The Wrath Of School...Damn it!

School starts tomorrow (Wednesday September 1st 2010) for me. This will cause a lot of problems for films and stuff. Which im going to run through so people know what to expect and etc...

1. Ok, first off, im now in high school so that most likely means my Home work amount is going to rise by a lot. And i mean a lot. I had quite a bit in grade 8 and I cant even imagine how much im going to have now in grade 9. Home work gets in the way of a lot of film related things and its annoyingly time consuming. So thats one problem...

2. I can now only film for around 3-6 hours on maximum a week. And only on weekends. During the week I unfortunately dont have access to my filming equipment and home work and other stuff would cut out that anyway. So my filming time is reduced further once again. However i can edit during my little free time on week days. But thats it. And on another note for flickr friends of mine... I can only enter the 24 hour minifig contests on weekends now because thats when I have access to my lego :(

3. My Real life comes over my internet life. And friends, family and school come before people I know on youtube. I have more important things to do most of the time rather than sit inside my room taking thousands and thousands of pictures of lego figures, and making small movements to them each frame. So im not going to be as active now and once again I wont be working on films as much.

Hope that explains. I will continue to post any major updates on my blog in the future. Thanks for reading.

No, Im not dead. I am actually working on something. The story behind Whats going on with my Films And Productions

Now a lot of people seem to think im not working on anything. Or are just confused as to what im working on. So, Im going to write this to explain.

First off... Ive been working on my film "Lego Star Wars: Shattered Stars" since August 27th 2009... Which is a long time. Ive filmed 46 minutes of it. And only 31 minutes of that is actually edited with special effects and sounds. I currently have had to fill every characters roll with my own voice until I come close enough to finishing the film to start calling for individual voice actors...

Most people are also confused what the film is about. Or what the name actually means. The name is related to the film. You will see that once its released. And to fill in what its about. Its set in an alternate version of the Star Wars universe. Which has many differences from the one seen in the 6 films.

I may post more on this alternate universe i have created later on. BTW, I also have some preview images of this film on my flickr. So check that out here

Heres a preview photo from Shattered Stars (in better quality on my flickr)



Alright. So, after working on Shattered Stars for a long amount of time. In February 2010 I realised that this film would not be finished for a long time due to the sheer immensity of the project. Im only 1/3 through with it. And theres a hell of a lot of editing to do.

So, I decided to put shattered stars aside for a while until I get at least 6 full films uploaded. And hence I started work on a shorter project. Which is most likely going to be around 15 minutes. The first version of this smaller unnamed project. Which I worked on during the course of March 12th 2010-May 2nd 2010 was scrapped due to some horrible imperfections in the storyline and being kind of stupid. I also lacked certain supplies.

In the end, On May 15th I finished an improved version of the script. And filled in all the plot holes and mistakes. And I got cracking almost instantly. I slowly but steadily filmed quite a bit of the film. And finally on August 12th. I finished filming on this unnamed project. I had 14 minutes of footage.

Here is a snap shot of the film.




However only about 4 minutes of this is edited. And the other 10 minutes still need to have special effects, sounds and voices added to them. Also, another problem that arose is that my holiday is now drawing to its end. I go back to school on september 2nd. And I can only film on weekends for around 2-3 hours during school weeks. So In the end, I decided to use the remaining of my holiday. To get filming done on another film I have planned...

I will do all the effects and editing on my remaining 10 minutes during the school months. And I will be focusing on filming this other film for the remaining of the summer. That way I will be close to having 2 videos out. This second film is quite short. Around 5 minutes. And ive filmed 3 minutes of it. Which is good. Its got a simple but effective plot. But it works...

Heres a screen shot from that film.



That shot took fairly long to render. But I like how it came out. It actually took longer then you think. Those tiny little dots that are larger than the stars are actually loads of ARC-170s. So that affected how long it took to render by a lot.

So yeah. Hope your excited. Or something. So Jah... There you go. Thats the whole story behind what im doing ;) And I hope to have something out soon. Im working hard to release something. And i admit Ive been an idiot for not uploading anything in ages. But Im trying to make something worth watching...
Thanks for reading..

My New Blog

Well, I just got my new blog set up after Ive left it blank and dormant for around a month. Here im going to be doing longer updates and more in depth announcements. So If you actually give a hoola hoop. You can read this blog. Im not sure if im ever going to get a proper website, but for now. This will do. So keep checking for important and longer updates here.

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And your already on my blog =P