So as you all know now, Flash Echo Fire's debut music video for the EP Title Track Invincible is now live, and earlier than first thought. There will be two versions of this Music Video, both Official, but one tailored to what the band wanted, and one tailored to my thoughts, though they are similar.
Both have the same set, a performace based video, with pretty much the same camera shots and edit techniques, though the band version (soon to be up on their to be YouTube page) differs with less abstract lighting and still imagry.
The editing took a total of 72 hours, production within 2 hours. It was a mammoth task for me to undertake, and I have learnt alot. There will deffinatly be aot more music videos coming up in the near future. I have a couple more lined up with Flash Echo Fire, and I'm in the midst of talking with a band who's name I am not able to announce...because they dont have one....
Well anyways. There are alot more music based projects coming up. BUT the big news is my short film "Sabriel". Its been kept under-wraps for the past 4 months, but its now under way.
The film, originally to be a short film, is a book adaptation of Garth Nix's thriller "Sabriel". The novel is set in two neighbouring fictional countries: To the south lies Ancelstierre, which has a technology level and society similar to that of early-20th century England, and to the north lies the Old Kingdom, where magic works and dangerous spirits roam the land — a fact officially denied by the government of Ancelstierre and disbelieved by most of Ancelstierre's inhabitants. (Those who live near the border know the truth of it, especially on days when the wind is blowing out of the Old Kingdom.) These dangerous spirits range from undead corpses known as Dead Hands to supernatural beings known as Free Magic elementals.
These living Dead are raised by Necromancers, or black magicians, who roam the Old Kingdom or live in Death, using Hands to do their bidding. To remedy the problem of dangerous, living dead, there is always a sorcerer with the title of Abhorsen, who is essentially a Necromancer himself (or herself), only in the reverse; he puts the dead to rest. At the time of Sabriel, it is her father, Terciel, who has the job of controlling the endless dead creatures doing evil deeds around the Wall, especially difficult since a new evil seems to be rising.
When the current Abhorsen is overcome by one such evil, he sends his bells and sword to his daughter Sabriel, who is being raised in an Ancelstierre school, out of reach of those who might try to strike at her father through her. She must return to the Old Kingdom to rescue her father and prevent the evil's return.
Alot of reading, I know, and Im sorry
