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2 month Update

2008-09-30T11:14:00.003+01:00

Hi.
very sorry about the almost 2 month absence of updates on films and novels.
me and rob have moved house in this time and are now living in fair ol' london town. we also spent a good month of this move without the luxury of home internet - hence a lack of updating.
i couldnt even do it at work because they dont let you onto any interesting websites.

anyways - now for the update
basically due to now having full time work - the novel and scriptwriting that im doing has become a slow process. before i could just get home from uni and blitz it a little every day - now i have very little sociable hours or days off (and even then have to be motivated)
however the novel is going well (albeit slowly) i have recently finished chapter 8 and am working on chapter 9 now. the book is now an unedited 170 pages long. quite a whopper! the characters are all becoming real and fleshy and the time jumping narrative and scenes are working well in my opinion.
in a few chapters time i should hit the point of part 2 and this seems to me a great place to start finding representation from an agent.
but thats still a ways off.
the script Bitch Katana is on a bit of a standstill as im in a samurai and novel speak zone. and jumping out to write modern biker slang is not easy. its stalled at 25 pages. But it is very good.
there are a number of other ideas and works floating about
a final fantasy esque story involving a winged girl set in our world.
and a horror involving the misplaced guilt of a child manifest as a haunting.

to my knowledge Rob is not writing. i think he has put Nemaria on indefinite hold until he feels he can take on such a project.
in my experience you don't know until you try - hence my attempting novel.
im loving some of the chapters in blood red moon. they really feel interesting and the characters are great.

thats the update.
now im off to spend today (my day off) working on chapter 9
wish me luck
credits roll.

A Logo for Blood Red Moon

2008-08-04T13:56:00.002+01:00

without any trouble i'm sure you can see the logo just below. and yes before you say anything - it looks like every other logo ive done - i know!

but its a TwistedMyth Toby Andersen style and i can't stop at the moment - anyways its just a preliminary logo to work under for a while

check it out - simplistic as hell - im no designer but i kinda like it anyway.

Blood Red Moon - a taste :D

2008-07-19T00:44:00.005+01:00

Hi folks
not such a large break between posts this time
i have just finished a small - 4 page - section which i think shows off Blood Red Moon nicely.
it introduces Katsuyori - the lead guy - and sets the scene for some of the main topics and forthcomings (?:S) of the novel. it is a nice self contained little bit from chapter 5. (yes the lead doesn't even feature til chapter 5 - its a long novel)

anyways - lots of motifs and demon lore that are expounded throughout the novel are begun here. i hope it feels full of potential - exploration of those concepts later in the book.
hope you enjoy
please comment - but do remember its only a first draft :P
please note - a 'netsuke' is a small wallet weight made of wood, and a symbol of status amongst samurai.

Chapter 5
…the carver of netsuke…

On the outskirts of the Shino forest, one of the main Tokugawa hunting grounds, there is a small clearing. The trees are knarled and wrinkly like an old woman’s face. The foliage is dead and rotting. The rocks are black and cold, with heaps of diseased white lichen and moss growing in all directions off of them. The tree trunks are peeling and the branches have withered.

The locals have a legend about this particular clearing. They say that long ago there was a huge demon in this forest, a twisting dark presence that bent men to its will and harvested their very souls. One day, the Tokugawa Lord, then a Tokugawa Masashige, ventured out into the forest after he heard the sounds of screaming. The sound of little girl’s screaming. He ran into the forest following the noise with his trained hunter’s instincts and soon came across the demon. It had taken a barely humanoid form; large red muscles, a tiger skin loincloth and the face of a snarling beast. In one of its monstrous hands it held a screaming, struggling girl-child and the demon was about to eat her. Masashige could see its slobbering chops bearing down on her.

He pulled out his bow and shot an arrow into the Oni’s leg. The thing howled with the force of a hurricane. But the important thing was it turned and forgot about the girl in its grasp. It fixed its eyes on Masashige, who pulled out a second arrow, strung it and shot the beast in the eye. It groaned, lunging its hands to its face, throwing the girl to the forest floor, and then fell with a mighty crash. Dead.

Needless to say Masashige saved the girl and returned to his castle, but not before using his sword to severe the Oni’s head from its body. He dragged the head, fully as big as a man, back with him, but he didn’t get as far as the city. The head was evil and he could feel its taint as he carried it. The head got heavier and heavier, as he got closer and closer to the forest’s edge. Eventually, he couldn’t carry it any longer and before he was tainted irreversibly, he ditched it in a small clearing. He and the girl rode off back to the castle and he made her his wife many years later.

Where that head fell, the locals say, is where this dead clearing lies now. As the evil seeped out of the head that didn’t want to leave the forest, it suffused with the surrounding nature: the trees, leaves, fungus and rocks. And either killed them or turned them black and knarled. The head rotted and disappeared, but the clearing remained and never grew back.

It was in this self same clearing, on one of those black rocks that Katsuyori sat while he worked. He loved those old folk tales, every village and town and city had their own. This dead clearing didn’t feel evil to him, only forgotten, safe in a strange fashion, from the potentially dangerous wildlife in the rest of the forest. They would give it a wide berth.

He was a tall lad; all of twenty-one harvests old, with wavy black locks down around his ears, dark brown eyes and the beginnings of some stubble. He was handsome and roguish, just having grown into his frame and was a travelling sword-for -hire. And a damn good one too.

A ronin then, but never disgraced and left master less. He chose to wander without a place to call home and he had good reason. He was a mercenary and his skills fetched a good wage in many towns.

But his katana skills were not what he was flexing right now. He had loped a large chunk of branch off a nearby tree, one of the slightly less dead ones, and had sat down to carve. Katsuyori had a small whittling knife, barely the length of a finger, which he would use to carve into the wood and find the art within. He was a netsuke carver and when the swordsman jobs were scarce he would feed himself royally off the money he made selling netsuke. And he was skilled at that too.

He often thought he could see the creature or demon or animal inside the wood before he even began, and his buyers often commented (after the sale) how skilfully realistic the carvings looked. Although what he saw and chose to carve didn’t have to been seen within the wood. The carving he was working on right now was of the demon Oni’s head as it lay when the long ago Lord had severed it. It was lying right in front of him.

And this was another of Katsuyori’s skills. He often found he was able to see that which others did not. He supposed the city folk didn’t come to this clearing because they felt an evil presence, but he doubted they could see what he could. And it was undoubtedly that that was keeping them away. Below the rock at his feet, lay the evil head itself, decomposed and rotted yes, but gone, no. Though its eyes had dribbled out, the skin still hung on it and the skull was clearly visible between the scraps. Katsuyori could see more than just this skull though. I can see the whole bloody mess, as it must have been at least two hundred years ago. The pool of black blood mingled in the dead leaves, the trail that stretched off deep into the forest, the evil eyes still searching for their vanquisher. He could see the forest as it had been before the demon’s blood had permeated the soil and killed the trees. The clearing had been green and lush, full of life and promise.

The images Katsuyori saw seemed to fall one over the other, like when a child places one piece of paper over another and copies the faint image through from behind.

His eyes saw that which was, and that which really was.

The world as a normal person saw it and the underlying world, where spirits and demons really existed. Places where they affected the other world, like this clearing, were special places in Katsuyori’s thinking. Places where both worlds seemed to fold together like kneaded dough.
This head might well have been vivid to him, but it was rotted and gone to any other passer by, along with any other demons. The country of Naganowa had seen off the last of it’s demons more than five decades ago, and all that remained now were the trails they had left or the bones and presences like that which lay before him. He wondered, not for the first time, what had happened to all the demons. Had they been hunted to extinction? Had people stopped believing in them? Were they hidden, waiting for the right time to strike and pillage once again? He didn’t know, but it seemed a shame that they were gone from the world. He could have made quite some money vanquishing them.

He concentrated hard on his netsuke carving. The head of the unnaturally large Oni was clearly visible now; it’s eyes hard hemispheres in the wood, its horns and tusks protruding just as Katsuyori could see them lying there on the ground. He carved carefully, bringing the small knife over and into the wood in small movements so as not to jerk his hand and ruin the netsuke.

Soon enough it would be finished and then he would make his way down the hill into Shino and sell it. He hoped the locals weren’t too scared by the thing’s origins and depiction, to part with quite a tidy sum. It was a large piece, would suit a burly hardheaded samurai well, he thought. The money would provide food and lodgings until he could gain employment or a contract.

With a quick flourish to pull off a wayward scrap of wood, he was done. He regarded his work with satisfaction. It was great, just like usual when he took on a creature no one else could see. He seemed to have a gift for carving the demons and spirits. He reflected on the fact that no one could judge this particular piece’s authenticity, but it certainly looked lifelike. He was especially proud of the ragged skin around the neck where the sword had cleaved the flesh. Katsuyori stood and tucked the netsuke into his travelling pack, which he then swung over his shoulder.

With a last look at the clearing he ventured back out in the last hundred strides of so of the forest and down towards the city of Shino and whatever awaited him there. Little did he know it would be the beginning of a story like no other, or that there would be no turning back from the path he chose.

hope u enjoy
Credits roll...

Bitch Katana on Hiatus - Blood Red Moon going well

2008-07-17T13:41:00.002+01:00

hi folks

just a quick announcement that Bitch katana now has about 25 pages but has been put on a temporary hiatus
and instead i am concentrating much more fully on Blood Red Moon
which is now onto its 4th chapter and is going well - thats 85 pages worth of novel baby.
anyways - my brain is totally stuck in samurai mode at the moment and its not good jumping between the two all the time. soon enough ill probably get bored with the samurais and start up BK again. chopping and changing by two weeks each time is fine (u have a chance to get into it) but every other day is impossible.

anyways - sometime soon i will post up a chapter of BRM but i dont know when or which chapter - they are very long chapters - mostly around 20 pages each so far. gotta wait til i write a shorter one.

thanks for reading
credits roll...

A small taste of Bitch Katana!

2008-07-02T22:28:00.007+01:00

hey avid readers
Bitch Katana! (biker gangs in Tokyo) has been underway for a almost a week now
it has a full bike chase and, when the bikers are arrested, a large interrogation split into 4 scenes.
this taster is one scene from the policestation - just features some funny lines
and this is the first taster of BK this blog has seen.

hope you enjoy.
so setting the scene isn't really necessary (the scene is quite self contained)
this scene is a flashback from before the bike chase the film starts with, and the result is that Lena goes all out trying to catch the bikers.

enjoy

INT. CHIEF’S OFFICE, TOKYO POLICE STATION, DAY.

