Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Excuse me, Leader of the Free World...you may have mispelled "memoir."
Hurry up, political humorists, you've only got a month left before the fish/barrel shooting ends and you've actually got to work for a living. Until then, Boy George is still an easy target.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Hell has frozen over, Bigfoot has been found, and Nessie is real.
Or, we just completed a day of shooting for the El Presidente! trailer soon to be available on the web. What is better? I have photographic proof!
~G
Friday, September 05, 2008
Come see El Presidente's "Black Bottom!"
Theater lovers and culture vultures alike, come together to support Baltimore's own Vagabond Players by coming out and seeing a production of August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, starring El Presidente himself Archie D. Williams Jr.!
Working hard or...yeah, working hard.
We've got a trailer cut! None of this teaser bullshit, but a real trailer. I wish I could post it here, but Sean's still on his way back from that dumb rich hippie thing in the desert so it doesn't have a final approval. But the rest of us like it, so that's a start.
Hopefully, it'll be up early next week. Until then, enjoy a shot of one of the stickers we'll be sending out with the upcoming street team kits.
Hopefully, it'll be up early next week. Until then, enjoy a shot of one of the stickers we'll be sending out with the upcoming street team kits.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
AD-aRrrrrgh
Nothing's worse than having a scene completely shot then going back in to edit and realizing that you can't understand just what in the hell anyone is saying! Sometimes it's because of microphone placement, sometimes it's because of subpar equipment, sometimes it's bad accoustics...and sometime we're just fucking idiots. Whatever the reason, it's occasionally necessary to re-record muddy dialog.
It's times like this, that it's useful to have a recording booth on hand. Since most indie filmmakers don't have the foresight (or space) to have one of these built into their houses, or the resources to constantly truck their cast and crew into a recording studio at $100+ an hour, it's a good idea to have a crew that knows how to improvise. Lucky for us, our DP Greg is also pretty handy with the improv skills and managed to scare us up a cheap, uncomplicated, and surprisingly effective recording booth made out of some PVC pipe and a few moving blankets. Below, you'll find some shots of the Magic Wondershow Recording Studio, that's currently taking up approximately half of my goddamn basement. Hey, whatever it takes, right?
-Scott
Boothus Makeshiftus
Setting the levels
Recording Kevin "Reynolds" Mayberry
Kevin is psychotically victorious
Basement Cat is our co-pilot
It's times like this, that it's useful to have a recording booth on hand. Since most indie filmmakers don't have the foresight (or space) to have one of these built into their houses, or the resources to constantly truck their cast and crew into a recording studio at $100+ an hour, it's a good idea to have a crew that knows how to improvise. Lucky for us, our DP Greg is also pretty handy with the improv skills and managed to scare us up a cheap, uncomplicated, and surprisingly effective recording booth made out of some PVC pipe and a few moving blankets. Below, you'll find some shots of the Magic Wondershow Recording Studio, that's currently taking up approximately half of my goddamn basement. Hey, whatever it takes, right?
-Scott
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
The shirts off our backs
While most people the world over have been more than happy spending the last week succumbing to the virulent, quad-annual pandemic known as "Olympic Fever," we at Magic Wondershow Entertainment have been sequestered in our secret underground lair, feverishly working on a cure! The result? The MWS "Beijing 2008" Tee-shirt.
Over the past two weeks, we've filled numerous orders for like minded individuals who want to let China know just where they can stick that Olympic torch!
Due to their notorious information-filtering techniques, there is now an entire generation of Chinese who lack access to the details of one of the most important events in their country's recent history, with this limited edition shirt (seriously, we've only got like 10 of them left!) you can let them know that not everyone has forgotten it. If you haven't already, show your support by ordering one of these confrontationally awesome shirts here!
Over the past two weeks, we've filled numerous orders for like minded individuals who want to let China know just where they can stick that Olympic torch!
Due to their notorious information-filtering techniques, there is now an entire generation of Chinese who lack access to the details of one of the most important events in their country's recent history, with this limited edition shirt (seriously, we've only got like 10 of them left!) you can let them know that not everyone has forgotten it. If you haven't already, show your support by ordering one of these confrontationally awesome shirts here!
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
No really, we’re not fucking around, I swear.
