Posts Tagged ‘Volume Three’

ECCC 2011

Posted: 11th March 2011 by Anthony van Winkle
Categories: Events

On Night Zero’s third engagement at the Emerald City Comicon, including the famous free HDR photobooth and the premiere of Volume Three.

Last weekend, Night Zero once again came out in force at Seattle’s ninth annual Emerald City Comicon, and what a weekend it was. Our third year presenting at this show, ECCC’s first three-day schedule, and me flying in from Europe less than two hours before the doors opened. It was an absolute blast, and I give a great “thank you” to all the comic and culture fans who visited us this year, as well as to the incredible and tireless Night Zero team for once again putting on such a good show. The entire gallery from our HDR photobooth can be found at http://www.nightzero.com/eccc2011

Two years ago, ECCC 2009 was our very first convention experience,  and seems so long in the past. We had little knowledge of culture conventions, and while the idea was vaguely tossed around we had never seriously considered presenting at a show. It was only after having dinner with Jim Demonakos, creator and organizer of ECCC, for reasons completely unrelated to comic books, that it became a real consideration. Towards the end of dinner the topic of Night Zero came up, I explained the project and our then just-released Volume One, and he encouraged us to grab a booth and come share our work with the world.

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The Penultimate Finale

Posted: 11th February 2011 by Anthony van Winkle
Categories: Behind-the-Scenes Photos, Episode 5 - "Reversals", On Location

On the various casting, costuming, and shooting challenges for the “Three Speeches” finale of Episode Five

Despite terrible weather battering the Midwest, the presses for Night Zero: Volume Three are alive and on-schedule. We expect to start shipping preorders the second week of March, with delivery to comic shops and the rest of our orders shipping the fourth week. If you enjoy reading Night Zero, if you appreciate the free thrice-weekly updates on a completely ad-free website, please show your support and preorder your copy today. Just twenty four dollars, independently produced and proudly printed in the USA.

On last week’s blog I talked about the movie-montage inspirations for the “Three Speeches” closing of Episode Five, as well as some of the developmental stages we went through to piece the whole sequence together.  That’s all essential to the pre-production, but coming up with a concept is only the beginning. The true success or failure lies, of course, in the execution of the design, and on that front I’m pleased to say it came together swimmingly.
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the Three Speeches

Posted: 4th February 2011 by Anthony van Winkle
Categories: Concepts & Development, Episode 5 - "Reversals", Photography

Announcing the opening of Volume Three pre-orders, and on the formulation of the “three speeches” that close out episode five.

Before I get into the actual blog post, I’m very pleased to announce that preorders for Night Zero: Volume Three are now available! Our third and most stunning volume yet, this graphic novel collection weighs in at nearly 200 pages of full-color post-apocalyptic HDR beauty, and includes all the comics we produced in 2010 as well as the protest shoot from 2009. A full list of details and a pre-order link is available at the Volume Three info page, so support Night Zero and buy your copy today!

We’ve now entered the final act of Episode Five, a little number I like to call “the Three Speeches.” If this were a movie, there would be sweeping camera shots of the speakers building up in volume and cadence, inter-spliced with close-ups of random members of each party, all underscored by a dramatic musical crescendo with plenty of horns and gravitas. Which is exactly what I’ve attempted to recreate here, but without sweeping camera movement or underscoring music. The photographic novel does have limitations.
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