tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87438317401360095022024-02-19T03:16:10.322-08:00Fear of Clowns - The LogThis is the behind the scenes log for "Fear of Clowns", released by Lionsgate Films in 2004. I'm the writer/director of the film and I've never before shown this stuff anywhere. So it's like I'm a little girl and you've stolen my diary. Here, read it. Later, I will be embarrassed.Kangashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05306092145547452231noreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743831740136009502.post-25278297335460713632021-10-20T09:46:00.002-07:002021-10-20T09:46:33.598-07:00Fear of Clowns on Tubi for FREE!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHdpJ9sSrvvuZl28QxH3N82wKlFNagpyJvYqds6ZX_Wp62mDIKm8JLoug3sN2pgphvIgcGlsN_RmWOXE3v-LN621J0qQSRBt47SG9rhyI9c4uxzfcX4Ffg-AOk5PPh2fuAbhCTi1kvhQU/s1658/tubi+movies.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="1658" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHdpJ9sSrvvuZl28QxH3N82wKlFNagpyJvYqds6ZX_Wp62mDIKm8JLoug3sN2pgphvIgcGlsN_RmWOXE3v-LN621J0qQSRBt47SG9rhyI9c4uxzfcX4Ffg-AOk5PPh2fuAbhCTi1kvhQU/w400-h169/tubi+movies.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>And a bunch of my other flicks too--check 'em out for free!</p><p><a href="http://bit.ly/kkftubi">bit.ly/kkftubi</a></p><p><br /></p>Kangashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05306092145547452231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743831740136009502.post-39232921123669377912019-12-12T17:50:00.000-08:002019-12-12T17:50:30.458-08:00My First "Fear of Clowns" Update in over two years...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>An image from the original ending that was deleted.</b></div>
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Why am I back to discuss this flick? Well, next year I get the rights back from Lionsgate after a long 15 years. I'm not sure why they never chose to exploit the digital rights to the flick, but whatever--they probably figured since it wasn't spelled out in the contract--which was done pre-streaming--they might not own those rights explicitly.<br />
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Well, I don't have the finished version of this movie anymore--the master is on digibeta, and I don't have a digibeta machine any more. I DO have the exported individual scenes of the movie, but they were shortened later.<br />
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So I'm having to go through and piece the movie together. Then I ripped the final version of the flick from the dvd, and am now going through and making it about the same. I'm changing a few things--some shots, for instance. I'm correcting mis-matched eyelines whereever I can.<br />
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And all that annoying blurring-out of movie posters and stuff at the end of the flick? No need for that any more. So now you'll get to see exactly the time period we were dealing with as you're regaled by the posters and banners of every movie coming to that theater we shot in.<br />
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I'll do some color correcting and some audio fixing where I can.<br />
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I plan to put the film up on Amazon next year--gotta go look up what month the rights revert back, but that's when I plan on it. Probably won't make much money on it--Amazon has once again decided to fuck us indies by lowering rates again. (what else is new?)<br />
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It will now be to the point that a person streaming my entire movie will get me paid about two cents. That's not a typo. Sure, you can earn higher if your movie gets a lot of views, but what's the chances of that happening with a movie that's 15 years old?<br />
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But hey, there's your update.Kangashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05306092145547452231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743831740136009502.post-29869203083280671142017-11-09T03:36:00.001-08:002017-11-09T03:36:24.217-08:00The Making Of Fear of Clowns - Extended Cut - FREE on Amazon Prime<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Check it out--never before seen in its entirety!<br />
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Live the nightmare with me! FREE!<br />
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<a href="http://amzn.to/2zotYYb">http://amzn.to/2zotYYb</a>Kangashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05306092145547452231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743831740136009502.post-71465599512083148842016-02-19T17:18:00.002-08:002016-02-19T17:18:54.748-08:00"Fear of Clowns" raw Behind The Scenes Footage!MORE unedited video from the behind the scenes, but this time from the original Fear of Clowns!<br />
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Check 'em out! The first four are from the decapitation of John Patrick Barry who played an officer of the law in the wrong place at the wrong time!<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOR6v1Wb58YlJnoH2htzS4xkcplBb_Ms8">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOR6v1Wb58YlJnoH2htzS4xkcplBb_Ms8</a>Kangashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05306092145547452231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743831740136009502.post-51841718235093080802015-12-03T17:37:00.001-08:002015-12-03T17:37:45.773-08:00Raw Behind The Scenes Video from "Fear of Clowns 2"Came across some old hard drives, so in the interest of saving some of these videos in case those hard drives go down, here are some random videos:<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOR6v1Wb58YkDLhmAVR3tqvKJRvyNfDSv">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOR6v1Wb58YkDLhmAVR3tqvKJRvyNfDSv</a><br />
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<br />Kangashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05306092145547452231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743831740136009502.post-34955287178674741932015-04-05T00:32:00.001-07:002015-04-05T00:32:13.562-07:00Piracy, Google and Youtube<br />
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<a href="http://www.neurope.eu/kn/article/ethics-internet-piracy" target="_blank"><b>The interesting article I pulled the pic from</b></a></div>
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I've never been very subtle about my take on pirating our films. It's theft, plain and simple.Pirating our movies doesn't help us one bit--anyone who says it does is simply rationalizing their behavior.<br />
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<br />
There's an article here that's interesting to note about one movie that may not be happening due to piracy, and THAT'S a movie that actually gets a serious distributor, so they get paid actual advances and whatnot.<br />
<a href="http://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/the-abcs-of-death-3-happen-pirates/?utm_content=buffer83960&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer">http://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/the-abcs-of-death-3-happen-pirates/?utm_content=buffer83960&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer</a><br />
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But there's another problem that's become more of an issue, and that's Youtube. People are uploading full versions of movies(including ours) so that people can watch the entire movie without paying a dime.<br />
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The only thing we can do is submit a copyright notification so that Google, owners of Youtube, will remove the video. (at their leisure)<br />
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Meanwhile, the people uploading these videos are collecting Ad Revenue from OUR movies, and Google won't give that money to us, even after finding out that the video was illegally uploaded.<br />
