"What Comes Around" Goes Live!

Hey All!
We've finally got our latest film uploaded on our podcast. Sheesh, there's several kinks to work out in our upload process. We're aware of the letterboxing issue, but at least it's not still being marked "explicit". Check it out by either going directly to our podcast page here or by checking it out in our new video player (yeah, the new ugly monstrosity blatantly ignoring the boundaries over in the sidebar). Anyone interested in building us a better site? Anyone?

48 Hr. Guerrilla Film Competition

Well, hello again to everyone!
We're back after a ridiculously long length of time that I can neither refer to as a vacation or a hiatus. Just know that after 10 long months we're finally back and we'll have a brand new, state-of-the-art short film for your viewing enjoyment this week!
Last weekend we entered the 48 Hr. GFC in Sarasota and, man, what a fantastic time it was! If you've never tried to write, shoot, and edit an entire film in 48 hours then... well, perhaps you are more interested in things like relaxing and sleeping. We did neither of those things and have come up with a project that we're fairly proud of and, thus, will be showing to the world via our video podcast (yeah, remember we used to have that) in the days ahead.
This weekend is the awards ceremony and the viewing of all the films. 25 groups entered the competition and only 18 were able to turn in finished products within the allotted time. I gotta take a moment here to point out that we had the world's most amazing cast and crew and massive props should go to each of them. In fact, I'll name them all here: Justin, Jami, Larry, Tyler, Thomas, Nicole, Tom, Brannon, Cameron, John, and myself (James).
Whew, awesome stuff! Thanks again to everyone for their help and if you're in Sarasota this weekend. Come on by Burns Court Cinema on Saturday from 11-2pm for the premiers, or SoundStage 1 at 8pm for the awards ceremony/wrap party.

What do you want... a cookie?

Yeah, I know it's been practically years since we've posted. Yes, we're slackers... but Yeah, we've done some stuff since we last wrote!
Quick update:
In April, we finished the short film/mocumentary on Jonah. Check it out!
And way back in March (I told you I realized it had been awhile since we've posted anything) we finished our experiment with filming dialogue: The Importance of Being Ernest. Might as well give it a glance while you're at it!
We're currently in production of two different projects. One is an alternate-ending for the Alfred Hitchcock movie "The Birds" which we're doing as a help to a friend for her school project.
The other is a skate video that we started filming last week. If you live in Bradenton/Sarasota and have some mad skillz. We'd love to hear from you.
We're also writing an action/adventure script of our own. It's quite a daunting task to put pen to paper, but we like what we're seeing so far. Our main challenge right now is to press through to the end of the story as opposed to re-writing our current 30 some-odd pages over and over...
Matt Flood has also nearly finished a script for us and we're looking at production possibilites starting in the fall. More on this to come...
Drop us a line if you like. We always like hearing from you guys, and yes, we WILL start answering again... hehe

Whewwweee!

Ok y'all,
We finally got our podcasting fixed up and the new vid looks sweet. Take a moment (if you haven't already) and check out our latest podcast by clicking here or subscribing via the itunes link in the sidebar.
Oh yeah, and be sure to leave us a comment!
-james

We got issues...

Got an extra magazine rack floating around somewhere? Donate it to FACEPLANT PRODUCTIONS! We need one to hold all our issues...
Of course, I am speaking here, once again, of the myriad of technical issues we face as we press on to bring you the highest quality short film entertainment you can get for absolutely free. The problem is our latest valentine's episode is finished, uploaded, and completely unviewable to anyone because of ... Well, I don't know why.
It's all hopelessly complicated and, I feel, deliberately boring, but if you know the ins and outs of uploading .m4v, .mp4, and .mov files that are of acceptable size and quality and making them available to people via web steaming and podcasting, well then, we'd love to talk to you.
In other news, the news stations here in bradenton aren't being as cooperative as we had originally hoped. We're still committed to bringing you the most incredible documentary you'll ever see next month... it just might not have all the bells and whistles you've come to expect... or it might... like I said, it's an issue.
We'll get these issues resolved as soon as we can and those of you on the hunger strike will hopefully be able to resume your normal eating habits shortly.
Take care.
-james
I'm sure we'll have these issues worked out

Editing Earnest

Well folks, we filmed over this past weekend and have finished. We have about 3 hours of footage for a 5 minute short. yes... we are still learning, hah! We're gonna spend this week editing and finishing up and hopefully have it posted next monday.
If you're reading this, click on this link and help us out by taking a quick second to vote for our podcast. Nah, we're probably not gonna win the whole dang thing, but we could move up in rank which definitely wouldn't hurt anything, natch.
Anybody see the game yesterday? yeah... not too fun, but how bout the commercial with the guy in the hospital bed and the doctor zapping the fly with the defibulator? Hah, dark comedy = good stuff.
-james

Filming Earnest

Well peeps,
Starting yesterday we began filming of "The Importance of Being Earnest." Ya know what? It's amazing how much you learn about the filming process when you actually do it... We're gonna be shooting today and tomorrow as well. We've got some cool ideas, and the end product should be under 5 minutes.
Did anyone realize how many different takes it was required to do dialogue? Well, let me tell you it takes quite a few. Actors have to give their line correctly, move correctly, and the camera has to be focused correctly, and the mic has to be placed properly all at the same time. Patience, good humor, and frequent snack breaks are important - even when you're under a huge time constraint. Anyway, we'll be with the principle photography this weekend and hopefully do all post-production next week.
Do you wanna know what we're doing for March and April? Oh... well, I'm gonna save that bit of info for now... but we have much more coming soon to a podcast near you...