Lewis Pictures

Well Folks, it has been a long and fruitful journey, but now the time for me to say goodbye has come. I have enjoyed the world of film a great deal, and wish that I could continue to follow in the foots steps of Peter Jackson, George Lucas and let us not forget Steven Spielberg. There is comes a time in everyone's life where they must decide whether or not to continue down a road that has the potential to lead them unto their demise. How is it that film could leave to ones demise you say? The reason that I am putting all film behind me is because of it's ability to consume my every thought and action. For two years in a row I have made films during the school year, and every time my GPA plummets. High School is one thing, but college is completely different, I must put everything I have into my studies. Many people say I should learn how to manage my time. The problem is, as director, I tend to think about my film project all day, during all of my classless, and give the teacher only twenty five percent of my attention. So, even though I may budget my time accordingly, I still end up focusing on my film more than school. Several of you will be disappointed to hear that I will not be shooting the Star Wars Internet TV series. Why not, you have the summer to film stuff don't you? I wish I did, but in the summer I will actually be going to college and continue to learn ActionScript. If you are interested in following my life as a college student, writier, and ActionScript developer, then by all means please view my new blog jlewissimmons.wordpress.com. As for this blog, it shall never again receive another post. It shall remain as a web-journal for all those who wish to see my journey from pre to post production of my completed film Preordained.

Sincerely,
Jack Simmons

I got to say folks, at the beginning of a production, the story changes drastically right up to the point you start filming. The "I am Jedi" internet TV show has changed so much since the project began. For starters it's no longer called "I am Jedi" due to the fact that it is too close to other names (until further notice, it will be called "Untitled Lewis Pictures SW Project"). The story has changed from a Jedi trying to revenge his parent's death to a Grey Jedi (a Jedi who does not follow the strict code of the Jedi council, and skirts the line between Jedi and Sith) trying to discover how a cataclysmic event transpired. By now I should now that when I start a project, the storyline is not going to be what I think it is at the time.

This production is turning into a very ambitious broadband entertainment show. We are setting our goals high, but to ensure that we do enter the world of online tv, a back up storyline that isn't so "expensive" is also being written. Why do we think that this show is possible? We have finally reached the age in which we can all contribute financially to this production.

During the story, there is a ship that plays a major role, and thus we want to make this set look amazing. It's has to be the best and look better than any other star wars fan film, so we have searched around and found that it should reach this level of quality:



Some of you may remember this cockpit from the Knights of the Old Republic video games. We are considering including some of that content other than the ship. One thing I find very common among Star Wars fan films is that the cockpits are always squared off, nothing is ever curved. This is most likely because it is hard to make things curved. If you think about it, how do you make the curved panels? It's not as easy as using wood cut into squares. I don't blame them either. I have found a way though to make this work... it requires casting plastic/resin/silicone. This is going to be an extremely involved process, but I think it's worth a shot. I really want to recreate this concept exactly to the original design. A lot of work? yeah. Fun? you better bet your bottom dollar on it.

Sincerely,
Jack Simmons