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How can this be? I have no idea.<br />
<br />Viacom actually sued Google for 1 billion in damages for videos of theirs, but the case was settled out of court for apparently NO MONEY. Apparently Google is more or less protected because of an idiotic clause in the DMCA act that says as long as a web site removes copyrighted material after being notified about it, it's all good.<br />
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Think about that.<br />
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Do you know of any other law you can break where you're okay if you simply STOP doing it after you're informed it's illegal? "Yeah, I stole that car, but I totally returned it when I was notified that it was stolen."<br />
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Meanwhile Viacom was saying, quite rightfully, that they were having to hire people to police Youtube on a 24 hour basis for violations. Why is it up to the copyright holders to pay money to police Youtube? It should be up to Youtube--and when it finds someone's copyright violated, it should pull all ad dollars made on that video and apply them to the copyright holder's account.<br />
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The internet's opened up a lot of distribution doors for indie filmmakers, but I have to tell you that the negatives are pretty weighty. Here's hoping Google gets its act together regarding Youtube. Kangashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05306092145547452231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743831740136009502.post-68346846876236855452015-02-06T02:24:00.002-08:002015-02-06T02:33:27.928-08:00VOD on your film -- How Much Can I Make? Also, Kinonation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As all of us low-to-no-budget filmmakers scramble to figure out how
to survive in this new landscape, the question rises often: "Can you
really make money on VOD?"<br />
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I'm going to tell you that
it's certainly possible given how our newest film "Garden of Hedon" has
been doing on Amazon. Have we made our budget back? Hell no. But
considering we've done ZERO advertising on it other than a few
interviews for online sites it's been doing very well. (and we've also
only offered it for sale, not rentals...so it's actually selling at a
$9.99 price point)<br />
<br />
Haven't checked it out yet? What are you waiting for? <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=garden+of+hedon/&tag=empyrecomics" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a>!<br />
(it's also available on Blu Ray, but it's almost sold out AGAIN) <br />
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Anyway, I stumbled onto a site called <a href="http://kinonation.com/" target="_blank">kinonation</a>--they're an aggregator. If you don't know what that is, I'll try to explain it quickly.<br />
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You
will not get your movie to Netflix or Itunes or Hulu or any of the
other big boys without a distributor...OR an aggregator. For a fee you can
submit your movie to the aggregator, and they will then submit the film to
any of those sites you ask them to(and have paid them to, as each site
costs something different)<br />
<br />
The decent aggregators will
give you your money back(or most of it) if your film is rejected from
the place they submitted it. It's expensive(most aggregators want in the
neighborhood of $1500 to submit your HD film)--so believe me, if you're
NOT going to get your money back on rejection then it's a $1500 gamble.<br />
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If your movie DOES get approved then you get 100% of the profits minus a yearly fee of like $79 from the aggregator. <br />
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I have never tried an aggregator.<br />
<br />
But
kinonation has a new idea. They will take your film and submit it to
the various places for NO upfront cost. They take 20% of any money you
make on any approved venue.<br />
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A much bigger chunk but the
much-better way for filmmakers. I feel the same way about producer's
reps--you wanna go with the guy who's willing to take a percentage from
what you make rather than an upfront fee. He doesn't make a dime unless he sells your movie, so
it's incentive for him to pimp your film. It also tells you that he
believes in your movie.<br />
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Any rep who wants upfront money rather than a percentage is clearly a guy who has no confidence in selling your flick.<br />
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So
kinonation is relatively new. I can't find any information about their
successes. They keep a pretty great blog with a lot of useful
information, and I found this interview below with the founder that
sheds some actual light on--get this--NUMBERS you might expect from VOD.<br />
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<i><b>Ad Supported Revenue</b></i>
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<i>As a filmmaker it may be mildly irritating to have multiple :30 sec
TV spots before, during & after your feature film. But it
definitely generates income. <b>Hulu</b> is one of our beta-test partners, and
so we already have some good data from the dozen or so KinoNation films
that are live on Hulu and we're adding more every day now. Likewise
with Swiss-based Viewster. So what are the revenue factors here? In
simple terms, it's the number of ads served before/during/after your
films, multiplied by the price of the ad. In reality, ads are sold to
various agencies at different rates. So you may have a :30 sec spot in
your film on Hulu for BMW, at a CPM (cost per thousand) of $23. And also
a Tide spot at a CPM of $19. Plus there may be 9 ad "slots" in your
film, but insufficient demand at the moment it's playing to fill those
slots, so 2 of the 7 go un-monetized. Hulu suggests an ad slot every
8-12 mins. Which is why in the KinoNation metadata, we have a section
for ad breaks where the filmmaker defines with timecode down to the
frame where the ads are inserted. Much better viewing experience if
the ads don't interrupt a scene. So what does this mean if you have a
film on Hulu? Let's say it gets watched a modest 200 times each day. By
"watched" I mean someone starts watching it they don't necessarily
finish watching it. In fact, the average time watched may be the most
critical metric not just in revenue terms, but in raw "how engaging is
my film?" terms. If they bail (on average) after 20 minutes, you have a
problem. If they bail on average after 50 minutes you make a LOT more
cash. Remember, it's all about averages the reality is that some
people watch to the end, some bail within the first 5 mins and most
are in between. Anyway, 200 times a day means your film "sells" around
1000 ads. So at a CPM of $20, your film has just made twenty bucks.
Which you share 50:50 with the outlet. So you made $10 today. And then
KinoNation take 20%. You're left with $8. Doesn't seem like much. But
that's $3000 a year from one of many VoD platforms, and my #'s are
actually uber-conservative. If you successfully promote your film you
can make way more. Meanwhile, with Viewster in Europe we're seeing a
lower CPM around 5 or 6 Euros. Not surprising less mature market,
less premium outlet. But, every view of your film on every outlet is
incremental revenue. That's why you need to be on dozens of outlets.
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<i><b>Subscription VoD Revenue</b></i>
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<i>There's a little more dough in SVOD, I think, because you're not a
slave to ad rates and CPMs. SVOD means the user is paying a flat monthly
(<b>Netflix & Hulu Plus</b>) or annual (<b>Amazon Prime</b>) fee. Amazon Prime
and Hulu Plus are part of our beta test, so I can provide some numbers.