CHIEF INSPECTOR KIMURA sits behind a littered and smoke-stained, paper-covered mahogany desk. With a cigar in hand and his feet up, he affects the presence of a bygone era of policing. Gruff and drawn, he speaks with a rasp.

CHIEF
Lena, listen to me. I want success and that’s all. I don’t care if you have to suck cock from here to Shinjuku, I want this fucking case solved, and I want the perp licking metal by last week!

Lena, sat across from him in a battered leather recliner, visibly recoils. She wears tight jeans, accentuating her thick thighs and a white shirt with loaded brown shoulder holster. Her Desert Eagle sits and waits. She blinks.

LENA
Sir. You can’t be-

CHIEF
Serious? Listen here missy. I didn’t get to Chief Inspector of this shitty station by sitting and waiting for evidence to fall into my fucking lap.

Lena opens her mouth to argue.

CHIEF cont.
In my day we had to actually trawl the frikin streets, pull the perps over, slash some tyres, piss in some coffee, get noticed! That’s how you find evidence, you go out and fucking pull it, kicking and screaming outta some perp’s ass, where he stashed the fucker.

Again, a look of utter surprise and wide eyes from Lena. She looks hurt but incredulous.

LENA
You’re saying I’m not doing enough street work?

CHIEF
Damn straight, Lena. Next lead you get, no, in fact, make one of your own, and I wanna see you out there, nose bloody and raw its been sniffing the trail so hard.

Lena looks concerned, sits forward and brandishes a finger.

LENA
But, sir this is unfounded. I have the best arrest record in the city, and the district chief commended my achievements. One hundred arrests last month.

CHIEF
Didn’t I just say I don’t give a flying F.U.C.K!? Those arrests mean shit to me, for one reason and one reason only.

Lena scowls, folds her arms and leans back.

CHIEF cont.
You got the biggest piano hanging over you I ever seen. An unsolved gang homicide of TWO FUCKING YEARS AGO! Jeezus H, I ain’t never had such a doozey in all my career. And that shit’s shadow hovers over you blotting out every other achievement you can come up with, blotting out the frikin sun! From now on you’re off everything but gang crime and that fucking case.

LENA
Yes, sir.

She makes to leave as fast as she can.

CHIEF
And I want it solved faster than a penny fuck.

what happens next chronologically wud be the bike chase - but in narrative film time the perps in the race are hauled in for questioning and the next scene is in the interrogation of Kazuki

anyways - hope u like it

feel free to comment

Credits roll...

Lucky Dragon Skies receives critical acclaim...

2008-07-01T20:29:00.002+01:00

The results have come in from the end of university and i'd like to announce that Lucky Dragon Skies - my sci fi anime pilot episode - received a whopping 80!!
that right - * 80 *
anyways - i'd like to thank my friends and family, everyone who helped with ideas, Hollywood and my fans, you make it all worth while. *sniff*

i can't believe it.
well - the confidence is up through the roof now - i'm gonna sell that bastard! i didn't think it was that good
(i love it - the things u dont think r good get great marks - and the things you bum get shit marks)

I am actually going to get on with all the little things i've been planning for that series.
all the drawings and the other episodes. yay!

anyways
credits roll...

Bitch Katana! announcement and update

2008-06-23T21:02:00.003+01:00

Hi folks
long time no spreken. sorry bout that:S

the blog hasn't been updated a whole lot in June:S
anyways the basic update would be that i'm going through the motions of applying for work as a runner at various post production companies, hopefully one of which will bear fruit soon.
i have also been looking into contacts in the film industry and hope some of them will also pay off soon. im sure rob is doing a similar job.
in the meantime we've been experiencing the ultimate in entertainment (bar films and FF) that is Metal gear Solid 4 - and its eats whole days (i have been job hunting and writing inbetween :P) it was a quite amazing experience in cinematic game making and storytelling. so long and complex.
i have been working on Blood Red Moon and it now has 3 chapters in full first draft which im very proud of. its amazing to see your characters take shape and come alive often within scenes you barely planned until you actually sit down to write. its amazing what a scene calls for when your actually writing that weren't needed in the plan. the scene lives and develops extra bits, back story and secrets. anyways the story is coming on nicely and im enjoying writing it when i get the time:P (and don't say stop playing MGS4 coz i write as well. too many jobs at once)

the final piece of news is the reason for this update!
Bitch Katana! is finished planning! (see i have been working) the whole story works now. it has its nice plot - simple and humanistic (no magic and freakiness) and based around the antics of Kazuki, his sister, his biker gang, and the sexy policewoman investigating his parent's deaths. a couple of new characters have emerged, namely the people Lena investigates in her Katana search, the criminals and dealers, her partner in police work and the barman at Seventh Haven.
there is also a helpful Homeless man, the sword shop owner, a helicop who films chases for World's Most Shocking Police Videos and a feisty mama'san in the sex district!!
The plan's finished - which means - i can (and have just) start(ed) writing!:D which is awesome - its a little hard to switch back to normal script writing style :S but its a fun story and i can dialogue it in normal slang etc instead of Samurai speak. i can swear :P anyways i can't wait to get into it - i reckon it should take a good month to get the first draft mashed out and then i can get refining that bitch!

hope you found this as exciting'a post as i did. Bitch Katana! - the longest script i have ever attempted is now underway, ready to go etc. the first full length feature script i have attempted alone. the last one was half done by Rob. (VPS)

i'll try to keep this page updated in future a little more than this month. - but i cant be sure anyone's reading - except my deligent audience of 2 - meg and Rob :D (much appreciated guys)
if you read this please comment - just say hi - so i can see who reads these posts

see ya
credits roll...

The 'Gemini' stills gallery

2008-06-16T13:02:00.015+01:00

My personal favourite stills from Gemini - enjoy

My personal favourite images of Gemini - enjoy

it was such an awesome film - lots of happy memories there - can't wait to get the grade

(i know im gna be disappointed)

Blood Red Moon - titles and chapters

2008-06-03T22:11:00.003+01:00

well hello there
warning - this post has nothing to do with film
this one is about my novel writing. which has begun thanks for asking ;P

first off titles - the series of novels is now 3 it looks to be a nice long trilogy and there is definetely a good 600+ pages in the first novel. so its long - especially for me
the trilogy or series has an overall title which i'd like to announce -
Blood Red Moon
and there are three novel titles - one fore each book
The Blooded Daisho
The Demon King
The Hyakki Yako

the second announcement is that i have started writing The Blooded Daisho (hereafter TBD) and its a lot of fun indeed. the prologue script (LDotRS) has been edited to correspond nicely with the new enlarged story and the 1st 2 chapters have been written in full first draft.
i think that is quite something in about 4 days :P (i might even post some choice parts up in future) overall im finding novel writing fun and liberating in strange ways - especially after only writing scripts for so long. in particular - writing in 3rd person, being omnipotent and writing thoughts! goddam it feels nice sometimes. (dont got actors to rely on to convey emotions:P)

anyways those are the announcements
i will continue writing wenever the feeling takes me but it could well take a very long time to complete this novel as i should also be working and filmmaking
look forward to more updates in future
credits roll

Writing Motivation and 'Blood Red Moon'

2008-05-31T23:47:00.003+01:00

well folks

i feel this page is getting lonesome - the problem basically is that i have to get back into the self motivating habit of writing for myself instead of writing for grades. that takes a little while to come out again.
i am working on getting a job to pay the bills and in between times using up the rest of my days watching dvds and planning moviefilms. but my trouble is actually getting the drive to do the actual writing itself. i have written the planning plenty.
another setback is all the stuff that happens at the same time. i have a trailer to think of and job hunting and my planned stories, plus girlfriend, relaxing, sleeping etc
these things take time and i cant do them all at once.
i wonder about the viability of doing anything - i dont want to waste my time u see - so do a get started on a massive project that will take many days and hours - wen i cant be sure it will sell or work or go anywhere.

anyways - melodramatic career impatience aside - i am having fun with my current projects
Bitch Katana! is coming along well and almost has a complete plot plan - the next stage will be to blitz out the first draft. and see if it works:S
and in book news
the Rising Son/Blood and the Stars etc (many working titles) has had a renaming session - its now called the 'Blood Red Moon' trilogy with individual titles for each of the 3 books running along the lines of spirits - but not decided yet. it has become all the action fantasy epic i sed it wud - complete with a decade spanning demon takeover, the long feudal states war, the rise and fall of many great warriors and the multitude of blooded katanas, vengeful and helpful spirits and epic loves. there are too many characters to say its one characters story - like many other epic fantasies it has multiple viewpoints. this is an epic fantasy with an oriental samurai flavour (much in the vien of the Braided Path books by Chris Wooding) - set in a fictional japan where spirits exist. it chronicals the epic war and the destinies of a range of individuals caught up in them, and the emergence of demons to the world once again can only be bad news.

anyways - look forward to it
its a dynamite story - its gonna take me a good 6months to write it all - and then sell it to a publisher and then laugh and hold my belly while i do. then hopefully peeps will msg me saying - when the next part in the trilogy coming out Mr. Andersen' please write quicker - i cant wait etc
and i will laugh again
so dont epect to by seeing it on amazon for at least a year or so but hey you'll love it wen u read it!!
credits roll...

UNI is OVER!!!

2008-05-25T13:33:00.002+01:00

its official -
University is over. gone. dead. kaput!
i have handed in every last thing there is to hand in
and written and printed every last project and essay.
the film Gemini is probably being pawed over and marked as i type and the grades should be out in the next months.

(on a side note - Gemini has been entered into a small film festival in Aldgate London, to be shown as part of the Film[making] Society end of year showing. i think its an event for everyone so come along - (there are links in the links section) i'll be there)

now that uni is over - i am at a loss a bit what to do. i am having a deserved week off, then i think i will get on with drawings for Lucky dragon Skies and i have to write the actual trailer too.
(i say week off - but already during this week ive continued planning the samurai series - ill probably plan Bitch Katana! too)
i will also start looking for work, mostly to get money to keep me in london, but also film work to gain experience and get into this unforgiving industry. i can't wait.

so thats the next few days for me.
fun fun fun and more fun. - (may contain traces of sarcasm)
but writing is fun - its the job hunting that aint.
credits roll...

