Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Total Drama All Stars: Episode 1 Review!

Hey guys I did a review on the first episode of Total Drama All Stars. When the video uploaded it messed up the intro... again. I'm not gonna re-upload it because it's gonna take to long plus people who have commented on the videos comments will be gone if I take it down so I'll just take leave it this time but next time I'll make sure it's working before I make it public.

Episode One Review

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Preparation for Pre-Production of Total Drama: Gonudie Island!

Hey guys just giving an update on some of the steps we'll be taking in the Pre-Production of Total Drama: Gonudie Island. On September 20th Crush TV Productions will be moving to Alberta to start Pre-Production. During pre-production we'll be working on Storyboards, Poses, Backgrounds, Props, Buildings (Cabins, Mess Hall, Carter's Trailer,), Challenge set ups and places associated with challenges, and special characters (special guests and or characters that appear in challenges). We'll be doing all this while I learn 2D Animation online the best I can to help speed up the production process when we get there. We'll be doing these exclusively for 6 months then Crush TV Production will be moving back to Kelowna, BC to start learning 2D Animation in an established institute. Crush TV Production will be recording behind the scenes footage of pre-production for you our fans to help keep you in touch with our progress. Also Crush TV Production will be releasing it's first Documentary The Journey: A Jesse Ilg Story on September 20th as well debuting some of the finished character models in it so stay tuned for that as well. Remember stay beautiful and keep being Total Drama Fan-Tastic!

Jesse Ilg.

Amazing Discovery!

Hey Jesse Ilg again for Crush TV. Recently I've been going over the scripts for Total Drama Gonudie Island and have been doing some re-writes and finding ways to shorten the scripts from epic numbers such as 48 pages! To 36 or even 38. During this I decided to check out Final Draft 8 and found out how to use the Duel Dialog function! Now making my scripts shorter has become way easier as all my overlapped dialog doesn't take up half a page but now instead a quarter of a page, but that doesn't make the process any less tasking or easier. For any writers who are interested in writing screenplays for Animated Cartoons or Live Action I'd suggest two programs to you, the first is free and is called Celtix.

Celtix is good for beginners and has an easy interface and gives you industry standard script format scripts. In the word of writing one page in a script can equal one minute of screen time. I consider Celtix the easier one to use as it has a more user friendly interface and has everything presented to you easily.

Final Draft is for advanced users who want to be using the industry standard program for writing. This program takes some time to get used to as I picked it up after almost ten minutes if middling around with it. This program is literally identical to Celtix but lets you change the default industry standard to what ever you want. I haven't really played around with Final Draft 8 that much but to my understanding you can color code certain elements whether that be certain characters to important pieces of dialogue/action. I could see this being useful when you have two different groups of characters or multiple groups of characters and you want to keep track of which characters are with who. Like I said I haven't really played around with it that much but I'm sure it's features help with the planning and writing of a script.

Sadly if you started off using celtix and wanna tranfer your writing over to Final Draft 8 there is no way of doing this, even copy and paste breaks the script format from Celtix to Final Draft.

So for those starting out writing I would say get your hands on a copy of Final Draft 8 just for the fact that this program is the professional and industry standard. If you can't afford Celtix or dont have the means of acquiring it I would just download Celtix for free and start writing using that program.

Good luck with your writing and if you have any questions feel free to leave a comment and I'll see you guys next time.

New Video on Total Drama All Stars!

Hey everyone Crush TV Productions president Jesse Ilg has just released a video on his opinion of the new Trailers and Promos for Total Drama All Stars! Be warned Jesse gives his full and complete opinion so it's bound to be awesome! If you've come here form the link in the description of the video WELCOME! You've entere awesome ville! If you come here from our website! DOUBLE WELCOME! You're awesome! Stay tuned for a special announcment from Crush TV Production soon and be prepared for our Documentary The Journey A Documentary about Crush TV Productions president Jesse Ilg. For anybody who hasn't seen the new video the link is down below and remember stay beautiful and keep being Total Drama Fan-tastic!

Youtube Link Below:
Total Drama All Stars Trailer Review!