DreamStalker Films

Welcome DreamStalker Films fans and anyone visiting the site for the first time!

First, I’d like to update everyone on the Public Service Announcement that we have been working on with Boy Scout Troop 87 about not texting while driving.  The project is going amazingly well, especially considering the short amount of time that there has been to work on it at this point.  It has only been about a month since we first broke down the concept.  We finished the pre-production in a week and a half, shot the film in one weekend and two weeks later we have a third take at a rough cut that is pretty close to a finished cut.  You can see it here.

Second, a quick update on Slayer Wars 3.  Day 8 was completed amidst the shooting for the PSA.  This finishes up all of the “graveyard” shooting.  We should be getting back to shooting in the early part of January.

Hey everyone just a quick update.

“Down and Out” had it’s first premiere last night at the A3F One-Shot Film Festival.  Unfortunately as we did not make the top 20 our premiere was at 6:30 pm.  Not many people got notice of this and therefore missed it.  Nonetheless we had a very good turnout and the film seemed to have a positive response.  Since the top 20 were shown at 8, there was some time for some Q&A with the directors of the Honorable Mention films (the ones that did not make top 20).

I was the first up and answered some technical questions as well as some fun ones (like how many times did Derek get slapped?

The top 20 were very enjoyable for the most part and my hat is off to all the teams that made it into that group and to Minus Mitchell Productions for their much deserved best film award.  A3F will be posting those top twenty on their site in the next few days…

But you don’t have to wait for “Down and Out” because it is live now.  Click here to go to the “Down and Out” page and take a look.

Another weekend of filming completed, but this time, not on Slayer Wars.  This weekend we competed it A3F’s 48 hour One-Shot Film Challenge with 29 other teams.

The fun began with a mixer in Phoenix on Friday night.  At the end of the gathering they revealed the details for the 48 hour films.  They needed to be one continu0us shot of 1-3 minutes (that part we already knew), needed to have a specific line of dialogue, theme, and prop.

To make a long and sleepless story short, we did it!  We completed the film fulfilling all the requirements and actually with a few hours to spare.  I don’t think it is the best film we have ever done and I am somewhat concerned with whether or not it will be seen as a comedy when we were going more drama (you’ll understand when you see it), but I am extremely proud of all of the cast and crew for all of their hard work and support.

We should be hearing back on whether we got into the top 10 or not by the end of the week.  The top 10 will be screened on October 22nd at the A3F Festival.  If we make it, I hope everyone can try to make it, I know it’s a Thursday night…  But if not, the film will be available here on dreamstalkerfilms.com after the festival!  In the meantime you can check out some further details on the film, “Down and Out”  on it’s new page here.  Also, there are more pictures from the set on the DreamStalker Films page on Facebook.

Hey everyone, dreamstalkerfilms.com actually has films on it now!  What a concept, I know!  If you click on the films link on the upper right navigation you’ll be able to get to all the individual film pages for all the DSF projects past, present, and future, embedded straight from YouTube.

Currently, that means that our second film, “Dreamscape Excursion,” third film, “Game of Stamina,” and the teasers for Slayer Wars 1 and 2 are available.  I know everyone keeps bugging me to get Slayer Wars 1 on the web but that thing continues to be the bane of my existance.  I am currently having problems converting it to a format that will work over the web (that isn’t a tiny image with horrible resolution).  I have to go back one version and reconvert, now. I’ll get that started before I crash for the night.

As far as the fourth (“Cubicell”) and fifth (“The Right Knight”) films are concerned, they are both awaiting visual effects and music and it may be some time before they are up in any form.  I will update the pages with photos and possibly the rough cuts (the rough of “The Right Knight” is currently on our MySpace and Facebook pages, by the way).

Welcome everyone!  This is our first full post!  As you can see dreamstalkerfilms.com has just had it’s skeleton structure put together thanks to the talents of Zach Reddy.  Now it’s up to DreamStalker Films co-owner, Joe Benzer (Herr Direktor), to provide with some muscle and skin to the site.

We’ve had many people asking us if our films are online.  Well, they soon will be.  Currently “Dreamscape Excursion,” “Game of Stamina,” and some unfinished films and clips can be found on our MySpace and Facebook pages.  We’re working on making them all available on YouTube as well and of course making this site a one stop shop for all things DSF.

Just a quick update on the current film, “Slayer Wars 2: Revenge of the Vampyre-Slaying-Jedi”  before getting back to work on the multiple projects we have right now.  Yesterday we completed the 22nd shooting day and it went wonderful. We have 63 very good looking shots and have completed the entire scene which has already been captured and is being backed up.

More pictures can be seen of this day on the DSF Facebook page.

We would like to thank Chrissy and Jeremy Palmer for feeding the cast and crew before we got outside to get baked in the AZ heat for several hours.

Also a big thanks to Matt for toughing it out in full makeup and falling down the hill.

Thanks to Scotty Kos for toughing it out and doing camerawork.  Without you we would not have been able to get the beautiful footage we got yesterday.

Last, but not least, thanks to Shannon Griffith for taking the wonderful pictures, driving everyone to set, and doing all the other stuff a P.A. does (which is everything!)

Our next shooting date is on September 5th and will be the last major shoot for Slayer Wars 2.  We need plenty of extras, so if you’re interested contact us here or on Facebook and bookmark this site, their will be plenty of new stuff to come!

-Herr Direktor