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P&P – DAY 10 – Shooting the Mirror Masks
Our tenth and final day of shooting my short film musical Edgar Allan Poe adaptation “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” was all about the three doppelganger judges of the Inquisition, but not as they appear to the … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Cinema Scope, Poe Musicabres
Tagged Charlotte Purser, Dies Irae, Edgar Allan Poe, Inquisition, Ja'rel Ivory, Jason Chua, Jimmy McCoy, Judges, masks, mirror, mirror mask, musicabre, musical, post-production, pre-production, Radka Salcmannova, Sami Eddy, short film, Stolis Hadjicharalambous, The Pit and the Pendulum, VFX
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3 Seconds of HELL
An Advance Mini Audio Peek at “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” “If there’s a hell, this is the music.” That was my mother’s succinct critique of the score of my short film “The Pit and the Pendulum … Continue reading
ANNOUNCING THE NEXT POE MUSICABRE!
While accepting two Tell-Tale awards from Indiedance! So, no more being coy, enough with dropping hints or announcing I will be making an announcement, as I have now and then for many months, let’s just make it official: There will … Continue reading
A Freaky Little Tell-Tale Tidbit
Listen to this. It’s rather creepy, isn’t it, not just because of the unsettling nature of the text, but because of, well, I’ll explain later, just listen now: I kept quite still and said nothing. For a whole … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Literary Lyricism, Poe Musicabres
Tagged death, Edgar Allan Poe, film, musicabre, pre-production, recording studio, short film, terror, The Tell-Tale Heart
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