Transmissions

Friday, March 16, 2012

3rd Anniversary Commentary

March 14, 2012 marked the third anniversary of Transmissions, the across-the-board film festival reject which, as my feature-length directorial debut, I will not simply let it go quietly into the night. (Though my Production 2 final will never be shown again, so quit asking me all two of you who were in it. If you lost your copy, too bad!) Thus, every year I record a commentary, and this year is no different--

--Yet it is! To make things, well, actually sensible (and since my full video of Transmissions on Megaupload was junked when they went under, and I'm far too lazy to rehost a sub-300 meg version on one of my Dropboxes [300 megs is their upload limit for a single file despite hosting larger boxes]), this commentary I synchronized with the film. I tossed the film audio, though, since I didn't want to, you know, have to adjust levels and all that.

But if you've come this far, you don't need to hear the film audio.

Snag the bounty at this fine link. I compressed it to 250 megs and, since the original is standard def anyway (640 x 480, which seems so quaint), it doesn't take too heavy a blow.

Of note, I talk quite a bit about Archetype, Meridien K, and future projects. Transmissions is tangentially discussed. It just happens to be playing.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

I wrote a book

From January 2010 through November 2011 I wrote a novel while making Archetype. While it started as a small project intended as a sort of freebie to be released in tandem with Arc, it grew into a much larger project. The end result is a very long book (roughly half as long as The Bible) that I'm posting chapter-by-chapter over this fine blog. But if you head over there, you'll want to start at the Prologue.

Why pimp it on a separate project's blog? Well, it ties into Archetype (and, by extension, Transmissions), and while I don't want to reveal my cards quite yet, it completes the unofficial trilogy of Transmissions, Archetype, and the book, titled Meridien K. So while Meridien K doesn't involve Ridley Kraid, it's in the same league with the themes of my other work.

And as always, there are a few breadcrumb scattered around that point toward my future projects...

Thus I thought it pertinent to post a notice here. And did I mention that the book is free? People like free things. And if you don't like it, well, you can stop reading and get your zero dollars refunded. Everyone wins.

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Transmissions: Single Again

Sometime between Transmissions and Archetype...

Shot 4:3 in standard def on Mini DV to keep the Transmissions aesthetic alive.

Important technical note: If you are horrified by YouTube's piece of shit algorithm that can neither process black levels nor manage still images (e.g. anything shot on a tripod), download the 300 MB, barely-compressed version here.

Do me a favor and, if you actually have some desire to watch this with at least one and a half eyes, download the above and watch that.

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Transmissions

Below are several ways to watch my first feature film, Transmissions. It was the product of eight months of work, and I'm very proud of it. I hope you watch and enjoy. - JDK

2010.02.28 Update: Transmissions has been rejected from all 21 festivals in which it was considered. As per their guidelines, I am now allowed to post streams of the entire film. If by chance you're at this site and aren't aware that I'm already well into production on my next film, Archetype, you can go to my blog and read up on progress relating to that project.

As with any filmmaker, I prefer my work to be watched at the best quality possible, so if you're interested, shoot me an e-mail or comment on this post if you want a free DVD of the film and I can provide that.

These Facebook embedded videos are the highest-quality streams:

I'm not sure if I have my privacy permissions set right, but these should work since I set them for "everyone" available to view. If it doesn't work, shoot me an e-mail and I can friend you or something.

Also, Facebook's 20-minute time limit allowed me to post the full "segments" of the film without the arbitrary separation I had to do to meet YouTube's 10-minute limit.