Evening, folks. It's been a few months since the last time I've typed any words intended for public consumption. Not that I have much to say. That Thing is done, so I don't really have many stories to share regarding the last days of its production. Well, none that would serve any purpose without some context to have it make any sense. Once the pieces of that movie begin to make their way online I'm sure I'll have more to say. If nothing else, I'm just glad it's done and I can move on. Move on to what, I'm not sure. Been spending the last month or two trying to figure that out. Attempting to write things but I got nothing to aim for. Feels like trying to go somewhere without a destination, you'll just end up going in circles. Watching a bunch of movies lately, hoping some inspiration will strike. Not too much luck in that regard. Broad ideas of what I want, sure, but the devil's in the details. Gotta figure those out before I begin to fill in the rest.
Movie stuff aside, life's been kind of empty. Don't know. Don't really know what to say, how to explain it. Meh.
Hey! So this isn't a total waste of your time, let me show you the closest thing That Thing has to a deleted scene. A good eight or ten pages of an earlier draft of the script, one of the dozen pieces that once put together would hopefully make some sort of thematic sense. This story would have been one of the more complicated pieces to shoot as the location I had in mind, a very old abandoned library, was becoming harder to get access to. Trying to get half a dozen folks along with lights and a camera in there without bringing the attention of the guards would have been difficult at best. But beside that, even though this was one of the first pieces written, the movie as a whole veered off in a different aesthetic direction. By the time the script was somewhere near finalized this piece just didn't really fit anymore.
However, rather than let a bunch of words go to waste I got a few internet friends together and produced an audio dramatization of the piece. You know, like one of them old fashioned radio plays that you or I are probably too young to ever remember listening to over the airwaves. I find them fun to do since you kinda get to skip the production part of the process, going straight from words on paper to editing a bunch of pieces of sound together. Still sometimes mundane work, but hey, it got done eventually. Sent the script to voice acting friends shortly after it was cut from the movie, got around to finishing it about a year and a half later? Lots of small bursts of work separated by months of the project collecting virtual dust went into it, hopefully you'll take a listen and maybe even enjoy it.
It's called “No Smoking”, featuring the vocal talents of Matt Cruea, John Eberle, Cody Coleman, Kendra Braun and Amby Leigh. A bunch of the other stuff by Fernando Gil. Eighteen minutes long, and about twenty megabytes large.
No Smoking
http://boringmonkey.net/audio/(BM)NoSmoking.mp3
(Right click and save as)
And if you're curious, a quick and dirty video trailer is right below.
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