Shout Out to the Ian's Realm Saga! :D

Dianne Lynn Gardner, whom I am proud to call my friend, has stirred up the artist community to implement visual and auditory works in the bringing to life of her book. This is on top of her marvelous illustrations!

The first two books in the saga she wrote are; Deception Peak, and The Dragon Shield. Rubies & Robbers is in progress right now. Here are the covers of the three books:

When Dianne writes these incredible young adventure novels she does more than just write them, she illustrates them by painting on canvas. The three book covers above are just examples of her artistry. And if that wasn't enough, she takes these books one step further, by bringing them to life with film and music.

The best example of this is, if you have followed my blog, the video I posted a couple months ago for The Dragon Shield. Here it is again for those of you interested in watching it:

One of the large costs involved with her advertising in video is paying for the production services, filming, singing, and music. In the production of this video you have the following people who get paid to consider;
~ Actors
~ Props
~ Vocalist & Instrumentals: Lexa Rose
~ Filming & Editing: Myself
~ Advertising The Video
~ Driving to Locations
~ Other Misc. Costs (food, etc.)

The point here is that Dianne wants the reading community to help with an even bigger artistic task. This is what is exciting, Dianne wants to partner with Lexa Rose to create an album to go with the series! And on top of that she is looking for my help to bring the next book trailer to life, which would be awesome!

Her KickStarter campaign is going great so far, and if you would be interested in helping out with her endeavor she offers really nice bonuses like e-books and actual copies of the book. If you look in the sidebar of my blog you should see a widget that currently shows the progress of her campaign. From there you can click over to the website, I know she, myself, and everyone involved appreciates the support in bringing this art into the world as a visual and audio masterpiece!

It is a lot of fun to make and produce, and when you enjoy the work, it is that much more worth it!

Thank you for reading on behalf of everyone involved with the Ian's Realm Saga, we appreciate the large amount of community support!

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Check back later this month, I will have a post coming out about my idea regarding a sustainable restaurant! Just an idea right now, but that is where all things start!


Thank you for reading,

Alex Chandler

The Hamburger; A History and New Conception

If you don't already know, cooking is one of my favorite aspects of life, and the hamburger is something I recently became unable to eat. You may or may not already know, but recently I cut gluten out of my diet, this was mostly for health reasons. Since then I have discovered the delicacy of hamburgers wrapped in lettuce with all the fixings inside, it is so good! If you get crunchy fresh iceberg lettuce it is absolutely amazing: better then a hamburger if you ask me.

For that reason, today I will be sharing with you the history of the hamburger and my new approach to the classic hamburger.

Before we get into the history of the hamburger it would be best to understand what it looks like in the American society today. Currently we view the hamburger as a very "American" creation, whether we know the history of the burger or not, that is how we see it.
Another fascinating look is how we consume burgers, and what they mean. While the burger can be seen as fancy food, most often it is viewed as the fast food Whopper, Quarter Pounder, 3x3 Animal Style, or the other various names given by restaurants like Wendy's, Carls Jr., and Jack in the Box. In 1985 one in every six trips to a restaurant ended at a McDonalds (Chow).

Personally, and you probably have the same view, but my favorite hamburger is from that nice restaurant, that serves a nice cut of meat, battered in beer and grilled, then topped with lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, onions, and secret sauce on a toasted bun with large steak fries and a cold ginger ale (or root beer if you are into that kind of thing).

Anyway you like your burger there is a little bit of predictability involved, especially in regards to fast food restaurants. The burger will be prepared to your liking no matter where you go, within reason: when I worked at Burger King we had a group of teenage girls come in asking for ridiculous toppings, like heart-cut pickles and star-cut cheese...we didn't fulfill that request. But if you wanted a Double Whopper with cheese, it is made the same, every time: predictability.
While this predictability is nice for the customer, the way fast food is prepared has been effected by this desire for predictability (Ritzer). One way this is obviously seen is in the meat, processed patties cooked by machines. I will give credit to In-N-Out where they cook their patties by hand.
Another aspect that has been affected specifically in fast food, is quantity over quality (Ritzer). Can you get one or two patties for a dollar? There is no surprise that fast food burgers are not 100% beef, they can't afford to be. Although, have you ever had a Wendy's burger? What they call a patty might be a flimsy cut of beef, but it is 100% beef. Wendy's receives props for that.

This is the Wendy's Bacon Bleu Burger.

Alright Alex, now where did the hamburger originate? Alright, the origin is highly debated, this is because it was originally two slices of bread with hamburg steak in the middle. Going from there I can tell you that the Oxford Dictionary defined hamburg steak in 1802 as salt beef (Chow). Salt beef at that time is much like the Salisbury Steak of our time. In other words, salt beef is not like beef jerky, it had a sauce to it.
The website Chow, makes first note of claim to inventing the hamburger by Charles Nagreen in 1885 when he put fried ground meat between two pieces of bread so that people attending his fair could walk and eat. In 1892 another fair owner claims to have invented the hamburger when he was running low on sausage and decided to grind it up and put it in-between bread. There are more people who claim to have invented the hamburger, but in all honesty it sounds more like a rip off than anything, used to stretch the supply of beef.

Fast Food Burger Restaurants: According to Chow
White Castle starts in Kansas, 1921, selling burgers at 5 cents.
Rite Spot Restaurant in California starts selling cheeseburgers in 1924.
McDonald brothers open a streamlined version of their former burger stand in California, 1948.
In-N-Out opens up in California, 1948.
Jack in the Box opens up in California, 1951.
Burger King is founded in Florida, 1954.
Carls Jr. is founded in California, 1956.
Wendy's is founded in 1969 to compete with McDonald's.

Key Points In History:
A hamburger is featured in a Popeye comic in 1931 setting the Hamburger in American culture.
In-N-Out install the a drive thru speaker system in 1948, creating the drive thru as we know it today.
McDonald's first franchise in 1954 for $950.
Burger King launches the signature Whopper in 1957.
White Castle sells billionth burger in 1961.
McDonald brothers sell McDonald's for $2.7 Million dollars to Ray Croc in 1961.
Filet-O-Fish was created for Catholic customers in 1962.
Ronald McDonald is introduced in 1963.
Big Mac is introduced in 1968.
White Castle sells 2 billionth burger in 1968.
First Veggie Burger is created in London, 1982,
In-N-Out starts printing bible verses on their cups and burger wrappers in 1987.
Worlds Largest Hamburger is created, weighing 5520 pounds at the 1989 Burger Fest in Wisconsin.
In-N-Out's "secret" menu is revealed in a 2002 New York Times article.
Bunless Burgers reemerge in 2003 dubbed "low carb" burgers.

