The Rose - Colored & Completed

after watching the video on the fancy monitors at finifilm, it was decided there wasn't much coloring to change after embellished a few small cues and a quick clean-up of minor things and now it is finished.

here are a few stills from the more low-key "chapter 3" of the video, where our starlet (lucy rupert) burns rose pedals for luck and is interrupted by a well dressed, kind-hearted older man. we are trying to save the "looks" of the other chapters for the broadcast/debut.

a behind-the-scenes documentary of the video shoot was shot by jeffrey zablotny who has done this daunting task previously on circumference ("hat trick") and last flowers ("wink"). the video and still photos from set will make their way online whenever we are allowed to do so.

The Rose - Front Page News

Sarah Slean posted a blurb about 'The Rose' shoot on the front page of her website this morning. In her words:

Sarah has teamed up again with the wunderkinds from Fortyfps and Major Street Productions - the group behind 2008's film "Last Flowers". After some scheduling difficulty, the shoot date was finally booked for March 5 in Toronto. BravoFact has generously supported the project, the aim of which was to ambitiously combine play-within-a-play storytelling, musical performance, and dance.

Sarah was particularly interested in working with Lucy Rupert again - the dancer behind last year's "Abecedarian" project, a solo piece that Sarah described as "riveting".

The video is being completed and released much later than the actual song's release (December 2008), but the project was such a congruence of creative people that Sarah assures us it will have been worth the wait.

editing has been completed and we are awaiting our coloring session which is set for the 9th. bravofact's grant we won essentially buys them first broadcast/premiere rights to the video so we are at the mercy of them as to when it can be released online. above is an uncorrected still image from the video. we will post a few more shortly.

The Rose - Sarah Slean

this friday we shoot a music video for sarah slean so we put up a drawing to give you a look at brian garvey's set we will be running around on and also a low resolution glimpse of a futon covered in index cards.

Please Subscribe - Official Website Launched

we have uploaded a very primitive webpage onto our please subscribe servers. the artwork is a slightly more simplified version of the movie poster that will be coming shortly. click here to view the artwork & website

Please Subscribe - David Choi, Happyslip & Tay Zonday

New Video: The Awkward Stage "Sad Girl Radio"

THE AWKWARD STAGE - SAD GIRL RADIO

Edited, Photographed & Directed by CJ Wallis, @fortyfps
Concept: Shane Nelken

Shot on Mini DV tape, Canon Elura 480p

taken from the album Heaven Is For Easy Girls

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Circumference Selected Into Bend Film Festival

It was whispered in our ears by one of the higher-ups at the Bend Film Festival in Oregon that Circumference has been chosen by the jury for this year's festival. A specific date has not yet been announced, but when that information is released, we will post it here.

Enjoy Facebook? A group for Fortyfps Productions has been set up which, at this moment, features a higher quality version of Circumference than what exist in various other places around the net and the ability to interact/post comments to photos and various other things. Please come say hullo, and join the group if you don't mind.

969 Canceled, The Awkward Stage Video Isn't.

On day one of hiatus from 969, the producers and hosts were informed the show was not coming back. No real shock to those who were paying somewhat close attention. A music video is slated to be shot for The Awkward Stage, whenever it can be arranged. Mark Geary's third album is currently in the mixing stages of which we contributed to 7 of the songs, but what ends up on the final album remains to be seen at this point.

High Eh Tus

969's final tape date for the season is mere days away at which point everyone is fired for 6 weeks and then probably hired back in September.