Big News! DVD's and The BD iTunes Playlist

Hi there.

New news! Hurray! The DVD's came in today! All 50 of 'em, and they look great. The packaging looks really professional. I unpackaged and tested one and it worked fine.I wholeheartedly recommend www.mixonic.com for disc duplication and replication. These DVD's will sell for $10 at the premiere. JUST A REMINDER: all of the money raised at the premiere will be going to finance the third film in The Blackest Dawn Chronicles.

Cameron and I have been cooking up a few goodies for the premiere on Monday. A few of the extras are tightly-kept secrets, but I am glad to say we will have a blooper reel following Dust to Dust. It has been loads of fun going back and revisiting the challenges of being on set as well as the funny moments.

The Winston County Journal ran a piece on the movie premiere in today's paper. You can read the article here.

I've saved the best news for last. Cameron and I met for 2 and a half hours in the MSU library last night and... inspired by our Blackest Dawn iTunes playlist... we finished the plot outline for Episode 3! It was a very exciting moment. The creative juices were really flowing for both of us and we bantered back and forth and pantomimed and imagined until we beat out an incredible ending to the story. This third film will be sooooo different from anything we've offered so far. Hopefully, the ending will set the stage for an epic blockbuster feature in the distant future, but I think the ending we've imagined will be satisfying in and of itself. This story will take the world we've created and the precedents we have established and really give them depth and humanity and feeling. The trick is to continue to not take this world too seriously, because we really do love it.

I will continue to delve into our thoughts on Episode 3 and bring to light some of the actual events and themes of the story in future posts. Meanwhile, Kevin Holdiness, the composer of The Blackest Dawn's original music, will be sharing some of his thoughts on The Blackest Dawn music and the art of film scoring itself. That's all for now.

Carry on my wayward son,

Johnson T.

P.S. In case you were curious, The Blackest Dawn playlist consists of Evanescence, Hans Zimmer, Howard Shore, Enya, and of course a little U2.