The first sighting of bread-less sandwiches was around the time of the Great Depression, when people who couldn't afford bread switched to lettuce and cheaper alternatives (Olver). At this point in time the no-bread aspect of life was out of necessity, but recently there have been more bread-less sandwiches available on the market, like In-N-Out's "Protein Style."

In-N-Out: Protein Style

While the idea of a bread-less diet can be necessary for some individuals, for many it is a way to eat less carbohydrates. You may consider taking the "Protein Style" next time you are having a burger, because they really are healthier and quite tasty.
One of the best parts about eating these types of burgers is the crunchy, juicy, ice-berg lettuce that makes all the flavors unite in harmony. If you get a chance, try one of these delicacies, and remember some of the history and development of the hamburger, and then come back to my blog and tell me how it was.

Thanks for your time reading.


Alex D. Chandler




Sources:

 Chow. "The Hamburger Through Time." Web. 12 Feb 2013. < http://www.chow.com/food-news/54564/the-hamburger-through-time/ >.

 Ritzer, George. The McDonaldization of Society. Blackwell Publishing, 1983. Print.

 Olver, Lynne. "The Food Timeline: Sandwhiches." . The Food Timeline. Web. 12 Feb 2013. < http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodsandwiches.html#breadless >.

Directionalization; Where to go....

Working at the Sony Booth giving people
information on products, lots of fun!


     

Howdy all you fine folks,

First of all, complete side note, if you haven't looked into this Greek artist her music is completely interesting: Joker's Daughter. Funny and unique sound. But if you would prefer something a little different look up Camera Obscura's album Underachievers Please Try Harder, silly calming album I've been listening to lately: they are from Scotland if that makes it at all more interesting.

Well today is some huge football game, I'm going for the food...granted having finally cut out gluten it's hard to find great party noms. But it will be fun with friends. Right now I'm ignoring this list of homework; 2 math readings, 1 math homework, sociology discussion board, hour long video for sociology...and some small stuff for my Econ. class. Due tonight! Woohoo.

More importantly I'm in the face-off of where to go with my future. Film is fun, but again it is a hobby. I'll do it when called upon, not for money though, for the fun. And if I had to do it professionally again I would like to get paid a little more respectively; but that's cause I am picky.

It breaks down like this, minimum of one hour working with the author deciding how they want the video done. Of course, I am willing to give free quotes, etc. But then it's, "it would be nice if you read it." Actually this one guy's book looked interesting, but if it was ever a career I can't just read every project. So then finally I have to put the video together, and I like working with actual film not just pictures. But can you imagine being asked to go into the field after all this discussion and get some footage, and put it all together with one special effect for $50. It just comes down to, will I work for under $5/hour...no.

Looking at this idea that has been floating in my mind; a gluten free restaurant, and friendly to vegans. It has a lot of potential, but then it is 'location, location, location.' Working on the location of it, considering downtown Tacoma by the University of Washington campus area. What is freaky is that this is only 16 months away. Yet it feels so far away..."senioritis" is kicking in, and I am only in my junior year of college.

Freaky truth: I have never had an experience of senioritis before. I went from sophomore in high school  to freshman in college, and now I'm a junior in college, kind of exciting!

Question for the readers: what do you think of the clicky photos on the right? I want to get an updated HTML/CSS code to make them a little more fun. If you have any thoughts or if you liked them, feel free to let me know. :)

Dianne had me make some edits to her video...I tried a couple little sneaky things, rather than being stuck with a non-hd video I used a fake HD. Basically I exported it as HD knowing that Premiere Pro can improve the quality of low quality footage. Still doesn't look like HD to anyone who pays attention, otherwise it looks fine still. The only big issue is the book covers at the end of the video which I am disappointed in: of course I just realized an easy fix for that.
Pretty much the video edits were to make the video make more sense and clean it up to prepare it for advertising. The shield in the cave was removed, and the doll was made to look less like a ghost in the first appearance. And then the credits were changed to match a Youtube schematic that Dianne and I will be adding this evening. Here is the new video if you care to take a look: we will be removing the first one from the public tonight:

If you have suggestions for improvement on the video I would enjoy hearing your thoughts.

Well I have to get ready for the day, thank you for reading, and I hope everyone has a great week (including those who read this sometime in the distant future)!

Sincerely,

Alex Chandler

The Dragon Shield Book Trailer

    It has been far too long since I gave all of you an update, I apologize. Hear is a 30 second commercial of what happened since my last post. Rolled my car, concussion for a few weeks, during finals, which was terrible. Finished my Associates of Arts & Science, and now I'm at ASU pursuing a Bachelors of Science; Management Entrepreneurship. Created the book trailer below professionally for an adult writer and artist friend. Now I am starting to do contracted work for Eggroll Creative & PR, my position is Film & Media Specialist. And on top of that I'm starting to do small jobs for people. What?? How did this happen? Partial dream starting to come true, well that's how it seems anyway.

    The author, Dianne Lynn Gardner, wrote The Dragon Shield which is the second book in the series of The Ian's Realm Saga. The first book, Deception Peak, came out in 2012, this one will be released in February.
     In the first book trailer, for the first book, I did the voice acting. I've posted the video underneath this. Pretty much, I was completely shocked what they did to my voice. Until I saw it again about a month ago and I understood and appreciated what they had done. If you can't tell they have taken my voice and made it sound like a young teenager; which was shocking, until I really considered who I was voice acting for, and how much sense that made.

    This video was not edited or filmed by me, the gal who worked on this did a pretty good job in terms of what I have learned about the programs she was using and her experience.
    The big difference seen in the process of creating these two visuals is in their nature. Deception Peak's trailer was based on vocals and what was seen. While The Dragon Shield's trailer was based on flowing with the song, and using the words to portray ideas of the film; hence the needed subtitles.
    This difference made the making of The Dragon Shield Book Trailer a lot of fun, it was slightly abstract, and portrayed ideas to grab your interest and wonder while knowing that you needed more knowledge to fully understand exactly what was going on, but if you had read the first book it would make much more sense.

    There were some mistakes I made, one that couldn't be helped once I realized it, and the other I thought had been fixed already. The one mistake I can't believe happened was that the video quality was tiny in comparison to the full HD footage it was shot in. What had happened was that I had started with some pictures and clips from Dianne that I was messing around with before the filming, and so I had started to create a framework for the footage. I subsequently imported the footage, made plenty of major adjustments (like bringing the footage down to size, which I should have picked up on). I only realized the mistake when I was going to export and I noticed the quality of the clips was not high definition. Super disappointing!
    Two editing mistakes occurred that I thought were fixed when I exported, the first being the clip of the boy in white running off, it was supposed to be in 80% speed to cover up the ending of the previous clip and match the pace of the song. And the other was with the Dragon Shield flashing in the cave. It was more of a short flicker than whatever you might call it as it appeared. I think some mistake between AE and PP with Adobe Bridge occurred as I had seen a few issues like that earlier in the work day.
    But in the end I am very proud of the job, fairly well done, those small mistakes have yet to be pointed out to me by fellow mates, so until this trailer gets a TV slot it will be as is.
 
