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so the big ole site update is done. our new short "adventures in pretention with blair bankston" should be up on youtube soon.
its odd looking over this journal. i had comepletely forgot about Cutgirls. in short it would have been a film about a girl who's attempted suicide created a big piece of art accidently. then she became an artist who painted with blood. it would have been a story about how you can use pain to bring about positive things. maybe i'll work that into the new thing somehow.
we're still working on the story structure of the new one. we know how it goes up until the last third, then there are many options. it is still way early on the project but we are working on it like we never did on the other ones.
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Our documentry, Moving Parts, will play on Saturday afternoon at 1:30pm at the Outhouse festival. Outhouse will take place in the Collonnade theatre in the LSU union.
We made Moving Parts over the course of the last year. It documents another production company in town, Hedges Pictures, and their struggle to make their independent feature, The Lady Is A Doll.
again, thats this Saturday, Moving Parts, 1:30pm... runtime=50:10
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OUTHOUSE FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL CALLS FOR ENTRIES
The Cinema Club at LSU is proud to announce a call for entries to this year’s Outhouse Film and Video Festival, “Outhouse 6”. Since its introduction in the spring of 1999, LSU’s student supported film festival has grown enormously in submissions and attendance. This year’s festival is planned to be the largest event in the history of the festival, with entries expected from filmmakers both here and abroad.
This year’s Outhouse festival will occur on April 8 - 10, 2005 at the LSU Union’s Colonnade Theater. The festival is free and open to the public, although seating is limited to 320 seats. If you would like to submit an entry to the festival you can print out an entry form at www.lsu.edu/student_organizations/cinema/outhouse/entryForm.htm or you can visit the Cinema Club’s website at www.lsu.edu/student_organizations/cinema. The deadline for entries to this year’s festival is Thursday March 31st, 2005. If you have any questions about submissions or attending the festival, you can contact the festival’s organizers through the outhousefilmfest@yahoo.com email address
 The Red Stick International Animation Festival is an exciting community event that converges the worlds of technology, art, entertainment and exploration. Though artists have always used the tools of their time, at no time since the Renaissance has there been a similar convergence of science and art. Artists draw and paint with computers, and scientists convey their complex theories in color and motion. The Red Stick International Animation Festival highlights this convergence celebrating art, motion, and exploration in downtown Baton Rouge in the spring of 2005. The movement toward convergence highlights not only the new set of technical skills that artists employ, but likewise the artistic vision that scientists are embracing. The worlds of the artist and scientist are folding in on one another, and Baton Rouge is at a unique moment in time to embrace this sea of change, further it, and make it our own.
The Laboratory for Creative Arts & Technologies (LCAT) is an integral research cluster within LSU's Center for Computation & Technology, or CCT. The central functions of the lab's efforts converge on a single purpose: to articulate discovery through the intersections of creativity, technology, and human expression. Discovery is not limited to scientific pursuits; it also is the language of art, music, and human interaction. The Red Stick Festival is designed to convey this by highlighting one of the most technically driven art forms available to everyone: animation.
Where will it be held?
Because the CCT Lab for Creative Arts & Technologies is designed to make discovery meaningful, we have secured the most appropriate venues to host the festival in the heart of Baton Rouge's Downtown Development District.
- Shaw Center for the Arts (Main theater and black box theaters)
- Louisiana Art & Science Museum Planetarium
- Louisiana Old State Capital
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its been a while since I updated this thing but some stuff has been happening so i guess nows a good a time as any.
we had the DVD release party earlier this month. it was nice to put MOTH in the ground for good. both Brady and I were tired of it and ready to move on to Oliver! we milked MOTH as much as we could and were lucky enough to not loose money on the DVD party. MOTH was a fun project, it could have moved faster but we were teaching ourselves this software while we were getting it in post. Oliver! will move smoother if Brady can find time to edit it (most likely in early summer). you can't touch Brady in editing, he is the best in 200 miles.
we will be adding a CAST section to our website this weekend, it might not be up by this weekend, but we will be working on it. i may also add LOVE CLUB, my final college video to the CINEMA CRANE section... which reminds me, i bought a new D8 to serve as a D8 deck (and deck only). i bought it so that we could put up more Cinema Crane stuff as well as capture the hours and hours of footage for Moving Parts. i've been capturing footage all night for the past few nights. i wish i had shot more but what we have should work fine. i hope to have the project finished by March 1st. i have to assume that the interviewing and scoring will take longer, but a boy can dream... of march 1st.
on the Oliver! front, i'm still writing it. it will be a slo process but if we can start shooting in April then it will be as good of a movie as it should be. we're eyeing a late summer/mid fall release with a DVD ready by next christmas.
