SHADY TEXAS web pilot

[Jack Daniel Stanley]

ADDED 8/21/10 TRAILER. Yay!



ADDED 3/28/10 TEASER





there's something dark in ... "SHADY TEXAS"


"Beacon" the web series* pilot / teaser for "SHADY TEXAS"
The * is for the fact that as of right now there are no plans for producing the rest of the series. We made the pilot for fun, as a stand alone (albeit an unresolved standalone), as part of a larger project (more on that later), and in the off chance someone might want to option it or produce the rest of the series online or elsewhere.

SPECIAL THANKS to AUSTIN FILM MEETUP and SMITHVILLE TEXAS
(individuals to be named soon).

CREDITS BELOW.



SHADY TEXAS
- WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY JACK DANIEL STANLEY
- SHOT BY VINCENT PASCOE
- PRODUCED BY BARRY GREEN / WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH STUDIOS in ASSOCIATION WITH JDS/ FRENCH QUARTER FEATURES

KEY/INVALUABLE CREW INCLUDE: ADRIAN GOLDEN, BRANDON BOGGS, H. CHERDON BEDFORD, LOUIS MONCIVIAS GUTIERREZ, DREW OTT, MARK GARDNER, LUIS CAFFESSE, CLIFF WILDMAN, DAVE RUTLEDGE, BRIAN MORGAN, SHEILA TAMBLE ...

STARRING:
GARRY PETERS
KYLIE BAKER
CHRIS HIGGINS
LAURIE COKER
LOUIS MONCIVIAS GUTIERREZ
LEAH SIMONETTA

CAST PICS and BEHIND THE SCENES SHOTS SOON.

[Jack Daniel Stanley]

CLICK IMAGES TO VISIT THE
SHADY TEXAS PHOTO GALLERY






All photos by H. Cherdon Bedford

[Jack Daniel Stanley]

SHADY TEXAS WINS BEST WEBISODE AT SHRIEKFEST IN L.A.

with festival director Denise Gossett

[Jack Daniel Stanley]

reserved 3

[Jack Daniel Stanley]

MOVED INITIAL POSTS HERE since I forgot to reserve a few for BTS stuff (self noobed)

When/Where do we get to see it Jack?!

Just beginning editing. Trying to switch from FCP to Premiere. So with the NLE switch, probably sometime in the next decade or so.

We're trying to get everything done in August. But many irons in the fire right now.

Cool! Why the switch?

I'm tired of color grading in FCP 10 bit. Also it doesn't play as well with Cineform which I think is a bit better than ProRes. Also After Effects is still better than Motion. So I want to do my color grading and FX in Premiere / After Effects with cineform and 32 bit float. I'm really having trouble getting to know these alien (to me) programs but the image is sooo much better.

So better IMAGE quality with more features in Premiere and After Effects. This is hard for me to say having worked with FCP since 2004. I dabbled with Premiere a bit before that but only a few times and it's so different now.

Gotcha

Yeah, I'm still on my ol' Avid... work with a guy who uses AE quite a bit, and we've figured out a good workflow, but it's still tricky sometimes... and as for mastering, yeah Premiere has some advantages.

Welcome to the Dark side....mwa ha ha. I have been with premiere for a while now. I think you will learn it quite quickly.

I am STOKED to see more of this project Jack. -Matt

Wow...you sure know how to hype things up. I am also eager to see this movie...at least a trailer..lol. But I have to say way to go.

Ian, the newspaper was all Smithville - they know how to hype it up ... OK I do too. But they're way on top of this kind of stuff in addition to being awesome in every other way. And it will be a full 8 to 10-ish minute "webisode". Not just trailer. The story will be a bit more of a tease though in so much that it will introduce some of the mystery but leave it unresolved until the next episode (which currently there is no plan to make ... muahhahahaha!)

[Tim Joy]

Sounds cool. Can't wait to see it.

So you're still on a Mac or switched to Premier on PC?

[Jack Daniel Stanley]

Still on a mac. I feel blasphemous liking something over FCP. I will have to spend some extra time with some of my iphone apps that do things like control my home stereo in order to feel clean again.

[Mark Harris]

Looking forward to it, man!!!

[Mike@AF]

I'm tired of color grading in FCP 10 bit. Also it doesn't play as well with Cineform which I think is a bit better than ProRes. Also After Effects is still better than Motion. So I want to do my color grading and FX in Premiere / After Effects with cineform and 32 bit float. I'm really having trouble getting to know these alien (to me) programs but the image is sooo much better.

So better IMAGE quality with more features in Premiere and After Effects. This is hard for me to say having worked with FCP since 2004. I dabbled with Premiere a bit before that but only a few times and it's so different now.

I'm really curious about this. I've had CS4 for some time and just haven't gotten into using it beyond specific necessary situations, which has been only twice thus far. Are you saying you've been color grading in FCP and it doesn't work with Cineform well? What about Color and what about the new ProRes 4444 codec? Would that make a difference with the issue you're referring to?

[Jack Daniel Stanley]

Wow missed this question, was about to bump the thread because I just added photos.

Mike it's not that the color grading in FCP doesn't work worse with Cineform than it does with anything else. It's 2 things:

1. 10 bit color grading in FCP is extremely limited. Especially when it comes to any sort of power windows or relighting. You will likely see vingettes stair stepped with banding for example.

2. FCP doesn't work well with unknown / non FCP codecs. You just can't do all the real time monitoring and rendering with Cineform because FCP is made to work better with apple codecs. So you have to bring your neoscene stuff into a proress timeline and render it in pro res if you want it to play on an external monitor fore example, then duplicate your timeline when you are done, change the codec to cineform, re-render then output.

BUT ....

The workflow I described above has been to processor intensive. I just can't get premiere to run worth a flip on my macbook pro. It's almost like a practical joke application. It opens and looks fancy, but literally does nothing.

Anyway .... pictures with links to galleries added at the top posts. BUMP (sort of).