    One might ask, how did you get the job for filming and editing the trailer Alex? If such a question was asked I would say something like this. One day in November Dianne contacted me asking if I had a singer friend who could sing in a almost Celtic sounding voice. I said, I think so, let me ask around. I contacted an old acquaintance I knew to have a wonderful talent in singing, her name is Lexa Rose. I asked if she wanted the job, and she got it. With Dianne's poem they were able to create that wonderful 'Ballad of The Dragon Shield.' Which became the centerpiece of the video trailer.
    Then I was asked by Dianne to film and edit the trailer and I happily took on the project.

    If you would prefer to visit The Ian's Realm Saga on Facebook, click that link.


    Personally I'm still working on an old project that I hope I will release this year as it was filmed about two years ago, but it will be pretty good when it comes out, not worth the wait though, but still good. Anyway, hope everyone has a great week!

Thanks for reading,

Alex D Chandler

To Be Honest

To be honest I love media. To be honest I was lost. To be honest I still can't tell if the world has any good left to give. And to be honest I am still so young, but in denial. [Break] I wish I could say I know everything, but I have always known that I don't. I would love to say I understand a lot...I understand much, but there is so much more to learn and comprehend. And when it comes down to it, I really am young. In my every day life my age is an issue. I tend to lie, I say I'm 19, which I pass for easily. But now I have a real job, and as it would turn out, for liability issues there are multiple tasks with knives that I can't do. Which is fairly annoying because it means I'm not as useful as I could be. At the college I attend I regularly have forms that ask for parental signature if you are under 18. They are all liability waivers, so what I'm really only 17. It's an arbitrary number I won't be able to escape for another few months. But it's also protection. Which isn't too much of an issue, cause it seems to hold me back more than anything. I unoficially lead a huge group of friends...and I'm the youngest. If people knew that would they still respect me? I don't honestly know. [Break] You know the world is ever changing, and here is the one thing I can say towards that. I met a guy who did some work in California, he gave me a little advice, don't go into film. He worked it for a few years doing camera work. I never would have gone Movie anyway, always stick to Televisiom. But it doesn't make sense when the real creativity is inside these independent artists who go to film festivals; but there really isn't money in that. When it comes down to it I would enjoy a life of creativity and film production. But it really doesn't make sense for me, maybe a hobby, or aspiration, but for me to reach my full potential I need to go a separate route. [Break] No longer am I wandering a line of film, I've stepped back into my original passion, business. I'm going to ASU after I get my Associates this quarter, where I will get a business degree. Arizona State University is one of the largest schools with recruits for business grads. Which means I'm almost guaranteed a job when I get out. With an average pay of about 70k a year, I'm definitely seeing some potential here. Live cheaply, pay off debts, and then save up to do what I want...start my own business. [Break] I look at the world around me, and I'm not pleased. I can see what appears to be happening. The Internet acts like a city, the drugs, sex, gangs, and bad behaviors we find common in the city are spreading outward into the smaller towns. And it doesn't make sense why this would happen. But the huge exchange on the Internet allows for everyone to interconnect. But what we haven't yet realized is the concept of assimilation, and it scares me most of all. [Break] Assimilation; This concept is simple. On thing becomes like the next, but it is off balance. Because in the current climactic state of the world people are more "bad." If we were in a state of more good I would be happy, and less worried, but we aren't. What this means as far as assimilation goes is that once you have been assimilated into something bad, meaning you now think something is okay, you have an incredibly hard time getting out of it, because everything around supports that which you have been converted too. That's why I have started to watch innocent movies like Totoro, and have tried to forget about anything bad I've learned. The simple act of not cussing by itself can be a difficult one, but still probably the simplest to understand and easiest to achieve. My biggest fear for my friends and society is the growing acceptance of drugs, sex, and alcohol. The more this content is shown in media, the more it will reflect in real life, and the cycle continues. I'm not saying it's a conspiracy, but it's people trying to make their profit that has lead to this. Since the Internet and technology we have had a huge boom in e-growth. These are businesses that take less people, generate huge revenue, and have the entire world as their audience. And people ask why jobs have become of few. I'm not against a man wanting to make a buck, heck I'm not even against the rich guy making some big bucks. What I am against is what has happened. We are in an excess of people looking for jobs. But what is the number one expense? People. And that is why companies constantly strive to remove the number of employees, but minimum wage is always rising. Which can cause issues. Especially when minimum wage is designed to give the employee the ability to live on their own. A bit of a mistake if you ask me. Minimum wage is for those who still live with their parents, or are just looking for some extra cash, it's not supposed to be something to live on. That's why you work hard for raises and specialty jobs. Anyhow, that's my rant on that subject. But the point that I need to finish making is not that people need to stop drinking, having sex, and doing drugs, but that the media needs to stop supporting it. The assimilation of someone's morales is one of the biggest crimes I can thnk of. Someone should be allowed to develope their morales based off real life situations. [Break] Anyhow, that's just a little honesty from me. I better get ready for tomorrow, always working with this class load, haha. --Alex Chandler

How you dress makes the difference, and why I'll be applying to ASU

Hello fellow bloggers. I love the last day of class! It marks a time where I have free time, but not enough of it. You see, the problem is that I would like to sit around all day and make movies, the issue is I have school, which is more important.

I'm working on falling back into a cycle of non stop video editing all month long. Even though we have a production with the cooking website Allrecipes coming up.
I feel like you should know everything that has happened in the last few months, but remembering that I haven't made a blog post in awhile....

Here is what happened. John, who was supposed to have like one quarter left at Tacoma Community College (TCC), got the job as film guy at TCC, because he is apparently going to be there a little longer than previously thought. I, being stubborn, had to found a club, which eventually ended with me becoming the president of the TCC Film Club. Which turns out to be a nice prestigious title. Which allows for greater affiliations, and more recognition to anything I try to do. I also discovered that my continuous learning expierence : Filming Humor, doesn't look good, because it is a learning expierence, and not a professional place. Which means I need to make a more professional place to display my best works. I'm thinking I need to host the films on some place other than YouTube...I'm getting tired of them, they are constantly changing for a safer secure community. There is a lot of bull there roght now, but it is an easy way to make a revenue if I ever needed to beef up an income. One successful video and you could make a few hundred dollars. Granted I don't have that yet, but that's besides the point. YouTube is not for my personal stuff.

