Thursday, April 30, 2009
Monday, April 13, 2009
Horrofest Screening
MONSTER COPS: SHADOW COMPANY
Screening at StarFest/HorrorFest
Sunday
April 19th
11:00 am
Denver Colorado
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Still Working
In the middle of it all. Working on rewrites for the next 20 minute episode. We start shooting next week. All locations are accounted for. I think. A GIANT monster is being built for this one. In the middle of finishing the rest of the props and weapons.
Still looking to cast a few more parts, Vampires, Zombies, and a few officers. If you're in the Winston Salem, NC area and are interested in auditioning, feel free to contact us through Myspace. http://myspace.com/monstercops193
I hope to have at least 3 more webisodes up before June, as well as this 20 minute episode finished by mid may. Gotten some great feedback on the webisodes, but mind you, the webisodes are all comedy based. We have yet to display the full span of horror, action, and comedy in the webisodes, which I hope to do in the next 3.
All the webisodes are in the process of being uploaded to Blip.tv. So if you go there, right now you'll only find the MC Intro. The more content we create, the more I'm leaning to putting it also on a program loop on http://www.mogulus.com/. Although we post everywhere, you'll find everything that needs to be seen at http://monstercops.com
Also, you should be able to see the newish Monster Cops Twitter feed somewhere to the left. Feel free to follow us at http://twitter.com/MonsterCops
And we'd love for everyone to subscribe to our YouTube Channel.
We also have a screening of Monster Cops: Shadow Compnay coming up at STARFEST/HORRORFEST in Denver. More details coming soon on that.
Back to work I go, and please keep checking back for updates.
- Patrick
Still looking to cast a few more parts, Vampires, Zombies, and a few officers. If you're in the Winston Salem, NC area and are interested in auditioning, feel free to contact us through Myspace. http://myspace.com/monstercops193
I hope to have at least 3 more webisodes up before June, as well as this 20 minute episode finished by mid may. Gotten some great feedback on the webisodes, but mind you, the webisodes are all comedy based. We have yet to display the full span of horror, action, and comedy in the webisodes, which I hope to do in the next 3.
All the webisodes are in the process of being uploaded to Blip.tv. So if you go there, right now you'll only find the MC Intro. The more content we create, the more I'm leaning to putting it also on a program loop on http://www.mogulus.com/. Although we post everywhere, you'll find everything that needs to be seen at http://monstercops.com
Also, you should be able to see the newish Monster Cops Twitter feed somewhere to the left. Feel free to follow us at http://twitter.com/MonsterCops
And we'd love for everyone to subscribe to our YouTube Channel.
We also have a screening of Monster Cops: Shadow Compnay coming up at STARFEST/HORRORFEST in Denver. More details coming soon on that.
Back to work I go, and please keep checking back for updates.
- Patrick
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Zombie Saturday Night
A few pics from last Sat Night. Great job everyone. Next time will be a HUGE zombie blow out. More Zombies, more heads blown off.
And a small preview.
And a small preview.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Let the midnight special shine a light on me
The signs are everywhere and I can't ignore them. I've been reminded full force of things from the past and it gives me clarity when working on the future.
Credence Clearwater Revival's classic song "Midnight Special". I listened to it constantly when working on the first Monster Cops script, The Midnight Special.
It was this song and 2 others.
Whodini's Classic of Hip-Hop "The Freaks Come Out at Night"
And the one that really inspired me when working on Monster Cops (and still does to this day): The Hollies classic "Long Cool Woman"
It's these three songs I had put on a repeat over and over the entire time I worked on The Midnight Special. To me these songs captures a strong part of the spirit that is Monster Cops. CCR's Midnight Special had that down home rock and blues tone that you really don't associate too much with horror and monsters. Which is why I found it well suited for Monster Cops. It was the feel of how the Cops operated while under the strain of hunting creatures. Cool and groovy, a tone you wouldn't put with hammering stakes in to Vampire hearts. That's the tone of Monster Cops.
The Freaks Come Out at Night was a song that felt right over images of patrol cars looking for, well, freaks. Cops on patrol, investigating strange situations hunting zombies and ghouls. Like driving through neighborhood streets on Halloween Night, seeing costumed creatures roaming around. Plus it was an old school song that did remind me of that Halloween feel, only because it would always end up on someones Halloween music mixtape along with Thriller, The Halloween Theme, and Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes.
