An Update on The Third Age

The blog may be called "The Third Age Begins," but we're sure taking our time getting to that beginning part. There's a number of reasons for that. The primary one is my desire to have a bunch of material in the can before we start releasing it. Both Jordan and I work full time, so it's going to be tough to do even five minutes of content every other week, and, now each episode is coming in longer than five minutes, so there's a lot to process.

So, I'm hoping to have four episodes completely done before we go live with one, that way we'll be able to keep up the biweekly release pace until the first Volume of the series is complete. The series is structured in three volumes, of about ten episodes each. There'll be a month or two break between each volume to let us get ahead of the release schedule again.

The good news is, almost all the first four episodes are shot. We're shooting the last of those episode next Sunday. Almost everything that's been shot has been edited, there are twenty-one edited minutes, and another five or so that have been shot, but not edited yet. We may end up restructuring the episodes a bit since they're coming out closer to ten minutes than five, but we'll see. Ten minutes would certainly be a more substantial viewing experience, but keeping up that release pace would be near impossible.

We shot some great stuff last weekend, three scenes. One featured Jerrod Wolf, the head of a pharmaceutical company which features heavily in one side of the plot. The other two scenes focused on Christopher Zinone. As the film begins, he is a 'white collar' drug dealer, disappointed and bored with his life. So, there's a couple of scenes depicting his daily routine. We shot one of the scenes outside a laundromat in Park Slope and it was a fantastic location. The glowing lights against the dark of the night reminded me of a Wong Kar-Wai film, and he's pretty much the standard as far as visuals go. I can only hope to even approach what he can do.

When will the series actually premiere? I'm thinking April will give us enough lead time, perhaps tied into the New York Comicon. I won't have a booth or anything there, but it could be a good spot to pass out some fliers and hopefully get some chatter going about the series.