Moving forward, as president of the TCC Film Club, I was able to create an affiliation with the cooking website, Allrecipes. And soon we will be making some short 'how to', cooking shows. On the 16th of this month I will be shooting a short how to with the TCC Film Club on cooking valentines goodies. I'll get you more information about that, once I get into the editing of it later this month.

I just applied for a job at Burger King yesterday, if I end up getting that job, it will take a major priority in my life over film. But that's because of how broke I am right now. My goal is to upgrade my computer this year....

The only nice break from life is a video game, I'm embarrassed to admit, I've been playing called Minecraft. I'm going to try and limit myself to an hour a day maximum. But even that is too much when it comes down to how I spend my time. I have swimming, personal films, film club, school, and some form of income (right now it is a little candy business). It's easy to say I'm a tad overwhelmed.

But that's my functioning level, under lots of pressure. I'm sure I'll drop the gamer addiction soon, right along with my sugar addiction.



Looking at colleges. I have had to spend a lot of time contemplating which college I wanted to go to. I think the last time I posted on here, my top choices were the Vancouver Film School (VFS), and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Unfortunately UCLA really only looks for instate, and there is a very, tiny chance I might get in. I have thus, lost interest in trying to get in there. I was still thinking VFS for awhile, but now am realizing I need a little more time.

My current plan is to apply to Arizona State University (ASU), I will then be bumped up into a near Junior status. My two current degree's I'm most interested in right now are Buisness and Film. Taking the opposite major as my minor. ASU apparently has a strong Buisness program, and is flexible for a minor in arts / film, so that is a plus. And I will get a chance to expierence their clubs, grow my interests a little, and hopefully achieve a great goal.

Moving forward, I think it is a good point to make that your attire really affects the way you act. I dress formally on club meeting days, and just for fun. It gives me a more serious attitude, and people respect me more. When I want to perceived as a little crazy, and perhaps creative, I can wear part of one of my costumes. And on the other hand, I can be taking a shower and feel my mind flowing like a wild bird. The point here is that, the way you dress affects who you are, and everything about you, so make sure you dress for the occasion.


Thank you for reading,

Alex Chandler
President of the TCC Film Club

The Spies; James and The Vampire

It's an unfortunate fact that I can't spend my life at the computer editing videos. But instead I have colleges to look into and all of that stuff.

Simply put, I haven't even finished the ruff edit of all the clips, I'm almost there, but with everything going on I intend to put the video out December 25, on the anniversary of the first episode... Kind of a fail series in that way, but a series none the less haha.

And regarding The Assassins; Layer of The Devil, (Part 3). We were supposed to film that this month, but it doesn't look likely. With the way things go, I'm thinking we'll probably film that in the spring when the weather starts to warm up again. Meaning a possible summer release of the third part, but it might get put off to December as well...no idea right now, just speculation.

Almost forgot, I'm trying to get the videographer job at Tacoma Community College (TCC). So I've been working on my portfolio video, meaning you will probably be seeing that soon....

There's your brief update. Thanks for reading,

Alex D. chandler

UCLA: University of California, Los Angeles

Once again I will mention that this is an essay I wrote to, and for my parents concerning the film school, UCLA.

It should be mentioned that I will have an Associates of Arts & Science by the end of this year, which will give me 90 quarter credits. And thus if I apply to this school I can apply as a junior. Otherwise I would have to apply as a freshman (different application process).

Alex Chandler
College Expedition
UCLA
September 4th, 2011

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

The first thing we should take note of, is that UCLA is the first public school we have looked at. That being said, if I was to go to California, work a job for a year to become a resident, it cuts off 15 thousand dollars annually for tuition. Also mentioning that, there is something somewhere, I read it awhile back, but it basically says that if you can prove that you will become a resident, and stay in State after earning your degree, tuition will cost the same as if you were a resident. I'll look into that more soon.
Their admission process is a little more sophisticated then the last couple schools, you are required to fill out their questionnaire, unofficial college transcripts, and two letters of recommendation. Those are almost identical to the last couple schools, but UCLA also requires, a two page personal essay, a three page critical essay, and a five page creative writing sample. All this basically means is that applying is going to take a lot more time to get ready for....
Whats nice about UCLA, that was quite surprising, is that they have a whole subset of their website all about their film program, which they call, "UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television." Basically there is a lot of good information on their website, that we will get into soon.

Junior and Senior Year:
The only concern I have with this school, which isn't exactly a concern, more of a wonder, but you have to be a junior to get into their film program. On the bright side I'll have already completed two years of TCC, so perhaps I'll be starting somewhere in my sophomore year. They have a sheet in their application packet that you can fill out with all the classes you have taken. I think I should schedule an appointment with my TCC counselor to discuss this....
There are a variety of classes that can be taken during these two years. Unfortunately your Junior year is a lot like your freshman year of high school, a lot of required classes and two electives. But the Senior year is almost all open with some core focuses ... Similar to senior year in high school, except you aren't skipping classes.
If you want to look at the videos on their website, its suggested you get on a computer, cause it takes flash player. But to sum up their school, I definitely think it looks good, and if I'm going for a degree out of California, that's a good place to go.

http://tft.UCLA.edu

Full Sail University (Florida)

Tomorrow I'll post my essay on UCLA. There are so many schools... Lots of researching. Just to recap; this is an essay I wrote to my parents, that reports the findings of my research of this film school.

Alex Chandler
College Expedition
Full Sail University
September 2nd, 2011

Full Sail University

Besides the big cost of the degree, it's everything you could have asked for! There are three different bachelors degree's relating to film; Film, Digital Cinematography, and Creative Writing for Entertainment. On the bright side of the huge costs, they have many different scholarships that they award (they will be mentioned below in a section called "Scholarships").
Creative Writing for Entertainment is obviously a writing degree, not exactly for me. Digital Cinematography is an online program, where as Film is in an actual classroom environment; more of what I'd go for.

Bachelors Degree in Film:
If I went to Full Sail I would take their Film degree program, and come out with a Bachelors Degree. The big cost is less than it would be to attend a four year university in Los Angeles, but it is still 77 thousand. But from what Joseph says, "most people who attend college don't pay the full amount." Instead they get government discounts, scholarships, and all sorts of things to cut down on costs.
The courses taken to achieve this degree cover a vast number of topics in film production. What needs to be researched a bit more, is whether or not some of my TCC classes can count as some of the courses they show, because I have definitely taken some classes that teach the same things; this might cut down on tuition, or even time in college.
You can scour their website for hours looking up facts and information that make their program seem well worth it. They have numerous success stories, and information on how many students worked on movies that just came out. When looking over the Internet the reviews for this school seem to be fairly good.

