Promo Trailer

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Daniel Grzeskowiak

I started updating our withoutabox.com profile and press kit for Misfit Heights so we can submit it to festivals and get it listed on IMDB.com. I uploaded the promo trailer and you can now watch it on IMDB.com, yet they still won’t let us make a movie page for it. Will have to wait a bit longer for that. Here’s the link for the promo:

IMDB Promo

It’s also hard to input everyone’s real credits on withoutabox.com because they have no category for puppeteers. I might have to list everyone as supporting actors or wait until we get an IMDB page and add them later. That’s probably better as I won’t have to make corrections later, I can just do it the right way the second time.

I’m currently researching festivals and have picked a few out. One that I want to go to is the Gen Con Film Festival, but it has a late deadline of May 1st and we are still setting up our music composer so I don’t know if we can finish by that time. I would like to set it as our unofficial deadline, but would like to give the composer more time as I want the music to be as good as possible. We’ll see what we can do when we talk to the composer.

I received the file needed from our artist to make our t-shirts but couldn’t open it for some reason. So once we figure out what went wrong we will start getting those made. I’m hoping to have them ready and for sale by our unofficial deadline(May 1).

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Sound Design

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Daniel Grzeskowiak

As we get closer to finishing the film we are starting to consider festivals and conventions. T-shirts, posters, and even a Misfit Heights iPad zombie survivor game. We’ll have more info on these subjects soon, but the other thing in consideration is where to have the premier? I’m thinking right now that we will have it back in Wisconsin where it was filmed, so everyone that was crammed into small areas with an arm held above their head gets a chance to see the final outcome of all their hard work.

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New schedule and a little story

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Daniel Grzeskowiak

We are still hard at work to get Misfit Heights finished and in the festival circuit. However, sound will take a little longer than expected because there is a lot more to do than we initially planned for. When you film a movie with the great idea of recording all the voices, effects, and music in post, you add many months of work to your production. Our new finish date will be in January of 2012. But I will leave you with a little production story.

We had finally finished our restaurant scenes and decided to move on to our first apartment scene. We built the set and realized we needed a couch. Where else to you get scenery for a low budget movie… goodwill. We set up the scene, filmed for the day and left for dinner. When we got back we discovered that our couch had residence. Two small mice that were hiding in the couch. To evict them, we carried the couch outside and pulled off the cushions. They still would not leave so we took a knife and cut up the back of the couch to find them. Eventually, using a flashlight in the dark, we were able to grab them and send them off into the real world. So if you look at our pictures on facebook, one of them shows us searching for mice.

No animals were harmed in the making of this film. Only puppets.

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Voice Overs

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Daniel Grzeskowiak

I traveled to Los Angeles to perform a few voices for the movie and see how everything was going. I sat down with the director James Burzelic and the sound engineer Fionnegan Murphy to hear some of the voices previously recorded. The movie keeps getting better as the voice actors bring out the personality of each of the puppets. It’s been a long time in the making but we can’t wait to show our movie to an audience and see their response. So far all the responses we’ve received from actors and workers has been good. We’re still on our schedule and plan to start submitting to festivals in August. If you know a festival that a puppet zombie musical would receive a warm welcome at, please leave a comment and let us know.

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New Webpage

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Daniel Grzeskowiak

We just updated our webpage using wordpress. We’re hoping this will help us build an online community where we can communicate with our fans. Please be patient while we make these changes.

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