TRACTUS

Hey, everybody.

First off, I'm still working diligently on getting the premier for "Sick" squared away. It's proving to be a little more difficult than I expected.

Secondly, I'm putting together what will be known as "The Verve Anthology". Every movie (including the one below). Color + sound corrected. All the special features I could muster up. Matching artwork. It should be a neat little package. Coming soon.

Finally, I thought I'd share this with all of you. Below, you will find a short film we did back in high school called "Fish & Chips 3: Yurhurburns". The first "Fish & Chips" was shot on December 23, 2003. Everyone involved was a freshman in high school. It would later be known as the first "Verve Production". The movie itself was plotless and almost entirely improvised. A couple years after, "Fish & Chips 2: Bacon & Pepto" was released. Once again, plotless and full of improv. This became the "Fish & Chips" formula. Whenever we would get the urge to shoot something on a whim -- something irreverent, short, and silly -- well...that was "Fish & Chips".

"Yurhurburns" is 100% recycled footage from a short film we had to shoot for a video class in high school entitled "Late for a Date". The short is centered around a guy who is...you guessed it...late for a date. What ensues is whackyness and hilarity at its most contrived. The script was from a text book and was an exercise in something that I can't quite remember -- something extremely elementary. We all hated the finished product and decided (after suffering from several days of cabin fever in the cramped editing suite) to cut some action shots together and make some more "Fish & Chips". Is it asinine? Avant garde? I don't know. But it makes me laugh.

BIG THINGS ON THE WAY

After nearly three years of work and thousands of dollars spent, “Sick” will have a public premier this Summer.

That’s right. It’s done. ACTUALLY done.

I’m talking to several large venues to display the film at, but for now, here is the official trailer. No, not the one I made a year ago. This one has the new color correction and, if you ask me, embodies the mood of the film a little more. That is, it really feels more like a low-budget drive-in movie. I suppose that's due to the fact that if drive-in's were still around, it would be one.

Stay posted. Much more on the way.

(this video contains some graphic violence...suprise!)

A NEW FACE

Hello all, and welcome to what will be the new "Verve Productions" website.

My goal is to keep you all more consistently updated on what I (and my crew) have been up to -- not only to keep you all more informed, but to keep myself busy. This includes simple blog entries, behind the scenes photographs, and videos of Verve movies or trailers to publicize upcoming ones.

That being said, I will keep this first entry short and sweet. Below you will find a short film by my very close friend of more than decade: Mr. Clayton Ashley. He has been a Verve crew member on nearly everything I've ever made. The film is called "An Adult Conversation, as Imagined by Kids". It was inspired by an article in the New Yorker. Cute stuff. I believe he won some awards for it back in our high school days. You will also find a snapshot I took of a rig I built to use for the stop-motion sequences in the music video I am shooting for "The Armory" (myspace found here). The song is called "High School Team" and the video will be shot on Super 8. Expect it online in the near future.

Anyway...here's the stop-motion rig. I won't go into what it does or how I intend to use it. You'll see soon enough.



And here's Clayton's short flick. Enjoy.