As usual, we've been super busy in our bid for the finish line, on this film. This past Saturday we shot with actors Paula Solinger and wrapped Jordan Micheal Brinkman. I'll be publishing some photographs from that day soon. I'm excited to say that August 20th will represent our final day of filming for The Quantum Terror. From there, we will go onto 2nd unit photography (miniatures, puppets, inserts) VFX, editing, and sound. More on that, later.
For now, I'd like you to enjoy this episode of Zombie Life TV, where I
was invited on to take about The Quantum Terror and show off some of our
practical effects.
And if you're somewhere, where it's easier to listen, you can also get it on Sound Cloud.
More updates coming soon. Right now, we've got to deal with some tentacles.
Ican't tell you what an amazing journey it's been, leading up to this point and now we have our first teaser trailer for The Quantum Terror! Watch it right now, and share it with your friends, because you've been on this journey with us, too.
Like all first trailers, it gives you a vague idea of what's coming, but isn't as polished as the finish film will be. There's still a lot of work for us ahead, but we're feeling good about the direction it's going in. At this point, like I said before you watched it, what we really need is for you, our friends, fans, and supporters, to share it everywhere you can. We'll be restructuring out Indiegogo very soon, so that we can raise some finishing funds, but our efforts are meaningless if we don't have an audience.
This week I was also a guest on Zombie Life TV on Channel Austin, which broadcasted live, nation wide. I'll post a link to the show when it becomes available on their You Tube channel. We also have these great animated gifs for you to post around, which you can right click, hit "view image" and then copy and paste the link to on your own social media pages. To post on Twitter, right click and hit Save Image As to download it, and then repost from whatever folder you save it to.
Also, if you'd like to download the trailer to your own device or share it on Instagram, you can download it and the Instagram friendly version from Dropbox.com by CLICKING HERE.
Also, for our viewing pleasure, here are a few photos of moments from the set, that you may enjoy.
Paula and Kristin doing some green screen work.
Tunnel set and green screen...
She's giving you the eye.
Curry Parker, owner of The Pipe Lion (and family) helps out onset.
Just a note: The last three photos were taken by Paul Dubiel, who is directing a documentary about the making of The Quantum Terror. More on that, later.
I'm sure there's much more I could tell you, as of now. We've all been working on this project, non stop. However, I must be getting back to work. More updates coming very soon, and they will once again become more frequent. Thank you to all of our supporters for hanging in there. If you're following us on our Facebook Page, you know that we've also been doing live broadcasts from the set, which I hope you're enjoying.
For starters, I'd like to say thank you all, to those who have supported this film, whether it be through your pledges of money to our Indiegogo, or just by reposting our updates, tweets, Instagram pics, and You Tube videos. The reason there's been such a stretch of time between updates is that we've been really busy shooting the movie, so I'd like to get this one going with a "first look" video of what's been going on behind the scenes.
Please, be sure to watch if from our You Tube channel, give it a thumbs up, leave a comment, and share it with your friends.
A lot has happened, since the last update. We sadly had to say goodby to the amazing Mike Gassaway, due to scheduling conflicts. No, this isn't one of those "difficult actors" situations where we got into a fist fight onset or something. (and I wouldn't be able to type this if it was. Mike is a marshal arts master.) Mike is a true professional, an amazing talent, and a joy to have onset. He's also in very high demand, and our low budget indie schedual means that he was often on other shoots when we were ready to roll. We both agreed it was in the best interest of the movie to recast his role. I fully intend to cast him in future films.
So, filling in the role of Detective Ritchie in a major way is non other than Val Mayerik.
Val is a long time veteran of the screen and stage, but makes his living nowadays as a graphic and comic book artist. You may also know him as the co-creator of Marvel's Howard The Duck. We just finished shooting with him and he did a beyond amazing job.
Val Mayerik with our leading lady, Kristin Cochell (and some color correction, before and after)
Here's a pic of Val with Indiegogo pledge reward holder Curry Parker, who took one of our product placement pledge reward levels.
Before that, we had a great time shooting two days worth of footage with Matt Blackwell, who plays Jacob Colt. Matt gives a chilling low key performance and has no problem handling any number of creepy, crawly, tentacled, practical effects horrors that we throw his way.
As you can see, Curry has been hanging out with us a lot, and we were also thrilled to have Matt's girlfriend, model Briana Dija Palacios come lend a hand, too.
On Saturday, we had a day of shooting with Jordan Michael Brinkman, who killed it with a big scene that we're choosing to keep under wraps until the film is released, if it's all the same to you.
Going farther back in time, here are a few photos from our earlier shoots.
Kristin Cochell and then Kristin Cochell with Paula Solinger
There's loads more I could talk about, but there's plenty of work to yet be done. I'll be posting more of these photos to our Facebook photo album, very soon.
