Poster, Blood in the Circus!

The Trailer of Tales of a Broken Reality will be available  by the end of the week. Here is the Poster for this episode by yours truly. The High resolution version will be available through our Patreon! 

It's finally done!. RAG-TAG in Tales of a Broken Reality

After months of preparation it finally happened. Two weekends in a row we recorded the footage for Tales of a Broken Reality. The Webserie directed by Bryan Oliver. These scene were recorded by Omar Salem and Natalie Kruijen, who has also the Co-Writer and Director. That leaves me as Co-Writer, Actor, Extra and Producer(?). Mickey Knox also came out from retirement for a moment to help us on  set but also made some props for us!

This was the first time me and RAG-TAG have done recordings on this scale. RAG-TAG has been involved in a number of video and photo-productions. But this is the first time we have done the physical recordings from start to finish. (The original story and final edit are with Bryan Oliver). It is very possible we are going to make a second episode for this webseries, however it is our hope RAG-TAG get's the opportunity make some original video's as well to tell the tales of the 113th RAG-TAG and +Radio Retrofuture .


So was it a success?  For me, I won't know until the final result, but for a learning experience, yes. First of all. I didn't know I could pull it off. But I did, and learned some things about organizing such things. So it might go more a little more smoothly in the future.
The voluntary nature if the project is the biggest issue. But fortunately there were no last minute cancellations of the people that I expected to be there, what was my biggest worry. The weather was cold, but could be a hell of a lot worse and spirits were high (something I also worried about), despite half the people barely knew each other or haven't worked together before. But we had a blast and hope to do something like this in the future again. It is the best I could hope for. Even if the result isn't what we had hoped, at least we have a group of people we can count on to make the next one a success.

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Special thanks to all involved
Natalie Kruijen (Director, Camera, Co-writer, Makeup)
Omar Salem (Camera)
Manuel Schiesser (Ludwig)
Bart Houtman (Defector)
Lindy van den Bosch (Em, Makeup)
William Rutgrink (Set, Royal Guard)
Mickey Knox (Props, Sound)
Patricia Copier (Royal Guard, Catering)
Jette Dolman (Number of  (dead) Carnies)
Hannelore Kuperus (Carnie)
Klaas van der Vijgh (Props, Carnie)
Niels Dijkstra (Props, Royal Guard)
Anna Moss (Photography)

and me I suppose (Producer, Co-Writer, Props)

Special thanks to
Jasper Willemeen
Bryan Oliver for giving us this oppurtunity
De Ruine van Teylingen for the use of their location
Theresia Waalderbos and the people at Leef! for the props and costumes.

And all other people that supported us in one way or another. Keep being awesome!

RAG-TAG in a broken reality: Day 1

Our first day of recording is behind us. Six hours of preparing and filming and all that hard work was nearly ruined. But fortunately it was a success... If I only knew how to act.

Natalie Kruijen, Niels Dijkstra, Alex van Hoogstraten,
Omar Salem, and Manuel Schiesser

Was a touch day. First rearranging all the furniture in my livingroom, setup up lights and reflectors, grime, costuming, and than you start filming. Kind of discouraging when you realize how hard it is just to remember a few lines of dialogue, but he pulled through. And all that work was nearly ruined. Why? Audio recording on the camera failed. Don't know why. Just did. So, check you recordings after each take kids. Could save you a lot of frustration.
But fortunately, it was not an issue. I used my trusty NT-1 Studio Mic for external recording because I knew the Shotgun Mic would not sound great. Use a lavelier mic, plugged in a mobile phone or laptop, or use you USB Mic just to be sure when recording. It saved us a lot of hassle, and probably prevented us ragequieting. It was annoying that we had to control the NT-1 mic from my PC in a other room, and there are some interesting words on the recording for our cameraman, Omar, who is in the process of learning Dutch but in the end it saved the entire days work and superior sound to boot.

Apart from that it was a great learning experience. Natalie Kruijen had her directing debut, I guess I served as producer(?) and did some of the sound editing so Bryan Oliver, who created the Tales of a Broken reality project can start preparing the episode itself.

Next week the second, and final, day of filming. Hope everything will go as planned and the weather cooperates.

Tales of a Broken reality is Steampunk inspired Youtube Channel, run by Bryan Oliver, that tells the tales of a Multiverse being controlled by dark forces.

Busy, busy, busy

Even though I am looking for work, I still don't have enough time to get everything done.
Working on props for our episode on Tales of a broken reality, make props, finding new guests, and oh yeah. Working on my submission for Old World Radio, and get artists involved. So, my video output for Radio Retrofuture is a bit low at the moment. I also have some video material for DIY video's.  Haven't got around to those either.

In short, I am busy. Here are some new video's of past week. My Interview with Josh Kinsey, known from the Steampunk'd reality show, who was very open about his experiences on the the show and his views on Steampunk.  

And here is my let's play of a videogame, FTL: Faster than Light. Next week a steampunkish variation of this rougelike.

The Steampunk Beginners Guide

Here is a overview of episodes of the Steampunk Beginnersguide on Youtube. Learn about it's history and what inspired a world wide subcultures that has yet to reach it's heyday.



Episode 1 What's a Steampunk

Episode 2 Origins in Science Fiction