optxx latenite story-boarding

you know optxx, no self-esteem, part of the team, work late till the brain freeze, mind bend, tying hard to comprehend, got the screen resolution on 800x600 for bad eye-sight solution, putting the finishing touches on the story-board, white jelly pen on black is dank, so nice for the presentation, kind o drunk, kind o tired, but so stoked to be part of the processes, escaped the harness, running free on the field, tough on the turf, no sunday action monday breakfast awaits. you will flip when you see the end product. sorry Contra, you know the early worm eats the bird. get ready to say Dammmmmm like the Alkaholics. but contra baptized this beast tonight, got the url in the hangar.


REFLECTIONS OF SORROW

that is the name and title of this short storry, Raven interpretation, indy flick. peace. going back to SoCal in about 6 hours. going hard core, Contra will publish some photos of the process and i shall post some vid by mid week. now time to pull out the all nighter, and down some becks...

Story Board Search in PDX

Story-boarding time. taking off to go find an art store to pick up a giant poster board, which we shall break down into sections representing stanzas. We are going to then post all the notes from all the past sessions into scene ideas and start to generate the video and movement flow.

http://www.utrechtart.com/

We are going to store located on Everett.

optxx LBC pre-flight notes to PDX

optxx here. Plus1 just dropped me off at the LBC Airport. awaiting to take flight on jetblue to the PDX. going to connect with ContraQU -- for the Raven Project preproduction meeting. unsure as to Flurry's whereabouts. NOTE TO ALL: meeting online tonight at 23:00 PST. have been looking forward to this meeting for some time now. am very excited about the new prospect of the Raven Project, again everything is flowing so well, looking to bang out the last 7 stanzas tonight.

The production schedule for this weekend is light in typical Spectre terms but if we accomplish all we set out to do come Monday and Martin Luther King Jr. Day we will have:

-a complete rough sketch of video flow
-started a story board (will post imgs online)
-key music/sound highlights location IDed per Stanza
-started working version of the script
-identified key filming locations
-shot prelim location video (will post vids online)
-mapped video sequences onto stanza's

wish optxx safe flight as this is his first time (at age 3x something) flying alone and accompanied. see you on the iChat.

01/10/2009 Raven Notes

Here are notes from 10/10 meeting regarding Raven.  Please feel free to comment to this post with additional info and or ideas.

Raven responsibilities:

Optxx: Producer, Audio mixing

Flurry: Please Add

Neuro: Audio editing, Video editing

Plus One: Please Add

Contraqu: Director, Video editing

All with have their hands in filming as some scenes will require multiple angles and pans.

General ideas: 

-Photo copy art: Michelle to dress in multiple Victorian/Gothic dresses and will be photographed around Portland in front of and in historic and/or aged structures.  These will be photocopied by Optxx approximately 1000X and plastered in the "home" setting.

-Many Steccato video or still images mixed through the filming.  Examples: close up of biting into raw, bloody meet, Raven video, childhood images and sequences, Video of Poe's history, etc

-THEME of film: Love, Madness, Never Forgetting, Repentance 

Shooting Schedule: March 19-23

Stanza synopsis (tentative):

 1: Optxx sitting in study lit by television and/or fire.   Sipping drink and in a stupor.  Long pipe.  Mid-Narrow shot.  On television-scenes of childhood (Christo in black suit)

2: Fireplace with burning photos (not throwing in fire yet).  Eagerly wanting tomorrow to come (show sunrise in cemetery).  To do: get empty capsules to show taking pills.  "Nameless here for evermore" Looking at library at this point.  Then pans back to him and pops pills.

additional photos

Other Locales

Optxx...the links of pix for your friend's villa are amazing.  This will be a great location if we are able to film here.  Lets shoot for investigating further this weekend.  

I have alternate or additional park locations that i documented for possible use.  

In addition, I documented some downtown locations in some downtrodden parts of town.  

As we work out scenes and outdoor locations, we can work determine specifics.  

Optxx and I will investigate further this weekend.

Scouting

Sorry for the delay on the location scouting.  I will also follow this post up with notes from 1/10/09 meeting.  

Given the Gothic tone that Raven will take on, I think that the first location will fit well given an outdoors scene. I thnk the gothic style of the bridge supports and towers will be a fitting style for the mood that we are going for.  Lots of industrial building across the river will also lend to the mood.

 

Possible Garden Setting Location in PDX

Cheers Spectre, Again that was an awesome session last Friday. As we spoke about shooting locations, here are two links to my friends, PDX Friend's location. The own this manor and she is good friends with them and is fairly certain we might be able to shoot in the gardens, with the Manor as the background setting. Enjoy: 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/christmaswithak/3127348896/

 http://www.flickr.com/photos/christmaswithak/493893425/

 So that is that. This project is really heating up, so stoked its coming off so smoothly. Peace.

Strong Start to 2009

Cheers Spectre! Solid session tonight. We had a major breakthrough on the Raven Project. Were able to digest our way through half the poem, gained great insight into the both the meaning and our own postulations for the video flow and were able to storyboard some excellent scenes. This project will not be easy but will prove to be our key defining moment and production piece as a group. Quick takeaways:

-was able to finish the new website layout, notice the nice background, was able to fix that issue.
-Next weekend January 16-19 Pre-Production on the Raven Project: Optxx and Flurry will be venturing out for an in person inspection and tour of the Studio PDX, hosted by ContraQU
-Next session will be January 16th at 2200 PST, ContraQU, Flurry & Optxx will trasmit from Studio PDX, Neurodexter from DE Munich, and PlusOne from OC Central
-We set the date for the Raven Project Production: March 20-24 so get your flight travel taken care of early to avoid the rush.

Ravenous Sounds of Yore...

Hey all you Spectrins! It looks like we have access to the files, I have been told the Sound Bytes von Jake are available to us. I will be getting the files posted just as soon as I speak to Herr Muth. I think with the size of all the aiffs (of which I will compress into MP3) we will need to all refresh our FTP hook ups for the intitial storage. I think my side will be the only issue as the internet *upload-dwnload speeds are excruciatingly slow compared to the good ole' Vereinigte Staaten.

OK, I will be there for a meeting tonight, but as a disclaimer I have to go to IKEA with Silke for the neues Wohnung wir haben. Therefore I will have to be at the office early in order to interphace/

I look forward to seeing you all there.

New Year New Conquests

Happy New Year fellow Spectrins! Hope all is well with you and yours. Liking the ideals flowing in for the Raven project. Looking forward to some production. See you online in the near future.