Wisconsin Trails Magazine write-up on Mad City Chickens film
By Administrator | May 12, 2008
The backyard chicken craze is really catching on and the media is picking up on it. Mad City Chickens gets noticed by writer Elizabeth Wegner in the June 2008 issue of Wisconsin Trails Magazine.
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Springtime is New Chick time
By Administrator | May 9, 2008
Production stills from our Mad City Chickens shoot at Murray McMurray Hatchery in Webster City, Iowa.
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Photoshop Workshop
By Administrator | May 7, 2008
Today we attended a Photoshop CS3 workshop with Bert Monroy in Milwaukee. Monroy is one of the pioneers of digital art and the photo realist genius of our times.
In the Golden Age of Hollywood, studios used to employ a host of matte painters to create backdrops for sets. In the Digital Age, matte painters still “paint”, but they often do it in programs like Photoshop.
Damen by Bert Monroy (A digital painting…not a photograph…of the Blue Line at Damen Station in Chicago, the image contains over 15,000 Photoshop layers.)
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Chicken Youtube Group up over 100!
By Administrator | May 5, 2008
The Mad City Chickens Youtube group has officially passed the 100 mark.
Over 100 videos have been added to the group by backyard poultry fans and videographers. If you’ve got videos of chickens, coops, eggs…
…come join the group at: http://www.youtube.com/group/madcitychickens
Then add your videos!
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Avid Workstation
By Administrator | May 4, 2008
We visited our friend Valerie yesterday to check out her state-of-the-art Avid editing workstation. It’s called Edit Envy!
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Pixelation Fixed! All Systems Go for MAD CITY CHICKENS
By Administrator | May 3, 2008
The re-edit of the Mad City Chickens film is complete, and the pixelation problems that we’d been experiencing (on and off over the course of several months) are finally resolved.
before and after
Submissions to film festivals across Canada and the U.S. are now back on track.
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Pixelation Delay
By Administrator | May 2, 2008
Mad City Chickens was shot mainly in the SD (Standard Definition) format but not entirely. We did mix a number of HD (High Definition) clips into the final edit, and this has caused a slight delay in our film festival submission process.
We’ve encountered some pixelation issues when compressing the film onto a standard DVD…too much information, not enough disc space. The problem will be resolved shortly, however, and festival submissions will continue.
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Film Update: MAD CITY CHICKENS
By Administrator | April 22, 2008
We were very pleased with the enthusiastic audience reaction to Mad City Chickens during the recent screening at the Wisconsin Film Festival.
However, standing in the back of the room, we noticed a couple secondary pieces that didn’t quite work as we’d envisioned. (There’s nothing like a public screening to help iron out the kinks.) So we’ve spent the last two weeks re-editing those segments to bring them up to par with the rest of the film.
Word of the film is getting out! We’ve been contacted by a Los Angeles Producer Rep who might be interested in assisting us in the film’s distribution. And in the meantime, Chickens continues to get invites from backyard poultry groups from across the U.S. and Canada. From Nova Scotia to British Columbia and Boston to San Francisco, people are looking for filmic support in their quest to keep chickens in the city, support that we’d gladly give.
However and unfortunately, some of the major film festivals have strict restrictions on where and how many times a film can screen before they get it. So at the moment, we are limited on our public showings until we hear back from these top festivals. But rest assured, we’re planning on Mad City Chickens screening from coast-to-coast!
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La Fe’e Rouge gets invite from Underground Film
By Administrator | April 20, 2008
Our docu-fantasy short La Fe’e Rouge has recently been invited by UndergroundFilm.com to be included in their anthology of online films.
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More Pics from the MCC Premiere now on Flickr
By Administrator | April 9, 2008
Check out more images on flickr from the premiere of Mad City Chickens at the Wisconsin Film Festival.
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