Battling insomnia at the moment… But on the upside - Entry #2 of Killing Poe: The Documentary! Enjoy!

Always Wanted to Act?

For aspiring actors in and around the Chicago area, I am pleased to announce that Emeritus Productions is going to be holding open auditions for the movie Killing Poe during the next week at the Chicago Temple. 

If you don’t want to miss this opportunity, and I’m sure you don’t, then please visit us on Facebook at Killing Poe The Movie, follow me on Twitter, ask me on YouTube, or get back to me here in order to receive more information about casting, how to submit a resume and picture, times, and everything else you could need!

We look forward to having you!

-cheers

Killing Poe: OST feat. Vincent Minor

Speaking of music in film like in my last re-blog, the soundtrack for Emeritus Productions’ Killing Poe can be listened to here. 

Thanks to Vincent Minor and all his fantastic talent in providing us with exactly the atmosphere we’re looking for! 

Featured songs include:
“The Trap”
“Dead Air”
“Heavy Metal Lover”
“So F**ked up”
and “Born In the Wrong Era”

So get out there, give it a listen and get involved! Open casting next week! LIKE the movie on Facebook for more information.

And continue following the whole thing on Youtube!

-cheers 

directingfilm:

Music in Film:

There are two ways to use music in films.  In one way, you are simply using it to enhance what it already shown: despondent music while the actor is crying.  In the other way, you use it to work against the scene, to bring something out that is not already apparent.  Consider downcast music while the actor feels uncomfortably happy about the current state of affairs.  

Always use sound to imply something more than what we see on screen.

~ü

[Image: Georgia O’Keeffe  Blue Lines X  (1916)]

Really good. We’re using Vincent Minor extensively and exclusively in Killing Poe, it’s pretty fantastic 

The sum of all your (maybe my?) fears... →

On the offchance you really, really want me to shut up about movie stuff, you can go here and follow my personal tumblr. I tend to be quite a bit more personal and open and (mayhaps) infinitely more interesting over there. Yeah. Give it a shot. You can find me over here too - please, vindicate my thinly-veiled, denial-shrouded narcissism. 

Okay, enough of that, back to business. 

beautyandterrordance:

“It is precisely as if I am possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being.” - Conrad Veidt

Movie Auditions … Yes, this is for everybody.

Here’s hoping you’re following me by now because I’m about to drop opportunity in your lap - and it’s one you’ll want to spread around.

Killing Poe is holding a Casting Call in downtown Chicago this coming week, June 27, 28 & 30. If you are interested, please LIKE the Killing Poe Movie page found here.  

More information will be forthcoming on head shot and resume submissions. Either get back to me here for more information, follow me on Twitter @ProdAssistPoe11, post on my blog, or email the producers - emeritusproductionsllc@gmail.com. 

Yes, I know - it must feel something like this…

Cheers

-errinyis

totalfilm:

Jared Harris discusses Sherlock Holmes 2’s villain Moriarty

Mad Men star Jared Harris has spoken out about playing iconic villain Moriarty in Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows.

The actor, who makes his Holmes debut in the upcoming sequel, reveals that he approached Moriarty not as a villain, but as a man who sees the world differently.

“I think that for me… [Moriarty]’s amoral,” he tells Collider. “He’s moved beyond the concept of there being a heaven and a hell and a God and a devil, and there being good and evil, he doesn’t believe in it.

“And if you don’t believe in that moral construct, then everyone is free to do whatever they want.”

Very insightful comments, I was quite impressed. 

Killing Poe: The Script

Just read it. It’s fantastic. Really. 

Nathan Jacobs has really outdone himself on this one. No one is a stranger to the fact that independent, micro-budget film production companies generally stay in that tight, dark, colon-like realm because they simply don’t have talented writers. Actually, I can think of a number of minds walking around Hollywood right now that aren’t in the same league either. There’s no need to name names because - either mercifully or regrettably - everyone thinks of the same people.

But Jacobs and producer Chris Firestone have created what would have been if The Hangover was a nutritious, lip-smacking three-course meal rather than a stick of deep-fried sugar enclosing a center of viscous, tequila-spiked hot fudge. 

If you want a bit more, here you go: http://emeritusproductions.com/about-us.html

The story breaks down something like this:

Brittany is super-woman pursuing a major in glonetmacrocosminomics. 
Bud is in love with Brittany. He’s a pothead with a passion for social justice.
Wynona is studying to help her father, who has A-Sociodecorum Syndrome. A.S.S.
Ashbir (aka Mister Ethnically Ambiguous) has a fetish for female authority. 
And Joe - he’s just trying to get by and be a botanist like his dad wants him to be.

How they all end up in LIT 230: Poe Stories - Instant Immersion is part of the fun. But it stops being fun with the praised Professor Lynch turns out to be a lecherous, unjust, extorting, sociopathic menace.

Sounds just like college, huh?

And the students handle it just like anyone of human-level self-respect: they try and get him back. It’s a fair and ironic, Poe-esque plan, too. They’ve truly handed it to their professor - perhaps with much more immersion than he ever intended. 

The result is the comic, surreal journey of five different persons who, faced down with their mistakes, must decide whether or not to pursue closure and reconciliation.  

Y’all paying attention now, internet? Because you’re not going to want to miss this. 

Days off don’t exist anymore.

Ok, well, that’s not entirely true. I’m not working 12 hours today selling pumps and heaters an swimming pool filters. But I do have a 100-page script to read, a movie to promote and very limited amounts of time to do it in. Working on my book is going to feel like a day at the beach comparatively. 

To all (or currently my one) followers … I appreciate your ethereal presence as I just kind of ramble right now. Everywhere else in my life is pure WORK, plain and simple. It gets to be pretty overwhelming. 

Though perhaps it’s not so terrible… way less complicated than I’m making it out to be. I dunno about any of the rest of you, but I like to be the praying sort - as in, the sort who knows that prayer is a good thing regardless of how much you do it, but more is better and my lack of persistence works against that. Think of a piece of re-bar being stuck in the fire: the re-bar isn’t hot without the fire, but once it’s in the fire it stays hot even after it’s been pulled out. And if you leave it in there long enough, well - you wind up with a glowing carbine that can be molded into any number of better things. I imagine that’s something like what thrusting yourself into the presence of the Divine is like. 

Anyway, that was a really long and drawn out way of saying that I had one of those moments last night that reminded me what that heat feels like - I sent up one of those “What the hell do I do now?” sort of prayers (and yes, I’m sure that God is bigger than my petty crudities) and the answer that came back was a very intelligent, “Why don’t you try shutting up and calming down for a bit? You haven’t even made any contact with your team yet.”

This is true. I have a massive backbone, think-tank and more that is going into everything I’m trying to accomplish. I am working on directing about three major projects at once here and the thing that I most easily forget is that, 1) I have HELP for God’s sake and 2) It’s not going to happen over night. None of it. It took me over a year to even write 150 pages of my book let alone promote any of it, and it’s going to take more than four days to build a reputable, credibly networking base to promote Killing Poe. 

In light of that, perhaps days off actually need to be forced once in a while. Otherwise we all drop dead. 

Cheers. 

-errinyis