Housing:
One of the nice things about the Full Sail degree program is that you get your four year degree in 21 months, which means less cost of living. The downside is that you don't live on campus and would thus need to get a roommate and live in Orlando. On the bright side, Orlando has much cheaper rent than LA. While they don't have on campus living, they have a Housing Coordinator, who can help you find a roommate and get an apartment. According to their website, in the surrounding area of the school, Winter Park, there are over 50 apartment complexes. But they also suggest getting started on living arrangements sooner rather than later.

Scholarships:
Simply put, they have a number of scholarships you can apply for, most of which are for about 3 thousand dollars. It appears I am eligible for the merit scholarship, which is a 3 thousand dollar scholarship to students who have achieved over 30 credits at another post-secondary institution maintaining over a 3.0 GPA. There is also the Platinum Dream scholarship, which is awarded to applicants dedicated to the media industry. The Student Success Scholarship is awarded to students of Full Sail, and can amount to up to 3 thousand dollars.
And then of course I'll have to look at other scholarships to help cut down on the 77 thousand dollar tuition fee. But I have also considered that it might be nice to work for a year doing film jobs around our area, and then go to school. That way I wouldn't have to work while in school and can thus put my best foot forward at being viewed as top of the class.

http://FullSail.edu

I have been sending a series of essays to my parents discussing film schools and what I have learned about them. I figure I can share them on my blog with the world.

(as a note, I plan to write another essay on The Film Connection in Seattle...apparently they have one in Washington State that is similar to the one in California).

Alex Chandler
College Expedition
The Film Connection
September 1st, 2011

The Film Connection

The first thing you should know about this school is that there are two different programs, each in different locations. Program one is cheeper than program two and sets you up in an apprenticeship like position with someone who lives within forty five minutes of you. Where as program two is in Los Angeles, and costs more.
This school strikes my interest for a number of reasons. Foremost being that you will be working with real people in the industry who have a minimum of ten years experience. Another benefit is that it is much cheaper than traditional colleges. This trade school also works around you allowing for you to work a job at the same time as you attend. I can't decide if it is beneficial, but it is nice that you are only in the school for six months, and within that six months most students get a job.
A downside to this school is that there is no certification, you just have real world experience, which you won't get at any traditional colleges. Also beneficial is the number of people you will be able to get recommendations from when, or if you do go in search of a job. Granted that you can get teacher recommendations from traditional colleges, but they aren't exactly working in the field.
When searching around the web to check out the validity of this school, it can seem like there are a lot of unhappy people departing the school. But from what seems to be the case, there are those few instances of people not liking what they got and complaining afterward. But the thousands of students who were happy with what they got, didn't go making comments all over the internet about their experience. But when there was a student who was pleased on the forums they were really enthralled with how it worked for them.

Program One:
This program definitely has a big benefit of being close to where you live. The issue being that it is for someone who wants to run their own small production company. Pretty much like what Mom does; or it might show you freelance work in the area. Pretty much you would be looking at making and shooting videos for weddings, TV commercials, and small businesses.
Though this sounds like a lot of fun, I feel like that is something I could do on my own with the help of Craigslist. In fact, if I need to make some money for college next summer, I might be spending a lot of time using Craigslist for just that (would help in making a great portfolio).
More to the point, I have no intention of following this program. I'd rather use Craigslist, or talk to some of moms business friends and work for them.

Program Two:
If I was to go to this school, this is the program I would go with. You are in LA, you will be working on professional films. You will get the opportunity to learn all the equipment, try it out, and get on location experience. The big downside is that it's in LA. Which means you need to really look at the location before moving there and finding housing. As mentioned before, it is nice that you will get the chance to work a job at the same time as your in school.
The real attraction to this school is that you are working with real life professionals while making connections in the film industry. Along with this is the fact that it is likely you will get a job before you are even out of school. Whether or not your a stage hand running around, or running the lights, you'll work your way up and get to try things out as you work. Not to mention, if you show true potential, you could easily become an assistant director on a gig.
The cherry pie is topped, not only by the cheap tuition fee of 13,500 dollars, but once you have finished the program, you get the chance to pitch your idea to a Hollywood professional. Meaning if I wrote up a script and never was able to make it because we weren't skilled enough in high school.... Yes I'm pointing at a script I already wrote that sits in the corner of my bedroom. Besides the point, that's a pretty nice benefit.
To sum up Program Two, you get a one on one learning experience with a Hollywood professional as your mentor. You will make connections in the film industry during schooling, you will likely get a job while in school. You have a career counselor you can always talk to. You get your own website, cheap tuition, and you live in Los Angeles where all the action is happening. Simple as that.


http://FilmConnection.com

Kicking the Gammer Addiction...

There was a reason I stopped playing extremely addicting games a few years ago. They are addicting. Recently I started playing the ever so overly addicting Minecraft... For the past month I have been falling behind on deadlines. Not doing as much video editing as I'd like. Though I was lucky and didn't lose any of my social life. But my professional life went downhill for sure. To all of our viewers, I'm sorry for the lack of content!

Anyhow, I'm quitting all over again, cause my social life was perfectly fine without a trace of actually playing Minecraft, and I should now have time to actually edit video, without distractions...

Wish me luck! Haha xD


I'm back to editing Sunday evening (out of town right now).

Thanks for reading...hope you're not too addicted to any games right now,

Alex D. Chandler

Skittles in Yo face!

I have to let you know right now, making a music video, and the music, without prior experience is extremely difficult. Though this film is well made, and in many ways hysterical, there is one thing I never fully liked about the music video; the audio.

After finishing this project, and actually during the course of this project, I discovered how important it is to make the song before filming the video. Now Ethan Carlson and I had written out all the lyrics, but you really need to have the entire song and backbeat made before filming the video. This is due to the nature of music, the tempo, the passion, and everything that makes a song.

But besides the actual audio, I think the video turned out fairly well.
Because of the audio lacking complete awesome, we will be making a studio version of the song...sooner or later.



In other news, Filming Humor on YouTube now makes money! You may occasionally see Google Ads running alongside our videos from now on. To give you an idea of how much we're making so far; in the past week we've made over two dollars (obviously not drop dead, loads of money, but better than nothing).

Just around the corner; August 1st is the release of the first episode in the Gettin' Tasty series. We'll be teaching how to make Spaghetti Sauce. And then during August, Ninjas will be released. With probably another episode of Gettin' Tasty. Oh and there is an elevator video thing coming out soon too...you'll need to see it to understand haha.

