Dark Design Pictures

Lately I’ve been taking it easy and recuperating. December and January has taken a lot out of me. So I’ve been taking it easy and blowing off some steam. I have a lot of ideas swirling around in my head and I need to put myself in the right frame of mind to get things done.

Priorities for this year:
- Finish script for Real Friends Help you Move Bodies by March.
- Finish 1-800-Tech-Support by June.
- Develop a web based RPG. (Completely not related to film making)
- Get stygia.net online. (Again not related to anything film)
- Blog more.
- Start filming Real Friends Help you Move Bodies in August and be completed by the end of the year.
- Start a cult and ascend to godhood. j/k
- Not get distracted from my goals.

I think that sums everything up. The question is how to keep myself motivated and not distracted.

- Travis

As you can see things look a little different. For now I’m using the blog as the main site till I can do somethings with it. Also it’s better for the stats.

There is a lot of shit going on this year. The big one is the Real Friends Help you Movie Bodies feature. Right now we are still in the planning phase pre-production. So there will be more details later.

- Travis Thomsen

I’ve been thinking a lot about my future projects. This winter I’m planning on working on my first feature film. The plan was to start on Rewired, but this has changed. The script is about 60% complete and I’m planning to continue to develop the script. The reason why I’m changing of gears in the middle of development of my next project is that I’ve been bribed.

Some friends of mine are willing to put funding in to a feature length version of Real Friends Help you Move Bodies. So how can I say no? Well I can’t. A few weeks ago I talked to Scott Kirfman and Christian Martinez and they will be taking up their roles as Blake and James. I still need to get a hold Jason Lee Boyson to see if he would like to take on the role of Chris once again.

Last night I spent several hours working on the treatment for the new story. I’m about 90% done with it and should be starting on the script very soon. So far the plan is to begin filming in January or February.

I think I’m going to take another crack at redesigning the site. I like the JSON and such but it sucks when trying to get stats.

I just setup my profile on Fans of Film. If you are a filmmaker you should probably join.

Visit Fans Of Film

Some really cool video on how to get your stuff out there. It reinforces why I feel that submitting your film to a festival is a big waste of time. Apparently I’m no the only one who has gone out and bought a clue. I know this view on festivals isn’t a very popular one but it’s true.

Link

I am pleased to annoyance that Scott Kirfman has taken on the role of Executive Producer of Dark Design Pictures.

- Travis Thomsen

So over the 4th of July weekend I started working on the site redesign. So far I’m digging it! I decided to to with a straight up HTML frontend with JavaScript to parse the JSON. Right now the JSON is static. But I’m planning on coding the backend using ASP.NET and SubSonic to serve up the JSON. This was more of an experiment to see if I could get the DHTML down. So fare I think I’m getting the hang of it. Now I need to figure out how to skin the blog with the new layout that I slaved over.

Obviously didn’t happen this weekend. I ended up having a nice relating lazy weekend. I saw Terminator Salvation. Holy crap that was an amazing movie. I don’t understand why everyone is giving it such shitty reviews. I’ve been wanting to see the war with the machines ever since Terminator came out in 1984, and I got what I wanted .

I think the Dark Design Pictures web site needs a face lift. I maybe be doing that over the weekend.