Monday, February 27, 2012

Hand me that Stanley house framing hammer would ya? No ... not that one, the really BIG one.

Steve has a lot of experience and recently joined our team under the titles Associate Producer and Production Design. In the past he's worked on set construction for "Do Not Disturb", "End of the Road", "The House That Wept Blood", "The Sorrow" and "TK421-Why Aren't You At Your Post?" (a Lucas fan film award competition entry which was shown at Celebration IV).

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Hello! My name is Steve Meyers and I am an Associate Producer and the Production Designer for E Tenebris Entertainment. I will be working on, ETE’s first production:

“A Tale of Two Sillies”!

My family moved from Ohio to Ft Lauderdale Florida when I was 13 (smart move) and there I went to high school and attended tech school there trying to make good grades and saving every penny for spring break!

After Tech School I joined the Air Force and was stationed at Kadena Air Force base in Okinawa, Japan where I worked on the ICS system for the F-15. Being stationed in Okinawa allowed me to travel to Korea and the Phillippines as well as numerous locations in Japan.

Following my Air Force service, I returned to Florida and had a diverse career in electronics working as a Design Engineer for an antenna company, repairing IBM computer systems, and working on Neilsen TV media devices.

After getting married, We decided to move to Colorado in 1990 (another smart move) and have enjoyed living here ever since. Over the past twenty years, I have had a successful construction business here in Denver. In 2010, I decided to go to Colorado Film School to get an education that would allow me to pursue a passion for filmmaking. Since then I have been very fortunate to work with great people on a number of short films and three feature films. On those projects, I worked as an actor, set decorator, construction foreman, prop maker, Producer, Production Designer, as well as filling other roles. All of these projects were well worth the time as they allowed me to gain experience in the film industry!

My best skills are organizing for pre-production and the creation of props, set design, and construction. I’ve built a wide variety of items, ranging from a rubber pencil to a twenty foot tower. I really enjoy the unique challenges that every project brings.

I recently worked as a Producer and Production Designer for a feature film called “The House That Wept Blood”, I am in the process of writing two screenplays and a TV series, which we hope to sell this year.

I am so excited about this project and am looking forward to working with Brandon and all of the great people he has tapped for this project. For me, Film is a constant learning process that allows you to bring imagination to life! I know we will all bring the best of our unique talents to this project to make this film one of the best ever!

All my best,
Steve
Steve on location building set props

ed. note: This was absolutely the least "stoic" picture of Steve we could find anywhere, and we looked dammit. We were trying our best to downplay the chiseled physique, rugged "outdoorsy" posture and Colorado smile that says, "Movie? What movie? Come on guys, I thought we were going rock climbing?"

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Shout out from Cincinnati!

Othello Gooden Jr. is a contributing writer and musician for E Tenebris Entertainment. Besides submitting several songs he has written and recorded, he is working on formatting and editing his Memoire de Rayloria (MDR) series which is part of the back story to our third film Martian Junk. You can find more information about MDR at our main website.

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Hi, I was born and raised in Cincinnati. After I graduated from the School for Creative and Performing Arts, majoring in instrumental music, I enrolled at the University of Cincinnati Raymond Walters College's Computer Support Technology program. There, I learned the basics of programming and the fundamentals of animation; but, my passion for writing continued as I told my friends and teachers my short stories.

After graduating from RWC, I had the desire to make videos and wanted to share this and my music composing skills with the world. In April 2009, I created my first YouTube account under the channel name, "2kReturner", specializing in video game music videos, game plays and commentaries of games I played during my college and high school years. Still, I felt that I was limited on what I really wanted to do and uploading all of my stories on my 2kReturner channel would make things too cluttered. Therefore, in Januarry of 2010 I created a new channel, "JGTraveler", for my non-video game related works.

I hope you enjoy my work, and come visit me at my YouTube channels when you get the chance.


Othello on location in outer space

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Greetings from the Producer/Director

Over the next month or so we're all going to introduce ourselves; I'll get us started and say, "Hi! I'm Brandon."

I have a fairly diverse background starting with extensive experience in community cable. Back in the ol' days we all traded hats between camera operator, editor, writer and director. I also had a very short run as editor for a TV show that lasted a season... ah, the good times we had using linear 3/4" tape editors.

In college I studied music theory (my passion) and piano. Toward the end of my studies at the community college level I began learning to fly for a career in aviation. At the university level I finished a degree in Musicology (kind of a mishmash of a bunch of different aspects of music with an emphasis in history) while completing the commercial pilot license and attending an Associate's program across town for Professional Pilot. Everything culminated in the last semester where I was enrolled in 27 units between two schools (virtually 32 since I was the supplemental instructor for a 5-unit aviation class), 9/11 happened, my car's engine blew up, a family member had a serious, life-threatening accident and I wrote more than 50 pages of term papers ... I almost got straight A's except traffic burned through my cram time for one final which resulted in a B for the class.

Oh well ... can't win 'em all?

After college I spent a year flight instructing in Southern California and then landed a job for what turned out to be a really shitty airline. Still, I upgraded to captain after 2 years (a pretty aggressive career move) and spent another 4 gaining experience until I interviewed successfully in China for a very lucrative contract. That's where I am now.

I've always wanted to make movies on film, and it looks like I have gathered the necessary talent and means to accomplish this goal. Our script(s) are very good: the characters are alive and the stories are solid.

I almost got arrested taking this photo in China...
ed. note: The family member I mentioned survived and is enjoying life to its fullest! I can't say the same for the cougar that tried to attack him. On a completely unrelated topic, my mother recently came into possession of a fab fur coat that she's now taking bids for on eBay.