What else have I been up to this past couple weeks? Well Chase Andrews and I built a pink raft that took sail holding 13 people this past Wednesday... We didn't bring electronics on board, so there are few photos, but it was indeed an adventure of great proportions! Haha

Surprisingly, no one was shocked that we painted it pink...and added a toilet seat... Apparently Chase and I would obviously do this... But if it had been Purple! Well that's a whole other story, big shock factor! Lol, I don't know, people must be getting tamed to our oddities haha.


If you haven't read my guest post on Luke Fandrich's blog, you can click here to read it.



Thanks For Reading,
Alex Chandler

Ps. The Spies; James and The Vampire is going to be epic, can't wait!

The Spies; James and The Vampire (Just Filmed)

About a week and a half ago we filmed the sequel to the first Spy short film. In this one we worked the story in so many different ways, and put so much time into making the story that I think this film will likely be the greatest yet. And assuming that it turns out as well as I'd like we may even submit it to our local film festival; The Gig Harbor Film Festival. Which I've always enjoyed the entertaining idea of seeing one of our short films on those big screens...

Besides the point. What I have done to this movie poster is something I normally would never consider doing, and that is adding the text line at the bottom; "September 2011." Now this is truly far off in the distance but I have several other films I plan to release before this. And what really makes this an odd idea is that now I have to stick to a schedule.

Where is the sense in making a due date if you don't have to? Well for one, most jobs are going to have due dates, and number two I think I gave myself enough time to make this a very good short film by that time.

I was watching this TV series for awhile and noticed that the only major special effects were in the titles, transitions, and credits. Meaning they could all be templates simply dropped onto the video. But what this really explained was the simplistic editing throughout the episodes. And why season two has over twenty episodes. They can simply output more episodes, because they aren't all that difficult to make. Where as some shows will seem more complicated to put together, and thus have a shorter season.

But none the less, the point here is that basic editing doesn't take as much effort. And as we all know, shooting a film is much easier than the many, many hours of editing.

In final words, The Spies Sequel is going to be awesome, and will most certainly be released in Septemeber (I almost wrote August, but I gave myself a little more time, so I expect early September). That topped with the soon to be released Candy Rap. We just have to get the back beat done and the lyrics recorded. Probably aother two weeks before it releases.

Thanks for reading,
Alex Chandler

Parties; A Reason To Film

Everyone knows how much fun filming a video is, but what if you want to have more fun... Well actually that might not be possible xD
But anyhow, what I was saying is that lately we have taken the time to plan movie watching parties, but beforehand we shoot some film for our summer cooking series "Gettin' Tasty". Anyhow, that's been a fun excuse to shoot a movie.

Unfortunately what has happened with school and everything, is that I have five videos now waiting to be edited; three episodes of Gettin' Tasty, The Candy Rap, and a Ninja short film we shot just the other day.
Luckily summer is right around the corner, literally (my last final is tomorrow). Meaning I'll have time to get to work on putting videos to the Internet. Yay! But at the same time I have The Spies Sequel planned to be filmed on the 18th of this month, so then it'll be up to six videos to edit...hahaha...procrastination! Lol

Well I'm pretty stoked for the summer, I'm sure everyone else is too, what sort of things are you all up to?
And when I say "you all" I probably am talking to a couple people, including Luke Fandrich, who is going to feature a post by me sometime, you really should check out his blog if you are someone else, he is awesome!


Have a great day everyone,

Alex D Chandler

IT'S ALREADY MARCH!!!???!??? oh my...

I was going to post this back after we were done with The Spies, but I got busy with school...




Well it's over. The Spies has been released, and like I said when I finished Earth Wars, "I'm glad it's over."

This project took a long time, from the first conceptions, to arranging the actors, actually getting around to filming it, and then a whole month in post production. Wow!

At 3am Friday I was so relieved to have finished it. It's that joy that you get from being done. I was fully aware of the fact that with another week I could have fixed some of the minor issues. But also aware to the fact that this was the greatest video yet!
That wasn't too important after realizing all that you've learned.
It's always true that after a project you could make the film better, but all that really means is you will do better next time.

Actually I am really pleased with this video. And everyone else seemed really happy with it too. I figure I'll be looking back on this one positively for about ever; like Jeremy & The Cookies.

If you haven't yet seen The Spies, here it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qn75rWNAec




Anyhow, that was then, I still like The Spies, but I will always hate how rushed we were on the last bit of filming in the graveyard, so we didn't get enough footage, which is why the last three minutes are difficult to watch. And then there are some confusing things... specifically the Tom Tom Tele Major, which is what the glass jar was. It allows you to teleport... and well, we don't need to try and understand the rest of it....

Anyhow, if you follow us on some of the other networks like Dailybooth, Twitter, or Facebook you may have heard about the shocking news...we're making a sequel! haha
Actually that's pretty exciting for me considering it's a chance to build the characters more and expand the story line... if we had enough time to film the sequel I'd make it longer. And then another interesting thing about the sequel is it's not going for as much action as it is suspense. But there will be action, we're just going to try and make a very suspenseful film... hopefully 15mins long. I'll update you more on that later.

Other than that we've been having fun parties, working on the cooking series Gettin' Tasty (with Ducky and Cambridge).

Anyhow, I may add some updates after this if I can remember anything cool that's going on... haha


Thanks for reading,

Alex Chandler

December Update

    What's new with you...? That's almost a rhetorical question, but if you want you can answer in the comments.. haha

   I've just been working on The Spies. Which has been interesting to say the least. There is this tip I learned from Andrew Kramer (VideoCoPilot), basically it is P.E.R.F.E.C.T. This acronym will help make really really good video (specifically compositing), but when I was working on T (Timing), I came to realize that we aren't very good at it. What will make The Spies worse than our next video will be that the timing of shots wasn't well planned, and it was too fast. We try to keep to about three seconds a shot. But some of the scenes in The Spies needed slower shot time. While we can speed things up in post production, we have a difficult time with slowing them down. Though The Spies (2010) will be a great film, comes out a week from Friday, it will be a fast paced 10 minutes, that should have been about 15-20mins.

   What I might try, but may not actually use, is to use the extra takes to show shots multiple times. This was done in the early stages of some European film (either the Russians or the Germans). But what it does. It creates this uneasy feel and it will slow a shot down quite well... I'd like to slow it down, but make it flow better, and not create unease, a lot like they do with explosions in spy films and action TV shows... I may be able to do this successfully... Wish me luck, ha

   Well what else is going down? Well LO2 looks like it will be released as a series of disconnected short films; well they are slightly connected, but not very well. This due to the fact that we want to make the movie, but we know it will be impossible to make the whole thing without serious dedication (which we can't get unfortunately).

   In preparation for LO2 we may make some sort of super hero battle sequence, or a Harry Potter inspired battle sequence. Not to sure on that...

