Launch!

It is with great joy that I announce the launch of the official Brightsword Productions website!

http://www.brightswordproductions.com/

Here you'll find project pages, cast bios, trailers, and the cast and crew requirements for the Gatewalkers project, as well as some basic ways to support the effort. I must say that I'm personally fond of a couple of these pages, especially this one:

http://www.brightswordproductions.com/cast--crew.html

Here you can meet our four leads and learn a bit about them (and their characters.) Also, the Gatewalkers landing page was fun to format.

http://www.brightswordproductions.com/gatewalkers.html

In other news, we had a special catch up session today, focusing on skills unique to Annie's character of Erin. Fun was had by all, even the trainer who was forced to fight with his weak hand to give his trainee a feel for fighting 90% of the population. Ah, the trials of being a leftie...

Stance review.

Parrying drill.

This is why you parry outward. No easy shot to the ribs.

Knife fighting, easily the most frantic event.

Two hours later... rest.

Thanks for reading! Until next time...

Countdown

 Hey everyone! Yes, the blog is late thanks to a couple of interesting weeks, capped off by a very good but tiring training session yesterday. Our young leads are making good progress. Elijah is only on his second training day, but has proved a very quick study and is rapidly closing the distance in his understanding. Zoe is proving to be someone who always ups the game and never gives up, often requiring her instructor to escalate the conflict as well. All in all, this leads to very educational sessions. Annie is always game to try new things, the more violent the better, and is also a fairly quick study. Paris has two things going for her. One, she is definitely warming to the physical aspects of her role, willing to keep pushing until she gets it right. Secondly, she has developed a very elven attitude for her character of Gwynmareth, and inhabits it very well. Viewing them together, and watching their readings and acting workshops, I'm glad to see that we've found the right people for these parts. They embrace their roles wholeheartedly and, most importantly, work very well together. For being such radically different people they fit together extremely well. Which, in my humble opinion, is the basis of a great team.

The madness of the last couple weeks has come in many different flavors, with two of them linked directly to the series. First, the Brightsword Productions website is close to launch! That's been quite the job, but very educational and fulfilling in the long run. Secondly, We've been brainstorming which audiences would most like to see this series made and how we would get the word out to them. This has led to my current job of crafting letters to webmasters and bloggers, presenting the project and hopefully piquing their interest enough to get them to present the project to their audiences. Unless something really takes off, that will be my full-time job for the next two months. If it does take off, my job will then be to manage the influx of questions. Either way, long days on the keyboard.

Thanks for reading. Until next time!