YAP awards

I'm happy to announce that 'Sqeaky Clean' from last year was accepted in the Young Australia Production Awards, which are coming up on May 11. Also, D.O.P David Gregan has a category nomination for his camera work, which was on 16mm. I know that Sqeaky Clean will be joined in the awards by 'Cathy's Tree', and i dare say there's a few more maps productions that've been accepted.

This scone depicts how happy i am

i'm walking on sunshine... whoa

Location, Location (and other crap)

I've spoken to the owner and have permission to use the location i was after for the Finley Residence, which will be knocked down after the shoot. However, the destruction has already begun out the back of the house which means i'll have to re-work my ending, as it was originally going to end out the back on the patio that is no longer there. This is only a minor hiccup however and i doubt it'll be the worst.. I haven't taken any photo's of the place yet which is why i thought i'd chuck in a picture of the greatest real fictional character from the 80's... or at least he say's he's from the 80's. I just need to find a creepy looking graveyard and i'm set to rock and roll.

Also today i was looking in this cool retro shop called purple haze, and aside from getting stuck talking to a hippy for 15 minutes about the intelligence of rats and cockroaches i did see a 80's glam rock leather jacket which i would've bought for my 'Gary' character if it was black. I'll probably go have a look again another day and make up my mind. Not too sure if it will fit in with my colour pallette as it was a dark brown. Bit of a tangent but the store had a really cool fish tank made out of a retro tv. $300 and it came with two goldfish named starsky and hutch.. if only i had money to splurge.

The eagle at play... This is my 'special' friend Eagleman, he will be lending his musical 'talent' to the Back to the Dead soundtrack. The theme song is progressing slowly, and as soon as the eagle stops fucking around with kettles and gets the pick ups on his bass fixed we can add a bass groove to to pot.

Thats about all i can think of for now so that'll do it..

A quick reminder cassie's birthday is this saturday (21st of April) and all MAPS associates are welcome to my house that night for drinks

The most important post ever

Doesn't it make you wish it was christmas? Toxie is my insperation for living. All hail troma

The magic looks all the more likely to happen

I spoke to Bec Cochrane from media make up about getting some qualified make up people to make my zombies look like zombies.. It was a very uplifting converstaion as she seemed quite sure that we can get them to look good and that we can make bites and stuff look real. Bec told me where to go to get brush latex and fake blood, which i'm sure will be costly, but worth it.

This is a pic of Saxon in 'Squeaky Clean', a film i directed last year written by our very own G Banger.. Dave Gregan. I was quite happy with the make-up on this shoot which was done by four girls from media make up (thier names elude me). On this shoot however we had different make up artists both nights, probably not the best idea as they hadn't even spoken to each other so they had no idea what each other had done previously.. hooray for continuity. So for B2D i plan to get Make uppers who will be with me for the whole shoot, i will also write down thier names...

Luckily i have the skills of Kid Elastik working on my titles, and he'll also be helping with some of the music. The B2daD theme song has already been started, with Kid Elastik laying down the Drums, Eagleman on Guitar and yours truly doing the southern accented vocals.

It all starts here...

It begins. Welcome to the production blog for 'Back to the Dead' a short film i'm making during the course of this year. This film is about 19 year old Lincoln, who plans to propose to his girlfriend Megan, when suddenly he is ambushed by a mysterious figure, and he is killed. Megan is devastated.. until he returns as a zombie to reclaim his love. But what are his intentions? And why does he bring a zombie army with him? I guess i'll have to make the movie and find out.