Amazon Prime is their $79 a year subscription to get free shipping. But
it also gives the subscriber free access to Amazon Prime videos.
KinoNation filmmakers can select Amazon Instant and/or Amazon prime.
Most select both, which is probably wise. Prime pays 10 cents per movie
played. So when a thousand people watch your film on Prime, you make
$100, less 20% to KinoNation. Again, it's not big money, but the math
starts to work for you because of the tens of millions of Amazon users,
multiplied by month after month. It's better with Hulu Plus. They pay
18.5 cents per view (defined as a minimum of six minutes.) So a thousand
views grosses you $185. Not bad.
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<i><b>Transactional Revenue</b></i>
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<i>Transactional VoD (TVOD) is radically different in psychological
terms the viewers has to pay a flat fee for your film. With most VoD
outlets (but not all) you can set the rental price, or at least a price
band. It's typically $3-6 per rental, for 48 hrs. You get 70% via
iTunes, or 50% via almost everyone else. More on this in future posts
right now we don't have any data.
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Pretty interesting stuff. I've applied for an
account so I can get a better idea of what they're looking for in
deliverables. I was a little weirded out that they claim your movie
cannot have any URLS in the end credits...they say all VOD outlets
insist on this, but I can tell you that my movie Bounty has a bunch of
URLs(not just the movie's, but a couple of web sites I thanked), and we
played on Time Warner, Comcast, Verizon, etc.<br />
<br />
And I
thought most movies have URLs at the end, so I hopped on Netflix and
scanned the first two movies I came across. No URLs. So I dunno.<br />
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Will update this as I find out. But if you have had any dealings with kinonation please post a comment so we know.<br />
Kangashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05306092145547452231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743831740136009502.post-30214810453956653942014-04-20T21:09:00.000-07:002017-08-22T02:55:12.870-07:00Advice on Writing Screenplays<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm gonna ramble a bit.<br />
<br />
I don't normally give advice on writing screenplays. Like, who the fuck am I to do that? Well, I'm technically way more qualified than a lot of hacks who do it...<br />
<br />
I was a script reader for nearly two years for a company in Los Angeles. I did it all from the comfort of my house. I got the job through the AOL screenwriter message boards, of all places. A working screenwriter on the boards that I had known for a while recommended me to a production company who was looking for readers.<br />
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Only problem was that I had never done any coverage for any screenplay. Coverage is the detailed breakdown on a script, and at the end you would put whether you Recommend The Script, Pass on the Script or Pass on the Script/Recommend Writer, which means you'd request another script from the writer.<br />
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I lucked out and found some coverage from a book--did a sample coverage on one of my own scripts. I figured I'd not only try to get the job, but maybe they'd even request my script.<br />
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I got the job, but they never requested my script.<br />
<br />
This was back in 1998ish. The only internet around was the dial up kind. Like 28.8K shit. Yeah, the kind that made the beep handshake sounds when connecting.<br />
<br />
Anyway, they started mailing me two scripts a week. I'd read them, do coverage and send them back within seven days. Then repeat. They paid me around $50 per script. <br />
<br />
And the craziest part? I must have reviewed around 200 scripts and I never recommended one. I think I recommended a couple of the writers, but none of the scripts were very good. <br />
<br />
At the end I was actually prepping to shoot my first flick when I quit. But one script they sent me was SO bad that I sent back the coverage with the line "This script is so bad I couldn't get past 10 pages. Don't pay me for this one. Also, it will be my last script as I'm going off to shoot my own movie." You can find a sample of the coverage I did here, but I removed the title of the script.<br />
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So that's one of the reasons I feel a little more qualified to advise about writing scripts. Add on the fact that I've been writing for 30 years, have written over 30 screenplays, and have read well over 300 scripts at this point.<br />
<br />
My advice is going to be pretty vague really. I just figured, as I get asked on occasion, that I would pass on what books I think are the most helpful for screenwriters. At least, they were the most helpful to me.<br />
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1) <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Scriptshadow-Secrets-Screenwriting-Hidden-Inside-ebook/dp/B00ADZRJ7Y/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1397815374&sr=1-1&keywords=scriptshadow+secrets" target="_blank">Scriptshadow Secrets</a> - This is the newest one I've read and it's chock full of incredible advice using some actual great movies, rather than the normal horseshit you read where they dissect Citizen Kane and Chinatown. <br />
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2) <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Screenwriting-Sequence-Approach-Paul-Gulino/dp/0826415687/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1397815470&sr=1-1&keywords=sequence+approach" target="_blank">Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach</a> - Again a newer one, but one I'm drawn to more and more. It's actually a pretty short book but I'm more and more convinced that using the sequence approach can make finishing a screenplay so much easier. <br />
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3) <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Story-Substance-Structure-Principles-Screenwriting/dp/0060391685/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1397815628&sr=1-1&keywords=story+robert+mckee" target="_blank">Story by Robert McKee</a> - Probably the most important one to start with if you're completely green<br />
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4)<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Art-Dramatic-Writing-Lajos-Egri/dp/8087830709/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1397815833&sr=1-2&keywords=art+of+dramatic+writing" target="_blank"> The Art of Dramatic Writing by Lajos Egri</a> - This is an older book that doesn't deal with screenwriting, but instead gives some very valuable advice on writing in general. Certainly applicable to screenplays.<br />
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5) <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Emotional-Impact-Techniques-Fascinate/dp/1595940286/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1397815928&sr=1-1&keywords=writing+for+emotional+impact" target="_blank">Writing for Emotional Impact</a> - Pound for pound probably the best book I ever read on the subject of writing. I try to read this as often as I can to keep the principles fresh.<br />
