Stanley Speaks

One of our superfantastic production team did this:

Rejoice!

Stunned,
Stanley

So over the last week, we took a bit of a break from working on Galaxy Scouts to do a side project that was, if I may say so myself, AWESOOOOOOOOOOOOOME!

With all due respect to Cee Lo Green, I proudly present “Frak You!”

Starring: Stanley, George and the Stanlettes
Vocals by: Stanley
Backup Vocals: Clay & Kim
Director of Photography: Linda
Puppet Wrangler: Paul
Edited by: George

Singingly,
Stanley

We took a break from Pre-Production on Galaxy Scouts over Labor Day weekend to shoot a music video for a parody that Clay wrote.  I can’t tell you want it is just yet, but here’s a quick screen capture that Linda snuck to me from the control room at the studio.

From an upcoming music video...

Hopefully it will be released soon!

Singin’
Stanley

Until we actually start SHOOTING regularly, I’m also serving as a Production Assistant (we call them PA’s in The Biz).

Today I got to spend some time with Linda, our Technical Director and special effects wizard.

George, in front of the camera!

We needed to get some green screen footage to test some of the effects and I got to be the guinea pig. Linda let me play on one of the editing systems while she went to lunch, so I had a little fun with an image from NASA.

George on Mars!!

My skills aren’t quite as good as Linda’s yet, but I’m hoping she takes me under her wing once we’re into full on production.

So here are some things about “Project Monkey Dance” that I *CAN* reveal to you:

• It will be a serialized web series
• Episodes will be 5 to 8 minutes long
• Each story arc will be 5 episodes long
• There will be 12 episodes in a season, leaving two “connector” episodes
• It will be Science Fiction
• I will be in the starring role

Clay has taken over as head writer since we lost Aaron Sorkin, and I think he’s doing a really good job outlining the first story arc.

[ed note: I’m not sure we ever actually HAD Aaron Sorkin – George]

I just got a copy of draft three of episode one the other day, and was reading it on my iPhone when I accidentally took a screen shot of it.  I asked Clay if it would be okay to post the screenshot of the page and he agreed on the condition that I redact a few things before doing so.  And so….

Episode 1 - Scene 1 - Page 1 (fragment) (redacted)

Set designs, costume designs and scripts are flying around the offices these days, and hopefully I’ll be able to share more about it with you, soon.

Celebrating,
Stanley