Gemini Poster

2008-05-18T21:30:00.006+01:00

The new poster for Gemini!!!

And the same poster but with the TwistedMyth Logo on top.

Lucky Dragon Skies might hav a trailer

2008-05-15T22:27:00.003+01:00

Well good evening film lovers

i have a few cool bits of news to relate.
first off and easiest is that the bulk of essays are now done. i have handed in 2 of them and have one left.
also to do with university is that i have handed in the last cut of Gemini. it is now out of my hands, but i cant wait to see what it gets. what grade Gemini can bag me.
there is also a large research portfolio about the processes i went through to make it - and that is very nearly finished.
the other news is about Lucky Dragon Skies!!
the pilot episode has now been through an extensie 4 drafts and is ready to handin. i have done a huge set of appendices for it, including the previously mentioned 23 episode plan (christ that took some thinking) and character bios, back story, locations, world overview, and opening scroll, and the original (very different) plot outline.
it makes for some interesting reading.
the fact that it is basically in the can is great, but its the attitude to it that is getting me crazy.
basically my tutor suggested that i should make a trailer for the show, animated drawings and (get this) he said that he would help me do it!! how awesome! its a good thing too as i haven't really got a clue how to do it. i can draw okay, not great but well enough if i spend time on it. my tutor is into animation big time and i will draw the pics and he will animate them on After effects!! its going to be something of a trailer to show the basic idea of the show to prospective animation companies.
anyways - awesome news i thought.
scarey though - this means i have to actually design Lucky Dragon himself!
my girlfriend suggested doing moodboards and also knows some artists who may be able to help me. i think moodboards of how i want LDS to be would be awesome.
if rob ever came online anymore i'd chat to him bout it. but he doesn't :S
anyways - i dont think LDs is going to disappear quietly, it the best thing i've ever written, the most fully realised narrative and world and characters and it wont go quietly into the night! its gonna get made dammit!!!
credits roll

Plot Development

2008-05-08T16:37:00.003+01:00

i was up until 3 last night, because yet again 3 is the time of inspiration for me.
i have made an episode plan for the next 23 episodes of Lucky Dragon Skies.
yeah 23 episodes! i know!
and man does some crazy shit go down in some episodes.
mostly the series is based on a mission a week structure, with some stories and missions spilling over 2 episodes. Everything happens in a chronological story arc.
i hate it when series could be watched in almost any order, because so little changes within the main characters. In LDS there are major changes, and minor changes, but there is a definite arc, well actually more like 5 or so.
there is the arc of the war. Sullivan and his minions want land, this war is based on the assimilation of land (because they live on floating cities) and the arc is that slowly, his focus changes. Of course as the series goes on the war hots up more and more, the early stages, yes the danger is there, but later on Sullivan and Tetsu's war becomes way more personal and Sullivan steps up the destruction and numbers accordingly. Towards the end our heroes are outnumbered and outgunned, and things happen accordingly.
Other interesting story arcs feature the love triangle of Tetsu, Chiana and Alpha (a mutant girl from the surface) and the process of trust and betrayal they go through. Tetsu has to save both and they him, but who will he choose in the end?
another arc features Chiana rising through the military, starting as the arrested incompetent spy, and becoming a major and mission leader.
Alpha is a scientific curiosity and the interest of scientists on both sides of the war. if her DNA can be replicated and introduced into the normal human stock, then the surface land is up for the taking. As a result she goes through a journey of testing, kidnap and rescue all for her DNA, no one seems to care for her, except Tetsu, and while learning Basic she goes through an emotion journey of rejection and release.
Tetsu founds the Dragons, an elite force of combot pilots, in response to the heightened tensions of the war, and trains them, they will of course end up saving him.
Lastly over the course of the series you, the viewer, will be party to the revealing of the back stories of each character. Tetsu and Sullivan's past, how Motosuwa saved Tetsu's life, how Chiana became a spy, and how she got her rep name-for real, where the combots come from, the history of the floating cities, and how Tetsu came to own Lucky Dragon itself.

sound good?
i certainly think so. of course there is a lot of work to do on it, i hav to flesh out how the episodes work and individual plots etc then make that work with lots of lead characters and action.
oh yeah action!! i forget the amazingness of this series is that its often an action epic. There are some immense scenes late in the series with huge aerial combot battles and MGS style base infiltrations. Tetsu trains his Dragons in the art of freefall and rocketpack manouevers and they use this to great effect in some episodes, plummeting through the sky, shooting and saving each other. im also ging to explore the surface world, the derelict cities, Sullivan's dictatorship paradise and New Tokyo itself. theres all the virtual reality to look forward to as well, missions are often completed only due to the computer expertise of Motosuwa and .dotPatch, his sentient AI virus. Chiana is wetwired to the teeth and is sent on a couple of VR missions where lots of the action happens Matrix style within a computer.

sound good now huh!?
(nods)

anyways - in other news.
i am still in the process of planning Bitch Katana! it has a lot of great characters in it now, Kazuki has a past and the crux of the plot is ready. Im about halfway through working out the actual playing out of the narrative (there are so many facets). the difficulty is that Kazuki has multiple problems to contend with, and the narrative has to deal fair screen time to each. the crux is his search for money to pay off the Yakuza, he only has 2 days left. he has to try and keep his biker gang together through a complete mutiny, take on rivals in races to earn the money he needs, go to school, and care for Kimiko and stop her being taken by social services. it adds up to a complex scene structure. based loosely around racing to get money for the Yaks. of course he'll fail and get on their hit list, lose his gang to the usurper, get arrested for racing and find Kimiko kidnapped for ransom. can he save her? can he even handle it? And amidst this is the small matter of finding out the identity of his parent's killers.
jezuz christ - i just read that over and man does it sound complex. but dont worry-it is coming along nicely. if u plan careful-like then these things can be nicely juggled without getting swamped.

well wat a nice long and very exciting blog to read. if u have a good visual imagination im sure you were imagining Tetsu freefalling and all sorts of biking races.
now i have to get on with the work im actually supposed to be doing for University. 2 weeks left!!!!!!!
credits roll...

The End is in Sight!

2008-05-07T15:09:00.003+01:00

afternoon film lovers.
just a quick update on all things twisted myth - but more importantly all things Toby ending uni.
First up - its official

Gemini IS FINISHED!!!

thats right people. completely finished. sure theres a load of handing in and DVD authoring to do but the film is done. all DONE!

secondly the reason i haven't been blogging much over the past 2 weeks is an inordinate amount of work piles up in the last 4 weeks of uni and i have been up to the eyeballs in it.
i hav spent the last 2 weeks doing a 4th draft of Lucky Dragon Skies, and a massive 21 episode plan for the rest of the series.
I have also written 2 essays over the last 2 weeks - Outsider cultures and Advertising.
one is handed in the other will be on friday!!! Yay!!
thats a big weight off my head. its 2 of my four modules finished with.
all that is left is the final draft of LDS, a research portfolio for Gemini (halfway through at least) and a critical reflection of the now finished film (also partially started).
after that it is all over.
thankfully i can probably write a whole bunch more stuff over the next few days.
i will soon blog the current progress of LDS series (i have the story arcs ish and the episode list) and the current progress of Bitch Katana! now someway into planning and structuring!

keep it real kids and come back soon.
credits roll...

Gemini - Preliminary screening party

2008-05-04T22:59:00.002+01:00

hey fellow filmlovers

i have a nice bit of info to report

Gemini - had its first cut preliminary screening on friday night!!! woo!

we had lots of drinks and shenanigans and watched the present cut of Gemini. it was quite a bit of fun. It was also helpful to find out a focus groups feelings and readings of the film.

there was a very promising response to my directing - everyone understood each scene, nothing felt weird, strange cuts or difficult to read action or dialogue. this is very encouraging as it means that my directing was understandable and conveyed the story well.
There were no real complaints or pointers on the actual story - except maybe about the ending shot and whether the opposite ending should actually happen.
this will hav to be decided.
the majority of criticisms were to do with very small things with the edit and order of events. mostly it was about conveying the sense that the film is a flashback. a white flash or a longer pause was suggested but lots of people still did understand. - it was a very subjective reading - some felt sad and romantic thoughts, or didnt realise the dream was a dream even. some had entire scenes just fall into place for them and some felt there was a lack of music in places. there were almost no unanimous views - where one person didnt understand another did, where one understood another didnt.
the main changes i will take into the next cut involve a shortening of the park scene and incorporating it into bath and mother scenes.
everyone felt the actors did a great job - especially the little sister - Played by Brooke!!!! whoop
i will maybe add music to the punch scene and a pause to indicate the flashback.

otherwise it was insanely positive - everyone had something to say, and it was a good feedback session. my first ever test screening.

anyways - i will get on with that - as well as a huge amount of essays and a research portfolio for the gemini project, and a rewrite of Lucky Dragon Skies.
Wish me luck - just under 3 weeks to go for everything!!!!

Credits roll...

Progress report - 4 weeks til uni end!

2008-04-27T23:57:00.004+01:00

Hey dudes and dudettes

i think i should blog about the general progress of a couple of projects as i ain't updated in a couple of whole days!!
firstly Lucky Dragon Skies has undergone its rewrite and has been sent to my tutors. hopefully i will hear back soon bout that. its much the same - just ending scene and some extra dialogue explanations etc.
the other cool info bout LDS is that my tutor recommended i get hold of some animation software and animate a minute long trailer for the film - then armed with this and the first episodes script i might have a better chance of selling it to an animation company. i was amazed that he liked it - and suggested that - that he would be encouraging i should sellit is amazing!

i have been editing Gemini for days and days on end now. it has taken on a whole new lease of life. my group has now settled on my 6th cut (all different orders) and the work got started cleaning that cut up and making it shine. I have taken a colour corrector to a bunch of scenes and given romance scenes a subtle pink hue, and the domestic scenes a subtley dulled saturation, the heighten the reality of the twins love story and make the realistic elements of their story look bland in comparison.
i have edited the length down (with whole scene trims) from 25mins to a respectable 17 and now its all good stuff. some scenes have lost all sound and now play as music only - words aren't needed to convey some things in this movie. some scenes are less than half length. everything is quicker, punchier and better.
one of my favourite new additions is the fact that my tutor unveiled the after effects lab to me a week back and let me rip into the controls - i now have redesigned the fantasy scenes to make the bubbles look like blue fireflies with some UBER expensive sapphire plugins. I have re lit my bathroom scenes to make the bath look like an old world vignette - as if the bathroom itself were the womb the twins are returning too.
after effects lighting kinda splits the pic into layers and u light it in 3D. its way cool.
the last addition is some awesome white and red, backlit titles - all my crew and cast names and the production names and title Gemini. all look very cool. i love after effects!

last info on my personal projects is that Bitch Katana! is still slowly taking shape - when i have any time to write and plan (editing and 3 essays, girlfriend and traveling take it all) then i will blitz it sum more. it has got a lot of characters now - many bit parts and lots of unique ideas i have never seen in films. i can't wait to get the plot all working in paper and start writing this beast. im gona try to sell this one i think.

