Oh, yeah, this.

Um. The movie is done. And stuff. Its been done for a few months now. Kind of forgot about this.
Sort of awkward. So, I'll just link you (assuming someone actually still reads this) to the video, until I make a fancier post.


Be sure to click the little Hi-resolution link!

In other Bear news

Shawn Backstrom, Freelance Cameraman on Bear Trouble, has recently uploaded the second video
in his on going series of Man Vs. Wild parodies in which he plays Bear Grilles (see? Its relevant. The mans name is Bear). As in the actual Bear Grilles, this is not some parody of Bear Grilles. This is what the fucking looney tune actually does on the real show.

View part 1 here.

Shawn's Scream Academy

One of the Bonus Features that never got uploaded due to me actually working on the project:

Its done!

Theres some crippling sound issues near the end, but aside from that its done!
I'm going to reddub the last scene, and will promptly release it in multiple parts onto Youtube, and then after that other fine video sharing online parlours in case Youtube isnt your bag or something.
Did you just read multiple parts? Thats right, you did. Bear Trouble: The Bearicide 2: Return of the Bearampage: Beary Bear Edition has a running time almost as long as its name: 26:26 minutes.

Go buy a new calender

I know what you're thinking, "But Kyle, a few hours ago you'd say it'd be done!" and I was correct. It would be done, but Mr. J has to leave the room at a very specific time which means "Before I could finish the credits". So the video is sitting on the computer unrendered in a Sony Vegas file. Which means it will be released Wednesday. Seriously this time. I mean it. For real.

He is luckily letting me come in tomorrow morning to finish it. In order to compensate for the lateness, I will be posting everything else I haven't been able to post along with a few other extras in a bit.

Production update!

Sup everyone, disregard the outright depressing tone of the previous entry. We currently in the process of beta testing the video and making sure all the sound is good. After that, I need to finish up the credits and we're done! Whee!

Release date. For real this time.

The movie either comes out tomorrow or is never going to be completed. Thats pretty much how it all crumbles, which is a shame since I've just finished the awesome animated climax and really don't want it to go to waste.

Mark your calenders!

Official youtube release date for Bear Trouble: The Bearicide 2: Return of the Bearampage: Beary Bear Edition is...

SATURDAY MAY the SEVENTEENTH TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT

Also look on that day for information on how to acquire the film on DVD! You know, if its actually good.

UPDATE: Quite unfortuantly due to time constraints on Friday, the release date has been pushed back to MONDAY, maybe TUESDAY. Please remark your calenders accordingly.

Apologies for the lack of updates

As I go into overdrive with editing, dubbing, and animating (and Taylor editing other people's videos) the planned updates will have to be pushed to the wayside. The character biographies will be caught up later tonight, maybe, and time permitting so will the videos.

EXCLUSIVE - Interview with Taylor Champagne!

These little exclusives are going to become a regular feature throughout the rest of the week. Today's features editor, cameraman, and blog updater Taylor Champagne discussing his editing work on the film.

Background Information - Caplain Woods

Caplain Woods

Originally, a regular woodland area, Caplain Woods was turned into a reserve July 16th, 1941 by Johnathan Caplain, an ex-mountaineer. Due to the war, the reserve got off to a shaky start that spiraled consistently downward until Jack Chainsaw was hired as a tour guide in 1994. While Jack himself was a complete moron, he had many struggling friends in the graphics design and marketing industries and was able to land a few of them a job at the woods organization. These friends, known collectively as the "Chainsaw Spawn", were able to reinvent the wildlife reserve's image and transformed it into a tourist hot spot. The organization, however, did not take into account the large, relatively unknown bear population in the woods.

Character Biographies - Jack Chainsaw

Jack Chainsaw
Head Tour Guide

A bumbling idiot whose half-competent leadership skills rarely shine through, its a wonder Jack even got his job at all. Jack was able to catch a lucky break during a time when the Caplain Woods Tours Organization was extremely struggling. As all of the organization's then current tour guides quit, the organization would take in anyone who showed up looking for a job. Jack fit the bill quite nicely, and was taken aboard the team. Furthermore, Jack Chainsaw was the cause for the organization's recent tourist rejuvenation, thus none of the higher ups want to fire him landing Jack an extremely stable job security despite the fact he is wholly unqualified for his job. Jack carries himself in an extravagant manner, has a slightly gravely voice, and is rumored to be bipolar at the least and schizophrenic at the most due to his highly erratic actions.

These biographies will be added in sets of two throughout the week as we finish the film.

A Dub-ular Day!

Whilsk editing today, everyone apart of the film decides not to show up to help finish shooting the film. So it was up to me and Kyle to work on editing and dubbing...Well, mainly Kyle. Me and James (Project Cheerleader) worked on a good albiet VERY rough copy of a storyboard for another film most of the time while we were all there. Kyle, being amazing as he is, dubbed and edited a lot of BT:TB2:BBE in the editing room, aka, the J-Cave, and we made an exclusive interview of me about the progress that has been made recently. Expect to see that interview uploaded soon.

Somewhere, the devil is having a laugh

So we go into the editing room today before we went out to film to find out someone had ruined and deleted Taylor's edits on Adobe Premier. Luckily, my rough cut on Vegas was unharmed. You see, no one uses Vegas save for me, so the learning curve for the general public is like hitting a brick wall. Theres no one to turn to for help, except for me and I'm not exactly known for my teaching skills, which is great.

We filmed a few scenes today, but only a few due to one of our primary actresses - Amanda - having a breakdown due to a mysterious summons to the Office at 7th period which had been placing her on edge all day. We were able to refilm some missing footage (the school cameras like to screw footage up for some reason) and then disaster struck during the after school editing session.

