Rain test screening, synopsis and studio news |
Saturday, May 30th we plan to unveil The Rain to a private test audience at midnight. The synopsis that we will be using as part of our press kit is still being tweaked but this should give you an ide...
Posted by on Sun, 24 May 2009 21:53:00 GMT |
the Master of Musical Darkness |
That is the nickname being bestowed unto Rain composer David Bateman who has been working tirelessly these past few months to complete the ambitious score for our motion picture. And with each new mus...
Posted by on Sat, 16 May 2009 15:57:00 GMT |
RAIN TRAILER, WEBSITE, SCREENING and experienced Editor available for student films |
Beth Avery sister of MPI Graduate Dan Golden has been hired to create the official website for the RAIN. We registered a domain name and hope to launch the official site in less than a month.Rob Frene...
Posted by on Thu, 14 May 2009 10:20:00 GMT |
Hugh Schulze screens at Cannes in the Short Film Pavilion |
For the next few days, my brother will be in Cannes where his film Arc of a Bird is in the Short Film Pavilion. (For those who dont know, Arc is an 11-minute film that received a Production Fund ...
Posted by on Wed, 13 May 2009 10:44:00 GMT |
STORY TONE AND MAKEUP / HAIR STYLISTS FOR STUDENT THESIS FILMS |
In reviewing the director's notebooks and thesis scripts I have been referring to TONE, specifically the tone of a script or film. And to recap; Tone is the overall mood of the story. In understandin...
Posted by on Sun, 10 May 2009 18:31:00 GMT |
MPIs Accoustic Cafe and Mentees |
Last night we turned the stages here at MPI into a kind of accoustic cafe as a band called Infratstar and a gal named Cat Wiley took lyrics I wrote and began turning it into the end credit song for th...
Posted by on Fri, 08 May 2009 06:03:00 GMT |
FRIENDS, MOTOWN STUDIOS & THE BLUEWATER FILM FESTIVAL |
FRIENDS - as you know our feature film THE RAIN is nearly complete and despite the long arduous road we are very fortunate to have some industry contacts amoung us who are coming forward to extend a h...
Posted by on Sun, 03 May 2009 12:16:00 GMT |
RAIN SOUNDTRACK, MAY 29TH |
I have always had a secret passion for writing lyrics; song lyrics. And like filmmaker John Carpenter who writes music for his own films I too have wanted to write something musical for my films. So a...
Posted by on Fri, 01 May 2009 10:22:00 GMT |
THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT, THE RAIN SONG AND VAN GOUGH |
We are hard at work on an original song for the end credits of the RAIN and are hoping to record it with a talented band of rockers here in good old Detroit. We have been auditioning singers to find t...
Posted by on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:34:00 GMT |
RAIN POSTER ART, MPI AUDITIONS AND DIRECTOR'S CLUB YEAR END WRAP |
We have been working on some slicks (poster art) for the Rain and should have something in a couple weeks. We will post it. But it most likely wont be the official poster for the film because distrib...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:04:00 GMT |
