The Hella Fresh crew is still crankin’ on Devious, Inc., directed by film auteur xuxE. We completed our last full weekend shoot, with less than 5 shooting days remaining!

As for me, I am now officially the editor for Devious, Inc.. I am very excited to be a part of the core team. We’re going to start with a zany trailer and jump straight into the musical numbers.

Preproduction work continues with Matt Voss’ The Templetons 2.

I’ve been spending every weekend working on the crew for Hella Fresh’s feature film Devious, Inc., directed by my friend xuxE who I met through Scary Cow.

I’ve decided to recruit more crew for my Chaayaa Samaadhi (Mindful Filmmaking) production technique. We’ll be shooting a series of “park bench scenes” for this effort, early in the mornings during the week. My goal is to crank out at least 4 five-minute shorts using this technique.

…aaaaaand Digant Kasundra continues slogging through the editing process on S is for Psycho. It’ll happen!

The Templetons won a couple prizes at Scary Cow Showcase 6, including “Best Special Effects” and “Outstanding Original Score,” but also including a “Judge’s Award.”

And five hundred bucks. Woot!

We’ve completed all filming on Digant Kasundra’s S is for Psycho. We got a nice yellow 1970’s buddy-cop-show look (like in Starsky & Hutch).

We shot principal photography over two weekends and one weekday evening– the first weekend we shot some car scenes in my driveway (with a chroma screen in the background), and rented a room in the Fort Mason Center to stand in for a police station briefing room, for the first and last scenes. The second weekend we shot on location at Sharon Huff’s house… as we did for Cursed. Maybe we’re stuck in a rut, I dunno. The last day we shot the bedroom scene in Diggy’s apartment.

We ran a little over our allotted schedule this time, so we ended up shooting the remaining shot (just one!) with just me and Diggy playing the guru. That was a fun shoot though; we started editing immediately afterwards.

Diggy’s editing the film for a October 5th screening at Scary Cow Showcase at the Victoria Theater.

We’re in pre-production of S is for Psycho, a crime-comedy written and directed by Digant “diggy” Kasundra. I love working with Diggy so much; he is hysterical. I’ll be the Director of Photography on that one; we’re casting right now.

I’m also on the crew for Samantha Sullivan’s Hella Fresh Films/ Scary Cow production of Devious, Inc.. It’s the story of a boy who grows up on a shoe farm (you know, where they grow the shoes) who dreams of taking over the fetish shoe world and save his farm, but to do that he must clash with the nefarious fashionista “Bitch.” Written and directed by xuxE.

I am very pleased to announce the completion of the final cut of The Templetons.

After a few hundred hours, I completed the final edit and tweaks to the visual effects. After a bunch more hours, Jeremy Shafer (of JRS Presents) completed the final sound mix. I mainly sat behind him and read his superhero comics!

We’re sending The Templetons to various film festivals, but we’re having a local screening at the Scary Cow Showcase 6 in October, probably at the Victoria Theater.

Matt Voss, creator of The Templetons characters and comic book, is pretty keen on making more episodes, so we’re getting cranking on that one as well.

As previously mentioned, Diane and I made a short commercial for a contest for “The Watchmen,” a movie based on the bestselling comic book by Alan Moore. The movie in question will be released in 2009, and the winning entry will appear in the background of the movie!

The catch: the entry has to be voted in. So we’re counting on our friends and fans to help make this a reality!

To watch and vote for our movie,

• go to http://www.youtube.com/user/watchmenmovie
• click on “Vote” in the purple area
• in the “Search for the video” box type “briandoom” (or click on “next video” until you see it)
• the name of the video is “Nostalgia by Veidt (30s ver…”
• When you see our video, click the little “thumbs up” sign

Thanks for your support!

Scary Cow Showcase #5 on Sunday was very fun; we screened all the movies at the Victoria Theater, to a sold-out house!

Digant Kasundra’s Cursed (on which I was the Director of Photography) won 2nd Place in the Phase One category, which means we got a token cash prize. Very cool. That short will be visible with all the others on the Scary Cow web site, “soon.”

The trailer for The Templetons also screened, to rave reviews. I’ll post the trailer soon, on the page for The Templetons.

In between rendering the “1923 remix” of The Artist and continuing work on The Templetons, Diane and I shot a quick entry for a contest related to the upcoming movie adaptation of The Watchmen, due for release summer 2009.

One of the characters, Adrian Veidt, “the smartest man in the world”, was once a costumed hero but now is a captain of enterprise. He has many businesses, and one of them is a scent called “Nostalgia.” The producers of The Watchmen provided a number of assets (including green-screened product shots) for a bunch of different products, including shoes, the Veidt airline, and the Nostalgia perfume. The contestants post onto YouTube and a few entries will appear in the background of the movie.

So here’s ours. Be sure to vote for us here on their YouTube channel between June 2nd and June 20th!

• go to http://www.youtube.com/user/watchmenmovie
• click on “Vote” in the purple area
• in the “Search for the video” box type “briandoom” (or click on “next video” until you see it)
• the name of the video is “Nostalgia by Veidt (30s ver…”
• When you see our video, click the little “thumbs up” sign

30 second version:

alternate, 15 second version (don’t worry, it’s not votable so there will be no confusion):

Coming up on June 1st, I have not one but three different shorts showing at the Victoria Theater in San Francisco.

• The trailer for The Templetons, based on the comic book by Matt Voss. I directed this one and edited as well. I’m still editing the larger piece, but next Sunday will be a little taste of what it will be like.
• The music video Sagar directed by Karuna Tanahashi. I edited this one.
• Digant Kasundra’s incredibly funny Cursed, on which I was the Director of Photography (I set up lights and ran the little camera!

Sunday, June 1st at the Victoria Theatre; doors open at 3pm. Tickets may be purchased in advance for $5 apiece at http://tickets.scarycow.com/