Re-uploaded with better resolution.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAWOt-QKQ4o
Don.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Phobia (Web Series Episode #4 - "Reagan & Jack")
Re-uploaded with better resolution.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_MiLNDU584
Don.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_MiLNDU584
Don.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Phobia (Web Series Episode #3 - "Julie")
Re-uploaded with better resolution.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UdFc4YkHqM
Don.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UdFc4YkHqM
Don.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Phobia (Web-Series) Episode #2 "Sarah & Danny".
Re-uploaded with better resolution.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9kbmy2YHWI
Don.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9kbmy2YHWI
Don.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Phobia (Web-Series) Episode #1 "The Man".
I have re-uploaded and am re-releasing the Phobisodes (Phobia Webisodes) with a better resolution. Here is Episode #1 "The Man".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmFRKhKYLKk
Don.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmFRKhKYLKk
Don.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Disc-Functional UPDATE!!!
It was a COLD COLD day in Florida. With the temperature, shade and wind- we were all fighting freezing and frostbite. But, the shoot went amazingly well. A special THANKS to all of the cast and crew that braved the cold to work on the project. I know that the director, Amy Lyn Howell, agrees- "THANK YOU".
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Disc-Functional/142607535788007
Don.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Disc-Functional/142607535788007
Don.
Disc-Functional Day 3...
Amy Lyn Howell's Disc-Functional shoots Sat the 22nd at 8am in Clearwater. I'll be there. Hopefully, it won't be the 50 degrees and "severe wind chill" that the weathermen are predicting. This is day 3 of principal photography.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Disc-Functional/142607535788007
Don.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Disc-Functional/142607535788007
Don.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
Trailer Updates Coming...
Over the next few weeks, I will be republishing all of the RnDES trailers, as-well-as the Phobia webisodes in higher quality- with possibly a few tweaks...
When they are posted on YouTube, they will be linked here.
Don.
When they are posted on YouTube, they will be linked here.
Don.
Monday, January 10, 2011
Updated Shorts...
I have been working tirelessly on editing both 'Hide.', formerly HTS, to be able to hit our self-imposed deadline to be on www.kickstarter.com AND 'The Circle of Men', formerly COM.
Both are coming along great. I look forward to be able to submit both to film festivals soon.
Also coming up this month, some work on DF & SC2.
Don.
Both are coming along great. I look forward to be able to submit both to film festivals soon.
Also coming up this month, some work on DF & SC2.
Don.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
2010 Updates...
It has been sometime since my last post. Quite a bit has happened...
In 2010, I began the rebranding of RnD as RnD Entertainment Studios.
July, I reformed RnD Entertainment Studios with Amy Lyn Howell, Jayson Martinez and Ted Souppa as the core creative and producing team.
August, We shot 'TRU LUV' and 'unloved.', two short films.
October, We shot 'The Circle of Men'.
November, We shot the pilot and trailer for 'Hide.'.
December has been spent editing and pre-planning for 2011 & the future of RnDES.
Along the way, Amy Lyn Howell has begun shooting her 1st short as writer-director ('Disc-Functional') and Jayson Martinez (with recurring RnDES people- Kirk Michael Austin and Kyle Austin) has begun work on the sequels to the immensly popular, film festival favorite- 'Street Cred'.
In barely 6-months, RnDES has shot 4 shorts and the beginnings of a web-series, while working on other projects. It has been a wild ride, and it's only getting started...
It was not all happy news though...
Don.
In 2010, I began the rebranding of RnD as RnD Entertainment Studios.
July, I reformed RnD Entertainment Studios with Amy Lyn Howell, Jayson Martinez and Ted Souppa as the core creative and producing team.
August, We shot 'TRU LUV' and 'unloved.', two short films.
October, We shot 'The Circle of Men'.
November, We shot the pilot and trailer for 'Hide.'.
December has been spent editing and pre-planning for 2011 & the future of RnDES.
Along the way, Amy Lyn Howell has begun shooting her 1st short as writer-director ('Disc-Functional') and Jayson Martinez (with recurring RnDES people- Kirk Michael Austin and Kyle Austin) has begun work on the sequels to the immensly popular, film festival favorite- 'Street Cred'.
In barely 6-months, RnDES has shot 4 shorts and the beginnings of a web-series, while working on other projects. It has been a wild ride, and it's only getting started...
It was not all happy news though...
Don.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Monday, July 5, 2010
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
a little update...
I have been developing a short film- for a Film Festival Challenge, editing Episode 2 of the PHOBIA web-series and working on design work for the upcoming PHOBIA (The Short) DVD. I will talk more about each, around June 26th or so.
Don.
Don.
Friday, May 28, 2010
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Stop the dreck!
Sometimes I agree when I read stories that talk about the state of the Entertainment Industry. Sometimes I do not.
FlashForward was cancelled recently. I don't completely understand why. I just watched the most recent episode ("Countdown"). The main character Mark Benford, happens to be unlikable and pathetic. I struggled to watch this show before it went off for the "holiday break". However, when it came back in March, it came back strong and running hard. the showrunners changed at least three times, so I have no clue who was in charge of those of the show at that time. During this time, the first Simon (Dominic Monaghan) focused episode was fantastic. A couple of episodes later, the Aaron (Brian F. O'Byrne) episode took the only charcter that I liked less than Mark and made him my 2nd favorite charactor. A few episodes later again, there was a Janice (Christine Woods) focused episode which became one of my favorite episodes. Along the way the show introduced the great James Callis (Dr. Gaius Balter in BSG) as Gabriel McDow.
