More news on A MIDSUMMER NIGHTMARE-THE BETRAYAL

A podcast interview, and new crew additions can be found at our Midsummer Nightmare blog.

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FIRST LOOK!!!

Here is your first look at Dedeker Winston as a feyist warrior for A MIDSUMMER NIGHTMARE-THE BETRAYAL. click here. Also don't forget to check out our Indiegogo page to see how you can be a part of this great project.

Onward and Upward!!!

Midsummer Nightmare - The Betrayal Pitch Video from Steve Everson on Vimeo.

A lot of great things are going on for Frogband Productions. L. Jeffrey Moore (a Frogband filmmaker) is currently producing (in association with Arcadian Entertainment and Steve Everson): A MIDSUMMER NIGHTMARE- THE BETRAYAL. The short film is a dark fantasy/horror film inspired by William Shakespeare's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. We are in the beginning weeks or our fundraising campaign and we are off to a good start. To check out information on how to give check out our indiegogo.com page. You can also take a look at our video above. Check us out and if it's something you know you'd like to see, make your contribution NOW!!! Thanks.

Ubiquity Records and Frogband Unite to produce their latest record collection

You guys remember those old vinyl 45's right? Well Ubiquity Records has produced a set of 7" records in a limited edition handmade box created by Oakland based company The Key Printing and Binding. To commemorate this set Ubiquity asked Frogband's own L. Jeffrey Moore to produce a short featurette on the making of this box. It was an awesome experience and what made it even more exciting I didn't use my prosumer camera, which is my Canon XH-A1. I used a point and shoot camera with its video feature (canon sd780is). I must say for a consumer camera it certainly did the job. Take a look and see for yourselves.

Making of-Groove Merchant 20 Record Box from jeffmoore on Vimeo.

Production Designer Ipek Kemahlioglu Joins the MIdsummer Nightmare team!

Ipek Kemahlioglu joins the Midsummer team. Click HERE for more info.

Welcome to the Midsummer Crew Robin!!!

Robin Roselli (Make-up Artist Extraordinaire) Joins the Midsummer Nightmare crew. Click HERE for more information.

The Frogband Projects

Frogband Reel



The Experiement
Directed by L. Jefffrey Moore



Borders
Directed by Tyrel Ventura



Agent: XX
Directed by L. Jeffrey Moore



The Last Roast
Directed by L. Jeffrey Moore

"Inoculated" in production in Vacaville

After a series of meetings through out the Summer and Fall of 2010 the short film "Inoculated" is now in production. The film is helmed by two young directors, Ian Lasater and Jake Newman, with yours truly (L. Jeffrey Moore) as producer and co-creator of the story. The Script was written by Ian and his wife Samantha Lasater. This project follows the classic zombie genre with a great twist at the end and hopefully a deeper look into the human psyche. The pictures that you see are actually video stills from the Canon 5D shot by Cinematographer Tyson Maughan. Make-up SFX by the wonderful and talented Robin Rosselli

Help a Sista out!!!

Hey guys,
A filmmaker friend of mine is shooting a music video here in the Bay Area and needs people to audition on Monday November 1st. Here's the info:

ASTING - Actor/ Dancers and Choreographer
Looking for dancer / actors for the ‘I Like Girls’ MUSIC VIDEO

Check out http://www.myspace.com/takeovaent for information on the artist
On screen talent - Females over 18 only (Adult themes, NO nudity).

BACKGROUND DANCERS and 2 LEADS are needed.

CHOREOGRAPHER - Male or Female, any age (Choreographer may also be one of our onscreen dancers provided they meet the previous conditions)

Casting will be held the Mon. 11/1/10 in downtown Sacramento at 7pm. Shooting will begin mid November and take place in Sacramento and San Francisco over two weekends.

This is a Non Union production. No pay but copy, credit and meals WILL be provided. The completed video will be submitted to worldstarhiphop.com and iTunes.

For more information please reply with headshots, resume and contact information.
Email for locations and times: jgibbooking@gmail.com


What's up? We're a group of film students combining forces to create a upbeat music video for an upcoming rap/hip hop artist! We're looking for dancers/choreographers and models!! The song is called "I like girls" and the link is as follows for the artist:

http://www.myspace.com/takeovaent

It's a club beat and music anybody can dance to. We are looking for people who are 18 and above for this shoot. This gig is UNPAID however, a copy of the DVD as well as food WILL BE PROVIDED!!!

This video is on it's way to be sent to www.worldstarhiphop.com as well as on iTunes so chances of you getting famous with this video are pretty good!! If you would like to get more information on this video and would like to audition, please reply to us ASAP!!! Thank you very much for your interest and hope to hear from you soon!!!!

