The gun finally arrived, and I opened the package to quite a surprise too! There’s a large ding in the muzzle, which probably should have been mentioned in the ad as at least “cosmetic damage”, but oh well - I like it anyway, and we can just film around it.
I’ve been searching ebay for some old wooden grips, but they get pretty expensive. I’ve decided to go the cheap way and paint the grips that the gun came with.
We arrived in Tucson around 5pm on the 13th, and got to see a free showing of Buster Keaton’s The General on 35mm, which was a lot of fun and unexpected! So we kicked off our trip with a bang.
We spent the majority of the trip packing orders with Fangamer, and more importantly, revising the EB Saga 5 script. Robbie Jon and myself rewrote the outline and it has come together very well. For the last few days I’ve been home, I have been trying to figure out if each scene is individually worth having in the film, or if it can be cut. We officially begin shooting in August.
We’re working on concept art for Mr. Saturn as well as Belch. Both of which have proven to be very difficult to recreate. However, very fun to do. Once the concepts are more palatable, I’ll post some on here. The Mr. Saturn hut is actually what has got a lot of us scratching our heads; not many of us have ever had to build a full set before, but I believe our current plan will work effectively.
We finally jumped on the twitter bandwagon, so please follow us on there, as well as tweet us to your friends. I promise to tweet frequently (at least once a week) even after EB5 is complete.
Reid and I got to talk about some EB Saga stuff, such as how we could go about distributing EB5 most effectively. Our current plan is to put the episode as a raw quicktime file on a 4gig flashdrive. The flashdrive would be EarthBound themed in some way, and would be included in a package along with an EarthBound Tshirt, and an UbseyMovies shirt. Not sure what the price is going to be yet, though.
If you didn’t get to check out the Fangamer Office Cam broadcasts, you can find them below. All include our commentaries.
If you happen to enjoy any of these, perhaps it shall interest you to note that we have registered an UbseyMovies ustream channel, and will be broadcasting at least once a month. We’ll be watching movies, tv shows, our (lost) short films, and making fun of them.
- Office cam w/ Jeff Jon and Robbie recreating Toy Story
- Troll 2 (Feature film)
- Toby Snow Sledding (Feature film)
- Goosebumps 1, 2, 3
- A very special UbseyMovies showing! (Including the never before seen, Summer Dance!)
