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Exciting Annoucement Time!
Posted by ScottAlbert in Ashes Production Blog, Latest News, Tights and Fights on November 2nd, 2010
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Hola, Scott here!
It’s been a while since I last posted any actual news here – there was a lot more time to do stuff like that before we started posting episodes! We hope that you’re enjoying them, we’re pretty exciting to be sharing them with you.
But actually, we’ve got a few announcements, and they are interrelated, so I thought that I might as well put them into this one post. So here goes!
Bump Two Filming starts in December!
That’s right. The sixty episodes that we have already shot, and are currently releasing online, only takes us a third of the way through the story. We have are moving ahead on production of the next sixty!
What can you expect from them? How about time travel, monkeys, ninjas, split personalities, Fantabulous Gal as a cleaning service mogul, an evil robot invasion of Leopardia – Leopard Woman’s kingdom in the middle of the planet, The Plumber goes undercover… and much much more!
We’re going into prep in November, just as we’re approaching our official launch on November 12. Busy, busy month – we hope you think it is worth it!
Okay, on to related exciting annoucement #2!
Table Read for Bump Two is tomorrow!
For the second time, we’re gathering all of our cast and key crew together to hear all the scripts from Bump Two out loud. This is a crucial testing ground for jokes and storylines – trying to figure out what works and what doesn’t. What needs to be punched up and what needs to be left alone, even though the joke may not be fresh to you two years after you wrote it.
The table read is also a nice chance to have everyone gathered in one spot – one of the few times that this happens for our oversize, sprawling production.
We’ll let you know how it goes! And then it’s on to the punch up room sessions, where the scripts get rewritten (again) and many laughs spill out of the boardroom here at the Gopher Hole.
And speaking of writing, here’s related and exciting announcement #3!
Live Transmedia Performances Start This Week!
Some of you who follow our characters on twitter or YouTube have already noticed they have started chatting with each other, and the occasional ‘civilian.’ That’s what we call our ‘low intensity’ Transmedia activities – and we’re only just getting our feet wet with those. But this week, we’ll be doing our first, live Transmedia performance!
Because we’re thinking of this as a bit of a test run, I’m not going to give you any times or dates here. Rest assured, if you follow us on Twitter, you’ll get more info. (If you don’t – why not?) This first performance will be low key, and low stress, but as we get our sea legs you’ll be hearing a lot more about these performances – and you’ll see why we call this show the most Transmedia story ever told!
The real fun part of these performances is that you can join in! We’re looking to get our audience to be as involved with how the plot unfolds us the characters themselves. It’s like an improvised scene that anyone can be a part of! Exciting, no?
So that’s it for the announcements right now. But watch this space – there’ s plenty of surprises still to come!
Table Read Tonight!
Posted by ScottAlbert in Ashes Production Blog, Show News, Tights and Fights on August 17th, 2010
Posted by: Scott
The day is here.
It’s weird. We’ve opened out (tiny) office for Tights and Fights: Ashes. We’ve hired key positions. We’ve cast. We’ve signed contracts and got a (for us) large lump o’ cash. As you read a couple of posts ago, we sent a day on a super hero costume road trip.
So why is the table read the thing that makes it feel real?
I guess, being mostly a writer, this is the moment where suddenly it’s not just silly, funny words on a page that made you giggle to yourself, now actual people have to listen to other actual people say them out loud. And it either works or it don’t.
I know I promised a part two to the writing history, and I’m getting to that (this has been a crazy time for me) but I would remiss if I left you with the impression that I wrote this entire series sitting in my basement, or something. By the way, if you’re wondering, I’m using remiss in the sense of, “be an asshole.” And I don’t have a basement.
Nor was I alone on this journey. I named names in the earlier post, but the only reason this show is going to camera is because we surrounded ourselves with people funnier, smarter and prettier than we are. And now they’re gonna dress up in funny super hero costumes and say silly things to the world.
But still. I want it to be funny, and fun, and – perhaps the greatest challenge of all – make sense across more than 180 episodes. It’s scary. I’ve never had to make sense for longer than five minutes at a stretch. One of my biggest fears is that a year from now some YouTuber’s gonna watch the latest episode and post, “Can you explain what’s going on, here?”
This is a massive narrative, with plot threads coming and going like the paths of dogs playing in the dog park. And it’s always been my job to keep track of them on a big picture level. So I do feel a sense of responsibility when it comes to the read through. Some people who will be attending are going to be experiencing the story (at least the first third that will be read this evening) for the first time. I’m proud of the scripts, the writing, the talent involved. And today is the start of the long road of sharing it with the world. I can’t wait slash scared shitless. Which is pretty much normal for me.
The biggest challenge tonight is that all three of us, Courtney, Christopher and I, need to have our heads in the table read, which means that none of us can be making sure things are running smooth behind the scenes. But we’ll try to figure out a way to live tweet the read, so we can share a tiny taste of it with you.
Wish us luck, and watch this space!
Scott
