Well hello everyone!
It's 2013, which I believe means it's officially the future. And now that it's the future, expect to see us much more.
This year we've got a few projects on the docket. We'll get to that in a second. First let me officially welcome you to our new website. Hopefully you'll find it more streamlined and easier to understand than our last one. This blog has just been added to it, and the goal is to post something here at least every week.
Redesigning it was something I had planned on doing ever since I put up the first one. But 2012 was quite the busy year.
We've been working closely with Light Films LTD in the UK on their feature film, Wasteland. It's our second collaboration with them doing visual effects work, as we had done some for their short film Coming Home. Look for this feature film in 2013.
In February, we filmed White Wine. We did it as part of the East Lansing Film Festival's 48/5 competition. For those who don't know, the 48/5 is a competition where you are given 48 hours to create a five minute film. We've participated in these before. In 2008 we did our first one with a film called Acceptance. In 2010 we did both Curiosity and What I've Taken in these competitions. Cutting the films down to five minutes after shooting them is my task on the last day, and it's never easy. The first cut usually comes in around seven minutes, and it's usually the version I like most. But then I have to cut an additional two minutes out. So our protocol for the 48/5 films is to go the Peter Jackson route and submit the short version to show in the theater, and then releasing the extended version for home viewing on the internet, and for film festivals.
For White Wine, we did something a little more ambitious. In one day, just about nine hours, our cast, Matthew Dennis, along with Brian Hosler and Liz Nolan (both alumni from 2011's Being From Another Planet) filmed two versions of one script. Our five minute version took second place in the competition. The final version, which clocked in just under eleven minutes, there were entirely new scenes, and there were alternate versions of scenes in the five minute cut. The cast and crew did an incredible job keeping up with the shoot, which was confusing at times. ("Is this the scene 8 after scene 7 when I walked into the Kitchen, or after scene 5 when I walked into the Kitchen?")
Our extended version of White Wine played in the 2012 Blue Water Film Festival, giving us our sixth entry into the festival, and marking our fourth straight year. We've been so honored and proud to be a part of this great event every year, and hopefully can make it five in a row...
Which brings us to 2013.
While we've dropped a few hints as to what is on the horizon at The Coughing Dog Pictures, we've been careful not to be too specific. Unfortunately, if you're looking for spoilers, you won't find them here. We want to keep some things a surprise. However, perhaps we can drop a few more bread crumbs. What can I say, we like to keep things close to the chest.
We plan on doing our best at utilizing the ELFF 48/5 competitions again this year. They're a load of fun, and some good work has come out of them. If anyone is interested in participating in the Lansing area, get in touch when they come around.
We have another short film we plan on making this year, tentatively titled My Town. It's us getting back to the darker films we've done in the past.
Our next big project we announced at the 2012 Blue Water Film Festival in Port Huron. So if you missed it, one of the other things that kept us busy in 2012 was writing our webseries which is going into production this year, called Blue Water. It's going to be the biggest thing we've attempted to date, dwarfing Being From Another Planet. I have to admit, at this point it's a little intimidating, but they always are this early on. The script is written, the story is planned. Soon we move to the next phase.
2013 is going to be pretty exciting. We hope you join us on the ride.
All our best,
Joseph Parcell
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