Pick-Up Shots

We completed the long anticipated pick-up shots for The Hanged Man on Saturday, February 17 on a sound stage in Los Angeles.

As we moved through post on The Hanged Man, we realized we needed a few more shots to increase tension within the film and to provide some backstory and clarification on some of our characters.

Time and budget didn't permit us to fly the whole crew back out to South Carolina to shoot on location, so we recreated the barn and other settings on a soundstage for these shots. If you can't bring Mohamad to the mountain ...

Thanks to a lot of hard work from production designer Austin Formato and several volunteers, we had some great looking set design that will add considerable value to the film once these new scenes are edited in.

Without revealing too much of what we shot, here are some pictures from the day:

Flash at home.

Jerry at home.

Recreating the loft.

Our brilliant production
designer, Austin Formato.

Doug transferring HD files during production.

"King Cobras Do" Release

Our composer, Robby Grant's new CD, King Cobras Do, is available now.

Man and Vending Machine
Grant sings, plays, writes songs,
builds Web sites and satisfies his urge to create

February 2, 2007

On the surface, there's nothing really remarkable about Robby Grant. A quiet, unassuming 33-year-old, he's a husband, a father of two, a homeowner and has a job with a big title ("senior solutions architect") with local advertising company archer>malmo. But Grant is also one of Memphis' more interesting singer-songwriters -- and has been for more than a decade.

Though he's probably best known as a member of now-defunct rock band Big Ass Truck, he's quietly built an impressive catalog as a solo artist, mostly recording under the name Vending Machine. Last month, Grant released his fifth album, King Cobras Do. A charmed collision of styles and sounds, its 12 tracks refract everything from '50s doo-wop to early '80s Australian pop through his own skewed kaleidoscope. Grant will mark the release of the disc -- and the launch of his new label, Shoulder Tap -- with a show at the Hi-Tone on Saturday.

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