Stephen King Dollar Babies

[Stockerlone]

PARANOID Posters and Postcards for people who supported the project.

[Stockerlone]

Room and electric suction cup on the floor ... in progress



https://www.facebook.com/LamentParanoika

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https://www.facebook.com/LamentParanoika?fref=photo

[Stockerlone]

Premiere my unoficial adaptation ?Paranoid: a chant?
Film will be available on youtube only for 19 hours and 19 minutes.
Film with Polish lector and English subtitles.



https://www.facebook.com/events/1424757371124991/

[Stockerlone]

DAREK Kocurek - SK shortmovie- PARANOID

[mikeC]

I kind of think this is ridiculous but I'm getting old and I guess people asking for money to make a dollar baby is ok nowadays. But I guess someone lent Darabont money to make Woman in the room, I don't know.
Kind of an odd choice for a movie at this time too.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/s...dren--3#/story

[herbertwest]

IMO, If we were to create a thread for each dollar baby and those crowfunded dollar baby, we'd never end...

[mikeC]

IMO, If we were to create a thread for each dollar baby and those crowfunded dollar baby, we'd never end...

Geez fine delete it fancy pants.

[herbertwest]

I was just expressing my opinion, smarty pants.

[mikeC]

Ha nice. The main reason why I posted it was because of the crowd funding part and to see what others opinions of it.

[Randall Flagg]

I kind of think this is ridiculous but I'm getting old and I guess people asking for money to make a dollar baby is ok nowadays. But I guess someone lent Darabont money to make Woman in the room, I don't know.
Kind of an odd choice for a movie at this time too.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/s...dren--3#/story

Thanks for posting. I found some of the donation amount incentives very cool. Might even sponsor.

[mtdman]

IMO crowdfunding is past its prime. It was a good idea when it started but now there's too much of it.

[Roseannebarr]

i too was intrigued by the post! and the incentives! Thanks for posting!

[mae]

http://www.oudaily.com/news/gaylord-...b304a639c.html

An OU graduate wants to spread the word of horror writer Stephen King’s generosity through his new book on King’s dollar baby filmmakers.

Graduating in 2000 with a degree in professional writing then staying two more years for film and video clasess, Shawn S. Lealos took a screenwriting class where he learned that Stephen King allows filmmakers to make a short film adaptation of one of his short stories — for just a dollar.

Now, through a nearly six year process that began in 2009, Lealos has gathered interviews of 19 actual baby filmmakers and turned their stories into a book called “Dollar Deal: The Story of the Stephen King Dollar Baby Filmmakers.”

Even the Frank Darabont film “The Shawshank Redemption,” would not have been created had he not impressed Stephen King with his baby film, “The Woman in the Room.”

“Next week, I’m heading up to Seattle to actually have a dollar baby film festival, where I’m going to be showing a dozen dollar babies up at the Battlestar Galactica Convention,” Lealos said.

Lealos made a baby film of his own back in 2002, called “I Know What You Need.” It was based off a story from King’s novel, “Nightshift.”

Lealos said the film is about a girl failing her college classes who receives all the correct answers from a male stranger. The girl appreciates the stranger's help in passing her classes, only to discover he is obsessed with her and uses voodoo to manipulate her.

Though it took King a year to respond to Lealos over a decade ago, “it’s actually easier now than it was with me,” Lealos said.

Filmmakers can access King’s website to request access to the current short stories available for adaptation.

Lealos said the baby filmmakers he met with inspired him.

“How they were able to actually work and not give up, keep pushing until they got it made, and that really showed me why they became successful after that," Lealos said.

[Xerrand]

Sounds really interesting, Id love to read that book. Thanks for sharing!

[Stockerlone]

A new thread is a good idea !!!

#1731
WITH the foreign country movies / not english language movies it will be really interesting.


http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/...059#post936059

http://dollardealbook.com/dollar-baby-filmmakers/

[Stockerlone]

I AM THE DOORWAY

https://www.facebook.com/IAMTHEDOORWAYMOVIE

http://www.iamthedoorway.com/#intro

[wolfehr]

moviepilot.com: Could This Be The Best Stephen King Adaptation Ever?

There is a new Stephen King adaptation on the way, and judging by the team creating this one, it looks set to be one of the best yet.

