Requiem Pictures Bulletin Board

Greetings fellow filmmakers (or anyone else still checking our website),

It's been over a year since anything new has been posted on this site. I know I promised some revisions and updates but alas, never did. There was full intention of doing so, just a lack of time available to do it. Life moves fast and things happen that alter your course, change your mind, affect your capabilities or make you too damn tired to care whatsoever. This last year has brought so much to my plate that the thought of this website never had room to enter into my head. There have been parties, feuding, funerals, wedding plans, pregnancy, real estate, illness, love, hate, job changes and new experiences galore.

Requiem Pictures right now is just in a state of hibernation.Ideas are being worked out, projects being dreamed up and former projects still in the works. Cemetery of Fright is still in progress but currently at a snail's pace. It's taken some time to learn new effects and then be able to apply them to the movie. I have learned a lot of new tricks of the trade that have made considerable progress to the film's completion. Scenes that were extremely complicated are now easier to finish. New ways of editing, new ways of erasing backgrounds, adding CGI characters to existing footage, and fixing the scenes that didn't film well or didn't get shot due to time constraints and making everything work together so it doesn't look choppy. I will not give up on this project. It will happen.

For now, everyone will just have to wait but know the work still goes on. Until then, take care and continue to make movies!

Terry T.
3/27/09

Hello Friends,

It's been a while since my last entry but life is just so full of twists and turns, it's hard to keep up with everything. I figured it was time to update everyone on our progress.

We will be updating the website very soon. I know some pages are a bit out-of-date. These will be fixed.

Turning Back is finally ready for DVD release and the information to place orders will be available when the site is updated. For those who have placed orders during our premiere screening, you will be first in line to receive your copy of the DVD. Sorry for the long wait. If your address information has changed, please contact me on this site so I can insure you receive your DVD.

Cemetery of Fright is still in progress. I know for some it seems hopeless but I'm not giving up on it. A lot of work has been done over the last 2 years. Please keep in mind, I'm one man doing the equivalent amount of work as the crew for a "Shreck" film. There's a lot of CGI work being done and a lot of CGI work has been done so far. I told everyone when this project was shot it was going to take a long time to finish and I did mention "years" to finish. I plan to have some new footage on the website soon to show it hasn't been forgotten.

I hope this fulfills your burning inquiries about us so far. If not, contact us anytime here at Requiem Pictures.

TMT
1/29/08

Dear Friends,

I'm sorry to inform you that the production of Woman In Chains has been canceled due to unforeseen circumstances. Our beloved director Bill Brown will not be able to continue with this production at this time. This was his dream project and it would not be right to continue without him. However, we do plan to continue with this production at a later date. I apologize for any inconvenience this event has created for our wonderful cast members. We wish you well on future productions that come your way.

As for the future of Requiem Pictures, we will continue on in our endeavor to make quality films. Other projects are still in progress including the DVD release of "Turning Back". It has been postponed but it will be available soon.

Thank you all for your love and support.
TMT

A rare look into the pre-production process for Woman in Chains. Director Terry Twomey sets up the green screen studio.

Aparrently a casting call was recently posted (much to our suprise) on the MECONN website or newsletter, and as a result we have received several inquiry's into auditions for our current production of Woman in Chains. While we truely appreciate MECONN and their tremendous assistance, the reality is that all of the principle roles in this film have been cast.

We still need about 25 to 30 extras for a "wedding reception" scene which will be filmed in February 2008; in Wichita. It will take one day to complete.

If you are intersted in appearing in this scene, please click the "contact us" link and send us a note, attn: WIC extra.

Thanks again folks, and we'll see you in the pictures!!

Woman in Chains is our next big project. Of course, it didn't start out "big". To the contrary, it was supposed to be a simple, 5 actor short film. We'd shoot it in one or two locations over the course of a couple of weeks. Little to no dialogue, black and white... easy, peasey... one, two, threesie. It's funny how things change.As I sit here writing this, I've returned from working on the CGI construction of the house in which our characters will live. What started out as "PI" (check your video store) is turning into "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow". Now, I'm not complaining about this at all. The idea of pulling this off is more than exciting to me. It's just a little suprising how things can just take a left turn at Albuquerque and the next thing you know, you just don't know!
We scouted the prospective location for the film tonight and it's simply not going to work. There are a couple of shots we COULD shoot there, but at this point I don't know if it's necessary. It's a little dissapointing considering I've been bugging my friend Justin for about a year and a half to get over there and scout the place and now that we've finally made it, we're not going to use it. Ah, such is life. He's a good guy, he'll understand.
So, now we get to look the script over again from a completely different stand point. How are we going to match the live action footage with the CGI locations.. I had hoped to focus on the performance enhancing aspects of direction this time, but it's starting to look like we're going to have to pay a little more attention to lighting and blocking and technical stuff... headache stuff for me. Terry loves it!
So will we be able to pull it off? Check out the image below and you tell me.