In the last half of the season, the show became much more Lost-ian, focusing on a character per episode. The show really needed to shockingly kill off Mark Benford and reinvent itself long before the finale. Unfortunately, the fans left and never returned. It doesn't help that the show is up against a couple of good shows; I watch the show on ABC.com as my DVR records two other shows at that same time. Here is a show that became quite good as the show evolved, but the network was unwilling to give the show a second chance. The network would rather take a chance on the much more horrible (though better cast) V.
Now, this morning I was looking through the Sunday paper and in the "TV Times" pullout the front page reads "NBC's new comedy stars (I'm not naming names.) as a woman who joins an online dating site, takes a 100-question comatability test and recalls a humorous time of her life." Can you say "DRECK"? How horrible of a concept is that? Not to mention 5-years ago. People meet on Facebook and other social networking sites now, who uses a dating service? The amount of money that went into developing this horrid concept could have been put to any number of better uses.
When the people with the money put that money into these absolutely assinine premesis and then wonder why the viewers don't flock to their networks (or films) part of me thinks that they deserve their financial losses. However, part of me understands that those losses are only going to cause the same corporations to make more and more below average shows that won't take the chance at being great... or not.
This is why the Entertainment Industry is in a downward spiral. Eventually, everything that goes down must hit the bottom. What will happen then?
As a culture, we have moved from a MTV generation to a YouTube generation. Does this mean that we will start seeing 15-minute shows? Or more 1st person camera pov-based shows, like the films Cloverfield and Quarantine? I don't know. I do know that the dreck has to stop or people will give up on the networks all together and just watch shows like The Guild or The Bannen Way online.
FlashForward was cancelled recently. I don't completely understand why. I just watched the most recent episode ("Countdown"). The main character Mark Benford, happens to be unlikable and pathetic. I struggled to watch this show before it went off for the "holiday break". However, when it came back in March, it came back strong and running hard. the showrunners changed at least three times, so I have no clue who was in charge of those of the show at that time. During this time, the first Simon (Dominic Monaghan) focused episode was fantastic. A couple of episodes later, the Aaron (Brian F. O'Byrne) episode took the only charcter that I liked less than Mark and made him my 2nd favorite charactor. A few episodes later again, there was a Janice (Christine Woods) focused episode which became one of my favorite episodes. Along the way the show introduced the great James Callis (Dr. Gaius Balter in BSG) as Gabriel McDow.
In the last half of the season, the show became much more Lost-ian, focusing on a character per episode. The show really needed to shockingly kill off Mark Benford and reinvent itself long before the finale. Unfortunately, the fans left and never returned. It doesn't help that the show is up against a couple of good shows; I watch the show on ABC.com as my DVR records two other shows at that same time. Here is a show that became quite good as the show evolved, but the network was unwilling to give the show a second chance. The network would rather take a chance on the much more horrible (though better cast) V.
Now, this morning I was looking through the Sunday paper and in the "TV Times" pullout the front page reads "NBC's new comedy stars (I'm not naming names.) as a woman who joins an online dating site, takes a 100-question comatability test and recalls a humorous time of her life." Can you say "DRECK"? How horrible of a concept is that? Not to mention 5-years ago. People meet on Facebook and other social networking sites now, who uses a dating service? The amount of money that went into developing this horrid concept could have been put to any number of better uses.
When the people with the money put that money into these absolutely assinine premesis and then wonder why the viewers don't flock to their networks (or films) part of me thinks that they deserve their financial losses. However, part of me understands that those losses are only going to cause the same corporations to make more and more below average shows that won't take the chance at being great... or not.
This is why the Entertainment Industry is in a downward spiral. Eventually, everything that goes down must hit the bottom. What will happen then?
As a culture, we have moved from a MTV generation to a YouTube generation. Does this mean that we will start seeing 15-minute shows? Or more 1st person camera pov-based shows, like the films Cloverfield and Quarantine? I don't know. I do know that the dreck has to stop or people will give up on the networks all together and just watch shows like The Guild or The Bannen Way online.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Rest In Peace, Lynn Redgrave.
Lynn Redgrave, passed away on May 2nd from undisclosed circumstances.
http://www.studiobriefing.net/2010/05/lynn-redgrave-dies-at-67/
http://www.studiobriefing.net/2010/05/lynn-redgrave-dies-at-67/
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Update...
Things have been crazy of late. I have been working on a major rebranding revamp of RnD.
RnD is preparing to go to the next level with some exciting project later this year.
With that we have a brand new web-site, though technically not "live" for two more weeks. http://www.rndes.com/
RnD Entertainment Studios has joined facebook and twitter... and flickr. We have updated our youtube site, which now includes my director's reel. All links are available through the link above.
More exciting news to come.
Don.
RnD is preparing to go to the next level with some exciting project later this year.
With that we have a brand new web-site, though technically not "live" for two more weeks. http://www.rndes.com/
RnD Entertainment Studios has joined facebook and twitter... and flickr. We have updated our youtube site, which now includes my director's reel. All links are available through the link above.
More exciting news to come.
Don.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Rest In Peace, Dixie Carter.
Dixie Carter, of Diff'rent Strokes, Family Law and Designing Women fame passed away at the age of 70 on April 10th.
http://www.deadline.com/2010/04/r-i-p-dixie-carter/
http://www.deadline.com/2010/04/r-i-p-dixie-carter/
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Rest In Peace, John Forsythe.
John Forsythe, from Dynasty and the legendary voice of Charlie from Charlie's Angels, passed away March 31st after a year long struggle with Cancer.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Rest In Peace, Robert Culp.
Robert Culp, best known for I-Spy and The Greatest American Hero appeared in over 100 television episodes and over three dozen films, passed away on March 24th.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010
Rest In Peace, Frances Reid.
Frances Reid, who played Alice Horton on “Days Of Our Lives” since 1965 passed away on Feb 3rd at the age of 95.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1004065584
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1004065584
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