Puppetry and Blogging

Hi Ho folks

Been an extremely long time. Mark and I have been very busy. Not being completely computer literate we have been hard at work trying to understand the inner workings of blogging and the seemingly complicated world of the internet. It feels as though everyone else gets it and we, don't. Well YET anyway. I hope. News to give. We were recently accepted to the Calgary International Film Festival, the Tacoma Film Festival and the Port Townsend Film Fest. We just had successful screenings in Tipton, Iowa at, the Hardacre Film Fest and the Washougal Film Fest. All of that is fantastic and we are happy. But then comes the rejection. This is hard of course and takes it toll. We didn't get into the Vancouver Film Fest. Being a BC film this would have been grand. But it is essential we let these things slide off of us and keep on creating.

So we turned to the wonderful world of puppets and our perhaps absurd but really just playful idea of shooting our production story Mark wrote which can be read on our website http://inadangeroustime.com

That is Marks head behind the camera. And in the next is May moving the puppet strings. 

We are busy editing this. Neither of us are puppeteers but we have the love of the muppets and felt why not. The video will be coming soon. 

We recently had a meeting with the wonderful Peter Broderick http://peterbroderick.com about our film and how to navigate the tricky world of distribution etc. From that meeting we went back to the editing suite to cut ten minutes off of the film. After a week of pulling our own hair out and then each others we reached a cut that we are proud of. Why we couldn't reach this the first time around of editing I don't know. Films do take on a life of their own and we have learned to go with the flow of this. 

Next we will be working on transferring it from dv to HD and will hopefully have it done for the upcoming screenings. 

Later xo