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Sunday, June 28, 2009 - 8:00 AM - Tampa Indie Film Log for Filmmaker C. A. Passinault
Some Down Time For 2009 - Preparing For 2010
Some of you are going to love
this. Others, not so much.
I’m taking a break from Tampa indie film, for the most part, for
the next six months. That knocks out the remainder of 2009.
The reason? I have to work to do with my photography business, as well
as sales and marketing. This will take up
most of my time. This is a critical step, and it is needed, however, because
there are some protocols which I am developing which will support what
I am doing in Tampa indie film. The catch is that the benefit will not
be right away.
When my photography business gets to where it is needed, the sales and
marketing efforts supporting it will be translated to support my Tampa
event planning and stage production companies. Those service companies
have to be up to speed, because I won’t be able to do a single Tampa
film festival without them, let alone four different Tampa film festival
properties. Eventi Events and Eventi Stage should be getting to where
they need to be sometime in 2010, which will keep my current Tampa film
festival schedule on schedule.
Of course, there are other complications, too. I’m also working
on a video game festival, which is a lot different than a film festival.
The video game festival should have no bearing on the film festivals,
and may even serve to enhance their marketing. I do plan on cross promoting
other events with each of my events, even if they are not directly compatible.
As long as the target audience is served, that would be the rule of thumb.
So, I’ll have limited time to cover Tampa indie film this year.
This will be much like the lull before the storm, while I use the downtime
to build my resources. Sure, I’ll make some time to attend, and
to cover, a few film festivals, events, and happenings, but it won’t
come close to the scale of my future endeavors.
So, for now, I’ll keep updating the Tampa Film Blog whenever I get
the chance. I’ll also post news about Tampa indie film here, and
will allow professional Tampa filmmakers to post announcements and news
here. So, Andy Lalino, if you wish to promote your efforts here, you are
more than welcome to. Unlike some people, I won’t stop you from
promoting yourself on here, or on my web sites. I am sincere about supporting
Tampa indie film and the efforts of genuine Tampa filmmakers.
At any rate, I’ll be investing in two more Tampa indie film-relevant
domain names shortly, although it will be a few years before either one
of them will see much use (isn’t that the usual when it come to
me and my thousands of projects). I will also take the time to work on
some other Tampa indie film-relevant things. I have a few reviews in the
can (some films and film festival reviews), and will be overhauling Tampa
Bay Film in the next few weeks. I will also spend some time adding more
indie films to the Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival and activating
the rest of the films in the online film festival first generation archive
(current rules state that every film available for selection on the online
have a screen-grab thumbnail for the menu selection system). Oh, and progress
on the online film festival is good. The third generation Tampa Bay Film
Online Film Festival will debut in the spring of 2010, using the current
one as a foundation (same site, same directories, same menu interface,
and a fully operational second generation indie film archive). The third
generation Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival will be a revolution compared
to what we have now. It will use PHP and databasing elements, and will
eventually host indie films with our own custom flash-based delivery system.
At first, however, it will use PHP databasing and embed codes, which will
eventually give way to us hosting indie films.
Oh, and did you know that the fourth generation Tampa Bay Film Online
Film Festival is also spec’ed out and is in development? The fourth
generation Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival will be incredibly advanced,
and will make video sites like YouTube look primitive in comparison (the
only thing holding me back from doing it right now is having the technical
skills to execute the idea, but that will only take time to learn more
advanced flash and databasing applications). The fourth generation Tampa
Bay Film Online Film Festival will be like comparing night and day when
compared to the current second generation one now in use. Don’t
expect to see it until at least 2011, and it could, realistically, launch
in 2012.
That said, let me say that I am very proud of the current second generation
Tampa Bay Film Online Film Festival, which has been very successful, and
will serve as the foundation for what it to come. It is very effective,
and is far from obsolete. The third generation online film festival will
add functionality and make it easy to add films by utilizing databasing,
using a refined version of what we have now, and the fourth generation
will further build on the massive foundation by adding a new interface,
as well as further improve the existing interface and add a ton of new
features.
Oh, and changing subjects, adding to my previous Star Trek post, I did
manage to see more Star Trek: New Voyages / Phase II episodes, and the
latest were very impressive. James Cawley is now a passable Kirk, and
the Sulu Episode, “World
Enough and Time”, is a must-see. The series really has legs
now, and that episode is one of the best Star Trek episodes that I have
ever seen, counting all of the series. Impressive stuff, and I recommend
that all Tampa filmmakers watch it immediately. Forget the J.J. Abrams
reboot Star Trek movie, which is an insult to the franchise and insults
the intelligence of the fans. This series is the real deal, and it adheres
to Canon; it’s almost like all of the people who worked on the television
Treks rebelled and are now working together to do this underground series
so that they can continue the story of Star Trek and keep it true. I respect
these people and what they are doing, as it is really good work. Hell,
I wouldn’t be surprised of Paramount/ CBS were to give these guys
a deal and commission a new original series Star Trek for television.
Wouldn’t that be ironic?
Oh, and where is the Tampa Star Trek series? Who knows. I am still hearing
rumors, and with the latest rumor that my friend Chris Woods is going
to play Chekov (not true, it turns out), I really don’t know what
to think.
We can all hope, however.
Click on the links below to download the Star Trek: New Voyages episode "World Enough and Time". The downloads are in a weird type of zip file, and you will also have to download the WinRAR program from the supplied link to decompress the files so that you can play them (there is a FREE EVALUATION VERSION of the WinRAR program that I used, and you do not have to buy it or anything else). If you cannot play the files using your normal media player, use this media player program (the ultra-cool VLC Media Player, which is free and open source!), which plays most video codecs (My friend, model and actress Harmony Oswald / Harmony Layne, was happy when I sent her this program in an e-mail. She was finally able to view a video file for a movie that she was in, after all other media players failed. Trust me- the program works. Also, use at your own risk. I assume no liability for use of any programs or playing any files linked to from this blog or any of my other sites. This is more as a courtesy to you, and does nothing for me, so I assume no liability. Always run a scan with your updated and current anti-virus program before unzipping or running any files that you download!).
Star Trek New Voyages
Episode 3 WORLD ENOUGH AND TIME (MPEG4/AVC H.264)
Part
1 Part
2 Part
3 Part
4
(4 * 100 Mb, use WinRAR
to reassemble the original MPEG4 file)
Watch it. It's some of the best Star Trek ever created. It's well worth the download and set up (if they would run it using an embedded viewer, I would proudly play it on my online film festival). Sorry that it's not simple to watch the episode.
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