Monthly Archives: October 2015

Things We Learned From Gotham Season 2 Episode 2

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  1. Sometimes the right way is also the ugly way.
  2. Criminal lunatics are a kind of brilliance
  3. Choose happiness, unless you feel a calling.
  4. Human life is so fragile.
  5. A telephone is human nature.
  6. If you don’t do what the bad guy asks, you will wish a spider was attacking your face.
  7. Monsters will cleanse this city with blood and fire.
  8. Nobody cares who the mayor is banging.
  9. Humans are wise and foolish, brave and fearful.
  10. “Maniax!” is a good headline.
  11. Get to work.
  12. The deepest fears of humanity are donuts.
  13. The problem with The Joker is that he’s smarter than most everybody, so you can’t control him at all.
  14. The real problem with The Joker is that he’s an agent of chaos.
  15. Mayhem is funny when the Joker does it.
  16. On TV, you have to present yourself with style and vigor.
  17. Be sinister and authoritative, but smile.
  18. Laughing is the best.
  19. You can kill people with spike heels on.
  20. Guns are for grown-ups.
  21. A metaphor is not an argument.
  22. Ignorance is protection.
  23. The data in a computer is stored in the chips being attached to it.
  24. Destroying information in general will keep you safe.
  25. Alfred can be fired by a child.
  26. Vision, ambition and brains are the key advantage.
  27. Bathrobes are the coolest.
  28. Ladies first.
  29. Comedy is timing.
  30. Courage is grace under pressure.
  31. Joker is the boss.
  32. If you have a life, you shouldn’t fight crime.
  33. Jim Gordon is the only one who does anything.
  34. Jim Gordon is basically Jim Zhou if he were evil and fought crime using evil.
  35. Corruption is delicious.
  36. Men are lazy and corrupt.
  37. Alfred only has 1 outfit.
  38. Alfred either has only one outfit or some kind of a magic suitcase.
  39. Alfred is a dick.
  40. Fire Alfred.
  41. Cheerleaders do cheers on the bus as like, a normal thing.
  42. Killing cheerleaders is very 1970s or 1990s.
  43. A McDonald’s hamburger is the perfect wedding gift.
  44. America’s best warranty makes you dance with a football.
  45. Sideways haircuts are cool.
  46. Houseflies hum in the key of F.
  47. Houseflies are cool.
  48. Google is more accurate than The Riddler.
  49. Google is more likely to kill you than The Riddler.
  50. Ladies love confidence.
  51. Ladies don’t love psychopathic killers.
  52. Stee is The Riddler.
  53. The Riddler is a bumbling socially awkward wreck.
  54. When The Riddler takes his glasses off, he becomes evil.
  55. Riddler is the opposite of Superman.
  56. Riddler has weird ears.
  57. When Stee does biochem, she becomes The Riddler.
  58. Fashion straight jackets are cool, menacing, and a good cosplay.
  59. The crotch strap is the best part.
  60. Joker needs Os.
  61. Use a reliable lighter when setting buses on fire. NOT a Zippo.
  62. A revolver is a dumb weapon.
  63. Punch the fire to death.
  64. Shoot the informant with a sniper rifle.
  65. Some of these are actually solid advice.
  66. Train stations are boring, but they look cool.
  67. You’re either with Batman, or you’re against him.
  68. The ultimate courage is to go to school.
  69. Alfred demands total obedience.
  70. Alfred doesn’t know how to fix computers.
  71. Cheerleaders are the key to mass panic.
  72. Too smiley means you shouldn’t trust someone.
  73. Masculine posturing is very boring.
  74. Barbara is the scariest, so go to commercial.
  75. Jim Gordon can’t really help you.
  76. Jim Gordon thinks everything is Barbara’s fault.
  77. Red gloves are a decoy.
  78. Gas grenades are clutch in a building assault.
  79. Don’t keep Jim Gordon alive, you idiot.
  80. Kissing is unrealistic.
  81. Corpses are funny in and of themselves.
  82. Double tap, you fool.
  83. Joker doesn’t like being called crazy
  84. Police officers will risk their own lives to tell someone that they are nothing.
  85. Shoot the camera guy immediately.
  86. Headbutting someone is a clever argument.
  87. The Joker likes bleeding.
  88. Good guys are dumb.
  89. You can’t keep people alive by telling them to breathe.
  90. Death scenes are super awkward.
  91. Fixing computers takes time.
  92. There’s a lot of weird closeted man-love in Batman.
  93. Killing 8 cops does not cause a lockdown or increased security at a police station, or create any kind of a crime scene.
  94. Gordon induces malice toard himself from all corners.
  95. Good lighting over good writing.
  96. There’s no use fighting who you are.
  97. TV news likes showing manifestos.
  98. Sanity is a prison in your mind.
  99. Corpses should smile more.
  100. Gotham is essentially an autonomous city-state.
  101. Groaning is bad manners.
  102. A gun controls manners.
  103. If someone has bad manners, shoot them immediately.
  104. Everyone is a prisoner of not being the Joker.
  105. Sanity keeps you from seeing that you’re tiny little cogs in a giant absurd machine.
  106. Freedom = smiling + killing.

