Happy New Year....

First off I just want to wish everyone a Happy New Year!! This should be a good one since your following us over here at TM-Productions. Really thank you for the support everyone is showing and us over here it is helping to motivate this project and we are dedicated to giving the Machinima community a quality series that you can follow on a weekly basis.

I know I have discussed this with some insiders involved closely with the project but after discussing some information with my co-creator Mag last night we decided the format for season 1 will be 8 episodes being released every week followed by a 5 week hiatus and coming back with 8 more episodes with a 4 week hiatus and then the final 7-8 (If we can fit everything we want into 23 episodes then we may but could be dragged out an extra episode). So with that being said our first episode should be launched and available for everyone to download the first week of March and the series should continue to have fresh episodes available weekly except during the hiatus previously discussed (Would have been February but a certain key persons Xbox got the red ring of death!). I hope everyone is as excited as we are because I believe this project can and will surpass all expectation we have and hopefully you have.

Red VS Blue, who?

We hope to be able to make you feel that way. I can tell you that the few people that have a copy of any of the scripts from various episodes have told us the story is there and as long as we can direct the video this should catch on fast.

Last but not least the voice casting has been a long hard process but we are working through the struggles and are getting the final choices made and anyone who has been chosen has been sent a copy of the script and some have recorded the audio for episodes 1 and 2 so everything is coming together wonderfully. Also if you have only seen the Blog here we also have a website which should be getting some finishing touches over the next few days but check it out if you have a second.

http://tmproduction.phpnet.us/

-Tee

First voice casting member confirmed!!!

We hear at TM Productions, Mag and Tee Would like to thank everyone who has tried out for the voice of Recruit Cash but the final dicision was made pretty much the moment we heard his "Nobody crosses the Cash line!" He preformed so well that we have some interesting things planned for this character. We introduce you to the voice of Recruit Cash; Rob Bilokrely(aka Blitzmidfielder on http://www.machinima.com/). Thank you Rob for being able to emulate the character we created and make him come to life.

As for anyone who is interested in sending in a voice sample I would suggest you still do and even if the voice you thought of would be good for Cash send his line in with that voice. We have someone we are considering using for a different character because of the voice they used for Cash. Please try to send these in I would hate to miss out on bringing someone into this project that would be a perfect fit like Rob Bilokrely because you decided to send your sample in to late.

Before I go I just wanted to say thanks again for following us along on this road to producing hopefully the next big Machinima hit! Once again welcome aboard Rob and we look forward to laughing at the lines when you send them in for your first script reading.

-Tee

Voice Submissions

Please, if you plan to submit a voice sample for the casting tryouts do so by Friday night at 9 PM EST. We are trying to finalize all of the cast members and finish making our decisions before this weekend is over so we can go into the next week getting the voice script recorded and the videos together. I plan to contact all selected voice actors by Saturday night or Sunday morning with the offers. Thank you again for your interest and I hope to hear from you soon.

-Tee

Casting Sucks And Some Other Stuff

Hello again everyone! I just figured I would update everyone with our status at TM-Productions. We are having fun but quite busy putting together the script.

First we write, rewrite, change some crap and rewrite again to make sure everything is the way we like it. Mag and Myself have been hard at working out the main story of this whole series to make sure it doesn't seem like "the same old crap". We are going to make this story stand out and have you wanting to invest time into the characters and getting to know who they really are. Over the time of the series we hope to explain; who they are, why they are who they are and how they got to where they are. We also have plans to make some spoof video's for different occasions, luckily a few things or in our favor to help make this work. Well I believe I am giving out to much info so I will move on…

Well since the title of this post is Casting Sucks, I figured I would touch base on what I mean. We have had several people submit voice sample since we announced the emails had been sent. It's not that I get to laugh at all of these voices that sucks, it's that I currently don't have room on the cast to ask everyone to join us in this project. Either way we have had some tough decisions over the past few days and a few more to come but we will be making final casting decisions by the end of this week. Also if for some reason you were not chosen to be part of the team please forgive me know and keep your mind open about coming on board in the future to help out with this project.

By the way after next week we should have a better idea of when the 1st few episodes will hit the net. Well, it's been great but I have some work to get done.

-Tee

Finished

The script for Episode 101 is complete. What a relief. I mean seriously I didn't realize how much writing, editing and then re-writing this would take for one episode to convey what we wanted to the viewers. I have begun work on the second script. It is coming along well so far. So writing wise we are golden!

As for the video we have considered doing some promo shoots but not sure if we want to spend the time rather then just put out the first episode.

Update for the voice actors we have contacted I will be email you your tryout scripts tonight. The timeline for a turn around will be no later then Sunday night.

-Tee

Research and Mini Update

So who said it wasn't a good idea to marry a women who's father was an ex-marine? Well I will tell you this having him readily accessible to answer any questions I had in reference to his Boot Camp experiences and the chain of command questions of the US Marine Corp was great sense having several questions regarding 2152 ranks. With that being said some characters have had their military ranks changed to show a correct level of rank based on the USA Marine Corp. So yeah we have been working on getting a few things done and out of the way so all of the characters can be outfitted with their proper armor and have everything work and make sense. We are trying to make this fun and have a comedy but don't want things contradicting themselves and make us look like we didn't put anytime into the creation of this story.

We have finished up the first script which is entitled "Camp Preparation". In this episode we try to introduce some of the main characters and let you get a feel for there attitudes and personalities. We are looking forward to completing about 7-8 more full scripts and produce the first 5 full episodes before releasing the first so you know you will have something to follow over a 5-6 week period. We do have a definite direction for this series and are not just "winging it" until something comes to us. Please keep your eyes out for the episodes because full blown production should be starting mid next week. Right now we are also developing a script with about 5 lines for each character that will express different tones and situations for our voice casting. Below I have listed out the different characters we have an who we currently have voice actors for and who is open.

The roles listed below are current cast members that will be needed definitely to carry the series along. If you are interested in receiving a copy of the test script and sending me a voice recording with 15 seconds of dead air between each line acted out with different emotions please contact me at tfitzgerald@email.itt-tech.edu

MAIN CAST:
Colonel Grant Juice: Travis
Major Carl Parker: Adam
Master Sergeant Rusty Pipes:
Private Brock Lee:
Recruit Barry Cade:
Recruit Owen Cash:
Recruit Richard Pole:
Recruit Ivan Order:
Warren Piece: Adam
Ex-President Richard Tader(not currently going to be used until later but major role):
Darrel B. Moore(not currently going to be used until later but major role):

SUPPORT ROLES
President Al Gorerythm:
Sara Lee:
Soldier#1:Nathan

-Tee

Introduction

We are a new Production company breaking into the Machinima scene and are going to be updating users as much as possible with what is going on in the world of TM Productions and the soon to be break out series 2152. 2152 is our first project under the TM Production banner and hopefully be a favorite of anyone out there who has followed Halo Machinima. We have an action packed comedy that is being written and produced over the next couple weeks. We hope to have the first 3 episodes completed and circling the internet by mid to late December. If anyone has any questions please feel free to let us know.

-Tee