MAGDALENA'S BRAIN Trailer

Not sure why it took us so long, but below find the final trailer for MAGDALENA'S BRAIN. Spread the word.

Marketing

I thought I'd post a little graphic I worked on today that may be part of a greater advertising strategy behind MAGDALENA'S BRAIN. We're working with our distributor on amping up the marketing of MAGDALENA'S BRAIN. Though, to be honest, we're probably not going to use the ad (or the Flash banner above either, cool, though... huh?), but I though I'd get in the spirit and create these things as the start of a smaller grass-roots push for the movie. If you have a site/blog and you'd like to throw a little bandwidth our way, I'd be glad to send you some code or an image for an ad. Let me know.

The Western Mass Filmmaking Community

After being both intensely and peripherly involved on a number of projects in the area (including 5 1/2 feature films... sorry Karl, DEAD DUDES won't be a feature until you pass that 70 minute mark), I've forged a tremendous number of relationships, both personal and professional, with lots and lots of talented folks. Included in these numbers are high level directors of photography, editors, audio engineers, composers, script supervisors, grips, special effects guys and more. The truth of the matter is that Western Mass has a strong base of artists and technicians with quite a bit to contribute to the independent film world.

Having said that, let's see some of them in action. Scott Kittredge & John Loos on the set of BUBBLE TRUBBLE.

Tom Light & Chris Grabowski, PA extraordinaires.

Steve Cary shooting a zombie extra in Mike Weaver's RAW MATERIAL.Scott Kittredge directing with Joel Katon holding boom, John Loos gaffing, and Rick Sands (far left, DP'ing) on the film TERMINAL CONVERSATION. (photo courtesy Scott Kittredge; copyright 2006 Bowling Squirrel)The cast/crew of MAGDALENA'S BRAIN: sitting L-R; Atom Marotte, Jim Purchase, Jake Teixiera, Amy Shelton-White, Joel Katon, Maria Escribano, Karl Kempter. Standing L-R; Mark Devin, Bruce MacDonald, Warren Amerman, Marty Langford, Konrad Rogowski.Jeff Allard directing Mike Weaver and David Joseph on the set of AT A THEATER NEAR YOU. Joel Katon and DP, Ed Brown set up the shot.

Happy New Year

2007.

For some reason, it seemed important that I update the blog today. A sign of things to come... a statement that, if nothing else, if we do nothing else this year, we will at least try to post a little more regularly. Glowing Screen will, in the year 2007, be known as a company that posts somewhat regulary on their blog.

Though, I do have a little something to report:

First, principal photography on the BUBBLE TRUBBLE camera test/trailer footage is complete.

We spent a few days between X-Mas and New Years shooting footage that will be edited into an effects test reel that will double as a promotional trailer for the film. We shot a couple days in the studio of Veritech Corporation (my day job), as well as at the Holyoke Merry Go Round(www.holyokemerrygoround.org) and at WWLP, TV-22. It was great fun (and mucho stress), but it's over now, and we'll continue to prep for the shoot proper which will commence in late June.

I'd like to officially thank some folks who were integral in the success of the shoot. There were actually about a dozen key people, but these guys did the most for the least.

TONY COLAPIETRO: Tony gripped and held boom for us on the shoot, and in addition became our de facto still photographer. He's posted a bunch of stills from the shoot on his MySpace page, which can be found here: http://www.myspace.com/kikndrummer

SCOTT KITTREDGE: As always, Scott is exactly where he needs to be (which in this case means, where I need him to be) when he needs to be there. One of of the most reliable guys I know. Visit the site for Scott's production company, Bowling Squirrel at, predictably... www.bowlingsquirrel.com.

TOM LIGHT, CHRIS GRABOWSKI & JAY COLE: Three dudes who followed me from the hallways and classrooms of WSC. I can't thank them enough.

Also new in '07, we've created a new MySpace account. We're very new to MySpace, and quite frankly, a little frightened. It's an overwhelming community of people and places and things that is insanely confusing to navigate. To be honest, the only reason I created the page was because everybody told me I absolutely had to. "Oh, you just have to," people would tell me. So, OK... I did; and was immediately lost in the endlessly scrolling, spam-ridden, over- advertised morass of bedlam. All I wanted was to figure out how to contact people who may actually be of value in my life. As of yet, I haven't figured it out. I'll get there. Check out our "presence" here: www.myspace.com/glowingscreen.

There's little new to report on MAGDALENA'S BRAIN, other than we kind of made a BEST OF '06 list. The high brow DVD SAVANT site listed us among the "Most Impressive DVDs of 2006". Admittedly we're not in the top 10, but hey... we're just a little guy. Check out the list here: http://www.dvdsavant.com/s2193pick.html

Finally, a little treat: my top ten list of 2006. It's a mixed media affair, and in no particular order, but these are 10 things that I dug and dug into this past year.

1). Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas (BOOK)

2). The Departed (MOVIE)

3). World War Z. by Max Brooks (BOOK)

4). Nip/Tuck (TV)

5). ROCKY BALBOA (MOVIE)

6). The Wes Anderson American Express commercial (COMMERCIAL)

7). Equinox: The Criterion Collection (DVD)

8). The Beatles: Love (CD)

9). Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (DVD)

10). The Ultimate Superman Collection (DVD)