My production company, CreativeLogic Entertainment, is beginning production on a cartoon entitled Bobby Bo Bodeo. The screenplay was written by my partner, Eric Miles, and is a half hour (actually 22 minutes) 3D animated children’s show targeted at four to eight year old children. Bobby Bo Bodeo is a really fun show with rhymes, games, educational value and a bunch of neat characters.
Writer/Director Eric Miles and a small hand full of actors from Universal Studios Orlando make up our cast. The four of them are voicing twelve characters for the pilot episode. The first rehearsal was last night. It went very well, better than I thought. At first I was skeptical about such a small cast pulling off the wide range of voices that the show requires, but it seems like it’s going to be great. We may be pulling in one additional cast member for the voice of Bobby Bo Bodeo’s younger brother Billy Bil Bodeo. That was the one voice that everyone gave a shot, but no one really got it. Pre-production is complete. The animators at Flicker Mill have the storyboards and character sheets, and are currently building all of the 3D assets. We have another rehearsal of voice talent on December 6th, and then it’s off to the recording studio to lay down the voice tracks on December 13. That’s when I start editing dialog and creating a rough animatic using the storyboards and temp music.
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Production forms have been added to the site. You can find them under the Free Stuff link. They are all in MS Word .doc format. They will also be available in PDF format shortly on the same page. I have some other miscellaneous documents for that page, like story board sheets, that will be going up soon. Go ahead and download the forms and enjoy.
The links section is now live. This is a quick list of some sites that I find most valuable to making movies. There will be some more on the way as I pick through and choose the most relevant filmmaking resources that I can find. You will notice that a Free Stuff link has been added. I am going to be putting up links to all kinds of free stuff for filmmakers like screenplay templates and free magazine subscriptions. I have been on a hunt for open source filmmaking software, and I’ll post links to all of the free goodies that I come across there as well. There will be reviews on much of this open source software soon.
If you have anything that you think is valuable to independent filmmaking and would like to contribute to this site, feel free to contact me. I am open to just about anything. If you have links, documents, or if you would like to contribute by posting articles, or even comments, please feel free to do so.
This being my first post, I want to state what my intentions are for this site. This blog is not going to be a giant pool of randomness. I don’t want to post just for the sake of posting irrelevant thoughts. Not to say that I won’t go off on a tangent or rant from time to time. I just want to keep it relevant to filmmaking. I will be working on the site in bite size chunks depending on my schedule and level of involvement in various projects that I am working on.
I am going to try to make zadie.com as useful as I can. I’m sure that there is going to be plenty of content here that may be useless, but I am going to give it a whole hearted effort. The resources link in the navigation bar is where you can find pretty much all of my bookmarked web sites related to film production, video production, 3D, visual effects and anything else related to making or watching movies. Links to various podcasts and tutorials that I find useful will also be in abundance.
I have amassed a collection of paperwork that will be posted on the forms page as well. Some of the production forms that I am going to be sharing are call sheets, schedules, logs, sign out sheets, contracts, and loads more. Lots of goodies to help out with your projects.
I hope you enjoy this site, and more importantly, get something out of it. Well, I hope you keep checking back. There will be many bumps (and brick walls) along this road of independent filmmaking, and hopefully we can help each other along.
Paul Zadie