“Ugly”

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“Ugly” is the second music video made by Witchworks Films, and the first time Stee McMorris directed a film.

Our most popular video so far as Witchworks, Ugly included special effects by famous designer Rob Fitz!

Produced by:
– Warren Lynch
– Kerry and John Zofchak
– Stee McMorris
– Scott Matalon

Directed by:
– Stee McMorris
– Warren Lynch

Screenplay by: Stee McMorris

Gore and Monster Effects: Rob Fitz

STARRING
Porcelain Dalya as Queen Darling
Jaime Devine as Jealous Darling
Steven Lawlor-Jones as Pampered Darling
Ruta Pauliukaityte as Hungry Darling
Sarah Paterson as Vain Darling
Sarah Josselyn as Snobby Darling
Katie Coriander as Misfit Leader
Izzy Lee as Misfit Thief
Stabatha La Thrills as Misfit Cannibal
Chyle Crossley as Misfit Poisoner
Lily Spencer as Misfit Baker
Hope Zimmerman as Misfit Mechanic
Jojo Lazar as Doll Child
Laura Blake as Machine Nymph
Sissy O’Hara as Goblin
Christian Masters as Teeth Moth
Rick Dumont as Executioner
Miriam Kirya as Winter Faery
Liz LaManche as Summer Faery
Scott Matalon as himself
Craig Matalon as himself
Chris Eskola as himself

First Assistant Director: Izzy Lee
Second Assistant Director: Jessica Barchard
Third Assistant Director: Charlin Humanimalien

Production Manager: Tom Kenney

Line Producers: Russ Carter
– Alex Stinson

Director of Photography: Stee McMorris
Additional Cinematography:
– Alex Stinson
– Erik Angra
– Steve Onderick

Lighting:
– Stee McMorris
– Alex Stinson
– Erik Angra

Production Designer: Sandri Valente
Art Director: Desiree Rodriguez
Hair and Makeup:
– Desiree Rodriguez
– Hannah Jennings
– Sandri Valente
– Garabed Setrakian
Design Assistants:
– Liz Black
– Katie Baker
– Charlin Humanimalien
– Sarah Paterson
– Sarah Josselyn
– Sissy O’Hara
Costume Resources:
– Desiree Rodriguez
– Sandri Valente
– Jaime Devine
– Juliet Schneider
– Garabed Setrakian
– Liz Black
– Rain Fure
– Izzy Lee
– Stabatha La Thrills
– Chyle Crossley
– Sissy O’Hara
Props:
– Tom Kenney
– Izzy Lee
– Rain Fure
– Charlin Humanimalien
– Sissy O’Hara
– Lily Spencer
– Liz Black
– Sandri Valente
– Stee McMorris
Design Consultants:
– Juliet Schneider
– Garabed Setrakian

Set Design: Charlin Humanimalien
Set Builders:
– Warren Lynch
– Tom Kenney
– Patrick Bradley

Catering:
– Kerry Zofchak
– Zofchak Catering

Fight Choreography: Matt Martino
Dance Choreography: Sarah Josselyn

Production Assistant: Liz Black

Editing: Stee McMorris

Special thanks to William Desmond and Alvan Long at the Sound Museum, Reign Fure, Charlin Humanimalien and Katie Coriander for all the great underground locations!!

Our recent accomplishments!

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We had an amazing experience at #burningvermin! Thanks to the genius, skill and resourcefulness of Stee McMorris, the charm of Vermin Supreme and Parama Chattopadhyay, and the attentiveness and positivity of Chris Morrill, Bret Matteo and Noelle Shaffer, we got about twenty tons of awesome out of about ten tons of amazing hippies, anarchists and libertarians!

So yeah, achievement unlocked. We now know how to do crowd scenes, for Star Space and elsewhere. Not that I’ve more than barely scratched the surface.