A good chunk of footage was either missing or accidently filmed over. While some of it was able to be retrieved off of an Adobe Premier auto save, the majority of it will have to be refilmed adding on to what is already going to be a strained filming session on Monday. Monday, to the say the least, is going to be a very interesting day.

A Very Good Day

Today was very productive. Seeing that we had only one day to complete our film, we shot very quickly and got several shots  down. But, it was still not enough. I went into overtime and edited a more thoroughly draft of the movie and added more audio. Hopefully tomorrow will be just as if not more, productive as today was. We will still need to go into overtime again to get it finished, but, oh well, as long as it gets done.

We have a long and strenuous day up ahead, god help us all.

Early Script

Since work on this video and other unrelated projects have prevented me from uploading bonus information to this blog (such as a trailer and character bios) I have decided to release some extremely early preproduction work so I don't feel like I'm unfufilling some obligation of some sort.
When the class project was originally assigned, we (the group) were given a script to work with. Not pleased with the character names and dialog, we (I) proceeded to write all over it.

While this is an extremely early version of the script (and is missing the first two pages due to erasing out the pencilwork) the final script is still similar enough that reading my chickenscratch can be considered as spoilers. With that said, click the following links at your own caution. Further note that the images are rather large, so you'd probably want to right click and download them.

Early Script Page 3
Early Script Page 4
Early Script Page 5
Early Script Page 6

You'll note some bits refer to "Addendums" (albeit misspelled), these were parts that were handwritten on a sheet of notebook paper adding on to the script that I threw away upon typing
up everything.

May 06 progress

Today filming has been completely caught up. As in, we've finished what was supposed to be shot on Friday but moved to Monday due to actors not showing up, and then seeped into today due to time constraints.

Luckily, I have finally gotten around to printing customized scripts for each of the actors (something I should have done earlier, but I was low on ink), so hopefully with a greater knowledge of what is going on, we'll have less screw ups.

On the editing side of things, I have completed a rather rough cut out of the majority of the footage we have, while Taylor worked on clearing up some of the white balance on the final cut. Editing while shooting is still being done isn't exactly the best conditions, but its the only way we will be able to finish this on time.

In conclusion, a really productive day.

Bear Concepts 2

As of May 2, 2008 the bear concepts released earlier have been declined due to the fact that they were pictures and not footage. Sorry.

It's now the weekend and there is not much to do since our tape and edited copy of the movie was left behind, though Kyle may be able make some progress since he has most of the material.

Well that's it for today, sweet and short.

-Taylor

Bear Concepts

Hey! It's my first post since being added to the site, and I want to release some recent concepts for the bear:







 



Expect further updates in the next few days!
-Taylor Champagne

Progress on day of May First

A scene was completely filmed today and I have all the shots lined up for the next week.
Progress was good, despite the filming being a complete mess.


Yay.

New writer!

Taylor Champagne will also be doing updates on this blog to hopefully fill in time periods where I cannot.

Please note what he is posting is purely his opinion. Do not come complaining to me.

Resuming Updates

After a skirmish with the Blogger Bots in which they confused our humble and modest blog as a hub for spam and other online wankery, we are back on the trail of updating you, the reader.


For starters lets find out what got filmed today:
-We finished what is going to be known as the "log scene" (so nothing gets spoiled).
-We did two close ups
-Some editing may or may not have been done (I'm not too sure on that bit)
-We reshot about 2, maybe 3, scenes after school.

So all in all, a fairly mediocre day for production but at least stuff got done. Coming up during this week are the following:

• Teaser Trailer
• Some Character Bios
• Exclusive background information not really explained in the film (not that it needs to, mind you)
• And maybe a peek at one of our action sequences

Here's hoping tomorrow will be a more productive day.

Cast and Crew

Who exactly is working on BT:TB2:ROTB:BBE? Well certainly no body you know! Actually maybe you do. It doesn't matter.

CAST
Kyle Backstrom - Jack Chainsaw
Chelsea Burden - Keyandra Brown
Taylor Champagne - Ernie Redmundson
Amanda Mosely - Elizabeth Stalworth
Alfredo Paulino - Chip Mann

CREW (as of 4/25)
Kyle Backstrom - Writer, Animator, Director, Assistant Cameraman, Clip Scrounger, Editor
Taylor Champagne - Lead Cameraman, Director, Clip Scrounger, Editor
Shawn Backstrom - Freelanced Cameraman (Chase sequence)
Alfredo Paulino - Assistant editor
James Deaton - Project Cheerleader

What have these people done you ask (or maybe you didn't)? Well to let you know that this group is quite legit and not just random people off the street (I'm not saying we're quality mind you) you can check out these bits of info:
- The entirety of the cast, and majority of the crew have collaborated on one episode of Eagle Vision News
-Taylor Champagne and Kyle Backstrom have both released their past videos onto Youtube. Alfredo Paulino has collaborated with both of them on various projects. All three collaborated on Deaf Man's Odyssey.
-Amanda Mosely and Kyle Backstrom worked on Rogue Squirrel Advertising Agency together
-Chelsea Burden and Amanda Mosely were part of a trio who created the unreleased student project "The Lucky Penny".
-While Shawn Backstrom has a minimal role in production, he too releases videos onto youtube, and since we're plugging everyone anyways you might as well check his stuff out as well.

With all of those random links you should have enough material to drive your ADD wild for hours on end until I have something worthwhile to post.

Bear Trouble Intro

View the riveting first 30 seconds leaked onto the net by our cameraman, Taylor Champagne!

Intro Post Majig

This blog's purpose is to bring updates and general information on the student project Bear Trouble: The Bearicide 2: Return of the Bearampage: "Bear"y Bear edition. From this blog you will eventually be able to view pre-production materials, watch clips and trailers (and the film upon its eventual release) and get updates on our team's progress. More details to come in quite soon.