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Bleutuna ProductionCliq Chart

As I was working on the Bleutuna Limited website and content, I started to think of how the site was laid out and how I was conveying information. And it was boring.

The way I’d set up the infrastructure, there was going to be tons of similar content and a ridiculous workload to get it all formatted. Even worse – no one was going to read it. There was nothing compelling to get users to actually engage with it. My eyes were glazing over and that’s always a bad sign.

That’s when my experience with working with salespeople came into play.

Salespeople love charts. They love diagrams. They love illustrations that show how things work together and the bulleted lists that go along with them. I began to think about what ProductionCliq was and how we fill in the gaps to a production, making sure all the necessary bits are there.

I started with puzzle pieces, but that wasn’t film centric enough. Then I played with a Bolex camera and its lenses, but there simply weren’t enough different elements to illustrate all the points and it didn’t represent what we do 100%. Bleutuna Limited doesn’t really shoot film. We shoot HD.

A hard drive was too tech heavy, so I looked around my room and found a big stack of HD-CAM tapes that hold all the original footage for my senior film, Sons of God, and then it all made sense.

The result is below and I’m pretty damn happy with it. First, because it’s not red. Second, because it’s a more flat, less gradiated vector drawing which I enjoy doing. Third, because I think it works extremely well in illustrating what Bleutuna Limited does, how we provide the necessary pieces to make a project a success and showcases that we work on many different types of projects in a concise manner.

Bleutuna Limited Production Cliq Chart



Sodom: The Prophecy Armageddon

No, Dave, we’re not talking about any sort of sexual proclivity. It’s a new project we’re involved with, and it’s amazing. Fantastic stuff being done here in Austin, but this is all you can see for now….

The name of the project is Sodom: The Prophecy Armageddon, though we’ve discussed simply branding it as Sodom as it’s much more stark.

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The first version of the website has been approved and will be launched shortly, at which point, I’ll post more here.




Bleutuna & the Lumix

Bleutuna, thanks to Paul Gandersman, has a new camera! The Panasonic Lumix GH-1! This joker is great and actually provides a much better image than the Panasonic HVX-200 that we’ve been using for years, and most imporatantly, allows us to easily use real lenses in the process!

Thasright! No more crazy rotating glass adapters with their own batteries, making everything hard to move and pan without dealing with a ridiculous amount of shakiness!

Paul and I will be headed downtown to shoot some footage for a couple of projects we’re doing right now, one being the feature film Conflict of Interest! So note to our actors who we contacted last week – get ready, cause we’re gonna’ shoot with you pretty damn quick!

We’ll be back with some nice new footage here soon – so stay tuned!




DubLab & Ringo Deathstarr

Paul Gandersman and I went out and helped with an Austin School of Film shoot yesterday for local band Ringo Death Starr. LA based DubLab was heading up the whole thing. It was a great time.

Thanks Frosty, Bryan & Jennifer! Fun stuff!

Check out the video below. You can see my behind the camera wearing a Wilco shirt and later saying “Rolling!”




Sons of Gods: Prologue Logo