Side note. Megaphones are awesome.

So anyway at #burningvermin, we got 4 more highly complex scenes in the can for The Overlord Project. Which means that now we’ve shot more than half of the scenes for all of the original eleven scripted commercials.

During this time, we have also shot enough off-script improv material for about 45 more commercials!

So far the Overlord Project has generated:

18 commercials finished and up and public on YouTube:

-3 15-second improv-style commercials for Vermin Supreme for Overlord:

“Pony Pledge” “Help Me!” and “Nipple Power”

-9 30-second improv-style commercials for Vermin Supreme for Overlord:

“Time Travel” “Canine Americans” “Verminland” “Evil Death Rays” “Children’s Safety” “Truth to Ponies” “Gitmo” “Pescetarianism” and “Free Speech”

-1 52-second Ron Paul-style commercial for Vermin Supreme for Overlord

-3 30-second improv-style commercials for Captain Titus for Overlord:

“The Reckoning” “The Great Outdoors” and “Blood Currency”

-1 30-second Ron Paul-style commercial for Captain Titus for Overlord

-1 30-second scripted commercial for Sophia and Michael for Overlord!!!

-2 6-second Vine videos for Vermin Supreme for Overlord:

“Pony Trance” and “Ponies for Everyone!”

View them all in clickable thumbnail form with pictures here:

or in an Overlord Project playlist here:

There’s an Overlord Project Facebook Group with juicy gossip about the production here:

There’s also a Vermin Supreme for Overlord playlist here:

There’s a Vermin Supreme for Overlord Facebook Page, with all the latest Vermin videos, actual commentary by Vermin, and dank tasty memes here:


Then there’s a Titus the Unstoppable playlist here:There’s a Captain Titus the Unstoppable for Overlord Facebook Page, with the latest Titus videos, plenty of actual horrifying commentary by Titus, and extremely inflammatory memes here:

and there’s a Sophia and Michael for Overlord playlist here:There’s an Sophia Cacciola and Michael J Epstein for Joint Overlord of Planet Earth Facebook Group, with unknown and spurious benefits here:

and there’s a Mary Sullivan Productions playlist here:and there’s a Mary Sullivan Productions Facebook Group, with in-your-face feminism and speaking of the truth here:and there’s a  Pony Related Only playlist here:

9 commercials rough cut and going up soon.  These still need color correction, sound mastering, titles and CGI before they’re done. But they’re visible now for Patreon supporters!

-2 15-second improv-style commercials for Vermin Supreme for Overlord

“Free Pony Song” and “Pony-O-Rama”

-5 30-second improv-style commercials for Vermin Supreme for Overlord

“Titus will Destroy You” “Ricky is a Sexist” “Earth People” “Vermin’s Followers” and “Neighsayers”

-1 60-second Ron Paul-style commercial for Vermin Supreme for Overlord:

“Toothbrushing Operetta”

-2 30-second improv-style commercials for Captain Titus for Overlord:

“Storming a Building” and “Toadius”

-1 30-second scripted commercial for Vermin Supreme for Overlord

Here’s a secret Pinterest page with all the unfinished rough cuts on it!

Here’s a secret Facebook group for only my generous Patreon supporters!

21 commercials which are roughly sequenced and going up later

-2 30-second scripted commercials for Vermin Supreme for Overlord

-4 30-second improv-style commercials for Vermin Supreme for Overlord

“Sheeple” and others

-8 6-second Vine videos for Vermin and Titus

-5 30-second improv-style commercials for Captain Titus for Overlord

-2 raids and spaceship battles

6 commercials which are in the can and yet to be sequenced

-2 60-second scripted commercials for Vermin Supreme for Overlord

-2 30-second scripted commercials for Vermin Supreme for Overlord

-2 music videos

-a reality show pilot

-other stuff.

Next to be shot are a REAL CELEBRITY, followed by kittens, police, some spaceships, an office, a flamethrower and a couple of pickup shots, and that’ll be that!

We should be done shooting around late October sometime. Then, Strange Harvest!

Stee McMorris‘s short horror film is right now in high gear of pre-production. I’m helping produce, but Stee McMorris did all the writing and is doing all of the directing, and it is going to be creepy as heck! She still could use some help with funding and possibly some help set building! You can help her out on her Patreon page!

Other things have happened. There were salamanders and vampires and foot-licking and of course, blood, laser beams, vaporized people, giant crowds. I could keep talking for quite some time, but this ought to do it for now!