Greetings, all...
After saying I was going to update this here blog thing more often, I sorta sputtered and nosedived back into virtual silence. No, this did not happen purely because of lameness, though I'm sure some inherent laziness helped. The main reason is that we have been busy, busy, BUSY, ladies and gentlemen! That's right, the great mechanized beast that is Lionbelly Media is about to embark on its 2010 slate of projects with gusto...
To that end, we have begun preproduction on our "Untitled Scary Short" that will be shot in late March in the snowy hinterlands of northern Michigan. We don't want to give anything away yet, story-wise, but let's just say it has to do with a sciencey dude who thinks he knows what makes an antique "spiritualist machine" tick, but is sadly mistaken-- much to the chagrin (and endangerment) of his friends.
The picture at the top of the post is of an actual Victorian era device, the Duchenne Machine, which was the world's first portable apparatus that could apply a small electrical charge to patients. Duchenne himself used it for everything from studying the human smile, to attempting to cure neuralgia. We wonder if he ever used it to speak with the dead. Prolly not, but a fella can dream, right?
It's going to star Carol Gray, Tom Szymanski, David Serra, Kristin Beckett and Jim Roll (and one other player to be named later), and will be featuring music by BAGOTRIX (i.e., local composer Paul Schmitter). Our pals Paul Walther and Joe Zettelmaier helped brainstorm the story, and Markus Nee is going to be heading the antique machine-making crew.
We will keep you posted on this critter as we start rehearsals and it goes into production. I've got a good feeling about this one...
More soon!
