Bonny & Clyde Production Journal

After discussions with the wonderful (seriously) folks at TVTonic, we’ve had Bonny & Clyde removed from their directory, and we’re also blocking their clients at our end. It seems as though there is a problem somewhere with our hosting provider and not TVTonic, and considering we’ve had issues with them in the past, we’ve started looking for an alternate provider. Stay tuned.

Enough production rambling, time for some fun.

If you remember back to July 2006, we ran auditions for each of the main characters. What? They’re not real people? Not as such, no…

The following video shows an improvised scene with Cale and Dave playing the characters they ultimately ended up becoming, Clyde and Vinnie. The brief for the scene was simply to pack the car as if they were in a hurry to get somewhere.

Enjoy The Back Lot #1: bcbl_QT7_1.mov

I don’t want to set a precedent where all our production journal posts are about problems, but that unfortunately seems to be the theme at the moment. That and the fact that it has been quite a while since our last shoot, several months in fact. Trying to get all the cast together at the same time, with all their our commitments has been difficult. Meanwhile…

Our site crashed. There’s a more detailed description of what happened on the actual site, but it’s currently down due to the problem recurring. I also wrote a post on my personal blog Bonny & Clyde temporarily down, but I was a little upset, so it’s short on detail.

Basically our hosting provider has shut us down because of a problem with TVTonic continually downloading from the site. Not our fault, but now it’s certainly our problem.

When will it be back up? Who knows. It’s out of our hands at this point.

Will it ever be back up? Yes!

Unfortunately we don’t think it will be ready for our next episode this Monday, so what we’re going to try and do instead is put together a short out takes package, or maybe some of our original audition footage. Then once the site is up, will bring our episode 24 the following week.

So watch this space!

And as a follow up to the previous post, a few days ago we finally got back our replacement 500GB drive. Now we have more 500GB drives than we know what to do with. Maybe we should start some kind of video media project… Nah, it’ll never catch on.