Scenario Paintball Films Presents: Basic Painting!

new teaser to be released soon(ish)

Jay and I discussed it last week, and we’ve decided to give you, our loyal public a little more taste for free.  He and the other editors will be putting together another short segment of some of the “funnier” moments that were caught on film.  They will require liberal use of hte “bleep button” and will take at least a week or two to throw together, but all things considered we believe its time well spent.

We are closing in on locking the picture and I am actively pursuing sponsors both within and without the Paintball industry.  I should toot our own horn by mentioning I have already been contacted by multiple news/media outlets who all seem to be asking for the same exclusive information.  I guess that means at least some people are talk about us.

If you’re on facebook and you haven’t already looked, do a quick search for “Basic Painting.”  I suspect we are quickly growing a larger following there than here on this site.  To be honest though, its not too big a deal for me to maintain both, so rest assured you will be able to follow our progress along with whichever method you choose.

Now for some shamless “Aaron’s feeble attempt at editing” pictures Jay took last week:

aaron editing

on the phone

NJNam, pre-orders, and of course more editing!

Things have been as busy as ever here on at Scenario Paintball Films, and the staff has been growing by leaps and bounds.  A CGI artist has been hired to draw maps for us.  I won’t go too far into detail, lets just say its going to be awesome!  Our editing staff doubled a couple of weeks ago.  We have a second senior web designer and SEO expert who will be brought on board in hopefully a few more weeks.

We’re going to have a booth setup at NJNam this weekend and have a laptop available to accept pre-orders.  During the darker hours we’ll have a projector and screen setup as well.  Stop by, watch some footage for free and let us know what you think!

here are a couple of pictures of the editing studio, where all the magic is happening:

around the clock work going on here, when one editor is sleeping the 0ther is working!

notice all the little love notes that are being written to each other and themselves? Seriously, these guys are hardly stopping work for anything.

just got home from the editing studio.

I got to say guys, even I’m impressed.  I just got home from spending my first few hours in the editing studio, Jay has been putting in hours and hours a day plus he’s hired another editor to assist – and it shows.  It really really really shows!  You guys are going to hasve your socks knocked off!.  We’re still quite a ways from locking picture, but jay and John (the other editor) have made AMAZING progress.

I of course need to save surprises for later, but rest assured there are plenty more “big scenario” names in this little flick than what you’ve seen in trailer.  Those of us “in the community” will find this hint too easy, but know that I saw film today of EVERY sponsored player that was at the West Point game.

And for those of you (ehhhheeem, DOUG!) who left little easter egg insults for me on camera … seriously?  If the camera is held up, assume it’s recording and I will hear what you said about me!  In all seriousness, all in good fun mate, I might even make sure it stays in the final cut, cause its funny as h3ll.

pre-Orders are OPEN!

ok ok ok, I know its been a while since I’ve posted, but there has been a cr@pton of work behind the scenes in this last week.  We have a website *almost* done.  Most of the finishing touches will be added tonight, but its live as of early this morning:  www.scenariopaintballfilms.com

The biggest news is, however we have locked and made available our public trailer.  Check the website, its up there!

And last, but certainly not least, we’ve got google checkout hosting our sales for pre-orders.  A firm release date is still a few weeks away from being determined, but we are looking at being done mid-July, so delivery by late July / early August is most likely.

Continue to check back – we’ve got lots and lots more cool announcements in the works!

Basic Painting! is sponsored … Paintball Sports Magazine!

It is with the utmost pleasure I get to announce Scenario Paintball Films just closed a sponsorship deal with Paintball Sports Magazine  (http://paintballsportsmag.com/).

While I believe it is appropriate for the exact details of our deal to remain private, I would like to share with everyone the following:

• Basic Painting! and future Scenario Paintball Films’ productions for the time being will feature Paintball Sports Magazine as it’s lead title sponsor.
• Paintball Sports Magazine will be printing monthly advertisements for Basic Painting! and any future projects.

I advise everyone to get used to hearing about Paintball Sports Magazine and Scenario Paintball Films together.  We both have an overall plan of growing the sport of paintball and bringing paintball to mainstream media outlets.  We both plan to take the industry by storm as Scenario Paintball Films continues to rise to the top to join Paintball Sports Magazine as media leaders in the paintball industry.

About Paintball Sports Magazine:

Paintball Sports Magazine is the fastest growing magazine devoted to the world’s fastest growing action sport! Every day, week, and month, we deliver cutting-edge articles and full-color photos that capture the true essence of the sport of paintball at every level from the woods to the tournament fields.

We provide in-depth coverage of the hottest people, players, products and events, while increasing the general public’s awareness of this rapidly-growing sport. Paintball Sports Magazine has been growing right along with the industry, raising the standards for paintball photography and journalism.

We settled on a title!

As some of you may or may not know Bruised and Battered was really only a working title, something I needed to call this project for my own sanity. Jay and I were never really happy with “B&B” as it became known in some circles, and had always told ourselves one of these nights we’d get really really falling down dr*nk and come up with a better name. Well here it is about a month later, and we still haven’t found the time to have even a few beers and brainstorm.

My co-captain and I were able to find some time last week to do some brainstorming. Jay was busy gallivanting around Florida looking at girls and working on some other film project … stay tuned, there will be more chops bustin’ on Jay later. Dave and I needed to come up with something quick (we had an artwork deadline of last Friday, which would include this production’s title), and had only a few hours to settle on it. We used the same method that named the Loaded Crows: we IMed stupid things to each other for an hour or two until one of us said … “wow, that doesn’t sound half bad.”

The complete title is “Basic Painting: An Introduction to Scenario Paintball @ West Point’s 2009 Spring Combat Classic.” heheheh, Basic Painting will do just fine for our first project’s title.