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Books I don't recommend:<br />
You'll notice, if you know anything about the books above, that they're not much for formula or things like THIS has to happen by page so and so. I think that not only is that helping to make movies feel very by-the-numbers but it's dumbing down the art form. So that's why these books don't get a thumbs up from me.<br />
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1) Save The Cat - Listen, the core principle is sound. Basically let me save you the money on the book by telling you that you need to make your main character likeable. PERIOD. So if he saves an animal or person in the first 10 pages, he will be likeable. But there's a million other ways to do it, and the other things the author tells you to do on this page and that page are just dumb and simplified. Use the sequence approach instead, which basically tells you to break your movie into 10 or so sequences, generally of whatever length you'd like, and your movie won't feel so by-the-book. Not only that but it will be easier to write and STILL be a better movie.<br />
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2) Syd Field's Any Of Them - Syd was the screenwriting guru, and his the first book I ever read on writing screenplays. (he wrote a few books but at the time the only one he had then was Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting; A step-by-step guide from concept to finished script). The problem is that a new screenwriter will read this and really start to feel like he's in a box. It will constrain your creativity as you try to follow all the rules. Just don't.<br />
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3) How To Write A Movie In 21 Days - Just complete crap. I think this is the only writing book I ever threw away after reading. <br />
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So those are the ones I'd recommend. You gotta understand that in this day of advanced technology...where your average Joe Schmoe can pick up a camera and shoot a decent picture because of how good the technology is...and then edit it because computers are so cheap...and add cool effects because Andrew Kramer's way too generous with his genius...EVERY facet of creating movies is being made easier and more simple for your average person.<br />
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Except writing. No computer program, no technology is ever going to make creating a great screenplay easy. That's your ace in the hole if you're trying to compete now. You've got to become a good writer. <br />
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And that takes a lot of writing. Kangashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05306092145547452231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743831740136009502.post-34384267340665913962014-02-02T22:41:00.004-08:002014-02-02T22:41:57.934-08:00Night of the Clowns<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3465392/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3465392/</a><br />
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I guess it's only fitting that I put this here. It appears to be about 90% certain that my next movie will be a return to clowns. No, not FOC3 which will probably never happen, but "Night of the Clowns".<br />
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Not only will it be super cool to be right before "Night of the Comet" and "Night of the Creeps" in an alphabetical movie order, but it's set in the 1980's. A return to my teenage years!<br />
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I can't talk too much about it, but suffice it to say it's gonna be a straight horror film. Lotta deaths and a lotta clowns.<br />
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Here's Fangoria talking about it a little with their announcement of the FOC2 Blu Ray! Free shipping's almost over, so get yours now!<br />
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<a href="http://www.fangoria.com/new/exclusive-director-talks-night-of-the-clowns-fear-of-clowns-2-on-blu-ray/">http://www.fangoria.com/new/exclusive-director-talks-night-of-the-clowns-fear-of-clowns-2-on-blu-ray/</a><br />
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<br />Kangashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05306092145547452231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743831740136009502.post-88510718655239126382013-10-03T15:48:00.001-07:002014-05-06T03:11:15.322-07:00Filmmaking Advice: Unmotivated Movement<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<u><b>Uh oh, this scene's gonna be boring without some unmotivated movement...</b></u></div>
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You know, I try to stay away from giving advice regarding filmmaking because let's face it: Who the hell am I to be giving advice? (and if you've ever seen my early movies, you're probably nodding your head right now)<br />
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Practical advice, like, what kind of microphone should you use/not use or what's a good way to use guns in the street with no permits so nobody gets shot or arrested? Yeah, I'll do that. But advice regarding actual directing? I try to stay away.<br />
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But I feel like I want to put this out there so maybe younger filmmakers will start to consider this aspect of what I'm seeing more and more of. The topic is: Unmotivated movement.<br />
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It's always been a pet peeve of mine. I'm not even sure most new filmmakers even understand what it is. So, here ya go.<br />
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When you set up a shot that has movement in it you need to consider WHY you are moving the camera. If you are moving the camera because your shot is boring otherwise then that is unmotivated movement. You'll find a lot of this during conversations between people.<br />
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And sure, I've even been guilty of this on occasion. You got two talking heads on the screen for two minutes and it feels like DEATH. I know. Best advice I ever heard about this is to GET YOUR TALKING HEADS WALKING. Instead of sitting down, have them GOING somewhere. Now you have motivated movement because if your camera doesn't move then it's missing the action.<br />
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THAT is the prime reason for camera movement. The camera should be moving to follow the action or to draw the viewer's eye to something. <br />
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The only other reason to move the camera is to reveal the geography of a scene that may come in to play later. So you're orienting the viewer so they understand the scene that will unfold.<br />
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That's pretty much it. (other than using certain movements to dramatically emphasize/de-emphasize a character) Sure, I'm simplifying it quite a bit. There's stylistic reasons and there's mood-related reasons. But that's not why many of today's budding filmmakers are moving the camera--they're moving the camera because STATIC(NON-MOVEMENT) IS BAD(in their head).<br />
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I know, you got that new slider for your DSLR so you really wanna move the camera parallel to what's going on because FILM IS MOVEMENT, man!(I don't remember where I first heard this quote) But it's really not.<br />
