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You've stumbled across the production notes for the feature DV film currently in production, Blood Bound, based out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

We hope you enjoy reading the journal of our quest to get this movie made!

Please note that the blog starts with the most recent post on top. If you would like to read from the beginning, you'll have to go to April. (i.e. 4/01/2005, the archive links are available on the right.) Once there, start at the bottom and read up; repeating for every month until the present. Enjoy!

Changes and More Premieres

It was a beautiful night at Shilla's Bakery, as the Maryland/DC/Virginia posses came out the woodwork and drank bubble tea and watched the third premiere of Blood Bound.

It was a fantastic turnout, and Mason admitted later that I'd been right to put out more chairs. Tom, the manager of Shilla's was nice enough to extend our hours and the woman running the cash register even stayed an extra hour to accommodate all of the people. We started off with a speech by Mason, who gave the floor to Johnny and introduced some of the trailers from Mason's first full-length film, Life With the Dice Bag.

We did get started late, but the response was excellent!! Especially loud excitable were our under-20 and male set in the back row, who seemed to rally together with pumped fists and generally overflowing testosterone every time Mary and Toni were onscreen together.

People stayed afterwards to sign up to receive copies of the film, which segués into my next point,

The Order Page is Up

So, feel free to buy the DVD. And tell all your friends to buy it. And tell them to tell their friends. But the friends of friends of friends -- no way. They're losers.

In all seriousness, buy the film. And, if you're someone who's related to the project -- family member, significant other of cast or crew, etc -- please email me (lbrown@maysun.org) and I'll direct you to the staff discount. That's right, cause we love you.

Website Changes and New Additions

As many of you may have noticed, the website looks a whole lot different! Joel wanted to have it look like the box cover & poster so he gave me the design and I webbified it!

Of course, with all new things there are glitches here and there, and obviously I haven't converted the blog page to the new way of thinking yet. But, all will come in time.

Along with the pre-order page!

So, we issue our fondest farewells to the old page:

And welcome the new page:


You'll notice too that there's tons of new stuff on the site. Okay, well, not tons but most notably,


THE TRAILER



Please check it out!

More posts soon --

Maryland Screening!!

Attention East Coast Blood Bound fans!!

The Official East Coast Screening will be held on
Saturday, August 19th, 2006at 8:00pm
At Shilla's Bakery, a local avant-garde jazz café that also hosts a screening room!
Shilla's is also a world-famous for their Bubble Tea and exquisite pastries!

Address:
10800-D Rhode Island Ave
Beltsville, MD 20705

Telephone: (301) 937-6970

We welcome all who have yet to see the film, and those who need to see it again!
Free to the public!!

Letter by Letter

A picture is worth a thousand words.

It was cold out, especially for a June night, a full moon hanging ominously in the sky. For nearly two entire days, the press had been a-buzz with news of a midnight screening in Milwaukee that didn't require a corset, squirt gun, or rice.

It was the Blood Bound Milwaukee premiere, and this time, we'd gotten a theatre.


Kerry and Taylor are pleased at the sight of Jared raping Mason.

I'd been up most of the previous night finishing work on the single one-sheet I could afford to print, but was energized by the thought of the words Blood Bound on the Downer Theatre's marquee. Sure, we'd all seen a screening of the nearly-finished film already, but seeing it up on the marquee like an honest-to-goodness movie somehow made it all feel more real.

Luckily, Kerry had years and years of Downer marquee experience, and John had agreed to let him put up what we wanted so long as we got there early. And so we departed around 10pm, Kerry and I in the Brilliant Whale's replacement, Ol' Scrapey, Mason and the gang in his sweet pimped-out rental.


Kerry wouldn't touch A Prairie Home Companion with a 10 foot pole! ...unless, you know, he had to...

Mason, having once again travelled cross-country for the love of his film, headed for John Dahlman's office, to do a little catching up and a lot of testing of the theatre's digital projector. Mason had made three separate screeners that all arrived in the city separately.

Some people would say he was just being a bit paranoid. Those people hadn't worked on Blood Bound.


Mr. Big Shot Filmmaker makes yet another diva-esque demand that John ignores.

In the meantime, the actual Downer employees gave us a treat--our very own little theatre marquee, so that the hoardes of rabid Blood Bounders wouldn't make the mistake of going in the big theatre.

That's right, I said Blood Bounders.

I think it's going to stick.


Jared really likes that marquee. Or the women's room.

By this point, people started to arrive.

And by people, I mean STARS!


STARS!

...and also people...


PEOPLE!

When all was said and done, over 60 people showed up to see our bloody little opus, reinforcing my faith in the American public's love affair with free movies. We lingered in the lobby, talking with friends, hanging on to the experience as long as we could.

Kerry, back outside in the chill night air, removed all evidence of our brief triumph, letter by letter. Above him, the moon in the sky was full, perfect for some sort of non-descript mystical ceremony. Instead, he simply replaced each letter of the movies actually playing.

But for one night, our movie played on the big screen, and that's all that mattered.


Blood Bound on the big screen?!? Kerry can't believe it!

Blood Bound Milwaukee Screening!

Thanks to the efforts of our own Jeff Robinson, and through the graciousness of John Dahlman and the staff of Landmark's Downer Theatre, Blood Bound will, indeed, be seen on the big screen in Milwaukee, the city that gave it unholy birth.

WHERE
Landmark's Downer Theater
2589 North Downer Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53211

WHEN
June 11th, 2006
12:30am
(as in immediately following Saturday night)

Members of the cast and crew are planning on being in attendence. Best of all, admission is FREE. Tell your friends, tell your enemies, tell anyone who can hear you.

And then, you know, show up.

Mother May I

At last! Here we are. The month of May. This is it. the final month of post production. After this Blood Bound is done and done and DONE! The film itself is 98% done and just needs a few tweaks here and there, one final trim editing pass just to get things to where I'm comfortable with them, one final filter pass to make sure everythig looks as pretty as its gonna look, one final sound pass by John to make sure everythng sounds its greatest and that's it! Well, for the film...

All that's left now to do is make the trailer, capture the deleted scenes, edit all the featurettes, record all the commentaries, design the box cover, the menus, and disc art, and the press kit. Also re-design the site, put up the invaluable pre-order page, and put the whole damn thing together and send it out!! Can all this be done before June 1st? You bet! And it will be!

Now because I don't really believe in posting without pics, I mean I'll do it but I think it's boring, here’s a couple random pics from blog entries I have yet to write. But plan to get around to this month.


Jay in his workshop, man that was an insane experience...


John smiles innocently right before ripping me apart for not bringing fresh bagels.


3 guesses what these were for...