I should mention that Jay did cut his business / mini vacation trip a little short. Jay worked Thursday through Sunday and was expected to take another few days to himself to recharge the batteries and get our from behind a monitor. While I have a day job to distract me from this documentary, if he isn’t filming he is editing. The “Birdman” wasn’t due back until this Wednesday. Apparently all Jay could think about was editing our documentary instead of concentrating on the women he was supposed to be oggling while on vacation. He emailed me a couple of hours ago and let me know he touched down late last night, woke up early and put many of his ideas into a new *rough* version of our sizzle reel. Basically this is a really long (currently about 13 minutes) trailer that we will use to court sponsorships. I just finished watching it, and I have to say – this is the 4th version I’ve seen far, and every one is at least twice as good as its predecessor.

Yes, I did just mention “our first project.” With the momentum this little documentary project has begun to pick up, it is now entirely possible we may do another, or even turn this into a series.

I do have *huge* news, which of course relates to the fore mentioned artwork deadline. I’ve been dying to tell the world about this for the last week and a half. Of course one can’t count one’s chickens before they’re hatched, and I’m waiting on just the last little tiniest bit of paperwork before making the official announcement. Trust me, it will be more than worth the wait. Hopefully I’ll get to make another post tomorrow detailing it. You’ll all just have to keep reading!

infrastructure day …

so, today is a pretty big day for Scenario Paintball Films. Aaron(me) has been busily researching many many different shopping cart packages, trying to find the best of features for our purposes. Jay has been living in the editing room frantically getting our sales demo / trailer thrown together. Jay and I both have been working with the latest addition to our team, a professional graphic artist. We should have a logo by the end of this week, and some art for some other *secret* projects as well.

Check back often, within the next day or two I will be ready to activate order accepting for pre-sales. We may even have a loose release date by the end of this week or next.

Yukon(me) owes BennyT an apology!

Those of you in the northeastern Scenario community have likely heard of BennyT, Kendall and Train. Harder.  If you haven’t, please check them out – great guys all around:  youtube channel

Well, in my anxiousness to get this site up and running I looked through all the names I could think of  and they were all used except scenariopaintballtv.com, so I quickly registered it, began to move my blog to it, and post it around a few forums.  I knew our names (mine and BennyT) were similar with him using SPbTV, and me using scenariotv on my original blogspot site, but Benny and I had already spoken about it and were cool with each other.  Benny hadn’t been overly thrilled with the idea, but he knew he was using a generic sounding name – and I was looking for a generic sounding name for the same reasons.  It was inevitible that they were going to be similar.  I knew my new domain was even more similar to his name, but I didn’t think they were identical because as I rememberred it, Benny always used the abbreviation.  I have been ridiculously busy the last few days and have had very little sleep (working late every night on this project + a 0430 alarm to drive into NYC for my *real job*).  That all combined to equal the following mistake:  In my idiocy I failed to remember that at the opening and closing credits of most (last count well over 60) of Benny’s youtube videos he doesn’t use the abbreviation SPbTV, he spells out “Scenario Paintball TV.”  I rewatched a few of  Benny’s videos a little after 10 last night, and immediately registered a new domain name.  That being said you can all see how my registering and beginning to use the domain scenariopaintballtv.com name was a pretty lousy move.  On the plus side, at least it was me, and not some jerk offshore none of us have ever heard of and would try and charge Benny and exorbitant amount to acquire the registration for scenariopaintballtcv.com.  Benny and I know each other on and off the field, phone calls amongst the community have commenced and all with be settled shortly.

I reiterate, I have nothing but love and respect for: BennyT, Kendall, and Train. Harder.  Please visit their site via link earlier in this post, or the link on the right column of the main blog page.

This blog has moved (again) to http://blog.scenariopaintballfilms.com, please update your bookmarks and check back often

new blog, I will continue to double post for a week or so

here is the new site of the new Blog:

http://blog.scenariopaintballtv.com/

It’s on wordpress, and I have all sorts of new features to go with it.  RSS, email links, etc.

The single most important feature I added is the ability for you to sign up for an email list.  As a network engineer, trust me I get enough spam and hate it.  I vow to never sell, misuse, or otherwise abuse your email addresses.  I am just asking for you to sign up, so in the future I can send out some messages about how to go about pre-ordering your DVD copies.  If you’re really lucky and there is enough interest we may do a limited quantity pre-release edition which will include a regular DVD much later when they come out at little or no additional cost.  Jay and I still have to work out the details for that.

we’re going to move soon …

You just never know what you as a reader will find hidden in my posts here. Occasionally (such as today) you will find a lot of useless ramblings, however some days (possibly today – you’ll just have to read below and make up your own mind) you will find a nugget of real hard core meaty information. I mentioned in the beginning I won’t hold anything back. I will keep the general public as informed as I keep my close friends, and you are all now paying the price … be careful what you wish for.

So, I have been thinking (I know I know, I should stop – it usually sets what little hair I have left on fire, etc. etc.) about this project a lot lately. Jay and I set forth since the beginning two driving forces: One was to do this for my love of paintball, and to further grow our beloved sport. The other was to keep this project completely professional and to “do it right.” In keeping with that ideal, I’ve begun to consider that using a free blogger (google) account may not have been the most professional looking way for us to go. Earlier this morning I purchased a new domain and web host space:

http://www.scenariopaintballtv.com/

There isn’t anything there yet (so don’t bother browsing to it), and it will take us a little while to get it up and moving – but I do believe it is “the right way” to go. We have already been approached and have briefly considered what our next project might be, and it’s sounding like we may actually be able to turn this into a small (part time at least) business. To be honest, that is all really a pipe dream for Jay and I, and we are really just trying to concentrate on making this first one as successful as possible (and sell at least enough copies to make back our personal investments) – but I did want to let you all know my gears have been turning lately.