Episode 1 of El Presidente is now entering its final phase, and we here on the crew couldn’t be happier. Yeah, we know that it’s been a long time since we started this project and owe it to everyone who has been involved in it over the past 2+ years to make the show (and site, merch, etc.) as excellent as humanly possible. The new official website should be up soon and we’ll be contacting our buddies in other states to send out street-team kits. There’ll be another update soon, when this happens. This will be a regular-timed update, not a Puta-Negran-timed one, I swear.
In the meantime, keep yourselves busy by checking out some of these awesome movies:
Wordplay
Fearless
The Monster Squad
WALL-E
In the meantime, keep yourselves busy by checking out some of these awesome movies:
Wordplay
Fearless
The Monster Squad
WALL-E
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Unlike my rival Suharto, El Presidente LIVES!
Greetings all,
Bet you all thought we had forgotten about the project. Fools. So the last update was just prior to the holiday season and boy what a whirlwind. Everybody was busy and for many, the passing of 2007 was a very good thing. For me, it was the year that I collected all the pieces to the puzzle. This year, my goal is to put them all together. I admit to being a total slacker with putting stuff on the website. It was one of those smaller things that just got away from me over the holiday. But I'm gonna work hardcore to get things moving on that front. We have a ton of photos, and will hopefully have a trailer up soon. In the meantime, here are some general updates about the status of the project:
Photography -
We are moving slow and steady on this. Since the last dispatch, we completed shooting on the final bunker scene, Fred-X bar scene, and the RoboMengele pickup shots. The footage looks great. All that is left is the Chucho/Largos explosives scene (to be scheduled soon) and a few random pickups.
Trailer -
We want the trailer to be solid. I have found that most indie films trailers fall into four catagories: 1. Effective and interesting. 2. Slick title work and effects, but actual film footage is crap 3. Trailer is better than the film itself. 4. Terrible trailer for terrible film.
Needless to say, we're aiming for 1 here and hope to have a trailer that gets people talking in a good way. We are going to be auditioning some actors soon for a "bridge" scene that takes place in the bowels of CIA headquarters with a bunch of government bigwigs discussing "the situation in Puta Negra". More to come on that as it unfolds.
Again, I truly appreciate your patience and understanding on this. Good quality work takes time and everyone on this project is balancing day jobs, night jobs, and the rigors of life alongside this project. I cannot thank you enough for your time and devotion to this. It has been over a year and we're still going strong in the right direction. Word to that. I have a feeling the payoff will be wonderful indeed!
Anyway, keep your ear to the ground for more rumblings.
Faithfully yours,
El Presidente
Bet you all thought we had forgotten about the project. Fools. So the last update was just prior to the holiday season and boy what a whirlwind. Everybody was busy and for many, the passing of 2007 was a very good thing. For me, it was the year that I collected all the pieces to the puzzle. This year, my goal is to put them all together. I admit to being a total slacker with putting stuff on the website. It was one of those smaller things that just got away from me over the holiday. But I'm gonna work hardcore to get things moving on that front. We have a ton of photos, and will hopefully have a trailer up soon. In the meantime, here are some general updates about the status of the project:
Photography -
We are moving slow and steady on this. Since the last dispatch, we completed shooting on the final bunker scene, Fred-X bar scene, and the RoboMengele pickup shots. The footage looks great. All that is left is the Chucho/Largos explosives scene (to be scheduled soon) and a few random pickups.
Trailer -
We want the trailer to be solid. I have found that most indie films trailers fall into four catagories: 1. Effective and interesting. 2. Slick title work and effects, but actual film footage is crap 3. Trailer is better than the film itself. 4. Terrible trailer for terrible film.
Needless to say, we're aiming for 1 here and hope to have a trailer that gets people talking in a good way. We are going to be auditioning some actors soon for a "bridge" scene that takes place in the bowels of CIA headquarters with a bunch of government bigwigs discussing "the situation in Puta Negra". More to come on that as it unfolds.
Again, I truly appreciate your patience and understanding on this. Good quality work takes time and everyone on this project is balancing day jobs, night jobs, and the rigors of life alongside this project. I cannot thank you enough for your time and devotion to this. It has been over a year and we're still going strong in the right direction. Word to that. I have a feeling the payoff will be wonderful indeed!
Anyway, keep your ear to the ground for more rumblings.
Faithfully yours,
El Presidente
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