No News is Good News

Well, no news is good news in this case! We've been working hard on getting Outcasts out to festivals and securing the vitally important post-production technical talent needed to complete a great film (Elan Vital, of course). Our most publicly active arena right now would be our new and improved blog, featuring full length TV shows from Hulu, and our new and improved podcast, featuring Ryan DeRamos and some badass bands. Check it out and stay tuned for more good stuff to come!

Outcasts...Again?

That's right - Outcasts has been revitalized with an original song to replace the very unusable Staind song that once closed the film. The song, "Time (Lose Your Hold)" is written by Ryan DeRamos and performed by his band, The Society of Gloves along with Elan Vital star, Katrina Lenk as moxy phinx. "Time" is beautifully performed and perfectly appropriate in mood for the film, directed by teenage filmmakers, Sarah Loya and Kathryn Jackson. It also allows us the freedom to share the film with festival attendees around the world without being snubbed by Atlantic Records, owners of the Staind song that was once in its place. This will be Mutiny Universe's first festival run as a company and will pave the way for the upcoming and long awaited release of Elan Vital.

Noise

First of all, Happy Birthday to Ryan! The man can now rent cars and lottery tickets... wait, rental lottery tickets? uh, whatever, you know what i mean... anyway, he's another year older and we're so glad he made it.

And now for the news:

For one, we're editing Outcasts. The footage came out great and our ideas for post-production are only making it better.

We're also meeting with local musician Peter Chavez to schedule production on his first music video. It's for a song off his new album Autumn's Revenge which is set to be released within the next few months.

And finally we're storyboarding for Noise. This is hands down our most time consuming endeavor right now, and at the top of our priority list. I know it sounds so simple, but let it be known that storyboarding is freaking hard!

I mean, crap! We have to draw out hundreds of little frames to represent each shot in the entire 90-minute film... it's like animating the whole movie (just for ourselves mind you), and then shooting it.

I don't know, even our cinematographer is wondering if we can't just wing it on set :-)

Outcasts

It's our final shooting day on the short film Outcasts which we're producing in conjunction with Sinister Noises Productions. The footage so far is outstanding, and we're all very anxious to see the film come together during post-production.

We're scheduled for a short day, so hopefully we'll have enough energy to keep you up to date on how it went. Wish us luck!