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And why not, you ask? Well, one reason is because if every shot is moving then every shot with movement loses its meaning, its punch. If you have three static shots of individual people, then a shot where you're pushing in on another person, that last shot will bring extra meaning to that person(the viewer will understand that person or moment is important). Now if you have the same push in on four different people, it's meaningless. <br />
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So all I'm asking is to think about WHY you're moving the camera in your shot. If there's no reason and you want the movement anyway, add a reason. It'll improve the shot.<br />
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Trust me, I know what I'm doing. You know how you know? Look, I have one of those douchey pictures where I'm framing a shot, that's how you know. :)<br />
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<br />Kangashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05306092145547452231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743831740136009502.post-49150635764572851542013-08-21T03:33:00.000-07:002013-08-21T03:33:20.688-07:00More reviews<br />
Google notifications is the greatest thing ever! It sends me links to reviews on the web. Here's some I hadn't see before:<br />
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Mostly negative:<br />
<a href="http://redandsticky.blogspot.com/2011/11/must-kill-to-getbetter-fear-of-clowns.html">http://redandsticky.blogspot.com/2011/11/must-kill-to-getbetter-fear-of-clowns.html</a><br />
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Negative:<br />
<a href="http://bhorrorblog.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/fear-of-clowns/">http://bhorrorblog.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/fear-of-clowns/</a><br />
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Mostly positive:<br />
<a href="http://musingthetrauma.blogspot.com/2010/05/fear-of-clowns.html">http://musingthetrauma.blogspot.com/2010/05/fear-of-clowns.html</a><br />
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But how 'bout this? We're on the list of 10 best Scary Clown movies from Screen Junkies!<br />
<a href="http://www.screenjunkies.com/movies/genres-movies/horror-films/10-best-killer-clown-movies/">http://www.screenjunkies.com/movies/genres-movies/horror-films/10-best-killer-clown-movies/</a><br />
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And we're in the "15 Weird and Evil Clowns In Movies" list!<br />
<a href="http://whatculture.com/film/15-weird-and-evil-clowns-in-movies.php/6">http://whatculture.com/film/15-weird-and-evil-clowns-in-movies.php/6</a><br />
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And then there's this website that says "it's their favorite movie" and then proceeds to give the craziest summary of FOC I've ever read:<br />
<a href="http://www.freewebs.com/fh253/">http://www.freewebs.com/fh253/</a><br />
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More if I find them!Kangashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05306092145547452231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743831740136009502.post-86093007120933407292012-12-29T01:32:00.000-08:002013-02-22T11:17:03.014-08:00Long TimeMan, over a year without a post! Well, as I mentioned there's not a lot to post anymore since I already posted the logs.<br />
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Anyway, I recently decided to google alert any reviews of FOC and FOC2. Here's a couple newer ones I hadn't seen before:<br />
(semi-positive) <br />
<a href="http://jennyshouseofhorrors.blogspot.com/2012/10/fear-of-clowns.html" target="_blank">http://jennyshouseofhorrors.blogspot.com/2012/10/fear-of-clowns.html</a><br />
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(mostly negative)<br />
<a href="http://www.critical-film.com/reviews/F/fearofclowns/fearofclowns.html" target="_blank">http://www.critical-film.com/reviews/F/fearofclowns/fearofclowns.html</a><br />
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(6 out of 10)<br />
<a href="http://www.nefariousfilms.com/Reviews/Fear%20of%20Clowns%20Review.html" target="_blank">http://www.nefariousfilms.com/Reviews/Fear%20of%20Clowns%20Review.html</a><br />
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(mostly negative but gets points for calling Rick a "slightly doughier Taylor Lautner" and for calling Frank Lama "<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> so darn handsome</span>", "<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">extremely attractive", </span>"<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">handsome", and calling Shivers "</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">pec-tastic porn clown".)</span><br />
<a href="http://andrewscottwrites.blogspot.com/2012/07/friday-filmteenth-fear-of-clowns.html" target="_blank">http://andrewscottwrites.blogspot.com/2012/07/friday-filmteenth-fear-of-clowns.html</a><br />
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Fairly positive:<br />
<a href="http://www.rakuten.com/prod/fear-of-clowns/202147334.html">http://www.rakuten.com/prod/fear-of-clowns/202147334.html</a>Kangashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05306092145547452231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743831740136009502.post-57691276821933924922011-08-30T21:34:00.000-07:002011-08-30T21:34:46.834-07:00Defending Your Movie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPq4dN5jyTHf9cPjITrxdgbaLFhTJaM3w0lNAaifWKEKeY4xaczGB4VAwev5Ulxefiphue5muR68tPrIGSBmWzvAbRFfD_ewirFi3T2fQur_iajpwYUS-y1_hEUt-E0BOU_IWW_n_9ivA/s1600/tmp-defend.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPq4dN5jyTHf9cPjITrxdgbaLFhTJaM3w0lNAaifWKEKeY4xaczGB4VAwev5Ulxefiphue5muR68tPrIGSBmWzvAbRFfD_ewirFi3T2fQur_iajpwYUS-y1_hEUt-E0BOU_IWW_n_9ivA/s1600/tmp-defend.jpg" /></a></div><i><b>This was a personal entry into my journal that I made as we were prepping on FOC2, but it's really about FOC. I think it's still pretty appropriate.</b></i><br />
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So...anyone seen the fun I've been having on the imdb message boards? Just search for FOC and then click on Message Board.<br />
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You see...how the internet works is, anyone who has an opinion is now a professional critic. They can click SEND and now they're published! On the internet.<br />
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And that's how we get a lot of know-it-alls posting about things they really don't know.<br />
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Don't get me wrong...my movies have PLENTY of problems. If you were to say on those boards, "I hate your movie because it was boring and the story didn't make much sense," I probably wouldn't say anything to you. It's your opinion. You're totally entitled to it. And I don't necessarily disagree with you.<br />
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But when you say stuff like "poorly-edited", "bad cinematography", "bad script"--then you need to explain how you're qualified to judge that.<br />
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Now most of the comments on that board are easy to figure out. They're people who would like to be where I am but don't want to put in the work and effort to do what I'm doing. So it's much easier to rag on a film than actually MAKE one.<br />
