So we are laying low for the holidays, building up some much needed energy for the year ahead which includes the previously mentioned Kickstarter launch and a feature documentary! So there will be no shortage of Captain Pixel in 2012! Let’s hope the world doesn’t end right?
At any rate, we hope that you are all having great holidays and we’ll see you after the new year for more film goodness!
So we’re in the process of launching a Kickstarter project for a feature narrative film. Details are being assembled as this posts so we aren’t quite ready to release all the info yet. We hope that you’ll stick with us on this exciting upcoming journey though!
If you’re unfamiliar Kickstarter is a program where fans of a project agree to donate money toward the completion of the project. Usually in exchange for the donation the fans get some sort of reward such as getting their name in the closing credits of the film, if it’s a film. There are Kickstarters for all sorts of art including books and even paintings. What we can say about our project, other than it’s a feature narrative film, is that it will most definitively be in the horror gener (which you probably assumed from the teaser image to the left). The overall style of the story will be familiar to horror fans but the story is genre and sub-genre bending for sure.
A link to the actual Kickstarter is on the way with all the goods! Keep checking back!
The 48 Hour Film Project has become an annual event for us. It’s a great way to test your chops and see just what you can do as a creator and as an organizer in two short days. Last year we drew mockmunetary, which stylistically didn’t stray too far from our comfort zone. This year we drew suspense/thriller. While Captain Pixel hasn’t ever produced a suspense film the genre exists at the backbone of the company because the director, Stephen Lackey, is a hardcore horror movie fan. Stephen and Zack decided in a matter of minutes that they would do a giallo film, an Italian subgenre of suspense/thriller created by master artist Dario Argento. The film that followed came together like magic as the two lead actresses ended up being twins. The story nearly wrote itself!
Salon is the story of twin hair sylists that are both sick of being treated horribly by mean, mostly because they are twins. The mystery is who snaps and what does she do? Look for the tropes of giallo in this film including the use of black gloves and random washes of color. The film ended up winning best in its genre in the 2011 48 Hour Film Festival! Video is on the way.
Here we have the final episode of our 6 part documentary series that was originally done for Microsoft for the XBOX360. In this spooky episode we travel to Scarefest in Louisville Ky. for a weekend of horrific ghost hunting, amazing costumes, and fascinating celebrity guests! Check out the rest of the episodes including this one here!