A quickie...

Hey all,
Well, good news... after a month of emailing back and forth with apple, our show is finally up correctly on itunes {edit: for some reason, it only appears to work in internet explorer, if you're using firefox try loading this page in explorer}. You can find it by going clicking on the itunes link in the side bar or by searching for "faceplant" under podcasting from the itunes music store. Woohoo!!! hehe
Also, we got final confirmation that the play we've been planning to film is indeed old enough that copyright laws no longer apply (it's public domain, yo) so we don't have to change the words all around and call it an "adaption." Good stuff.
Tomorrow, I'm meeting with a good friend and screen writer, Matthew J. Flood and we're gonna begin looking through some ideas for the future. Stay tuned...

You say potato...

Well, it's time for an update (apparently).

Things have been going well and John and I have been hard at work over here, despite the lack of updates to the blog. Don't cry, at least you're getting to read one now, right? See... life's getting better.

Um, so we're now working on an adaption of a small portion of "The Importance of Being Earnest." It's a British comedy and it's actually pretty hilarious. We've had one read through with our actors and one of our biggest challenges is actually going to be getting the dialect correct. The tricky part is that most of us tend to completely overdo accents when we talk, or we don't really do them at all. Fortunately, this particular play uses the "posh" portion of the British dialect, so it is a bit more obvious than a normal Brit you would hear on the street.

You probably think that you've never heard of this play or seen any part of it, but you're incorrect. This is the play that Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst, who by the way, if she's reading this... please, please email me) performs in Spider Man 2. Hah! And you probably thought we were more cultured or something right? Nah, we're the same as the rest of you blokes! We just watch our action movies very closely. Dig?
-james

Atlantis in the house!!!

Hola peeps,
Well, the day has finally arrived and we have got our second short film uploaded!



ATLANTIS

It's pretty sweet... come on, you've seen the pics.... you've waited for the links.. Well, here it is!!! You currently have 2 options for watching it:

1. Download it on your web browser
2. Watch it in itunes (in itunes, go to Advanced and select "Subscribe to Podcast..." Copy this link into the box: http://theplight.podomatic.com/rss2.xml) Hopefully, we will have a direct link for this soon.
That's it for now. We're working on another as-yet-unnamed project and have other short films that we'll be uploading hopefully once a month... so stay tuned!
-james

The way we roll...

Well, it's finally finished. Our second short film entitled "Atlantis" is hot off the presses.. er hot off the final cut.... er... something. Anyway, it is a great little flick that we think you'll love. We know we do! Look for a direct link to the file on the sidebar later today or subscribe to our podcast via a program like itunes.

Here at Faceplant we strive to make it as easy as possible for you, the viewer, to take advantage of our productions. In other words, we want any ole tom, dick, or harry to be able to watch our vids. The problem is that currently you are unable to find our podcast within itunes by doing a search. We have contacted Apple and they are working on a solution... apparently we are not the only ones who are having this problem.

Until further notice, you can still subscribe to our podcast by click on the Advanced Tab in itunes and selecting "Subscribe to Podcast..." A window will pop up and you need to copy this link into the box:
http://theplight.podomatic.com/rss2.xml
Then hit OK. This will give you the ability to watch our first short film "The Flash" as well as "Atlantis" (due later today). Enjoy!
-james

Well hey y'all!

So, we've finally completed the video and audio editing on our latest short film. I know... the wait has been almost unbearable right!? Well, the good news is that we are running it through the final rendering right now. That should only take... 9 hours... it's probably gonna be like an 11 gig file for a 4 1/2 minute movie. How is that even possible?
One of the main problems we have run into over the past week is that John's 2.5 yr. old computer has a wimpy single processor and is completely unable to keep up with the work load. We go through about a half-dozen crashes everyday. Not cool. At all. So, we're totally lookin into updating that junk, but we gotta have the funds first, but that ain't easy when John hasn't worked since november and I am a lowly teacher, wurd?
Anyway... we're always in search for more harddrive space and faster computers. Hopefully we'll have it finished and compressed for ipod Video and podcasting in the next few days. If you'd like to find us in itunes. Just go to the "Podcast" directory in the music store and search for "faceplant productions." Then go ahead and subscribe to our podcast or just download the one vid that's already there. Dig? I'm tired. Goodnight
-james

New Movie Stills!

Hola everybody,
Today, John and I have finished all the principle photography for the short film and we got the sound effects that we needed. I'm uploading a few stills for you to take a gander at. These are just frames from the footage, but they show off our "amazing" *cough* actors.
Seriously, it's good stuff and once we have the coloration of the film finished and have added the sound effects and music tracks we'll have it uploaded with a link right here for everyone to enjoy. It's just like Christmas all over again!
You may have to scroll down to see the pics... I dunno why...

General Cornwallis... er.. Zack	Captain Rambo, I mean... Kellen
our Stuntman, Tyler	Travis
Steven Spahn	Steven Pena
Ben	Logan