The Transient, The Movie

Sneak Peek!

2008-12-12T00:23:00.000-06:00

Hey guys!

In honor of Dinosaur Comics' Zombie Vampire/Vampire Zombie comic, we put together a little preview of that exact interaction that happens in our movie. We'll try to get a few more little "sneak peeks" before our February release (yes, in honor of Abe Lincoln's 200th birthday!).

Enjoy!

New Website!

2008-09-18T11:02:00.000-05:00

Hello all,

Unless you were redirected here from it, you may not know we just launched a "proper" website. The quotation marks are extra appropriate as the new moniker for The Transient's online presence is

www.killvampirelincoln.com

We were probably going to go with something more standardized like "transientmovie.com" but godaddy must have sold its domain name searches as they have been known to do, and someone bought it out from under us a week after checking its availability.

In other news, we made it into the Mid Ohio Comic Con Film Festival, Columbus Ohio, Oct 4-5. Still waiting to see if we pulled any awards, but should be neat either way.
This is the only fest we have pending right now, and it looks a little quiet in the festival submission circuits until late October-Early November, but then we'll be trying to get into all sorts of places.

Okay, time to make sure that the cut for this weekend won't blow up or melt in DVD players, or do something else exciting when it comes to show this Sunday.

Chris!

PS we are showing this weekend in Springfield! See below news post if you somehow read this in the next 3 days!

OMGzorz.

2008-08-06T22:08:00.001-05:00

Hey everybody!

It's my first post here, and I'm so excited that I get to be the one to break the awesome news.

Not only were we accepted to the Route 66 Film Festival, we actually WON an award. That's right; The Transient has won the "Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Award."

The festival is going to be September 20-21 at the Hoogland Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Springfield, and The Transient will be screening Sunday night around 6 PM. More information about the festival can be found at the Route 66 Film Festival website and ticketing information can be found at the Hoogland Center website.

We really hope to have a big crowd of supporters, and I think we'll try to caravan from Champaign, so contact Chris or I if you'd like to share a ride from Champaign to Springfield that weekend.

We'll be having a Champaign premiere of the movie soon, and we'll definitely be showing it at both the Illini Union Late Nighter and the first Illinites on campus. Will have more info on further showings soon!

Thanks for your continued support...I'm still not sure how the heck this movie got made, and somehow we've won an award. We could not have done this without our cast, crew, and supporters. THANKS!

-Anne

Sent out to our first festival!!!

2008-07-12T10:06:00.000-05:00

See normally, a post with that title would be proceeded by a post along the lines of "Editing is completely actually done!"

While that may not be *exactly* the case, we do have a pretty darn solid cut together with only minor audio levels left to adjust for different TVs and a few preproduced canned, bland, parts of the score to hopefully be replaced by composed music.

We mailed off to the Route 66 Film Festival in Springfield, taking a chance and entering the "Films about Lincoln or set in Lincoln's era" category.

Normally I'm frugal enough to not enter a fest's last-minute-inflated-for-their-trouble deadline but we absolutely had to enter this one for obvious reasons. Hope the semi-roughness doesn't throw us out the window.

Anyway, the premiere is being scheduled for pre summer, and then again near the first of the year on campus with IFV.

Cross your fingers for luck!

Reshoots/Pickups!

2008-06-26T01:14:00.000-05:00

This weekend we're finishing photography for the movie! *cough*betterlatethannever*cough*

ANYway, after that all thats left is scrounging up another composer or two, a solid week of non-music sound design, color correction, final tweaking, and off to festivals we go!

So yeah, keep an eye out!

Website/Status Update

2008-05-30T10:58:00.000-05:00

Heyo new site design.

Let me know if it COMPLETELY doesn't work in your browser. I sort of frankensteined it together from a few different templates to get it to do what I wanted as I brush up on my interweb coding.

In any case, we'll probably move to a regular domain name once I stop being cheap. I don't think blogger will let me add subpages among other things so nuts to that.

As for the movie itself.

Its coming! We just watched a fully assembled rough a few nights ago and it wasn't half terrible! Now we're on to sound design and scoring with a teeny tiny weekend of reshoots in mid-June. (only a year later ha. ha.) We're aiming at entering a regional film festival in early July (it has a "Lincoln" category) so with a spot of luck we'll be totally done with post-production by then.

In any case, I guess I'll let this trainwreck of a website go "public" tonight most likely. Let me know if you're interested in scoring or being an extra in the film proper, and peace out.

-Chris

Teaser Trailer!

2008-04-18T10:53:00.001-05:00

So instead of doing "useful" work on the movie I made a cheesy trailer.

This was whipped up in a night after spending a week passively working on a "legitimate" scary/funny/actiony version. I came to the sad conclusion that right now I would have to use copyrighted music to pull it off. SO I figured if we're going to have illegal music we might as well go all. the. way. and pick a recognizable theme.

Check it out by clicking one of the links on the right sidebar!

Hope you enjoy.

Also: i know the header is huge, website will be redesigned/moved post law school exams. Wheee! EDIT: DONE (see above)

EDIT EDIT: Just to clarify... unlike the trailer, the final film will NOT be a cheesy 80's television program... mostly

Completely shameless

2008-04-17T15:55:00.004-05:00

Heyo, was getting tired of legitimately editing the movie so I thought it might be nice to pump out an (albeit illegally scored) teaser trailer. Should have it up by the end of the day.

Hope you enjoy!

Its Coming!

2008-02-22T01:20:00.000-06:00

Hey all,

Seeing if this is worth putting up to let people know whats going on with The Movie.

Anyone know anything about blogspot coding? Specifically, I'd really like to remove the stupid navbar from the top of the screen.

Maybe more later, maybe just abandonment of this silly thing

-Chris