First up, as Kaminski noted in his last blog, Steven, Trent, and I have finished our Improv classes at Relapse Theatre and we’ve graduated. We did three shows total as a class and now we are all moving on to new separate groups and projects within the company. Speaking of new projects, Steven and I are in a new improv show called LaughTrack, with Melissa Owens and Jan Lefrancios-Gijzen, both of whom you hopefully soon recognize from “Of Rats and Men” and Jesse Cramer, another of our former classmates. LaughTrack is a completely improvised sit-com that we perform based on the title of a made up sitcom that the audience suggests. We had our first show the Saturday before last, where we opened up for IMPROV! the Musical, one of Jackpie’s Featured Productions. The show went extremely well. We have another show this coming Thursday January 27th, and after that we will be performing monthly at Relapse. We hope to see at one of our shows in the future. Oh, and did I mention that Relapse has a full bar now? Now do you wanna come see our show?
Steven’s dad, Jack, recorded the show for us, so I might look into posting it up on the site, if the rest of the in the group don’t mind. I also wanted to mention, while we’re on the subject of improv, that Kaminski has started his classes at Relapse, and we all wish him luck, and we hope he has as much fun working with Jackpie as we did.
Next up on the agenda is the topic of editing. From what I hear, Jerry is back to work on the editing process of “Of Rats and Men,” after almost a month of delays, including his being snowed in in Tennessee. We hope to announce some dates for a screening soon, so as always check back here for updates.
But Jerry hasn’t been the only person editing around here. I’ve been wanted to try my hand at editing for a while now, and finally broke down and bought me some Adobe Premiere Elements, and have been tinkering around with it for about a week or so. The end result of the aforementioned tinkering session is our brand spanking new KREJ Productions Demo Reel. It features footage from all of our previous films, including “Tim and Katie,” “Of Rats and Men,” and the unreleased short that I directed, “Bored.” Take a look:
My next editing assignment is gonna be “Bored” which is a short, Grindhouse-like trailer, which I also wrote and directed.
As always, Kaminski and I are still putting pen to paper and get some good old fashion writing done. We’ve been working on a bunch of things, separately and on our own, like scripts for shorts, comics, and a few feature films and all kinds of good stuff, and I’ve heard tale that the young sir Trenton has been writing a thing or… ok just a thing, but still, good on him. There’s been a little talk about getting together with some of our fellow improvisers and shooting a few sketches sometime soon. I hope we do that. Sketches are a lot of fun to do, and we haven’t made any sketches in a long long time. Before KREJ I wanna say.
There has been some early talk of us shooting a music video for Atlanta based metal band Eyes of Torment. The video will be for the song “Sledgehammer’s Don’t Need Reloading,” which was influenced in part by the band’s bassist Josh Thompson’s experience playing Kevin in “Tim and Katie.” I’ve seen Eyes of Torment play numerous times before and the song “Sledgehammers…” kicks all kinds of ass. The band will hopefully be going into the studio soon to record the track, and after that we’ll see about actually shooting the video. The thing I’m excited about the most with this project, is we are definitely gonna be working with zombies again. If you’re not doing anything tonight, come check out Eyes of Torment tear the stage a new asshole at The Masquerade at 7:00.
And lastly I want to announce that KREJ has recently taken a meeting with our good friend Ron Ogden and his brother and our new good friend Reid regarded some upcoming collaborations between our company and their company Ogden Media Group (OMG!). The first project that we are working on is a short film that the Ogden brothers are developing right now, and that we are planning on shooting next month. I don’t wanna give away too much, but the short will star Ron and will be directed by Reid. There has also been talk about developing some features with the two companies. It’s all very exciting and we can’t wait to work with these talented guys. I have a feeling we’re gonna do great things together. In the meantime, please check out the Ogden Media Group’s Facebook page here:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ogden-Media-Group/157343300968655?v=wall#!/pages/Ogden-Media-Group/157343300968655
Anywhoozle, that’s pretty much what’s been going on around KREJ HQ. Out of curiosity, I rented Piranha (unfortunately the none 3D version) and I think it’s about time I get around to killing that cat. What say you?
Cheers,
-Grantzy