Bloodwood Cannibals to Play at BCM's HorrorFest

Berkeley Community Media's Horror Film Festival is proud to present: "Bloodwood Cannibals" on Sunday October 24th, 2010 at 8pm. This will be BCM's first feature film showing at the annual festival now in it's fourth year. Directed by Joshua Siegel the film has premiered in Chico and San Francisco Ca, and has been playing around the country in Kentucky, Oaklahoma, and Colorado. For more info on the movie click "here". For festival information information go "here"

Bloodwood Cannibals is in the news to make way for Midsummer

Bloodwood Cannibals is featured on KHSL TV channel 12.
It briefly discusses Joshua Siegel's next film that I am helping to produce called
Midsummer Nightmare. Check it out.


Paradise Horror Film Released

A Midsummer Nightmare: Actress Deneen Melody cast in Shakespeare inspired...

A Midsummer Nightmare: Actress Deneen Melody cast in Shakespeare inspired...: "Arcadian Entertainment is proud to announce that Deneen Melody will be playing a lead role in the horror film 'A Midsummer Nightmare'. Denee..."

Wow has it been this long?

God I am slightly embarrassed in posting an entry. But nevertheless here goes. After a lot of hard work and determination it seems as if Frogband will be involved with two features. One hard core drama being shot in Texas and Los Angeles , and one horror film with a zombie short film to boot. "The Wanderers" Produced by Tyrel Ventura and directed by Layton Mathews is about to get underway. While my film that I am producing with Steve Everson and Joshua Siegel is called "A Midsummer Nightmare." The zombie short film is tentively titled "The Dinner Party" and that film is being directed by Ian Lasater and Jake Newman with yours truly producing.

Okay so now that I have something to write about I guess I should keep it going :) Stay tuned.
Lj

Kevin Smith to hold a Q&A at Macworld

Today Director Kevin Smith will make an appearance at Macworld at 2pm later today. Hopefully if all goes well I should have a recording/review of the event.

Kevin Smith to hold a Q&A at Macworld

Kevin Smith to hold a Q&A at Macworld\

Macworld.....MACWORLD!!!

I'm gearing up to do Macworld Next week and yours truly will talk about the new gadgets for you gorilla filmmakers out there....Staytuned.

Podcast updates and other such things

The podcasting project is going great. I've done 3 interviews so far and I've gotta say that each person I've talked to was so excited that this was taking place I feel that I am definitely headed in the right direction.

In other news the 2007 HD short film "Borders" featuring Dominique Swain and Former Minnesota Governor and host of Tru TV's "Conspiracy Theory" Jesse Ventura has finally seen the end of it's long post production journey and is now "ready" to be seen by the rest of the world. The short, directed by longtime friend and partner Tyrel Ventura, was received well by friends and colleagues and has been a special side project for Colorado based film company, 42 productions. We owe them our gratitude and appreciation for taking care of us in color correcting, sound sweetening and creating an HD master. THANK YOU 42!!! As a matter of fact all this came about via the Governor's involvement with the production company's film called "Woodshop" (which should be out by now). Anyway via "The Body" and his son/director Tyrel, we graciously took them up on their offer, so I loaded up the hard drive of the entire file and shipped it over. Now all that's left is a screening.

With So many things to do how does one keep it together? A little faith, patience and of course determination. 2010 here we come!

Coming soon...A RedCape/Jammin Productions

Bad Ass right? More to come but I actually found the time to act again. check RedCape Cinema's site here

Construction Zone

Construction has started on the Frogband website. Complete with Logo and all. Again Special thanks to Scott Becker (Mac Guru, artist and, all around good guy) who's telecommuting in Mexico for his job (which is in Vermont). Ha! Anyhoo, The goals for this week is to research other websites that have a lot of video and other media on their site. I am learning a lot about designing a website by looking at others sites and I am getting a lot of inspiration. Here are two that come to mind. Behance.com has a clean modern look and placement of their content. The white space is used pretty good content is interesting to look at. I also took a look at the Revision 3 site as I am looking to create a network of micro budget content for visitors to view/download etc. I am using iWeb and after digging deep into the application I have come to realize that this is not just a tool for people who do not know how to design a website. You can actually create some pretty sophisticated designs and themes with a little guidance. Some sites I have visited for tutorials are:
all about iweb
iweb faq

These two sites were really helpful and I highly recommend going to them if you are using iweb. I stumbled across them while I was researching on testing the limits of this underused app on my Mac.

Lastly I am happy to announce the first podcast will be reacorded this friday. I am interviewing Nara Denning who has a series of six vignettes called Neurotique. Check out her site here. These podcasts will be released early in 2010. The podcast line up of more micro budget filmmakers are filling up fast and there's more to come.