Cutgirls has just been sitting there for a while. I'm still gonna make it but Oliver! comes first.
I also thought up this story about a faith healer the other night that i like.
OK thats about it. look for some website stuff in the near future.Current Mood: carpel tunnel Current Music: scissor sisters - take your momma |
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PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Brady Crane
225-278-8138
brady@cranefilms.com
Kyle Crane
225-933-9773
kyle@cranefilms.com
MAN OF THE HOUR DVD RELEASE PARTY
Baton Rouge, Louisiana - Independent film company Crane Films is announcing the DVD release party for their award winning feature film Man of the Hour. The events for the evening will include a showing of the film and the first chance to purchase the DVD at Sogo Live in Downtown Baton Rouge on January 6th 2005.
Man Of the Hour is a comedy chronicling the adventures of three outcast friends taking on the social structure of a college campus. To take out those more popular than them they invent a fictitious personality to mess with the order of status at the university. The movie is based on true events.
Man Of The Hour was written, produced, and directed by award winning filmmaker Brady Crane in the Spring of 2004. The feature was produced entirely in Baton Rouge Louisiana using local acting talent. The film is the second feature directed by Brady Crane and the second feature from Crane Films.
The film won the Silver Outhouse award at 2004’s Outhouse film and video festival in Baton Rouge. This marks the third award for director Brady Crane who has also won the Outhouse film festival award for best direction for his feature Dracula which also won the best feature award at last year’s Santa Barbara film festival’s Digital Days division.
The event is to be held on Thursday, January 6th at Sogo Live in downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The doors will open at 6pm and the show will begin at 7. Formal Attire is recommended. The film has a total running time of 98 minutes. All ages will be admitted for the showing of the film. Admission is $5 at the door. The DVD is being sold for $10. For directions to Sogo Live, check them out on the web at www.sogolive.com
Crane Films is a local production company run by the Crane brothers: Kyle, Hunter, Brady and Jamie. The foursome has been making movies in some respect since the early nineties. Kyle helped start the Cinema Club at LSU. Man Of The Hour is the first commercial release from the company. Crane Films plans to have two new features, Cutgirls and Oliver!, in competition at this year’s Outhouse film festival in Baton Rouge. Previous work by Crane Films can be screened on their website at www.cranefilms.com
Dec. 6th, 2004 @ 09:13 pm
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we now have a gentleman's agreement with SOGO LIVE to hold our DVD release party over there on Janurary 6th 2005.
tell your mom
Nov. 28th, 2004 @ 02:51 am
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hiya kiddos
due to some haggard reasons i don't have internet access in my room at this moment nor for the next few days so here are a few updates.
-OLIVER! is on a roll it looks like a large (somewhere around 50%) of it will be shot against a blue screen, which is actually green. The script should have been finished this weekend but we got side tracked with...
-DVD covers. The back cover to the DVD was a big sticking point. we agreed on the final version. Brady is doing the Disc image at the moment because we need to sent it off to...
-FILM FESTIVALS, right now we are sending it to Outhouse, SBIFF, and the Spindletop festival.
-Cutgirls chugs along. Casting stuff should come around Christmas.
OK gotta go clean out the back room so the models for Olistra and the Tomb of Alecsandra Petrov can be chizzeled out of tough foam core. Hopefully I can get it working again so i can update the site.
the two names of the lead characters in Cutgirls and OLIVER! are Patrica Ansky and Arthur Pennymane.
Nov. 14th, 2004 @ 10:48 pm
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-the DVD is still going awfully slow. apparently all the features we wanted to put on took up too much space... so now i am compressing them so they can fit. if that works we can put more stuff on... i hope.
-CUTGIRLS is now back on track. the new screenplay should be complete in 2 weeks. i'm really happy with it.
-jamie's lycan script is getting along nicely too. man that thing has never found a home.
-formated the pilot tonight. we need to find a mexican wrestling mask.
-i'm unhappy with the cinema crane web lay out so i am going to try to make smaller pop up windows for the movies over the weekend.
-also i am gonna make an ass load of new side banners for the site.
-i'm also considering working on a new mini-album.
-as soon as i finish the cutgirls script i am gonna do A roll interviews with Michael and Travis and some more people so I can edit Moving Parts over December. It should be complete on Christmas Day.
-this is all assuming that i find time to do so.
love kyle
Oct. 14th, 2004 @ 01:44 am
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today we finally got around to recording the commentary tracks for Man Of The Hour.
the cast had a blast re-visiting the memories of shooting the movie in early 2004.
we have one more commentary to record, Kyle and Brady, then all will be done and the DVD will be ready to go.
We're happy that we can now move on to our next project.
Sep. 26th, 2004 @ 04:45 pm
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