I can’t give out any details, but this attraction is a lot more complex than King Kong, and I’ve been working nights, weekends and holidays with my Universal Creative compatriots pulling it together.  Universal has a released a website (www.prepareforbattle.com) and teaser trailer for the attraction which opens this spring that will give you a glimpse of what’s in store.  Enjoy.

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Please share this with your friends, click on the “like” buttons, post it on facebook, and retweet the links!  The bigger the audience we build now, the bigger the impact the film can have when it premieres in a few weeks.   Composer Peter Tinari and I are finishing up the music and sound,  and the film will be complete soon.

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Thanks as always for your support.

Sincerely,
Paul Cuoco
Writer/Director – The Specimen

For those of you who’ve subscribed to the Specimen newsletter,  it’s website or follow it on Facebook or Twitter should already know we’ve finally hit our “Picture Lock” milestone. That means I’m done editing the film and ready to finish it off with sound, music, color correction, and titles. In fact I’ve already met with our composer Peter Tinari to start laying down the first of the music tracks. And from what I’ve heard so far, I’m very excited.  If you do read the Specimen’s website you’ll also notice I just cut and past a lot of that from the latest Specimen blog post.  I admit it.  I’ve been very busy.

There will be a few more announcements coming, as we continue to put finishing touches on the film, including revealing a new trailer, and announcing the the on-line premiere. In the mean-time I’d like to extend a big thank you to my cast and crew for all your patience, help, and support throughout the whole process.  If you peruse Notafraid.com and want more frequent updates on the film, please like it on Facebook or follow the film on twitter and you’ll always be up to date.

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It was a longer shoot than anticipated but we got all the shots in the can, and used just about every piece of gear in my arsenal.   The entire film was shot on the 7D with the 17-55mm f2.8 IS lens and the plastic fantastic 50mm 1.8, and D|Focus follow focus I picked up from Express35.com with some rails.  One workhorse that was used a lot more than I anticipated was my igus based camera slider.

I did rent the Marshall LCD50 5″ Monitor to assist with focus, but I have to say their choice to use AA batteries is unfortunate.  We were constantly changing batteries in that thing, and it’s peaking function for focus assist was really inaccurate.

All in all the shoot went well, and I’ve been laughing my ass off at the dailies.  It’s going to be fun to edit.  You can keep up with more production updates on the film by subscribing to its own web feed, liking it on Facebook, or following it on Twitter.