'The Rising Son' - working title of the samurai magnum opus - is under hiatus at this moment. i have lots of great ideas and the basic over arcing story, but time constraints mean that such a big project gets put on hold in favour of the quicker return ones.

anyways that's all - over the next few i will be finishing the (hopefully) final edit of Gemini and there is a premiere showing for friends and flatmates etc on friday. I'll blog the reaction afterwards. I will take an editing knife to Night of the Living Dead Cheerleaders soon- as i have left it for a nice amount of time - if i look again now i will be full of new ideas and see my writing for the crap it probly is - that i didnt see before.
lastly LDS will soon be under its final rewrite - before hand in.
wish me luck
credits roll...

Playing with Logos

2008-04-24T02:47:00.006+01:00

hi peeps.

it almost 3 and i cant sleep. ive been working on essays (yuk) and doing the final editing on Gemini! just going through after effects now for some cool shizzle to finish her off. And i was making titles today. The titles got me thinking. I was also doing some character bios for Bitch Katana! (coz i find once i work out the characters the plot falls into place around them - there a debate in most script books about whether character or plot comes first - i find characters and a premise first - then the plot)

anyways titles and BK got me thinking and i came up with a whole bunch a logos for it (and a special NOTLDC one at the bottom. Whats ur favourite one?

anyways - i think they are pretty sick

im gonna try doing some TwistedMyth or Zombie Grindhouse ones

(does rob want a Buns of Destruction logo?)

credits roll...

and the winner is...

2008-04-22T23:49:00.003+01:00

just a quick blog - coz i should go sleep
but the results of the Tokyo Motorbike Gang name poll are in
the Gangs to star next to Bitch Katana! are

Your Mama's Lovers

Darkling Kitty

Pussy Bullet

Thanks very much for ur help (all 2 of you!!)
runners up included

Guild of Noble Dead
Pussy Whipped
Two Holes Filled
Seventh Destiny
Fistful'a'Dollars
The Devil's Pride
Rebel Sisters
The Faster Pussycats
Slave 2'my Bike

credits roll...

Enter the Valkyrie

2008-04-21T20:34:00.003+01:00

Yep. Outcast of Valhalla has undergone title surgery. It is now called Enter the Valkyrie - so still pretty lame but not AS lame as it was before. I thought I'd better blog something as this seems to be turning into a advertising campaign for the many and wonderous imaginative ideas of legendary book / film / serial writer / director Toby friggin' / soddin' / feckin' Andersen - so here we go.

I've been beavering away on editing for EtV, and it's going really well. The footage looks gorgeous, the title sequence is damn cool and some of the action looks better than I had hoped for (still not good, but better than embarrassingly crap). Seeing as this was the first time I'd attempted a major action set piece I think it could have been alot worse. I have ALOT to learn though about camera placement and movement for action scenes. I guess the only way I can learn is to make rubbish action films first.

And as for Buns of Destruction, I'm afraid it's had to be postponed, simply because I cannot physically do all my Uni work AND write a 30-40 page script simultaneously. I know. Toby can. I can't. Sorry folks. I can only take Guitar Hero on 'Hard' difficulty too. Man I suck. TwistedMyth's weak link indeed.

But one day, the teen zombie slasher fest will be finished. And it will be one day fairly soon. Think mid May, when Uni will be finished and I can concentrate on making it awesome.

Anyhoo, that's pretty much it. I'm shooting Hrist vs Raven Marsh tomorrow at Ynyslas beach just outside of Aberystwyth, a pivotal scene in EtV. Wish me luck!

Lucky Dragon Skies - rewrite done! (3rd Draft)

2008-04-20T03:00:00.005+01:00

Lucky Dragon Skies has hit its 3rd rewrite and i've finished it. and it's only 3.00 in the morning! Thankfully when you get to this kinda stage the rewrites don't take too long and don't actually involve huge swathes of new material. its mainly some new dialogue in places and a new concept for the VR scene at the end. a little bit of clearer explanation in places and the addition of an ejection seat in one scene (thanks Megan). so - there's 3 weeks left of uni - i will email this draft to my tutor and hope for the best. He liked the second draft so the worst he could say would involve just the same changed scenes. in the words of Buffy - No big. i can deal.

anyways - Lucky Dragon Skies was started before this blog got started and therefore has never had any scenes or lines posted. i am going to include one or two scenes over the next few days - tide you over til either Bitch Katana or The Rising Son or the edit of NOTLDC have any further news.

so here's a scene - its from early in the film. Motosuwa and Tetsu chat en route to VR and then the iunterrogation. This is the scene in which our two heroes meet. Tetsu, hotshot combot pilot and VR interrogation officer and Chiana, recently captured prisoner up for interrogation. They don't get along. Enjoy.

INT. TURBOLIFT, DAY.

Tetsu and Motosuwa stand side by side. The floors count down.

MOTOSUWA
Basically we found her snooping round the launch bays.

TETSU
Any idea what she’s after?

MOTOSUWA
Not really, it’s just combots down there. Pilot rooms and a lot a rickety gantries.

TETSU
You got that right. Okay, then what?

MOTOSUWA
Well, she doesn’t check out on any personnel files. Plus we know she’s guilty of somethin’.

TETSU
Guilty first, huh? Why’s that?

MOTOSUWA
She didn’t take none to well to being arrested, if you catch me?

TETSU
(laughs)
Come off it, little girl like that? What she do, cry?

MOTOSUWA
Three broken arms, one leg, one black eye and 76 stitches between the four of ‘em. Oh and bite marks. One each.

TETSU
Geez.

MOTOSUWA
She’s feisty.

The doors ping open.

INT. VR DETENTION CHAMBER, DAY.

Four seats surround a central column, encrusted with wires and tubes going up into the ceiling. Tetsu sits in one. The rest of the room is empty. Tetsu pulls down a wad of wires, selects one with a small ‘jack’ end. He inserts the jack in one of the 7 small ports lining the shaved area behind his ear.

He looks to his side, through a door, to the detention area. Another pillar, another seat. A young REDHEAD, jacked into another VR node through her own ports, multiple wires trailing from her head.

A minute eyebrow raise. His vision blurs and he is suddenly in...

INT. NULSPACE, VIRTUAL REALITY CONSTRUCT ROOM, NO TIME.

Tetsu stands in a large room with no doors, wearing a dark green one-piece jumpsuit, hair immaculate. One large table, two chairs. Sitting facing him, is a beautiful GEISHA girl. Face painted white, feet up, she takes a long drag on a virtual cigarette. Tetsu stares. She is wearing a patterned mechimono, a wraparound that melds to the skin like PVC, revealing her tantalizing digital curves. A waterfall of straight, scarlet hair cascades out behind her, down onto the floor and up the walls. Tetsu’s eyes follow it over the ceiling and down the far wall behind him and to a stop by his feet. He stares.

GEISHA
What!?

TETSU
Umm...everything?

GEISHA
It’s an avatar, you fool. A VR simulacra. I could just as easily be a fucking bowl of noodles.

TETSU
Not in this construct. How are you doing that? We have code locks against that type’a thing.

GEISHA
Because my wetware is leagues ahead of your system. Override.

TETSU
And why not just appear as yourself?

GEISHA
Because then I’d look as boring as you do.

Tetsu looks at his uniform. He walks over to the other chair and sits.

TETSU
Do you have something to hide behind that extravagant avatar? Because surely if you wanted to hide, especially your wetware capabilities, then you’d appear as dull as possible. See the paradox?

GEISHA
See this?

She gestures obscenely.

GEISHA
I don’t care. I wanted to beat your system – I was making a point. Besides, you have admin caps – why don’t you appear different?

TETSU
I don’t have anything to hide. I’m happy with how I look.

The girl shrugs then blows smoke in his face.

TETSU
Okay. Your name?

GEISHA
Wonder woman.

TETSU
Listen. If you cooperate this will go a lot easier. Time goes fast in VR. That’s why we do interrogations like this. Minutes out there, while we have hours and hours and-

GEISHA
Chiana.

TETSU
That it?

CHIANA
Chiana ‘Scarlett’ Sakamoto.

Tetsu looks at her for a prolonged moment.

TETSU
Very cute. After the hair, right?

CHIANA
No, it’s a rep name. Geez!

TETSU
Rep? How’d you get it?

CHIANA
Skills. Blood is scarlet. As I’m sure some of your men know.

TETSU
Hmmm... What were you doing in combot storage?

CHIANA
Having a self-guided tour.

Tetsu sighs.

TETSU
You wanna just try and be cooperative? Why were you there?

CHIANA
Okay, sure. I’m a transfer soldier, from NTAF3, you know? I was brought over here on the last transport.

TETSU
I don’t believe a word of it. First a rep, now a transfer. Why start kickin?

CHIANA
They tried to rape me. Self defence.

TETSU
Come off it.

She leans in close and whispers.

CHIANA
Actually, it might have been my fault. I was flashing a lot of leg.

Tetsu stands, exasperated, one hand to his brow.

TETSU
What’s wrong with you!? Not a word of truth has come out that mouth.

Chiana swings her legs off the table and leans forward.

CHIANA
What, you think I’m just gonna crack and spill my guts after 2 minutes of your extremely shit routine? Were you the good or bad cop?

Tetsu leans across the table from standing.

TETSU
It’ll be easier on both of us if you just tal-!

Chiana steps up and shouts back.

CHIANA
Yeah, but I don’t want to help you out!

Suddenly, they are interrupted by a blaring siren.

Hope you like it. to Rob and Megan - i don't think there's any major changes there from the last draft. (its just a scene i want up here) anyways - keep filming - come back and read more soon.

Credits roll->

Bitch Katana!

