniao seating area at Pacific Place on 6th and Pine. We banged out our story in about 3 1/2 hours and recruited one of the security guard to appear in our film, (we got his number and called him Saturday morning and told him where to be and he actually showed up!!) he turned out to be fantastic. He played a double agent in charge of protecting a Senator (Peggy Flowers) and her family, but also works for a group of assasins that are targeting the Senator. Through the course of the story he gets found out and is killed by one of the assasins he is working for. He died beautifully!!!
Probably the most amazing thing that happened was that our lead actress knew someone who owns a house in the Finn Hill area of Kirkland and got permission for us to use the house as the location for the Senators house. HOLY CRAP...this house was amazing...on a bluff overlooking Lake Washington with views of downtown Bellevue, Seattle and Mt. Rainier. The inside was just as amazing as the outside...marble floor and marble columns in the foyer that lead to a sunken 2-story living room with floor to ceiling windows framing that AMAZING view. We estimated that the house had to be worth at least $3.5 - $4 million.
It was fun but really exhausting...I worked all day Friday and then went right to Seattle...didn't get home until about 11pm. Then was up at 6:30am and at our first location by 8am we shot at 3 locations, 2 in Bellevue and the Finn Hill house mentioned above. I got home about 9pm. Luckily, the last location was at the house of our team leader where all the editting equipment is so the editors were able to start editting while we finished up shooting the last couple of scenes.
We are thinking the films will be viewed and the winners announced June 3rd. I'll surely post results here!
Friday, May 12, 2006
Another 48hrs....
...film contest that is. Tonight begins the Seattle's True Independent Film Festival (STIFF) 48-Hour Film Competition. The competition is sure to be bit more STIFF...pun intended...than the Maple Valley Film Festival, but we're hoping for the best. We meet tonight to draw our genre out of the hat and then have until Sunday 7pm to turn in the finished film.
Haven't heard anything about the Seattle Time 3-minute Masterpiece yet....all they said was that winners would be notified on or before May 27th. The deadline to enter was April 28th and SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival) just announced their schedule yesterday and the 3-minute winners will screen on May 28th....uh we want to know before May 27th....so we can tell people....duh!!! Guess we'll just have to wait and see.
On a completely unrelated note I've been playing the Da Vinci Code Quest on Google for the last 24 days...each day they release a new puzzle to solve starting April 17 and the contest ended May 10. The first 10,000 people to complete the 24th puzzle and register become finalists in the Quest. So I finished on the 10th and registered and nothing happened so I figured oh well I wasn't fast enough I didn't make it into the top 10. Then yesterday afternoon I got an e-mail that said they had officially received my registration and I had successfully completed all 24 puzzles and they would notify the 10,000 finalists via e-mail on Monday May 15th. So I might be one of the 10,000 after all. I can't believe I have to wait until Monday!!!
If you make it into the finals you receive a cryptex in the mail and 4 stills from the movie. You have to find the code in the stills that will open the cryptex and inside will be instructions on how to get to the final challenge. Then the first one to solve the final challenge wins the Grand Prize.
What's the Grand Prize you ask...holy moley...let me tell you -
Haven't heard anything about the Seattle Time 3-minute Masterpiece yet....all they said was that winners would be notified on or before May 27th. The deadline to enter was April 28th and SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival) just announced their schedule yesterday and the 3-minute winners will screen on May 28th....uh we want to know before May 27th....so we can tell people....duh!!! Guess we'll just have to wait and see.
On a completely unrelated note I've been playing the Da Vinci Code Quest on Google for the last 24 days...each day they release a new puzzle to solve starting April 17 and the contest ended May 10. The first 10,000 people to complete the 24th puzzle and register become finalists in the Quest. So I finished on the 10th and registered and nothing happened so I figured oh well I wasn't fast enough I didn't make it into the top 10. Then yesterday afternoon I got an e-mail that said they had officially received my registration and I had successfully completed all 24 puzzles and they would notify the 10,000 finalists via e-mail on Monday May 15th. So I might be one of the 10,000 after all. I can't believe I have to wait until Monday!!!
If you make it into the finals you receive a cryptex in the mail and 4 stills from the movie. You have to find the code in the stills that will open the cryptex and inside will be instructions on how to get to the final challenge. Then the first one to solve the final challenge wins the Grand Prize.
What's the Grand Prize you ask...holy moley...let me tell you -
- First-class round-trip air transportation for four (4) to New York, Paris, Rome and London.
- Four (4) nights deluxe hotel accommodations and ground transportation for four (4) at each travel destination.
- Four Leisure Select (train) return tickets from London to Paris and London to Avignon.
- One (1) Sony® 40" BRAVIA™ S-Series LCD HDTV Television
- One (1) Sony® VAIO® VGN-TX770P/B Notebook computer
- One (1) Sony® Cyber-shot® DSC-N1 Digital Camera
- One (1) Sony® Platinum DVD Dream™ System
- One (1) Sony® NV-U70 Portable Navigation System
- One (1) Sony® DPP-FP50 Digital Photo Printer
- Four (4) Sony® Walkman Core™ MP3 Players
- Four (4) copies of the Frommer’s Guide Books and Day by Day Guides to New York, Paris, Rome and London.
The total cash value of the Grand Prize......drum roll.....$128,170!!! So I'm really not expecting to win, I'd be happy being one of the 10,000 finalists, but wouldn't it be nice to win all that stuff!!!
So that's about it. Nothing much else going on.
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