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And then there's the new guy who came in recently and basically quoted verbatim stuff that's in your film 101 textbooks. He tried to come off all high and mighty and act like he knows what he's doing and could do it all SO much better.<br />
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And then I find out who the guys is: <br />
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He's a guy who offered to work on my film for free. He's from California and had told my producer that if we flew him out here and had a place for him to stay, he'd work on the film for free.<br />
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See, he's just looking to get something behind him. Right now it's all BS and unproduced films. His resume was nice though, because he had some assistant director creds. An AD doesn't actually direct--he's pretty much the guy who works the shooting schedule, keeps people doing what they need to do. He's suppose to keep us on schedule.<br />
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So I could use one of those.<br />
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This guy was totally on board. Very excited. So excited that he asked if he can mention it to Fangoria in an interview online. I say, whatever. The interview shows up a week later and yep, there's the mention of him working on FOC2.<br />
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Then we don't hear from him anymore. Nothing. Not a "Hey, I'm not interested anymore" or anything. Just...silence. Very professional way of doing things.<br />
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And now he's on the board saying that after he saw the film and the "final pay quote" he decided not to be a part of it. Final pay quote? It was always ZERO dollars. That's what cracks me up. That's why there's the confusion.<br />
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There's only one guy who was offered money to work on the film who is NOT working on the film. Everyone else is on board.<br />
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But this guy...like I said...a wannabe filmmaker. He shot a movie like 2 years ago, so I'm very anxious to see the movie so I can post my very own comment on HIS film's message board.<br />
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Guess I have to wait until he actually GETS distribution though<br />
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</span>Really. I mean...I'm not famous but I can certainly see why most of the filmmakers today avoid any kind of interaction online. You simply can't win. <br />
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So I'm probably just going to leave my posts up there long enough for that assfish to read them, then take them all down and stop posting.Kangashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05306092145547452231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743831740136009502.post-46534627533561781282011-03-15T19:13:00.000-07:002011-03-15T19:13:55.591-07:00Some archive footage, exclusively here!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqB1tXnKTsSqsCgGvacTv1zu68vHm7XFmK2zttdOCI4r-qoJPOf29R1Lpf_DN0R90vGaTDhQoPtXT2ZgqkT1-FlEtabhf_24lqjYXRwmO2acUbZaKY0ZIY6ri6ZWusfxnGGBY6ZQBNNRQ/s1600/tmpfocrehearse.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqB1tXnKTsSqsCgGvacTv1zu68vHm7XFmK2zttdOCI4r-qoJPOf29R1Lpf_DN0R90vGaTDhQoPtXT2ZgqkT1-FlEtabhf_24lqjYXRwmO2acUbZaKY0ZIY6ri6ZWusfxnGGBY6ZQBNNRQ/s320/tmpfocrehearse.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>I know, been a while, right? Well, I've been doing some backing up and came across a bunch of videos of old "Fear of Clowns" audition and rehearsal video. Here it is, unedited.<br />
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Check it out! We were all so young...<br />
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I will be making a "Fear of Clowns" youtube playlist where I'll try to keep this stuff sorted. Unlisted for now, so you guys are the first to set eyes on them! I'll upload a few more next week.<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbXWQEsgTBU">Rick Ganz Clowns Around During Rehearsal</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBybUF8wrz8">Jacky & Rick Rehearse FOC</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tca6xYekrA">Frank Lama at the FOC audition</a>Kangashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05306092145547452231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743831740136009502.post-49828970131862866562011-01-08T19:59:00.000-08:002011-01-08T19:59:30.578-08:00The Links You Might CheckIf you want to see what I've been updating:<br />
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<a href="http://fearofclowns2.blogspot.com/">FOC2 LOG</a><br />
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<a href="http://huntinghumanssaga.blogspot.com/">Hunting Humans Saga</a><br />
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<a href="http://gohedon.blogspot.com/">Garden of Hedon Blog</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kangas-Kahn-Films-LLC/37653005973">Kangas Kahn Facebook Site</a> - Like it!<br />
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There ya go!Kangashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05306092145547452231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743831740136009502.post-79766952401419618392010-10-03T22:46:00.000-07:002010-10-03T22:46:49.510-07:00March 1st, 2007: Shivers The Gay Icon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPz1pwyTMFpR7PIssHNOxMIhgThagxNoLPN7_sdyKrmrKOD4BPoSvNIulSLG1LG1PwnPfJ-ohcD4sGFpMAMRn1Bh7RzyY51Z-K4YqZfIr8HFGcM85ptCPt2bLuLqYKU1OiVWBfihJIlc0/s1600/ShiversClown.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPz1pwyTMFpR7PIssHNOxMIhgThagxNoLPN7_sdyKrmrKOD4BPoSvNIulSLG1LG1PwnPfJ-ohcD4sGFpMAMRn1Bh7RzyY51Z-K4YqZfIr8HFGcM85ptCPt2bLuLqYKU1OiVWBfihJIlc0/s320/ShiversClown.jpeg" width="175" /></a></div>Found out Shivers is a bit of a gay icon. This was the first time I heard about it, but certainly not the last. A lot of gay guys shoot us emails telling us they fear Shivers, but they wouldn't mind being raped by him either.<br />
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This pic was drawn by a talented comic artist named Patrick Fillion who owns a company that publishes gay-themed comics. You can check him out at <a href="http://www.patrickfillion.com/">http://www.patrickfillion.com</a> but be warned they are XXX and the content is highly adult.Kangashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05306092145547452231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743831740136009502.post-54698649439092512372010-09-02T00:20:00.000-07:002010-09-02T00:20:21.088-07:00We Interrupt This Blog<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEBo0b4J-RLeufrW4x-wDRuPoXSqNQOimUmWaIYLlotUDq7S9Ks6CRG9TVdqwjB1lDxTKPJ6eblkkPpifGKTTEtLu52Npx1Cv4aVEeIYHxOqbLNiuBiFq3rIzPdByYKelwaVv9NqOeS1o/s1600/GoH_12x18_A-sm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEBo0b4J-RLeufrW4x-wDRuPoXSqNQOimUmWaIYLlotUDq7S9Ks6CRG9TVdqwjB1lDxTKPJ6eblkkPpifGKTTEtLu52Npx1Cv4aVEeIYHxOqbLNiuBiFq3rIzPdByYKelwaVv9NqOeS1o/s200/GoH_12x18_A-sm.jpg" width="134" /></a></div>To bring you this--we're trying to raise the last 25% of our budget on the new flick through crowd-sourcing via Indiegogo. So we're asking everybody's help!<br />
