the soft goodbye has had 103 views since July 23rd, 2010. To some this may be a small number, however this is the most views we at neon reel have had on a video in a while. Of course I wish we had 1000 views plus, however this is a great start. It makes us very happy that people are checking out what’s up at neon reel. I just wish more people would leave comments behind.

Hello All! Not much to report-- Just wanted to let everyone know that the soft goodbye will be posted on the website July 23 2010 (around 6pm).

-Matzen

*The Soft Goodbye will be posted on July 23 2010

Hello everyone! Hope all is well and that everyone is enjoying the summertime. Things have been pretty productive lately for neon reel with our newly finished short film the soft goodbye. Unfortunately we have had many problems with getting a location for our other short an hour out. We have discussed the future of the project and have decided to push back production until October of 2010. Instead we are going to green light a few other short projects. So worry not neon reel fans, there will be new content coming your way.

-Matzen

This is a story I heard about from my Brother Tony. We had always talked about making a film based on it but only time will tell. The reason I am posting this is because My friend Tiffany had posted on her FaceBook wall the following:

"Today was a day for the history books, at wal-mart I was minding my own business doing innocent grocery shopping. When a little boy whom I do not know came up and grabbed my hand and in true vampire fashion, he bit me!! I blame Twilight! lol"

I wanted to comment back: "LOL You should read this (insert the link to the black eyed kids story here).

Every morning I love to read the latest and greatest movie news. Lately its been reading a lot about how hollywood is either re-making/regurgitating another classic or how they are making yet another film in 3D *Sigh. Then I came across this video article on www.slashfilm.com. It was called "George Lucas Addresses the Star Wars Prequel Haters on The Daily Show."

Yesterday I was cruising around the Internet and came across this cool Graphic and it inspired me (as most things do) to try and re-create it using my own interpretation. I wanted to make something where text was flowing out of someone's hand as if it were magic...

Long time no see. It has been a while since my last blog post (two weeks yikes); I have to admit; things have been a bit hectic with my life and neon reel.

On a positive note, and with the location problem aside, an Hour Out is moving ahead with full steam. We have had three successful rehearsals (you can read about them here: R1, R2, R3) thus far. Personally, I am blown away by the dedication of our actors. It can be summed up by saying, “If I ask them to take four steps forward they jog a quarter mile and if I ask them to jog a quarter mile they start jumping over hurdles.”