   Then we are looking into a new series that would start up this summer called Gett'n Tasty. It's a cooking show, but we would film it whenever, release it later. Other than that we have a couple short films in conception, but nothing is really being filmed, the weather is wretched (we tried to film last weekend, way too wet, too cold for the camera, battery didn't last, and then we only got one third of the project done.. a five minute film...whatever).

   Look forward to the video on the 24th! I'm excited :D

Thanks for reading,

~Alex Chandler

The Greatest Film Day Yet!

The Spies (2010)

The Spies (2010)

To Watch The Behind The Scenes Click Here

    Yesterday was the filming of The Spies, it was predicted to be the largest film we have attempted yet, and it definitely was! You can always expect people not to be able to show up; and so three people were unable to make it. But we had my brother, Zachary Chandler, fill in those roles.
    In essence we had eight people show up for this, of a planned eleven. And we got a lot done, with the help of some strategic setups.

    What is coming from yesterdays effort? Well this coming Friday we should have a blooper / behind the scenes video coming out. Then there will be a trailer for this movie released in about a month, and sometime in December the actual video will release.

Some Important Learning Curves;

    Today was like any other day, I learned a lot. While reviewing the film I discovered that a lot of us seemed to blink a ton (maybe due to the cold) and there was way too much looking at the camera. To top that off there was the wind factor, meaning we will likely have to perform some ADR on the outside scenes.

    What to take away from this. The camera man, in this movie it was Ethan Carlson, should be watching for what peoples eyes are doing, whether that be blinking or looking at the camera (I was the worst, doing both of those a lot). Though if you are lucky enough to have a director watching from a ways away on a monitor, reviewing the footage, then you are lucky.

   With the wind, it's not like it's something I didn't know. It's more or less something that should be prevented, and prepared for. You can't hear someones voice if they are too far away, or if the camera is being hit by wind. Luckily for the first scene, a silent scene, I was able to remove all the clips audio and substitute my own (though I still have to go out and get foot steps).

   Another problem we faced was not knowing the script well enough. At the filming we tried out this new concept of having one person cook food for the actors, while another is doing up the make up, and then the rest of us are filming the scene. What does this have to do with not knowing the script? Well I think having someone who knew the script to the point where they could direct the camera man on what to do. Basically the director, but I think maybe having another scene director would work good too. But perhaps I should take it upon myself to do such. Because our script has planned out near every shot. But when things get tense and we are running low on time we can't look back at the script fast enough. And it would give us more free time if we were able to just sump into scene. Another step I had in mind for rolling through this faster is having the directors (in this case Ethan and I) go through the script before the filming actually starts and get a run down on everything.

Based Off Earth Wars;

    This film was really taking a lot of the things we learned from making the Earth Wars Series. A lot being based around just having a script for the film, and the amount of shots planned into the script. In Earth Wars much of our film was choreographed and, things were planned out around the camera. And then whenever we would be talking about the script we'd refer back to techniques we used in Earth Wars. If I had to credit one movie we did for teaching us tricks for this, you guessed it, it'd have to be Earth Wars.

Alex David Chandler is not Yet an actor...with much skill

    I found out the hard way that I'm not an actor... At least not yet! haha, while reviewing the film I could easily tell I was overly directing, though it was supposed to be Ethan's job, I was taking too much of it. In the footage I find myself looking at the camera excessively, talking about the next cut during a cut, and just a lot of really bad things for an actor to be doing...

    I figure with time I might be able to train myself to act better, but for now I'll continue playing minimal roles and just directing. Because this film was supposed to be serious and like Zachrey Manning said, "you can tell Alex isn't used to serious films." haha, it's true. There were many instances where there was 7-12 takes of me because I just couldn't keep a straight face.

Alex Chandler

Ethan Carlson; For the win!

    Luckily for this film we had Ethan Carlson directing. Before we started filming I told him that if something doesn't play across the camera right, or doesn't look good, make us retake it. And it is because of that, that I have looked over all of the footage so far, and it is fairly nice; even with all the minor mistakes.

    Ethan was also playing a character in this movie. Originally he was supposed to play the goth, but that didn't happen, but he got the role as the waiter, who was a pretty awesome character! Overall we were lucky to have him as a director on this film!

Ethan The Director and Camera Man of The Spies

    Haley Rondeau was a great asset, playing as a chef in the background as we filmed. She cooked so many pancakes! But it was all good fun and game, I'm glad we had her over.

    Mariah Puccia-McAllister came over and played the Lead Spy. That was interesting, I think she will be surprised to see how well she did acting when the film releases.

    Kalyn Erickson worked the make up side of things, creating a demon snake, the devil, and a goth. She also did some hair work for a couple characters. To top things off she played a spy character! It would have been impossible without the help put forth by Kalyn.

    Mariah Morey played the main character Jane. This was a difficult role that she did an amazing job at, to be honest she did more than two times a greater acting job than I did [as the other main spy character]. Well it was an honor to work with her talent, she was able to convey many emotions very well. You'll just have to see the video to understand how vital her skills were. (That and that of Ethan's skill, pulled this movie out of anything else it may have been).

Kalyn ~ Mariah Morey ~ Haley ~ Mariah McAllister

    Zachrey Manning played interesting characters to say the least. A Fluffy T-Rex (aka F-Rex) and a Demon Snake. The make up he had to put on was pretty hilarious! I was glad to have his help on this film. He is a self proclaimed "Blooper Creator." And I think he did a good job at that.

    And then Zachary Chandler forced into using his skill, I wasn't dissatisfied at all. I knew he had acting skill, he just used to have a very high pitched voice, but now it is all about gone, and I look forward to using his skill in future productions.In this film he plays the Goth and the Devil.

Zach Manning and Zach Chandler ~ "Zach Squared"

    

    Having reviewed the footage I feel it is safe to say this will turn out to be a fairly great movie. Everyone put a lot of awesome effort into it. And through our teamwork we will have created, more than likely, our greatest film yet.

To Team Work and Great Fun

Thanks For Reading,


~Alex Chandler

We The Spies - Exciting New Short Film (upcoming)

We The Spies

Mission 666

   Hey, things are going great here in the Filming Humor HQ. Haha, we're just preparing for our next video where we will be doing a short (10-15minute) film following the journey of this team of spies. It is currently looking to be a great movie. Lots of interesting parts. Not so random like our last video, but implementing almost every skill we have ever used in film making, among many more. Making this a very exciting production.


    This movie is also exciting because we are going to be having the largest number of actors on scene than ever before. Granted this will be hard to organize, but my Co Director, Ethan Carlson, will be there as well helping out with the production. We will be trying out a few new actors. To be quite honest this has got to be the largest high class thing we have ever really really gotten into (exempting LO2 as it is not finished, and still under construction - but if this turns out as well as it looks, we may be better prepared for LO2... whenever we get around to it ha).


