Shindigs & Shenanigans!
On the 28th of October 2006 Lazarus had its official premier. From what I understand (and I could be wrong here, I wasn’t particularly involved in the post production) it was originally supposed to be ready to go a month or so earlier.
The Director had run into problems getting completed FX shot’s off a chap called Mike Todd. Mike had been with the club for a long, long time. He was responsible for virtually every computer generated shot that had been used in the Adventures of Stephen Brown for the previous 7 years, despite having moved to the other end of the country. Unfortunately work, and other things were taking a toll on the amount of time he could dedicate to the show, and his heart was just no longer in it. After he ‘completed’ the Lazarus shots he announced that he would be leaving the club, with pretty much immediate effect. While this caused a minor panic at the time, a number of talented individuals have since stepped up to the plate with impressive results, and exploding spaceships will continue to be a feature of SB for the foreseeable future.
Anyhoo, as time rolled by someone had a genius idea. Why don’t we have a Halloween party and premier the show at that? Well that just made sense, and sure enough that’s what happened. On the 28th a ton of people turned up at Big Steve’s house dressed in ghoulish fancy dress, and carrying enough booze to drown an elephant. It was quite a party!
So what was the finished product like? Well in many ways I’m entirely the wrong person to ask. When it comes to this story I’m quite possible the least objective person in the whole wide world. So I can’t really give you a review of the show. All I can say is some bit’s turned out as I expected, other bits were better than I expected, and some of it was atrocious. The sound was also a little off. But as stated that’s my highly un-objective opinion. Except for the bit about sound, that’s quite empirically.
On the whole the people gathered were very nice about it and I was very drunk. So all in, not a bad night :)
What happens to the episode now? Well eventually it’ll be shown on Southampton and Oxford TV (if Southampton ever get their transmitter fixed) It will also eventually creep on to the internet via Chichester TV, an online equivalent of Southampton and Oxford TV. I have no idea about time frames, but I will post a link here in the blog when it goes live online.
With Lazarus done and dusted it was time to move on, for me anyway. Dan, never happy with Mr Todd’s 'completed' FX shot’s has been beavering away gradually tweaking and replacing various bits of CG with the intention of creating a ‘special edition’. The rumour that while working on these shot’s he wears a lumberjack shirt and fake beard starts here! I’m also lead to believe he’s sorted out the sound.
But enough about Lazarus, the question is what would I do next?
The Director had run into problems getting completed FX shot’s off a chap called Mike Todd. Mike had been with the club for a long, long time. He was responsible for virtually every computer generated shot that had been used in the Adventures of Stephen Brown for the previous 7 years, despite having moved to the other end of the country. Unfortunately work, and other things were taking a toll on the amount of time he could dedicate to the show, and his heart was just no longer in it. After he ‘completed’ the Lazarus shots he announced that he would be leaving the club, with pretty much immediate effect. While this caused a minor panic at the time, a number of talented individuals have since stepped up to the plate with impressive results, and exploding spaceships will continue to be a feature of SB for the foreseeable future.
Anyhoo, as time rolled by someone had a genius idea. Why don’t we have a Halloween party and premier the show at that? Well that just made sense, and sure enough that’s what happened. On the 28th a ton of people turned up at Big Steve’s house dressed in ghoulish fancy dress, and carrying enough booze to drown an elephant. It was quite a party!
So what was the finished product like? Well in many ways I’m entirely the wrong person to ask. When it comes to this story I’m quite possible the least objective person in the whole wide world. So I can’t really give you a review of the show. All I can say is some bit’s turned out as I expected, other bits were better than I expected, and some of it was atrocious. The sound was also a little off. But as stated that’s my highly un-objective opinion. Except for the bit about sound, that’s quite empirically.
On the whole the people gathered were very nice about it and I was very drunk. So all in, not a bad night :)
What happens to the episode now? Well eventually it’ll be shown on Southampton and Oxford TV (if Southampton ever get their transmitter fixed) It will also eventually creep on to the internet via Chichester TV, an online equivalent of Southampton and Oxford TV. I have no idea about time frames, but I will post a link here in the blog when it goes live online.
With Lazarus done and dusted it was time to move on, for me anyway. Dan, never happy with Mr Todd’s 'completed' FX shot’s has been beavering away gradually tweaking and replacing various bits of CG with the intention of creating a ‘special edition’. The rumour that while working on these shot’s he wears a lumberjack shirt and fake beard starts here! I’m also lead to believe he’s sorted out the sound.
But enough about Lazarus, the question is what would I do next?
posted by Steve at 12:03 PM
7 Comments:
Well, rumors of lumber jack shirts are untrue, as I have a vairied amount of plaid and checked shirts in the style of alt-country musicans, well, I don't tuck mine in, and their fitted. As for the beard...I don't look good with a beard. But for the record, Anderson shoots first and their won't be a cgi Savini.
:)
Hmmm... All very cool, but the real question im sure everyone has been sidetracked from is...
What the Hell is Echo black?
Unless of course you cannot be told of Echo Black, and must instead experience it for yourself, because after what it did to Steve im scared...
"the question is what would I do next?"
Nothing for a month?
update more you lazy swine
Well, we know what came next, but now what????
Dan
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