2008-04-19T19:44:00.006+01:00

Evening film lovers,
the last few days, when i should have been thinking about uni work, writing essays and getting my degree, i have actually been planning and brainstorming what i think is going to become my first feature length script. it's called

Bitch Katana

and i think it is going to roc!
i'll try to record the basic idea here in its glory.

Bitch Katana is a motorbike gang in present day Tokyo. Led by Kazuki Mitsuhiro, they are a formiddable force. Vying for control of Tokyo's streets are a bunch of other gangs (no name's yet) and the gangs often meet around the borders of their respective territories, or over broads who stray between, and they have dangerous races through the streets. Reverred by all his gang and most of the other gangs, Kazuki's street life couldn't get better.
It's when he gets home that his hardships are evident. His parent's were killed in gang related shootings 2 years ago, and Kazuki looks after his 5year old baby sister Kimiko in a house they can't afford and with social service calls constantly threatening to take her away.
Natsumi plays out in the streets and mud and has her own emulative gang 'the Piri Piri Starfish'
Kazuki is forever pulling her out of street scrapes covered in mud.
However those aren't Kazuki's only problems. He has borrowed money to keep him and Kimiko fed and watered and now he owes a lot to the Yakuza. He can't pay them, so they are after him.
There is also another hotshot biker on the streets, stealing the talent from all the gangs and setting up his own. He challenges Kazuki's leadership - and challenges have to be answered. The guy might seem to have everything, but he has a sinister secret. Now, as the Bitch Katana are breaking apart, because of Kazuki's inability to lead, the Yakuza kidnap Kimiko. Kazuki must save her, but he is going to lose the street and all his respect. is there a way to keep both, save Natsumi and stay head of the pac.

now this is of course just a preliminary plotline, it can and will change, but im liking the basics.
in terms of visuals imagine Akira's first half hour, tail light blurs, nighttime in Tokyo, add a bit of Fast and the Furious and all the best film chases you know and love and your getting the right picture. Some SinCity music, leather jackets, hanging on street corners, picking up girls on bikes (Alright bitch, fancy a ride?) and generally getting in trouble. Yakuza in black cars, the girls of Ginza and Harajuku, the Piri Piri Starfish, and the biker boys of Tokyo's streets.
it gonna be uber cool.
they are all gonna have sweet concept motorbikes, with some serious customisation and nitro engine acceleration.
anyways
any thoughts please comment.
hopefully this one will be getting into shape over the next few weeks. once the bloody uni work is done.
credits roll...

The reign of Sadakatsu Oshi

2008-04-16T23:57:00.006+01:00

Hey there peeps.
sorry bout not blogging for a while - been up to the neck in uni work and waiting for news of what's happening with Buns - but (shrugs).
Anyways
I recently watched a movie called Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa 1980) and it has inspired my creative juices (however boring and slow it was). i am newly fired up with all sorts of great ideas for a politically charged samurai epic - and i dont think im thinking film here. we're in book territory. this is the massive story of the turbulent years that follow Last Dance of the Rising Sun - itself something of a prequel or prologue to this next story.
i'll try to give something of an overview - im not very far, but i always find writng these these down cements them in my mind - and i might as well post it here - so u can see the process in action if it gets anywhere.
okay - basically i was working through the Twisted Mythos with rob recently and i came up with the aside idea that Sadakatsu Oshi usurped the throne soon after the end of the film and then created Black Crow to safehold his rule and monies.
But i got to thinking about the crazy turbulent years of clan war that resulted from killing the emperor (and Musashi for that matter) and how great a backdrop this was for exploring all the samurai epic ideas i had after writing that film. Creating Black crow is a serious side issue! Ha.

okay - so there are five or so clans (ill probly employ proper old names - Takeda, Tokugawa, Nobunaga etc) and the Tokugawa Leader is mightily pissed off about Sadakatsu killing his son and heir, musashi. He declares war on the Sadakatsu clan. this is how the war starts. because of all kinds in infighting and allies and betrayals there are many different allegances within the other 3 clans. they choose sides. what results is a major clan war - huge battles, subtle subterfuge, campaigns and generals, mighty warriors and mighty falls, ninja, infiltration, assassination and everything you could expect from feudal Japan and much more besides. (i don't no the ins and outs yet of course) at some point during this mess, Sadakatsu uses the emperor's own forces to take the imperial palace, and kills emperor Matsumoto. The war heats up immeasurably.
of course within this epic - are the little stories - the loves and loses, the great feats, the bravery, trickery and skill of the common man, strength of men's wills and the quest for even a grain of honour among the ruling classes.
an idea of how this is working in my head is Romance of the Three Kingdoms, written properly with blood, emotion and honour. the women will have real parts instead of being relegated to ornaments. mix that with crazy hong kong action, pulp sensibilities, intricate relationship, Seven Samurai, Kagemusha and Hero - and your getting near my ambitions for this- the girls are gonna kick some ass.

i do have a few interesting characters.

Sadakatsu himself - future despot - weird - i have the baddie first in a story
Katsuyori - temperamental young warrior under the Tokugawa
Tokugawa leader
Musashi's brother
The head concubine of the emperor. - she will roc
Sadakatsu's own legendary warrior - death on legs
Takeda Leader
Takeda samurai girl - her father died saving her as a child from certain death at Matsumoto's hands. she has a honour debt to kill matsumoto. and two tears of blood tattooed to her face where her father bled to save her. (man does she need a name!)
Takeda Clan General - u know the red faced high pitched shouty type
Matsumoto's inlegitimate son
Sadakatsu's offspring - my father is the Shogun.
The stargazer - sees the shooting stars - the deaths of great legends
Nobunaga clan members
at some later point - the despotic group who form the black crow 4 very greedy and clever men and 2 women

anyways - that is quite a few - im thinking that they are all main in some way - it will play out something like A Song of Ice and fire - with almost every main character having pivotal moments and plots. I won't write it like that though - not character own chapters - i always thought normal chapters wer pretty much serving exactly the same purpose in most books.
anyways - any suggestions - films or books i should assimilate - then comment them
i am going to give it a lot of thought - come up with these characters and their stories - why they fight etc - then get their names - and the war will flow from all the bloody betrayal.
also - to warn people who are squeamish - it will be bloody and there is absolutely no guarantee of any characters life. hahahahah - i hate it wen u are sure a character won't die - coz the author loves them to much - main characters will die!!!! i swear it

Now all i need is a series title :S (any ideas?)

credits roll...

Night of the Living Dead Cheerleaders is finished!

2008-04-13T01:55:00.006+01:00

You read it correctly, Night of the Living Dead Cheerleaders is finished. I've written the last word, I've killed off all those who die, quipped the last quip and now it just needs a big fat hard and strict edit.
i think the reason Rob hasn't blogged for ages is that he ain't written anymore. he is doing to much uni work. and as of tomorrow so am i. glad i got mine done in time.

And it hit exactly 50 pages!!!! (gotta edit)

anyways i have another Burt and Hayley Jane scene for your delectation. Its only short, but i think Rob will like it for sure. And its funny. This might be the last scene i post up. not sure. but i cant reveal story really, and don't wanna spoil it for those who will read the real thing. so there may not be any more scenes from NOTLDC. there will def be updates though. on its reception, feedback and the 2nd draft.

anyways check it out.

INT. HAYLEY’S HOUSE, EVENING.

Hayley and Burt arrive at Hayley’s house. The house is middle class American, a large detached property on a well-enough-off street. Hayley and Burt shove a big chair in front of the door to barricade it, and walk through to the kitchen at the back.

HAYLEY JANE
Want a drink?

BURT
Yeah. I’ll have a water and whiskey if you don’t mind?

HAYLEY JANE
Sure. That’s easy. You want shop-bought or my own special moonshine?

BURT
The hardest.

HAYLEY JANE
The moonshine then. And it’s hard all right. It’ll give you face cancer with one shot.

BURT
My favourite.

Hayley pours the whiskey and runs it under the tap for a moment. Hands it to him.

BURT
What you havin’?

HAYLEY JANE
A vodka coke.

BURT
Pussy.

anyways that isnt the end of the film of course but its firmly in the last quarter. i aint posting the end. jeez it'd ruin it.
Can someone please comment this time!
credits roll...

NOTLDC - BURT and HAYLEY JANE scene

2008-04-12T00:13:00.004+01:00

Okay - im seriously faster at this than Rob - yes im bitching. sorry dude.

anyways - Night of the Living Dead Cheerleaders is on the 41 page mark - shit! - and i have about 5 scenes left to go.
i said i'd blog a Burt and Hayley scene - but i can't really blog my favs - they are in the rude scenes that aren't gonna make it to this blog.
so here is a Burt and Hayley scene - bout halfway through the film. it not the funniest thing ever, but its cool - gives an idea of their banter. and some of my writing style.
check it out.

they have just jumped into a hole below Burt's secret janitor's closet. to get away from zombies.

INT. UNDERGROUND PASSAGE, AFTERNOON.

The place in almost pitch black. Hayley doesn’t move. She's in a hole about waist height and on her bare hands and knees, the deadly poms stashed in her skirt band. The zombies can be heard above. Burt lands beside her.

HAYLEY JANE
Where’s it lead then?

BURT
You’ll see.

Hayleys shrugs and heads off in the only available direction.

BURT
Hold on, missy.

Hayley turns back. Burt produces a small Browning 9mm 8 shot pistol from the back of his pants.

BURT
Just point and-

HAYLEY JANE
Shoot.

BURT
Yeah.

Hayley snaps back the barrel, loading a bullet into the chamber. She twirls the pistol twice round her trigger finger, and stashes it in the hem of her skirt.

HAYLEY JANE
You’d be surprised what a teenager in America can do these days.

Burt looks impressed. He hands her two clips.

BURT
We might get through this yet.

The zombies are looking down into the hole. Hayley and Burt quickly move off down the tunnel. It’s not far. Hayley soon arrives at a sheer wall. Above her is a strange filled-in square of light. She pushes it up into...

INT. GIRLS CHANGING ROOMS, AFTERNOON.

Hayley pokes her head out into...

HAYLEY JANE
The girl’s loos? You pervert!

She emerges into the girls changing room out of a tile set under the sinks. There are cubicles, benches and lockers, enough boy band stickers to make any man sick, sinks and showers.

BURT
(hurt)
What!? Guy’s gotta look, I’m sorry.

HAYLEY JANE
Yeah. There’s looking and then there’s tunnelling 20 foot under a school and spying into the changing rooms like a frickin’ peido!

