Stanley Speaks

One of our superfantastic production team did this:

Rejoice!

Stunned,
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

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!  Don’t tell anyone I shared this.  Secret pre-production stuff…

SHHHHHHHHHHHH!

We’re going on hiatus from production until January.  More updates then.

Secretly,
Stanley

But Look.

Shutting up,
Stanley