New Website! New Blog!

Hey everybody. We have a website at www.23circles.com !

This is great news for us because we can have all of our stuff in one easy to look at site. What this means, however, is that we have to bid farewell to our blogger.com world. Now all of the future blog postings from danielle and myself will be here.

So, thanks for reading. Please check out the new site and be sure to bookmark it.

Screening in the Future

Hey everybody,

There will be a screening of "A Witness Carol" coming up! It will be screening with two other shorts somewhere in the Scranton Area. I'll be sure to email and post the info soon.

Hope all is well!
Kevin

Like Deep - Mark's Blog and AWC update

Hey everybody,

I just wanted to let you know that Mark Brewin also has a blog called:

Like Deep
A Dialouge Between the Imaginative Texts of Photography and Poetry/Prose.

Here is is first entry:
"so here it is, my first real finger print on this blogspot.

the artist statement will change, the cv/resume will grow;
the poetry and photographs will continue to add up.

what will it all do? what will it try to capture?
well, this is how you'll see it work, this is what you'll see in common
with all of my artwork: the people.

i write poetry about the people i come across--the lives
and messes and pieces each one stirs and leaves, the myth
and fact that swirls, the dialogue that is played between
how i/we live and the community i/we exist in. the photographs
function in much the same way--become another type
of imaginative text that has an induced fiction, as well as
pertinent documentation of every ringing ebb and facet of our society.

all of the posts will be poetry and photography--together,
or the occasional thought. but then again (now that i think
about it) my art and writing is only as good as your opinion--
hell, i've always thought that art is made for viewers, and poetry
for readers...so hopefully i'll find the intermittent remark.

so: view, read, talk to me.
Posted by Mark Jay Brewin, Jr. at 5:42 PM"

Please Check it out and, there is some amazing stuff in there.






As for the "A Witness Carol" update. I just made a bunch of DVDs and hope to send them out soon!

Now What...

Hi everybody, I haven't posted in a while but I think it's time for some updates.

First off, I want to thank everybody who came out to the screening, you guys are all amazing. I also want to thank everybody who helped make the movie, whether it be on set or off. Everybody has been incredibly supportive and amazing while doing things solely out of the kindness of their hearts.

I especially want to thank Danielle, who was not only the best producer of all time, but the best person I could ask for. There were many times I was stuck in a slump, creatively or emotionally, and she helped me out.

As I write this blog, I am creating the DVD for the movie. There are still some things I'd like to work on (sound, color correcting etc.) but overall the movie is done and I want to make sure that all the people that were so amazing get their copies.

So, the movie is now done, and, therefore, so is this blog. It's time for this blog to transition from only being about the movie. I will now be posting stories, clips, and random thoughts as well as "Witness Carol" updates. To start things off, here is my submission for The Colbert Report's "Make McCain Interesting" challenge. For a while, this video was the top video on the homepage, and because of that, it currently has nearly 9,000 views on Youtube. So, here is the video...

Make McCain Exciting: The WALL-E Edition!


Be well everybody, and I hope your as excited as I am about WALL-E as I am!

Screening Tuesday May 6th at Noon

Ok, it's time for the screening! I hope to see everybody at the reel under the sac for tomorrow's screening. My movie is screening at noon but I hope some people can stick around and catch the rest of the class' work.

Thanks!

We're almost at Picture Lock!

Hey everybody! I haven't updated the site in a while, but I want to say that this final month before the screening is going to be very busy. Ryan Sun, the editor, and I are almost at picture lock, meaning that we almost have the film looking exactly right. For the next three or so weeks John Stecker, the sound director/editor, will be creating the soundscape for the movie. After the sound is right, we will take the movie for color correction that will fix some of the color issues with the piece.

I have to say, the run time of the rough cut was 27 minutes. My original goal was 20-25, so the 27 minute run time was a little long. With thanks to Michelle and Eran, the senior project teachers, the movie is now 21 minutes! They helped me get a fresh set of eyes to the whole thing. I looked at each frame of the movie, each line, each scene, each cut, and asked myself if it is completely necessary to the story. I found, that a lot of information was being repeated so we found things to cut. The result is a focused, complete 20 minute project that I feel is very strong and complete.

I hope to see a lot of people at the screening at the end of the semester. The two screening days are May 6th and 7th but I'm not sure what time I have yet. When I do I'll be sure to post it. However, I hope you try to make it out to both days because there are a lot of really great senior projects this year and it should be two days of good film and cheap popcorn.

Thanks for reading everybody! I'll be sure to post soon.

Kevin

Side note...

Hey everybody, I just started a flickr account for some still photographs. This has nothing to do with the film, but I'd love to hear what some people think.

www.flickr.com/photos/23circles

Thanks!
Kevin

Production Stills

Hey everybody, the stills are up on Danielle's facebook. Here is the link:

http://temple.facebook.com/photos.php?id=8202888&ref=pb

Here are some of the standouts...

here's the full trailer!