Kreating Karloff/Hello the Podcast/Palfrey Hill Pictures Launch

Kreating Karloff has launched out of the gate and has screened at two conventions as mentioned prior to so far positive response! I'll keep you posted as to what people are saying about it. I'm going to be updating the Arabian Productions.com site with some new content on Karloff, moving some news into the archive, etc.

Hello the Podcast will be launching September 8th with a new website, and obviously, a brand new episode! My goal is to hit the at least one a week schedule for the next few weeks at least until a Holiday hiatus.

Palfrey Hill Pictures has officially launched, an artists collective, it will be hosting profiles and media of frequent collaborators and friends. The site can be found at http://www.palfreyhillpictures.com.

That's all the news thats print to fit!

Wrapping Up Karloff

Gregg was by early this morning, 7AM to help do one final mix of the documentary, Kreating Karloff. I'm pleased to report, that as I am writing this, the scrolling credits are rendering within Final Cut Pro. It's been a long tremulous task, but its now completed!

It will be screening at two conventions, Fanex in Baltimore, and then Worldcon in Anaheim. It'd be nice to get to one of them and see how the audience reacts. I'll be ready to tweak it as we get more feedback from folks, but I'd say I've gotten it to be the best I can within the time limit I had.

I'm definitely feeling the tiredness hit me right now, it was a long day today that started at 5:45am, so after this finishes rendering out, I'm gonna pick it up again tomorrow.

On a side note, how about this amazing weather??

Ambitious Goals

I'm comin' 'round the bend with "Kreating Karloff," I'd love another month but I just don't have it! It's been quite the process taking twelve hours of interviews/b-roll and cut together a coherent interesting story. So much is on the floor but you can't have an attachment to anything, because the only thing that is important is the flow of the story.

I mean obviously it'd be great to include some stuff, and I have no doubt in my mind some of the people involved are going to be bummed, but there was so much to cram into under an hour that there was really no choice in what I did.

I'm cutting together the Karloff biography this weekend, and then adding the "sweeteners," cutaways and archival footage in the sections that require it, but I'm more or less on the last turn here.

Conor, whose brainchild this documentary was, is going to be coming down next week to take a look at the final cut and offer his input. Unfortunately, he has it screening at conventions starting the week of August 21st, offering little to no opportunity for revision, but I'm very confident in my work. There is never enough time to do everything that needs to be done, but thats just how it works!

After Kreating Karloff is over, my idle mind will shift to the second season of Hello the Podcast, where many many changes are going to take place.

Keep you posted!

-Vatche

Updates

To those who keep an eye on what we're up to over here, Kreating Karloff is moving right along! Last night, in preperation for two very hot days (my editing space uses what the French call "air conditíon le natural..." I don't know French) I blasted through what I had left for the first assemble of the documentary.

I'd say I'll be hitting one hour on this one easy, my longest project since "A Look Through Hour Eyes."

Andy is heading out to the West Coast, which means no Simon in "Hello Simon," but we're cooking up something good.

Palfrey Hill Pictures is being developed into being more of an artists collective, a host to my frequent collaborators and I.

Gregg Swiatlowski, the sound guy, is doing quite well for himself down in NYC, I'll have to start paying him Union rates soon!

But the movie is looking good, and is screening at two Science Fiction conventions at the end of the month, so my deadline is creeping up! Lot's of work ahead!