Hey guys. It’s been a while. Just wanted to give you an update about what is going on. I know you haven’t really seen anything new from us in a while. There are reasons. We’ve had a lot of stuff going on. Mostly non film related stuff.

Myself and my partner have switched gears for the time being and have been building a social network from scratch that is designed to be a better alternative to facebook. The site is called SocialMore.com and will hopefully launch the public beta before the year(2010) is out. You can read a little more on my personal blog at roxics.com

however after we get this site up and going full steam I personally have plans to get a film production underway. I’ve been writing and learning some new tricks. So I think we have some cool stuff coming up.

Edd Sidebottom, better know to Scape Films viewers as “Georgie” in Falling Apart, passed away last night. Edd you will be missed. You were a talented guy both on screen as an actor and off screen as a musician and tattoo artist. Not to mention an all around great guy.

We’ve decided to join the masses over on Facebook.com. You can check out our Official Scape Films Facebook Group that will mirror some of our news here, as well as act as a casting and promotion platform for our films. Feel free to join the group. Thanks.

Now for the first time we have made Falling Apart and Crash available for download.

Just right click on the following links and “save as”

Falling.Apart – size 300MB’s

Crash – size 87MB’s

The format is H.264 / MP4. The size is 480×256
This format is compatible and can be played back with Quicktime, iTunes, VLC Player, iPod video, iPod Classic, iPod nano (3G), iPod touch, iPhone, Zune, and any other H.264 low complexity compatible hardware or software player.

I said I didn’t want to jump back into another feature right way. That I wanted to do a few shorts first. So maybe it’s stupid of me to suddenly consider doing another feature. Or at least starting the preproduction on one, which includes the script.

The script I have is at about 80 pages. 10 to 20 more could finsih the movie as it stands right now. This script has been written over the course of many many years. I’m talking 10 years here in some form or another. I keep coming back to it. I always wrote it as something I could shoot on a budget. But my style of writing today is different then it was say two years ago when I last worked on it. Back then my work was mostly dialogue driven. As can be seen in my feature. Today I’m focusing more on action. Since I noticed my movies tend to be a little boring without enough action.

I think I’ve always shyed away from action when writing because it usually equals money in my mind (action=money). But these days I notice I really need it. I figure a movie should be 50/50 dialogue/action. And when I say action I don’t mean gun fights and explosions half the time. But rather just something interesting to look at other then somebodies face talking.

My problem is trying to figure out where to put this action into my exisiting story. I fear having to rewrite the entire film. But maybe it’s somethign I have to do.

I realize no one can help me much without actually reading the script. I’m just venting to myself really.

For years I’ve been looking for a way to balance out my amatuer / silly side of filmmaking with my more professional aspirational side of it.
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When I was about 4 or 5 years old I was taken to the movie theater in the mall to see Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. I don’t remember the movie so much as I remember walking out of the theater and into a KB toystore where my parents bought me a Darth Vader lightsaber. They were sold out of the Luke Skywalker green sabers.
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Seems a silly idea. But it’s true. Those in power want to remain in power and they’ll do so however they can. Only letting in certain people at a time who can help sustain their power (profit).
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