BURT
They’re 16.

HAYLEY JANE
Yeah, jailbait! The age you’re looking for is 18.

BURT
Oh. Blast it. You gonna get out or what?

Hayley pulls herself out. She holds her gun ready, no telling where zombies’ll be.

Anyways, comment if you wanna.
the scripts will be done on sunday. im excited. r u? (doesn't matter if u r coz ur only ever gona get single scenes) sorry.

credits roll...

Deadline for Zombie Grindhouse

2008-04-11T11:09:00.003+01:00

OMG! the deadline for Zombie Grindhouse is fast approaching.
there are only 2 full days and a half left to write these scripts.

I can vouch for the fact that Night of the Living Dead Cheerleaders is well on its way and in theory should be ready by sunday night - quite easily.
it is 31 pages long at this point and we were aiming for 30-40. however i dont have the ending - i dont know how the bad guys or even the good guys die. Who survives? how does the bad guy get it? it could get to a good 45 pages.

however Rob has got some serious catching up to do! he says he is only around the 4 page mark - and there are no zombies in it yet!
what is he playing at!!!?

i thought i'd include another small scene - just to tide you over like

INT. GYMNASIUM, AFTERNOON.

On the far side of the gymnasium to the changing rooms, the outer doors are blasted from their hinges with a BANG! They fall dramatically inward.

FALCON
I know you like it loud, but shit!? We’ll wake the dead.

MISTRESS
Makes no difference. They’re already awake.

Falcon Rivers and Mistress burst into the gymnasium, guns toting. The cheerleaders are crowding into the changing rooms across the hall.

FALCON
Shit. It’s the ‘Night of the Living Dead Cheerleaders!’

MISTRESS
S’not even dark out. Get your movies straight, cowboy. It’s ‘Day of the Living Dead Cheerleaders’. Ain’t nothing else.

FALCON
Suit yourself, babe. ‘Night’ sounds better, though. Artistic licence, you know.

They hear shotgun shots.

MISTRESS
Come on. My fingers itchin’.

hope u like - i must include a burt and hayley scene before sunday
coz falcon and mistress have had all the limelight so far. dam them. i just don't have one thats not really rude yet.

anyways - i better get on with the ending and hope all is done by sunday

credits roll.

Don't Blaspheme Honey

2008-04-09T00:42:00.002+01:00

Hey kids, I've been told I'm to blog a scene of the upcoming Bun's of Destruction, just as a taster, so I thinks to myself, 'should I blog the opening scene, or the second scene? They both go over the main titles and they're both short.' I couldn't decide, so I'll just blog both. Here we get introduced to the sleazy Wes and Larry (you know they ain't surviving) and of course the dynamic duo themselves, Falcon and Mistress. Anyway, here it is. The opening two sequences that compries the title sequence for Buns of Destruction. If you don't like 'em, then jog on and read some other blog, yeah?

TWISTEDMYTH PICTURES PRESENTS

A ROBERT S. PEARSON FLICK

BUNS OF DESTRUCTION

INT. COFFEE SHOP, DAY. WES and LARRY are sitting with their morning coffee and chatting amiably.

WES
For sure, man. She’s a total fucking whore. I
mean I ain’t sayin’ I wouldn’t, cos fuck me she’s still more of a ‘tang tang’ than the shit we get round ‘ere but…

LARRY
Tang, tang? Man, no way! Maybe back in the ‘Hit Me Baby One More Time’ days, or hell, even the ‘Toxic’ days, but the ‘Gimme More’ days? Shit. (takes a sip of his coffee).

WES
All right then, what about Avril Lavigne? Yay or nay?

LARRY
(spits out his coffee). Nay!

WES
What!?

LARRY
Nay, and I’ll damn well tell you why.

WES
Go on then, fucker.

LARRY
Well she starts out all pop princessy like, yeah? So whatever, she’s targeting pre teen little bitches, probably ain’t even got pubes yet. Fair enough, you’d expect her to be shit. But then, dammit, her target audience grows up, and she decides to up the ante, don’t she? Goes all sodding emo and shit. You can just imagine her producers, all fake tan and expensive cigars, thinking ‘how can we take Avril up a level? I KNOW! Let’s throw in some suicide lyrics and a grungy dirge on a clapped out acoustic – it’s a guaranteed paycheque from these hormonal bitches who buy that shit, right!?’ Wrong. Her fans grew out of her. Realised how shit she was. Good for them. But then, know what the bitch does? Yep. Goes back to her pre teen audience. Ropes in the new generation of bedroom mirror, hair brush singers. ‘I want to be your girlfriend’ – I mean what a load of crap.

WES
…I meant would you fuck her?

LARRY
Oh! (thinks for a minute). Yeah, probably.

Camera pulls out of coffee shop as the opening credits roll to Lavigne’s Girlfriend. Cut to the bedroom of a young teenage girl as she dolls herself up for a party whilst dancing to the pop beats using her hairbrush as a mic. As we get to Avril’s orgasmically inspired ‘UUUHHH!’ lyric, the scene shifts and the music changes to a low, electronic dirge.

INT. CAR, DAY. FALCON RIVERS and MISTRESS are driving along a country road in a black mustang, White Zombie’s Black Sunshine blasting out of the CD Player. Falcon grabs a cigarette, Mistress twirls her fiery coloured lighter with ‘SAUCY BEATCH’ emblazoned all over it in lurid orange. Falcon takes a drag, exhaling out before taking a glance in the rear view mirror.

FALCON
No tails, thank Christ.

MISTRESS
Don’t blaspheme.

FALCON
You gonna fire one of those babies up, honey?

MISTRESS turns very slowly to look at FALCON, clear annoyance in her eyes.

MISTRESS
I’m no one’s ‘honey,’ cowboy. And no, firing up ‘one of these babies’ isn’t something I’m planning on.

FALCON
And I ain’t no cowboy, honey.

MISTRESS
Mistress. I didn’t ask to be your partner. Infact, if the brass hadn’t threatened to fire me then I wouldn’t be on this case at all. I’d’ve even taken the Cassian assignment before working with you. Hell I’d rather fuck Cassian than work with you, but hey, here I am. So you can cut out the ‘honeys’ and the poorly executed chat up lines, because you sure as hell aren’t getting anything from me.

FALCON
(exhales smoke) Whatever you say, honey, but like it or not you’re stuck with Falcon Rivers on this shitty assignment. Not that this assignment is worth my attention or my skills mind you. Chasing some dumb broad all over the place. Where the heck are we headed, anyhow?

MISTRESS
Franco’s. That’s where our dumb broad is headed.

FALCON
Well let’s get on and get this shit done, honey.

MISTRESS fingers her Magnum Revolver, bringing it out in clear view of FALCON

MISTRESS
You see this?

FALCON
Hard not to, honey. Stick’s out like a fat ass,
and is just as ugly.

MISTRESS
This is my other hand. (she twirls the gun,
much like with her lighter.) And you see these?
(she opens a customised chamber on the gun containing .368 calibre bullets). They’re my other fingers. So if I hear another ‘honey’ out of your smart mouth, I’ll make quick and give you one of my customizable hand jobs. You got that, Falcon?

FALCON
Jesus Christ, honey. We ain’t even at the restaurant yet and already you’re spitting chips.

MISTRESS twirls her gun threateningly and looks daggers at FALCON.

MISTRESS
Asshole. Drive.

Right, the format has come out like vomit on the screen, but hey, it's readable. Aren't you dying to know what goes down next? I sure am.

Adios honeys

Falcon and Mistress turn up in NOTLDC

2008-04-07T00:24:00.002+01:00

Okay - i don't have much to blog with, i have written a couple of scenes in Night of the Living Dead Cheerleaders. one i have picked to share with you i thought might be fun. Its the moment that Falcon Rivers and Mistress enter the second film. Also rob can see his characters portrayed by me, before he's probably written them himself :) haha
okay here goes

EXT. OUTSIDE BURNHAM HIGH, AFTERNOON.

The scream is heard outside and a cherry red corvette pulls up outside the school. Handsome drifter, FALCON RIVERS rolls down his window. Next to him in the driving seat is MISTRESS. Both are enigmatic, but have an air of capable competence. They have skills. Falcon looks out at the school.

FALCON - It’s begun.

MISTRESS - Yes, we’re too late.

FALCON - Never too late to rip a zombie a new one.

MISTRESS - That’s always been true, Falcon. As long as you survive to do it.

Mistress gets her gun out of a suitcase. It’s a special model, a refitted-magnum with .368 calibre bullets in a side compartments. Those make a big hole. She loads the gun.

FALCON - I’m going to kill the bastard that keeps starting these zombie outbreaks! Doesn’t he think I’ve got enough work dealing with all the vamps after Buffy threw in the towel?

MISTRESS - No concern for others at all.

Falcon turns to her.

FALCON - Okay, we’re gonna do this real quiet like.

Mistress cocks the barrel of her gun.

MISTRESS - Quiet? Awww, Falcon.

hope you like it. didn't take long, but i do think its quite fun.
comment if you want - so i know what peeps think
credits roll

The TwistedMythos

2008-04-05T02:25:00.005+01:00

okay its update time.
please scroll to the bottom of the page for a nice shiny new Mythos piece and the Manifesto

basically we spent a large part of Friday evening creating the TwistedMythos - the interconnected timeline/universe of the TM films and scripts. the films connect! how kool
each film that is a part of the larger storyline is connected with all the other films in the timeline as well.
its something like you can watch Star Wars movie, and you can see that they refer to things that happened before the films - there is a bigger backstory. Well now TM has that to. You can watch a TM movie, and it works just fine by itself, but then with the TM timeline (the TwistedMythos) you can see how that story fits within the greater overall story.