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But don't worry--there's some cool incentives to be had with your donation! Check out the link below to see the teaser and more info!<br />
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<a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/GOH">http://www.indiegogo.com/GOH</a>Kangashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05306092145547452231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743831740136009502.post-19972789477821309402010-08-07T21:14:00.000-07:002010-08-07T21:15:03.036-07:00December 4th, 2006Well, I can always put up some of the crazy emails we get sometimes. Here's one. I have not edited it in any way.<br />
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I have only added a picture of what I think this person looks like.<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Dear, Fear Clown i want tell you something i done watch you in movie and you can't scare me ha ha and know why that i am not scare because i alway watch scare movie so i am not not scare of you and i am 11 year old to not scare of you Fear loser clown OPP BYE LOSER</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp-G9rktoXXrKr-4mKhRpWmYBP_alj0RSp08UwSZ461VbNyingR7p2mgXvoOMa1UwldG0DAen6jeT1xJwzD7IsvX_xhl2nrG7MK4UEh9hYnzR4zAI7m9pzTjVpWn4xiDnOrf31cT_AWgE/s1600/crazyguy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp-G9rktoXXrKr-4mKhRpWmYBP_alj0RSp08UwSZ461VbNyingR7p2mgXvoOMa1UwldG0DAen6jeT1xJwzD7IsvX_xhl2nrG7MK4UEh9hYnzR4zAI7m9pzTjVpWn4xiDnOrf31cT_AWgE/s320/crazyguy.jpg" /></a></div>Kangashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05306092145547452231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743831740136009502.post-81318111009292178592010-06-22T01:54:00.001-07:002010-06-22T01:54:32.251-07:00Video from FOC1 PremiereThis has never been up before. I just found it. I shot a little bit of video footage in the limo on the way to the premiere of "Fear of Clowns", and then handed the camera off to someone who taped random shit.<br />
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But it's neat to see everybody, and very hard to believe this was like 8 years ago...<br />
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<object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cKX8CGX5kKk&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cKX8CGX5kKk&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>Kangashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05306092145547452231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743831740136009502.post-83316371947495269492010-05-20T21:29:00.001-07:002010-05-20T21:29:52.914-07:00Not Much Updating, I KnowAt least, here...but over on the FOC2 board, there's lots! With pictures!<br />
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Check 'em out! You should be following that one. We're about to launch into the actual production logs...<br />
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<a href="http://fearofclowns2.blogspot.com/">http://fearofclowns2.blogspot.com/</a>Kangashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05306092145547452231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743831740136009502.post-67923112192479365862010-04-23T01:58:00.000-07:002010-04-23T01:58:58.374-07:00June 13th, 2006 - A Million Bucks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkZL1C-R20dWqxsbjlk07QrkncMZJ6ruvX1if8Ign5Jrf05qRQj2u_EUp0HMT4rNGMBPb-SFO6xSW2INJcb1PmmxnW_4e4zatT5vXruKe68-jysK24j_puPy2FdX3xUi82s_XdhdPLRmI/s1600/tmp-foc-numbers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkZL1C-R20dWqxsbjlk07QrkncMZJ6ruvX1if8Ign5Jrf05qRQj2u_EUp0HMT4rNGMBPb-SFO6xSW2INJcb1PmmxnW_4e4zatT5vXruKe68-jysK24j_puPy2FdX3xUi82s_XdhdPLRmI/s320/tmp-foc-numbers.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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<b>Wow, not a lot of FOC articles left, you know? During this period I was keeping a lot of notes on the making of FOC2, which we had just wrapped up shooting. </b><br />
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<b>June 13th</b><br />
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Ok, I'm gonna give ya a little inside information. And before you go thinking I'm buying a Ferrari and moving to the coast, understand that I don't <span style="font-style: italic;">necessarily</span> see any of this money.<br />
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What you see above you is a tracking chart on how FOC has done from its release on Feb 28th up to June 6th. Yep, as you can see, it's made over a million dollars in rentals. Not too shabby for a film that cost under 50K and had NO none actors whatsoever.<br />
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What's interesting to me though is what's going on in the past two weeks. There's actually an UPSWING in viewers--I would assume a movie comes out and then decreases until it's no longer doing any business.<br />
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Sure, you could say a one-week upturn is just an anomaly. But FOC increased one week by 6% and then the following week by 29%--and there's been no press that I know of to spark the sudden re-interest.<br />
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But hey--my picture has made over a million dollars in RENTALS ALONE. Sure would love to get my hands on the sales figures though...Kangashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05306092145547452231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743831740136009502.post-86852262262352615222010-04-15T23:38:00.000-07:002010-04-15T23:44:37.727-07:00March 10th, 2006: Fuuuuuuuuck<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqE3-XBvJpKl0cKDqfR1UqqHtOumMkT2oRkPzLARi2gL0-5yaB72U7Tu_uLurhFSWFjrrRWZ5s86n5jRtfPe_uZScHv_Cv5opmnWpsB89qk_AaFthDhIHjAs4CKljSbxy_Dp1aIA1AX8g/s1600/tmp-foc20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqE3-XBvJpKl0cKDqfR1UqqHtOumMkT2oRkPzLARi2gL0-5yaB72U7Tu_uLurhFSWFjrrRWZ5s86n5jRtfPe_uZScHv_Cv5opmnWpsB89qk_AaFthDhIHjAs4CKljSbxy_Dp1aIA1AX8g/s320/tmp-foc20.jpg" /></a></div><br />
<b>This should be a wake-up call for those indy filmmakers dreaming of a real distributor giving them a bunch of money to distribute their movie.</b><br />
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<b>Because, check out how my movie did for Lionsgate. I'm the highest LGF movie of the week in sales other than The Ultimate Avengers, a Marvel Comics movie. FOC outperformed a LOT of movies, not just this week, but in the next month.</b><br />
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<b>And when LGF got the chance to acquire the sequel, they weren't prepared to even match the offer we got on the first film. Even though we had <i>already proven that our movie was very lucrative for them</i>. There was no reason to think the sequel wouldn't perform as well as the original--and since it's actually a better movie, I figure it might do better in the end.</b><br />
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<b>So if you think a distributor is going to pay you a lot of money for your film in today's market, it's just not going to happen.</b><br />
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Pardon the language. I ain't happy.<br />
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Here's the thing: I've been watching the top 10 direct-2-dvd charts for months now. The rentals have been fairly non-impressive, so I had high hopes that FOC could crack the top 10.<br />