   Some of the new actors we have coming out include, Mariah Morey as the spy Jane, Nick Mendenhall as a spy, Haley Rondeau will be working a bit behind the scenes, Mariah McAllister as the Spy Leader, and Sam Shake as Lucifer the Devil (though he was in one video we made over a year ago). 
   Mariah Morey is an exciting actor to have over, she has some background working in theater, and much like Scott Sabatini (who will also be at this filming) she is capable of fulfilling near any role or position needed for the character. Whether that be poor on the street, rich and fancy, or wild and crazy, making Mariah a surprisingly lucky addition to the team. 
   Nick Mendenhall, red hair, smart, crazy and out of this world thinker. We have him playing this spy role that's not to main, but will get to see some action in the film. From what I know of him we should expect great results. And then Mariah McAllister, friends to Kalyn and Sabrina from our last surfer film. 
   Haley Rondeau found out about Filming Humor through Mariah Morey as they are friends. Mariah Morey was talking to Haley and going through the script together, and as it turned out they would be hanging out the day before the filming, so as it so happened we got another hand behind the scenes and for any back up characters. Currently we have her as the pancake chef (if you don't know already, Pancakes while filming for us is tradition). 
   Mariah McAllister is... twisted, wild, and fits the position as a Spy Leader, to what extent she can act is to be found out, but it'll be interesting to see how that plays out. 
   Sam Shake, playing Lucifer the Devil, is a menacing person, with that sort of personality that you can see the evil lurking inside. But seriously, he is pretty amazing, we worked one film with him and he was never able to make it back for another until now. Just look at this photo of him, he makes the perfect devil character haha.

Sam as a Zombie for Halloween

   Other actors we are having over who have been in recent productions include, Kalyn Erickson, Scott Sabatini, Stephen Gomes, and Myself. 
   Kalyn has from the start, been a great help in productions! She has been a dancer for many many years, and has costumes up her sleeves. She also has the knowledge about make up, face paint, and other fields to be major help behind the scenes. And then she is also pretty good at displaying emotions as we were able to see in the prior movie we made. In all it's going to be great having her out for another movie... the fact that she can drive and lives less than a mile down the highway also helps, ha.

Kalyn and her many costumes

   Scott Sabatini, his name gives me chills of excitement. If you can get him to the filming he can be the single greatest actor when given the chance. He will do anything for a film; once he threw himself down a flight of stairs, and another time he took his shirt off and got shot full of airsoft (he did bleed, but laughed through it all haha). In the last film he played the blood covered monster, we told him what to do and he did it... to be honest that was my favorite character in the surfer movie. Scott also played the cave dweller character in the surfer video. He is going to be a great asset playing green hell dwelling lizards.

Scott as the Bloody Monster

   Stephen Gomes is back in the team! I'm actually really excited, he did a great job in Antigone, and an amazing job in The Sandwich. I'm hoping this time around we are able to get a more serious tone (the last filming he attended we were all pretty wild and off the walls laughing). Hopefully he will progress even further in this filming. He will be playing a red demonic lizard, much like Scott's role, just red. It's great to have him back in action and on the team!

Stephen in Antigone

   And then there's Alex Chandler, myself, playing a main character in the movie. Which in a way is awesome fun, but a draw back as I can't direct all that much myself. Thankfully Ethan will be there. I play James who is a spy in a relationship with Jane (played by Mariah Morey). Anyhow, I'm hoping I can pull off my role nicely.

From the last film, I played a military man.

   I'm also pleasantly delighted to announce that Ethan Carlson will have a part in this movie. It has been ages since he last attended a filming (The Sandwich was filmed forever ago, but he was in it). If you know anything about Ethan, then you know that he could be considered a genius easily. Place him behind the scenes of any production, or in the spot light, or in a side role of any production, and suddenly you have an amazing film. Period. He is such a forward thinker, he has been helping out here and there with the script of We The Spies. He told me just the other day, "hey Alex, if the Gothic role isn't filled by 7 days and 6 minutes before the filming I'll take the role. Cause I've always wanted to play a goth character." That there is Ethan, very extraordinary. This will be a very nice role to see him play, though it lasts less than 20 seconds. But I swear he will probably be one of your favorite characters. A summary of Ethan would have to be that some of his ideas are so good and so well thought up or out of the box, that they never get released (as is true with many of the films he is in), but when they are released they are as good as butter.

The Priest is Arriving - from The English Channel

   Zachrey Manning will also be there. He will have a couple... err... interesting? roles. They are out of this world and hard to explain. Therefore I will just call them, Snake and Fluffy T-Rex. The thing about Zach is that he is hyped up on either life or sugar all the time (much like myself). But this can be distracting to film with. So I have given him some roles that may fit... We haven't made a movie with him in awhile, it'll be nice to have him there. In an unfortunate, fortunate sense, it's almost good Chase couldn't make it. Cause Chase plus Zach equals one wild time. haha, though I am sad to say that Chase can't make it to the filming this time around.

Zach as Dr Hobo from The Spaztastic News

   I am delighted to say that Isaac Mort will be joining us behind the scenes on this one. He used to come over for videos a lot. Unfortunately none of them were ever released because of the complications of The Original Legend of Two (he was in an episode of The Spaztastic News in Season One). But he was a great actor, he has said he doesn't particularly want to act in this one, which is fine, Ethan said the same thing before he got a role, ha. But if he is still able to make it we will be having some good input from him. He would also be helping Haley in the kitchen.

From the video Awe Not Again

   In final conclusion, we are appearing to have a great turnout this time around, and the desire to push this movie to it's limits is high. We have lots of work on the Script and Plot every day, and things are falling right in place for the filming in November, let's just hope it doesn't rain or else my brother will be holding an umbrella haha...


Thanks For Reading,


~Alex Chandler

The Best Surfers Of All Time!

   Originally this video was going to come out today around noon... but I wasn't nearly close to being finished editing last night. So, I've moved the release date to a week from today; next Friday.

   But the behind the scenes are out for your viewing pleasure :D

   To simply clear up what "I wasn't nearly close to being finished editing last night" really means. Well it's still in the basic cut of the video. Though it would have been perfectly fine to release four months ago there is a need to go and add ADR (footsteps, breathing, ocean waves, cool breezes and the like), as well as background music. Also at the current state the cuts don't flow too smoothly which I'm hoping will be cleaned up by some background music and other elements.

   Though this video is taking awhile to come out, I think that's the consequence of one editor, school, and an amazing video with loads of cuts. And by that I mean that this video will be well worth waiting for!


Thanks for reading,

~Alex Chandler

Edit; This is the final product (a bit random lol)