It is basically a centuries long struggle between to opposing factions, they aren't always at war, but they don't work together. The (supposedly) bad side, the 'Black Crow' organization was created in samurai times by Emperor Sadakatsu to preserve his family's place and money. it evolved over the hundreds of years into an organization with more money and power than the governments of any single country. They pull strings, they fund dodgy scientific research, they control technology and economy, but who are they and whose in control - no one knows. they have a network of agents, who are often the forces of evil in TwistedMyth films, but the top brass is never revealed.

in oppostion the 'Red Kites' was formed in 1856, in London. Set up on the surface as a guild of assassins, they do jobs for money - anything from assassination, petty larceny, secret missions and coupes to grand theft auto, robbery and infiltration. But their real, secret intention is the revealing and ending of Black Crow and they will accept any job that could be even slightly connected with the faceless corporation. Of course, they generally find the VERY involved jobs. There is a definite hierarchy, with ranks, officers, leaders and operatives. Again, what we generally see in the films is the operatives going about there missions, but the leaders keep themselves behind closed doors and behind extensive protection, after all their enemy is the corporation that controls the world. If their base's location or the names of the leaders got out, they would invariably be hunted down and exterminated within days. The system of cells and factions, hopefully, prevents this.

it seems the story of Black Crow's operatives and the secret assassins of Red Kite will go on for many years. Already, in the present day Black crow has been pulling strings for over 400 years and the Red kites have been attempting resistance for more than 150. An offshoot of Black Crow and Red Kite managed to survive WW4, and in 2346 the War of the Floating Cities still involves operatives and potential leaders of both groups. The struggle continues. When will it end and who will win...

and so we begin preproduction of the duology 'Zombie Grindhouse'. Mad scientist, Leonard Beecham has purchased Valkyrie Blood from Black Crow operative, Valerie Valentine. She wants to help and fund his zombie reanimation virus. So with the inhuman blood Beecham proceeds to Ohio, America and begins research. When the Red Kites hear rumours of extraordinary happenings involving mad scientistry, they know just who might be involved, however indirectly. One cell of assassins is dispatched, supposed drifters, Falcon Rivers and Mistress, undead specialists, to investigate. (after all every type of magic and supernatural being does exist in TwistedMyths - they are MYTHS - Vampires in VPS, Hrist the Valkyrie, now Zombies) They know something is about to go down, but what... and where?

Lastly, check out the TwistedMyth manifesto below the timeline for an idea of the attitude behind TM and the inspiration for our films. its not a set of rules (like Dogme) but a declaration of what we enjoy and are trying to create.

(psst - scroll to the bottom of the page!!!)

Credits roll...

Final Fantasy vs Dead or Alive and Elaborate April Fools jokes

2008-04-04T13:18:00.002+01:00

Ahoy hoy, that's right, it's me boys and girls, finally breaking Toby's blogging streak with some news (ish) of my own.

Let's get the boring stuff out of the way. I'm about to start writing Buns of Destruction and Outcast of Valhalla is about to enter the final stages of production, before editing begins on the 14th of April. Whoopdee doo - no one cares.

What I really wanted to blog about was not so much something that TwistedMyth have done, moreover something that I found. If you read our lovingly crafted manifesto at the bottom of the page, you will notice that we like kick ass stuff. And I have found a couple of videos that kick so much ass, there just isn't any ass left to kick. I thought I knew what a good action sequence looked like. I was wrong. Check out these beauties;

Firstly:http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/115884.html

Secondly:http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/193489.html

I am still recovering from the mind boggling insanity of the visual vistas on offer here. Damn.

Also of interest is the elaborate April Fools joke that the guys at IGN.com came up with - a pretty neat looking (albeit fake) trailer for a live action Zelda film. How I wish it was real.

http://media.video.ign.com/ev/av.html?dlURL=http://moviesmovies.ign.com/movies/video/article/863/863515/legendofzelda_filmtrailer_040108_flvhighwide.flv&article_ID=863515

Hero of Time! Face me!

Well, here's wishing I could have a go in that Temple of Time. Time is one thing I have precious little of. But that's some pretty inspiring stuff, so I'm off to get writing. It's Buns time.

:D

Editing Gemini and feedback on Lucky Dragon Skies

2008-04-03T18:08:00.003+01:00

well, well. it has been an eventful film filled day today
i went to uni and edited from 10 - 5 its the second cut of Gemini and its looking much improved (read, sic!). plus Rob (nakata) and megan both got back to me today with feedback on the 2nd draft of Lucky Dragon Skies (the anime episode). i will relate a few choice anecdotes about each.

firstly LDS - i havent explained the story of LDS on this blog yet. here goes - it is an anime pilot episode, written as an independent project for my third year film degree. the story reads thusly...

In a race against time, legendary pilot, Tetsu and underground spy, Chiana, must pilot their combots (fighter robots) in a desperate attempt to take out a renegade pilot in a experimental nuclear combot, hell bent on a collision course with the floating city of New Tokyo. Problem is they don’t get along and they don’t have a plan. Add to the mix codes that don’t work, conflicting and ulterior motives and suspend this 200 thousand foot above Earth and what follows is an action packed futuristic chase with epic consequences above a sea of clouds.

okay so i did a first draft and now a second - basically people like it - lots of positive comments to do with comedy value and fun, the liking of characters such as Chiana and the base General. Megan liked the new virtual virus fight section - but felt it wasn't explained enough, thinks the baddie should survive, suggested ejection seats and liked Tetsu's enigmaticness.

she got Chianas character almost down pat - 'Personally, I like the moments of vulnerability shown by chiana. I think the thank you is good. It shows that she isn’t as brilliant as she thinks she is, that she needs help sometimes even tho she is brash, arrogant and powerful' - thanks megan - will put.

rob enjoyed less jumping out of combots and saving people for no reason, didnt enjoy the virtual virus loading stunt (i should point out to rob - that it happens in that order coz there is a city at stake - its still gonna blow up!!!) and was 'bamboozled' by technical jargon. he thinks there should be less swearing by all except the general, making him funnier, thinks that testu is too generic (but the others are grrreat) and pointed out the twist of Chiana should come later. he did hasten to add that he felt like a bastard - 'but I did like it alot - the combots are kick ass, Chiana and the General are funny as fuck, and I think the story would be really kick ass.' thanks rob.

i like feedback to be honest like this - theres no point in sugar coating - although its also nice to hear that it rox (and importantly is better than the 1st). i will take these suggestions on board, i just hope there is something i can do about them :S the story is quite difficult to pick apart now. im just waiting for my tutor to feedback and Roz and i can get planning the final draft.

meanwhile, today i was editing Gemini. basically we did a 1st edit about 3 weeks ago and now, after the hols, i can get back on with it. the first cut was good in many places, (one scene was compared favourably to The Bourne editing) but also felt too linear, dull and had superfluous scenes. okay, noted.

i had an ideas blitz over the hols, and went back in today, determined to make myself love the film again. and i truely succeeded (imho). i gave the film a new title sequence, basically using parts of the last scenes to give clues at the beginning (less linear), and then cut it together with some dynamite music and lots of nice looking titles. it looks sweet!! and quite damn professional. i also redid the ending of the film, making it less than half as long, and cutting superfluous extra shots and time. there are also less cuts now too - always good. i then timed it with some amazing Nightwish music, so that the song intro goes over the last scene, then the awesome hard rock guitar solo comes in with the credits and black screen. it is awesome! i mean awesome! just so satisfying to make such sexy edits again after such a long wait, and after feeling like giving up on the film. - i now seriously love it again. the scenes are going to be re ordered and i have more nice ideas for some music. yay! - hopefully i can get some of those cuts up on Utube soon. - but the final film will haveta wait - only got 6 weeks left!!:S

anyways crazy day and its only 6ish. hope thats informative.
credits roll...

Cheerleaders update, you know...the dead ones.

2008-04-02T18:17:00.009+01:00

Well, i think i best update for today seeing as i didn't do much yesterday (more than Rob tho)

anyways i have just finished a large piece of collating coursework at uni (some advertising stuff - On a film course, you say? - yes i know its stupid - we have loads of them - stupid theory lessons) - so now i have lots of spare time for a good week or so (til i have to start looking at the next round of essays - jeez) and i can get on with the gore-and-panty fest that is

Night of the Living Dead Cheerleaders

(ive been accused of doing to much cheerleader 'research' by my girlf for this project. When actually the main thing i researched was tetnus jabs - and couldnt find how they were applied - so its a BCG jab instead now - that goes in the arm)

okay so some fun new elements to the story -

well the plot is coherent now - is has a proper flow - i was up until 5 last night alternately working and planning and now the story flows quite well. of course it could change during writing, but...

basically its something of a dual narrative, covering 2 different characters surviving the zombie outbreak. they are separate and together at different points.

So the main thread is the story of Hayley Jane, varsity cheerleader. She misses the 'routine' injections, because her boyfriend Zack is a perv and wants to do 'it' in a deserted classroom while everyone is in the halls. They get found out because of vengeful fellow cheerleader, Jessica, and sent to the Principals office.

Meanwhile, Caretaker Burt is helping with the jabs, when one of the students - little Timmy - faints. Burt takes him to the infirmary to wait for the nurse. There he meets Mrs B J Humper, who lives up to her name. You..., me..., an unconscious student? when better? she's finished by the time Hayley is sent back to her class. Left alone in the infirmary, Timmy starts to change. He dies.... then he lives again.

All over the school the injected students are dying and rising again as the living dead!

What ensues is the chaos of Hayley trying to survive the undead interests of the school geeks' clothes-ripping cheerleader fantasies and her jealous cheerleader teammates, and Burt dealing with the unstoppable zombie of little Timmy.

Soon, him and Hayley meet up and work together. Burt has guns, lots of guns, in his secret MIB style caretaker's closet. The chasing, screaming and chaos is about to get ugly. Of course, tonight

is...

the...

Night of the Living Dead Cheerleaders

other scenes i can't wait to write include,

Burt and Hayley dealing with Roland the fattest kid in school and now the fattest ever undead zombie, with a grenade down the gullet...

The attack of the cheerleaders themselves in their own changing rooms...

the carpark of death, where stands the army of the dead...

the opentop zombie car chase...

and the scenes in the bowels of the school basement, where our heroes meet the perpetrator of the zombie jab and find an impregnated Miss Humper dangling from the ceiling. She's about to give birth - but what too...

and the revenge of Jessica Elwood... (Hayley stole her boyfriend)

okay - so there's your update - tbh probably only rob and meg will read it, but here's hoping someone else will comment to.

the plot is ready - i tell you - this script is writing itself! its ALIVE!

anyways - im off to Burnham High, its the Night of the Living Dead Cheerleaders and i'm going to go get covered in blood and entrails.

oh yeah - pom-poms - don't think to hard about pom-poms...

peace

Blood in the movies

2008-04-01T19:00:00.004+01:00

While reading up on stuff about zombies and researching a couple of elements of my script i came across a really awesome fact about blood - of course it is also film related.