And finally Long Cool Woman was always a favorite of mine. Definitely my fav song from The Hollies and in my top 10 of classic rock songs. This song always felt like great background narration for some undercover cop closing in for the arrest, or DEA agents on a bust. Desipte what it's lyrics may define it as, to me this was the action theme for Monster Cops. The bouncy rock rhythm and feel of CCR's Midnight Special but with a harder edge and faster pace. Rock and Blues for Cops on the move, and that's Monster Cops. Burnt out and blue on the job, cracking jokes about the bust, and all the while the Vampires burn and the Zombie heads explode.
Odd, strange, quirky, funny, and thrilling with monsters and guns thrown in.
All this means that I'm nowhere near done with Monster Cops. There is that specific feel and vision I'm going for and I feel like if I can really nail it, it will really be something great. Not that I wasn't already aiming for that, it's just tonight has been very motivating, and a little inspiring.
Still have many many other videos to work on of course. The video work never goes away, but I do hope to get on the ball with Monster Cops and get as much of my vision out there as possible, more shorts, more episodes, much, much more Monster Cops.
- Patrick
Credence Clearwater Revival's classic song "Midnight Special". I listened to it constantly when working on the first Monster Cops script, The Midnight Special.
It was this song and 2 others.
Whodini's Classic of Hip-Hop "The Freaks Come Out at Night"
And the one that really inspired me when working on Monster Cops (and still does to this day): The Hollies classic "Long Cool Woman"
It's these three songs I had put on a repeat over and over the entire time I worked on The Midnight Special. To me these songs captures a strong part of the spirit that is Monster Cops. CCR's Midnight Special had that down home rock and blues tone that you really don't associate too much with horror and monsters. Which is why I found it well suited for Monster Cops. It was the feel of how the Cops operated while under the strain of hunting creatures. Cool and groovy, a tone you wouldn't put with hammering stakes in to Vampire hearts. That's the tone of Monster Cops.
The Freaks Come Out at Night was a song that felt right over images of patrol cars looking for, well, freaks. Cops on patrol, investigating strange situations hunting zombies and ghouls. Like driving through neighborhood streets on Halloween Night, seeing costumed creatures roaming around. Plus it was an old school song that did remind me of that Halloween feel, only because it would always end up on someones Halloween music mixtape along with Thriller, The Halloween Theme, and Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes.
And finally Long Cool Woman was always a favorite of mine. Definitely my fav song from The Hollies and in my top 10 of classic rock songs. This song always felt like great background narration for some undercover cop closing in for the arrest, or DEA agents on a bust. Desipte what it's lyrics may define it as, to me this was the action theme for Monster Cops. The bouncy rock rhythm and feel of CCR's Midnight Special but with a harder edge and faster pace. Rock and Blues for Cops on the move, and that's Monster Cops. Burnt out and blue on the job, cracking jokes about the bust, and all the while the Vampires burn and the Zombie heads explode.
Odd, strange, quirky, funny, and thrilling with monsters and guns thrown in.
All this means that I'm nowhere near done with Monster Cops. There is that specific feel and vision I'm going for and I feel like if I can really nail it, it will really be something great. Not that I wasn't already aiming for that, it's just tonight has been very motivating, and a little inspiring.
Still have many many other videos to work on of course. The video work never goes away, but I do hope to get on the ball with Monster Cops and get as much of my vision out there as possible, more shorts, more episodes, much, much more Monster Cops.
- Patrick
Friday, February 6, 2009
Zombies Ahead
10:54AM Thursday Feb 05, 2009
Jim Suhr
COLLINSVILLE, Illinois - Pranksters in at least three states are messing with electronic road signs meant to warn motorists of possible traffic problems by putting drivers on notice about Nazi zombies and raptors. And highway safety officials aren't amused.
The latest breach came on Tuesday during the morning rush hour near Collinsville, Illinois, where hackers changed a sign along southbound Interstate 255 to read, "DAILY LANE CLOSURES DUE TO ZOMBIES."