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Well, I just got the top 10 and FOC ain't there. You know why? <span style="font-weight: bold;">Because every effin' sequel in the world(including some Disneys) came out in the past month</span> and who can compete with that?<br />
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Stuart Little 3. Bambi 2(are you kidding me? Who needs a sequel to that?) The Prince and Me 2. American Pie Presents Band Camp. (essentially American Pie 3.5) Dungeons & Dragons 2.<br />
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I had assumed there would be a couple on the list, but not that many. I shouldn't be TOO unhappy. FOC was number 11, so it only JUST missed the list. But still.Kangashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05306092145547452231noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743831740136009502.post-44721545358630107312010-04-12T04:22:00.000-07:002010-04-12T04:22:24.682-07:00March 2nd, 2006 FOC on imdb rankings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIOpF1SgAOjPUn-3EDUdXALfySliEpQlpsao_PFsvR5bJBIz378Khh-wav8vdx1N1hFhLcJf_J7sGKuPK1O2VEbQyBQ44E_nN6z4QIUFPXmmaDc-s5M6jaiAoglZknEEliWI7JTwHXpFI/s1600/foc-imdb-list-both.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIOpF1SgAOjPUn-3EDUdXALfySliEpQlpsao_PFsvR5bJBIz378Khh-wav8vdx1N1hFhLcJf_J7sGKuPK1O2VEbQyBQ44E_nN6z4QIUFPXmmaDc-s5M6jaiAoglZknEEliWI7JTwHXpFI/s320/foc-imdb-list-both.jpg" /></a></div><b>While imdb rankings are certainly no indication of quality, it was certainly very cool to see the level of interest in my flick rivaled some big movies. </b><br />
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<b>March 2nd</b><br />
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I mentioned that FOC hit 192 on the imdbpro list--that may not sound impressive. I mean, 192 isn't exactly #1 now is it?<br />
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So I checked to see what else is on the list near my flick. If you want to see if for yourself, click on the picture above.<br />
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I'll give you the highlights though.<br />
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FOC is higher on the list than <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rumor Has It</span>(a $43 million dollar picture) and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Derailed</span>(a $36 million dollar picture starring Clive Owen and Jennifer Aniston). Within 15 places of FOC is Steven Spielberg's <span style="font-weight: bold;">War of The Worlds</span>, starring the little-known Tom Cruise. <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Fog</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">A History Of Violence</span>(the film my buddy is nominated for an Oscar for) are all near FOC.<br />
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So it's amazing that FOC is near movies of that caliber(and when I say caliber, I mean, movies that cost roughly 1000 times the cost of FOC).<br />
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A little FYI.Kangashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05306092145547452231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743831740136009502.post-58013344211724277562010-04-09T02:57:00.000-07:002010-04-09T02:57:57.588-07:00March 1st, 2006 My Thoughts on FOC's release<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC9w-sUoiPclCyjgY5d221U9FjtHlF4276zUJ7xb_KBeRnDrsRAv3vfJYr3CtSrkUiOXoCSPEq7St2rWJy2P1_ndiZW0nabh4jPBp5UKtuo4-jZ7yG-PzsCdl_TbyYMpq2BpnnKvfWZ-U/s1600/tmp-foc-blockbuster+wall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC9w-sUoiPclCyjgY5d221U9FjtHlF4276zUJ7xb_KBeRnDrsRAv3vfJYr3CtSrkUiOXoCSPEq7St2rWJy2P1_ndiZW0nabh4jPBp5UKtuo4-jZ7yG-PzsCdl_TbyYMpq2BpnnKvfWZ-U/s320/tmp-foc-blockbuster+wall.jpg" /></a></div><h3 class="post-title"> March 1s, 2006</h3>Please take note that any complaints I make here are totally overshadowed by the fact that my movie was released by Lionsgate.<br />
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$22.99 for a dvd at Best Buy that doesn't have recognizable stars is a bit much.<br />
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For that matter it appears that all of the Best Buys WAY underordered(about 3 copies per store)<br />
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The menus on the disc kind of blow, and there's a TON of extras they didn't include. But the movie is VERY high quality, and so are the extras they included. The "Making Of" is every bit as sharp as the film itself.<br />
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Blockbuster also apparently didn't go as heavy as I expected. Most of the ones in this area are carrying between 6-10 copies. My wife informed me of this when I woke up--she'd gone EVERYWHERE looking to see how many each store had.<br />
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In the cool news department, Hollywood Video seems to be the best outlet for FOC. The two stores near me had 32 copies and 20 copies. Yeah, you read that right. <span style="font-weight: bold;">32 FREAKIN' COPIES</span> of my movie!<br />
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Very sweet. I'm holding my breath that the flick makes it on the top 10 direct-2-dvd movies of the week. If it does, you can bet I'll post it here.Kangashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05306092145547452231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743831740136009502.post-40263542110045823362010-04-06T00:47:00.000-07:002010-04-06T00:47:26.381-07:00February 26th, 2006: Imdb rankings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtQl7b_0GCSQ7bz6nuJuGWa_CR5l25qoQo98E3y4YgkICCJ3R9_qOIwXhrMF0GlfP5kcVlQrkUrAkvCH__thD88Dr4wnsU_dtmt_IORd6HVueQSHlvG0c9P_PuX8I-LYKRm3wKPG663u8/s1600/tmp-foc-imdb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtQl7b_0GCSQ7bz6nuJuGWa_CR5l25qoQo98E3y4YgkICCJ3R9_qOIwXhrMF0GlfP5kcVlQrkUrAkvCH__thD88Dr4wnsU_dtmt_IORd6HVueQSHlvG0c9P_PuX8I-LYKRm3wKPG663u8/s320/tmp-foc-imdb.jpg" /></a></div>Quick update. There's a side of imdb(Internet Movie Database) called imdbpro, which has lots more details about films and people. It also rates people according to a Starmeter and movies by a Moviemeter--gauging their ranks on how often people search for their names/movies(including being linked from search engines)<br />
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The highest I ever saw my first movie "Hunting Humans" get was around 2000, and that was the week of its release.<br />
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FOC has been hanging around 14,000--yes, there are a lot of movies out there.<br />
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I just checked five minutes ago and it's 192. <br />
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Sweet! And if you've seen the movie, go rate it! If you haven't seen the movie, go rate it a 10! <br />
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It was like a 7 earlier in the week, and all of a sudden some bastards have been slamming me with a 1. I think they probably mean it's the best movie they've ever seen(hence, #1) and are just confused by the numbered system.<br />
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Yeah, that's it.Kangashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05306092145547452231noreply@blogger.com0