Wow! The past year has been like jumping from one treacherous hell-hole to another, all-the-while skipping merrily singing: "TRA LA LA" at the top of your lungs. As with all things, though, that is behind us and the past rests soundly, until it's awoken thirty years from now by some dumbfuck, past-mongering codger, the kind no one in their right mind associates with. Anyways, all points aside, last year: bad, coming year: good. At least we hope.
Okay now that I've gotten that out of my system I can get to the point: The Future of OP. I've briefly brushed this subject in the past and now it's time to take it full-on. Are you ready? Good.
I mentioned earlier last year that OP was moving to HD. We still are! The only change is that I have found a better camera for a wee bit more. It's the Canon VIXIA HG21, look it up. And the good news of all this is that ALL of our upcoming films will be shot, cut, and mastered in 1080p FHD.
Another change is our format. I don't mean our content distribution (which I'll be getting to later), but our film format. I've been thinking about this for a while now and I've decided that all of our new films are to be minimum of 20 min. for shorts and over 70 for features.
That brings me to another point. We're going to start focusing more on feature-length films than shorts. True, shorts are easier to make, but ours just lack on narrative and plot (mostly because they were never written down and they were pretty much thrown together). So expect our films to be better, 'cause, yes, we noticed our films weren't the greatest in those fields.
Also, since we're taking a step towards features, we have to find new ways to get our content out there. Veoh is cool in the fact that you can have a video of any length uploaded on their site, but that's bad in a way, mostly because the quality isn't the greatest. Because of that I've been thinking of new, if not better, ways of getting our films out there. I came to a conclusion that since we have to put our films on DVD for Sundance anyway we might as well start a DVD program. I have looked into this and found that it's quite simple with Amazon. So sometime in the future, be expecting to be able to get our films on DVD (and maybe Blu-Ray, I've been looking into that, too).
As you can see from our plans for the future of OP, we're managing to stay independent, and that's our goal. The heart and soul of this operation thrives on the fact that we CAN and WILL do ANYTHING to make our films great.
Oh, I almost forgot, about some new projects. I already mentioned that we're making Crucifiction Friday into a feature, so that's not what this is about. Then what is it? Project Dull, of course! I have been thinking about this for a while, man I've been doing a lot of that haven't I?, and I think that we need to do it soon. So I plan on getting together with Jared soon and writing a nice little script for it. We also have another project that was planned to be part of another project, but I changed my mind and I decided that it deserves to be on its own. What could it be, you ask? Well, I don't want to ruin the surprise, not only for surprise sake, but also for probable legal reasons. Just think of: "Saving Private Ryan" and a classic story with a famously outlandish rhyming scheme, and I think you might get the idea. That, too, I have to talk to Jared about, so it's not for sure yet! But stay tuned and find out!
Anyways, happy new year all, I hope we live up to every expectation that all three of you fans have in your heads. With that I shall say goodnight and goodluck. Yours truly signing out.
Overlord T.J.
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