A day earlier in Indiana's Hamilton County, the electronic message on a board in Carmel's construction zone warned drivers of "RAPTORS AHEAD - CAUTION."
And signs in Austin, Texas, recently flashed: "NAZI ZOMBIES! RUN!!!" and "ZOMBIES IN AREA! RUN."
Officials in Illinois are concerned the rewritten signs distract motorists from heeding legitimate hazards down the road. The hacked sign on Tuesday originally warned drivers of crews replacing guardrails.
"We understood it was a hoax, but at the same time those boards are there for a reason," said Joe Gasaway, an Illinois Department of Transportation supervisory field engineer. "We don't want (drivers) being distracted by a funny sign."
Authorities haven't figured out how pranksters access the signs. Gasaway believes the Illinois sign was changed remotely, and Austin Public Works spokeswoman Sara Hartley suspected the hackers there cut a padlock to get into the signs' computers.
Some websites, such as Jalopnik.com, have published tutorials titled "How to Hack an Electronic Road Sign" as a way to alert security holes to traffic-safety officials. Jalopnik urges its readership of 2.6 million a month not to put its lesson to practice.
"Hacking generally is about showing where there are holes in security systems, and I think this is a great example of that," the site's editor-in-chief, Ray Wert, said. "I'm sure there are all sorts of ways to use that information in a way that's inappropriate, but we're trying to make clear this is an issue that needs to be confronted by traffic safety and transportation officials."
Wert said he had no immediate plans to take down Jalopnik's how-to guide.
In Illinois, tampering with an official traffic control device is a misdemeanour punishable by up to a US$250 fine - half what a culprit might have to pay in Texas if caught. If convicted in Indiana, a culprit faces up to a year in jail and $5,000 in fines.
- AP
News Story Link 1
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Thursday, January 22, 2009
Thursday, January 15, 2009
New Video Blog
New Video blog is up.
http://www.monstercops.com/page.php?page=Vlog
We'll be casting for zombies and vampires soon. so stay tuned for that.
Peace.
- P
http://www.monstercops.com/page.php?page=Vlog
We'll be casting for zombies and vampires soon. so stay tuned for that.
Peace.
- P
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Still Working It
It was hectic as usual over the holidays, but we managed to get some shooting in for Monster Cops. Coming up I hope to have at least one more full episode and 3 minisodes for your consumption in the next few months. Of course the day job fills in alot of time and there is much commercial work to be done before we can go off and play Monster Cops again. There is a VLOG coming soon to show you what some of us have been up to. Here's a small taste in freeze frame form.
Greenly (Danielle Motley) with a gun. Not that she actually ever holds a gun in any of the episodes, this is actually just Danielle trying to kill Brandon.
AS posted previously, this is a frame from the graphics work for the MKX300 Weapons POV.
Brandon and Chris share a tender moment. What can I say, it's a Bromance.
Danielle tries to remember her lines, as Brandon is in the background ordering a pizza.
Me working on the next prop gun.
More stuff coming soon, so please stay tuned. And thanks to everyone showing us much Monster Cops love, keep those comments and emails coming. We love to read the feedback. You guys rock!
Greenly (Danielle Motley) with a gun. Not that she actually ever holds a gun in any of the episodes, this is actually just Danielle trying to kill Brandon.
AS posted previously, this is a frame from the graphics work for the MKX300 Weapons POV.
Brandon and Chris share a tender moment. What can I say, it's a Bromance.
Danielle tries to remember her lines, as Brandon is in the background ordering a pizza.
Me working on the next prop gun.More stuff coming soon, so please stay tuned. And thanks to everyone showing us much Monster Cops love, keep those comments and emails coming. We love to read the feedback. You guys rock!
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Watch This One Too ....
I cut together another video entry for the Aspire contest to go along with my last "Aliens and Cow Lips" Video. This time I've gotten my fellow Monster Cops involved, Brandon White and Chris Plouffe.
Go to the YouTube page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIu9CBaO0Ko
Please spread it around, rate it high, and watch it alot, oh yes and leave a comment.
Go to the YouTube page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIu9CBaO0Ko
Please spread it around, rate it high, and watch it alot, oh yes and leave a comment.
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