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The Last Stand Episode 8: Best Intentions Part II (A Koldcast.tv Feature Exclusive)

Martin — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:01:50 +0000

Episode 8: Best Intentions part 2
Some questions shouldn’t be answered. Some answers aren’t good enough considering the circumstances. One of these will prove to be the case. No hope, no St. Teresa’s, shit storms everywhere. With no other options, Davis, Shots, Beth, and Tenison have all journeyed to what may very well be the origin of all their viral problems. This may very well end this chapter, one way or another.

The Last Stand Episode 7:Best Intentions part I (A Kolcast.tv Exclusive Feature)

Martin — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:40:58 +0000

Episode 7: Best Intentions part 1
A dead kid with a secret. Ragtag survivors in a wasteland. Zombie everywhere. Why would anyone decide that this was the best time to be heroes? As if day to day life wasn’t hard enough, the party has traveled to what may very well be the origin of the virus.

The Last Stand Episode 6: Death’s Gentle Hand (A Koldcast.tv Exclusive Feature)

Martin — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:36:21 +0000

Hope should be the farthest thing from any ones mind. The Remains have all been killed. The group finds death wherever they go, and the little boy they thought they had rescued may now have been part of the creation of the deadly infection that seems to have left millions of people dead. While holding up in a dirty old shack, Beth does the one thing she couldn’t do in her old life: help someone suffering. In the last moments of breath, a stranger gives insight to the horrors that lay ahead.

The Last Stand Episode 5: A Paved Road to Hell (A Koldcast.tv Feature Exclusive)

Martin — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 02:19:01 +0000

Our survivors are looking for an origin to the virus, but what they get is a retelling of their own past. Tenison kills because of the past, Beth lives to forget it and find redemption. Amidst all of their own pain comes that chance to save one soul. St. Teresa’s is no longer a safe place. So without any other direction to go, our survivors seek out the place where the infection seems to have originated.

The Last Stand Episode 4:Purpose in Chaos (A Koldcast Feature Exclusive)

Martin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:02:29 +0000

Episode 4: Purpose in Chaos
No St. Teresa’s. Infected everywhere. Safety has no place in this world. Amid all of the confusion and death, a single mission emerges. When the path is laid before you, and going back means death, fortune has to favor the bold.

The Last Stand Episode 3: Between Two Tides (A Koldcast Feature Exclusive)

Martin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:57:46 +0000

Episode 3: Between Two Tides
When the hopeful find the hopeless, all are pursued with equal hunger by the infected. A revelation, and a moment of redemption aren’t enough to live on, but it’s a start.

The Last Stand Episode 2: Dearly Departed (A Koldcast Feature Exclusive)

Martin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:44:53 +0000

Episode 2: Dearly Departed
Zombies. Remnants of the military. Viral infection. No food or clean water. As if this wasn’t enough, now the survivors are turning on each other. When hope is all you hold on to, the past becomes the ghost that won’t let you rest. The inner demons are just as hard to vanquish as the infect that now walk the earth.

The Last Stand Episode 1: Our Heroes (A Koldcast Feature Exclusive)

Martin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:40:02 +0000

Episode 1: Our Heroes
Disease has broken out, and most of the populous is dead. Those that have survived the multiple mutations seek the one safe place they heard of before all forms of communications died out: St. Teresa’s. With almost no supplies and even less hope, our party sets out for the only horizon they can see.

Wrapping Tears

Rachel — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:31:42 +0000

Episode 5 was just wrapped this last weekend. *Sigh*. As some of you may know, and those that don’t know, the pre-cursor to shoot days require hours of emails, setting up times/dates of auditions, sight/shot preparation, discussions about make-up, special effects, cast/crew meetings, attending functions and networking parties to push the project, kicking ass and taking names, kissing ass and remembering names, replacing actors, reviving actors (you know the ones who show up from a bender the previous night), scheduling, etc., etc.

I’ve had a knot in my stomach for two weeks straight while in preparation mode for this shoot and, yet, now that the day is over…I miss it already.

This last Saturday was a huge success even after critical disappointments that led our director, Martin Vavra, to change whole shot sequences to accommodate lacking extras as well as time constraints from a location that pulled out.

But the lead cast members showed up ready to work. Our crew was buzzing about this medical supply warehouse with baited anticipation waiting to get started. Our extras filed in, one by one.

When things got under way, it was awesome. Production has to be my favorite part of making film. If only it wasn’t over so quickly. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to be working for 16-hour days, months on end necessarily, but I could handle a few more 12 hour days.

And maybe I’m biased because, being the AD on this gig means that I’m the resident task-master and problem solver. Both of which give me great satisfaction when I feel I’ve finished a job that’s been well-done.

At the end of this particular Saturday, though, I feel as though I didn’t thank everybody in the way I wanted to, as people came and went while I was in the middle of shooting something.

So here it is: Thank you to everyone involved. Thanks to the lead cast members who were willing to forego another weekend to play infection survivors, all of the extras who showed up and hung around during the long shoot day just to run around like zombies for less than an hour. Thank you to Chuck for his kindness and sacrifice of a perfectly good Saturday to babysit us in his warehouse. Thanks to Ann and Stefan and Matt who were the best PA’s in the world. Thanks to Mike for his continued support with the set and props. Thanks to Rachel and Preston for fantastic make-up and FX. And thanks to the best director I know, who was willing to roll with the punches and not let little setbacks ruin what was a ridiculously productive shoot. Sweet Job, Martin.

Great Job everyone…now stay tuned for more about The “Lost” Stand episode…