Basically the human body has over 2 gallons of blood gushing and squeezing round inside. this got me to thinking - 2 gallons! 2 GALLONS!! that's a lot of blood...

now think about film scenes with blood in them. no matter how unbelievably gratuitous the blood use is - even if covers the floor - it is never enough blood.

Try dumping 2 gallons of milk onto your kitchen floor. you will see what i mean. plaster that across walls and furniture and your getting somewhere more like a realistic amount.
or come to think of it, a realistic murder scene.

Films with bloody scenes tend to receive a high rating by film licensing bodies, e.g. PG 13 to X
from wikipedia.
just imagine if they actually had enough blood. they would all be X.

anyways - i was thinking about this in my film - basically the zombies blood is congealed and dead, so bits and parts, but not much blood. but if (hahahahha 'if') the living get attacked then i am going to have to make realistic amounts of blood now. liberal amounts. zombies bite and pull and maim and rip. the blood letting could be extreme.

think about it when your next watching a bloody scene - how unrealistic the amount of blood generally is. then think what the police must face in real murders . (shudders)
peace

Zombie Grindhouse 1 - 'Buns of Destruction'

2008-04-01T01:08:00.005+01:00

Ok people, this is the provisional premise for Buns of Destruction, which will be Part One of TwistedMyth's zombie double bill. It is Part One chronologically. Not because it will be miles better than Night of the Living Dead Cheerleaders, which I personally cannot wait to see.

Righto, this idea is still very much in its infancy, but here goes. A charming, innocent young lady is getting ready to celebrate her 16th birthday by throwing the party to end all parties, ie a massive booze fuelled disco. Or so she thinks. What she doesn't realise is that her stunningly crafted fake ID is only going to get her and her unfortunate friends a lot more than a sneaky vodka and coke. Because on this night of all nights, some nasty, warped, biological scientist is going to use the unknowing patrons at 'Franco's Floury Baps: The Family Restaurant to Die for!' as guinea pigs for his latest experiment, by craftily adding a mysterious substance to the restaurants award winning burger relish. (It was going to be called Chemical X, but that raises copyright issues with The Powerpuff Girls, so I'm going to have to change it).

Anyhoo, as our gang of underage boozers dance the night away, things inevitably start to go wrong. People start behaving oddly. Even the local 40 year old drunken leches are acting oddly, concentrating more on their burgers than on the scantily clad young ladies in the adjacent disco hall. And there are some strangers in tonight. An enigmatic drifter and his smoking hot partner. Who are they? Will they be able to stop the terrifying wave of 16 year old destruction just breaking out in the room next door?

You know it's going to get ugly. The cocktails are going to be mixed with gunpowder and shotgun specials are on the menu. It's Buns of Destruction. Let the screaming begin...

...after I've finished a dissertation and numerous other pieces of outstanding University work that I haven't bothered to start yet. Ho hum.

Zombie Grindhouse 2 - 'Night of the Living Dead Cheerleaders'

2008-04-01T00:47:00.004+01:00

Okay, so currently and probably for the next week or so Twisted is working on the 2 back to back zombie thrill fests that make up Zombie Grindhouse.
2 very Twisted Myths. i can assure you of that. i hope they come out good.

First up, though probably second billing is my effort.

'Night of the Living Dead Cheerleaders'

okay so the basic idea is thus, but i am certain that the story will change - this is only after about 24 hours to plan and go uni at the same time! it will change!

High school students get infected with a zombie virus and become the living dead. The few that missed the fated 'tetnus' jab fight to survive the bloody retribution of their classmates.

Teensploitation. Sex, violence, gore, thrills, chases, guns, girls. And a zombie pulling cheerleaders clothes off etc.

Welcome to Burnham High, Ohio.

Introducing, Sexy high-school cheerleader, Hayley Jane Ray,
Her basketball player boyfriend, Zack Valentino, The Burnham Bitches (the zombie cheerleaders), and their leader Jessica Elwood. The Nerds. The Goths. The school caretaker, Burt. His secret lover, Mrs. B J Humper. Nurse Joyce. And Head teach, Mr. Beecham.

The students are all due for a tetnus jab this morning. Little do they know the havoc that will ensue, when the injected become the living dead!

okay plot details - when i've worked them all out will follow shortly - but obviously not in stupid detail - wouldn't want copyright issues now would we?

if you read this - any comments would be great - any ideas, any names suggestions or titles that beat 'Night of the Living Dead Cheerleaders' (i dont think so...)
Keep filming
peace

(in other news of mine - i am also working on the edit of Gemini (2nd version) and my 3rd year essays - yuk, gotta do that job-finding stuff soon too *nibbles fingers*)

Upcoming Projects

2008-03-31T21:18:00.003+01:00

Right, I'd better get blogging otherwise I'll be in for a flogging. Allow me to tell all our reader(s) about a few exciting things coming your way from us here at TwisetedMyth.

Firstly, there are the two brand spanking new films - Gemini(currently in post production) and Outcast of Valhalla (due to enter post production on April 14th, weather and actors permitting). Seeing as how Toby has had must of the blogging fun thus far, let me tell you a little bit about Outcast of Valhalla. It is a science fiction, action flick, high on sarcasm, gun toting badasses and Eastern European villains (boooo). And of course a hot Valkyrie in a catsuit.

Lucky Dragon Skies is Toby's latest script, and I can attest that it is very impressive indeed, and I haven't even seen the re-written version yet. Maybe one day some kick ass Japanese guy (or gal) will snap it up and do it justice with a sublime anime series. Here's hoping.

And of course, there is the double zombie feature. Which is not a Grindhouse rip off. Not at all. It's more like a Grindhouse copyright infringement. LOLZ. Anyway, I'm currently doing a bit of research into the zombie genre, and have found some interesting things about African voodoo magic and the etymology of the word 'zombie' - apparently it's derived from the Louisiana and Haitian Creole word zonbi - referring to the reanimation of a dead person, brought back to life without speech or free will. This was, (according to local leged) a ritual performed by a bokor (voodoo sorcerer) - the zombies being under their conplete control. These zombies seem like a far cry from the traditional rotting, shambling, brain chomping buggers we know and love today - so maybe I'll have a bit of fun with them when writing my half of the script. I just hope I can deliver on Toby's promise that it will be 'very funny.' I'm sure it will be.

Phew - that was a bit of an essay! Check out the shizzle that will be appearing here soon, and I hope to be posting again poste haste with the progress of the stunning zombie script for all two of you. Please comment - I'll feel like an arse otherwise.

Keep making shit :D

Getting on Google's index

2008-03-31T18:02:00.003+01:00

Getting on Google's index is insanity itself.
i have been beavering away for hours now trying to find how to get this blog to be a bit more noticed than just the friends i invite.
eventually, finally, i find the right info (in the meantime i submitted countless sitemaps and wrote nonsensical HTML) in - 'bloggerfordummies.blogspot.com' - a blog on the same bloomin site.
Geez.

(by the way its awesome) - if it worked

anyways - this blog SHOULD be very much searchable within the next few hours - supposedly i have to wait for a 'spider' or 'googlebot' on Google to 'crawl' through my sitemap? It sounds like madness to me. very Cyberpunk.
i was hacking it Neuromancer style. HTML is for newbs.
peace out.

The future at TwistedMyth

2008-03-31T03:05:00.006+01:00

well...
the future of this blogspot should be very exciting indeed especially if you are into films. We certainly are. We are a fledgling duo of filmmakers (yes, trying to make it) that write, direct and act.

we're using this blog as a publicity spot.

basically all the stuff that we make, write, conjure, scribble and shit out, will be posted about in the very near future (not the scripts and films themselves - but the processes and hardships we go through everyday writing and filming).
thats films, generally short work, scripts, ideas, musings and all manner of other film related brainwork (we're trying to get noticed after all). it'll probably become a very revealing look at getting into the film industry - but might take a while.

in the very near future -
i just challenged Rob to write a Grindhouse tribute double bill. One each. 2 back to back zombie wit fest scripts for the launch of our blog. They will be very funny, and hopefully really good reads. you will hear all about them im sure (all the ups and downs, plots and holes, random ideas etc) - become our friend on here and i might even let you read them.

i will also post (and im sure rob will) small bits from them, scenes and lines and trailer copy. Please comment on them. Feedback is the best thing a writer can get.

Please comment on the films as well. Check out the Youtube links.

other things in the works - (to look forward too hearing us be very excited about)

Outcast of Valhalla - Rob's final year film.
Gemini - Toby's final year movie.
Lucky Dragon Skies - pilot episode of an anime series. if it gets good feedback (from my tutor) - i might even write the next episode.

and of course the Zombie Grindhouse set - wonder what the titles will be?
see ya soon.

latest updates.

2008-03-31T02:54:00.008+01:00

Okay - last post of updates - for real
i feel somewhat outclassed - Nakata wrote a proper post while all i've done is updates about what i've added to the site.
anyways
i'm tired now - it is 2.50ish after all
i've added some mean links - check them out - some of the films really rock.
and there are nice pics from some of the films.

anyways - if anyone reads this before i get back here then thanks - i think - apart from my girlfriend you will be the first reader.
cheers - comment us - we might even write back :P

check the next post for the proposed future of TwistedMyth Pictures blogspot.
and things to expect from this blog.
ciao

Greetings avid readers!

2008-03-31T02:28:00.003+01:00

Ahoy, hoy - Rob here, by Toby's grace I am being allowed to contribute to this most wonderous of blogs - which I am sure is going to be read and discussed and commented upon with much vigour the world over.

I've no doubt I'll get addicted to this, much like Facebook, and wittle away hours of my life, pouring my heart and soul into writing about everything TwistedMyth - instead of actually doing work.

Anyway, I'd better stop now, otherwise I'll be on here all night. It's already 2:30am, and my eyes are reddening and leadening. Laters.

:D

new author? Rob

2008-03-31T02:27:00.002+01:00

Partner in crime should be blogging soon!
heres hoping at least :P

some new stuff - straight off the cuff

2008-03-31T01:10:00.002+01:00

just a note to say the spot has a few new features
a pic of rob - coz this is a duo project
new fonts and colours
and a sweet as title banner (photo by Rozemarijn Idema) from the upcoming Gemini.
there will be more posts as and wen i work out how to use this shit.
lol

The First Post

2008-03-30T23:51:00.003+01:00

We write in courier here - Script font!

well - pretty self explanatory really - this is the first post
thats it really
im just testing it all works
ciao

hey rob
hey megan

comment - so i no its all working