Some of you may be familiar with King's short story collection Night Shift. In Night Shift, there is a story called I Am The Doorway. The story goes a little something like this:

After a journey to investigate desolate Venus, astronaut Arthur returns home a shattered man. He sees eyes forcing their way through the skin of his hands, eyes that distort his friends and the landscape itself into monstrous visions. Believing himself the doorway to alien invasion and gruesome murder, he must take desperate action.
A trio of award-winning US screenwriters are adapting King's work - Jeffrey Stackhouse, Richard A. Becker and Wendy Lashbrook. They've won awards at the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards, Shriekfest Horror Festival in LA and the Las Vegas Screenplay Contest.

The adaptation has been officially licensed under Stephen King's Dollar Baby scheme, a wonderful scheme which gives successful applicants the opportunity to make a non-commercial adaptation of one of King's short stories for the grand old sum of $1. Some major names have taken part in the scheme before - Frank Darabont, for example, adapted The Woman In The Room early in his career.

Of their screenplay, the writers said it was:

...a movie in the tradition of Argento and Cronenberg, a film of beautiful colours and gorgeous widescreen set pieces, which frame a brutal and devastating horror.
The insane amount of talent doesn't stop on the page either, as multi-award winning director Simon Pearce has been brought in to helm the ambitious adaptation. Pearce truly showed off his talent for horror with 2013's terrifying Judas Ghost. Also coming along with Simon from the Judas crew is producer Wolfram Parge, who quite possibly has the best name in all of movie making. On top of the phenomenal producer/director combo, shooting the film will be Phil Méheux BSC (Casino Royale, The Long Good Friday) while SFX will be provided by Illusion Industries (Blade, Pirates of the Caribbean).

I Am The Doorway is aiming to start production in Summer 2016, provided they reach their crowdfunding target of $15,000, which of course you can help with here. There are some amazing rewards up for grabs - a producer credit, tickets to the premiere, and even one of the prosthetic hands with alien eyes (a perfect Mother's Day present if I've ever seen one!)

Starting at the $250 reward level you also get a hard copy of the script. Credits in the film start at $500, with $2000 getting your name at the beginning of the film as "In association with...". $5000 gets you the prosthetic hand, of which there are two available.

[mae]

http://wvmetronews.com/2016/04/24/wv...ilm-on-campus/

Communication students at West Virginia State University had the unique opportunity to produce a short film on campus by best-selling author Stephen King.

The movie is called “The Woman in the Room” and produced by about 25 people including students, professional local actors and professors at the college.

“I think it’s going to raise some eyebrows. I really do,” said David Brock, WVSU communications professor and director of the horror film, during one of the last days of filming.

The story is between a mother and son who are dealing with various degrees of guilt over something that happened in the past, Brock said. The mother is dying of cancer and her son is trying to come to terms with that.

“It’s an instance of history repeating itself,” Brock said. “I’d like for people to be creeped out, first and foremost, it’s a horror movie, but beyond that I’d also like them to be moved.”

The pilot project at WVSU allows students hands on experience working on a movie set. Every scene was shot on campus for a reason, Brock said.

“Aside from showcasing the student’s talents, we wanted to showcase West Virginia State. To keep it all in house, it makes the department look good and the college look good,” he said.

One scene was shot in a dorm room where students got to work on producing, lighting, audio, visuals, editing and more. Two classes were combined to work on the project for several weeks.

Brock said he hopes the project can lead to a series of movies each year. He said the goal is to allow students to move into larger roles, like directing, to give them the full professional exposure they need prior to graduation.

“It’s something that we want them to get a taste of so by the time they get out of here the idea is that to be able to put on a resume that I was an assistant camera person on a Stephen King movie right out of undergrad, it looks good,” he said.

“The Woman in the Room” will be submitted to several film festivals worldwide, Brock said.

The movie is part of Stephen King’s Dollar Baby films meaning King has allowed students and aspiring filmmakers or theatre producers to use of his short stories for $1 a piece. Brock said their film will be also be submitted to Dollar Baby festivals around the world.

“I think that’s where we’ll find probably our biggest audience,” he said. “I just hope people will be pleasantly surprised with at the work these students are doing.”

[skyofcrack]

Does anyone have a list of all known Dollar Babies or otherwise amateur short films?

[Ari_Racing]

It's not easy to have an accurate list these days. There are hundreds (probably thousands) fan made and non official shorts. As for the official ones there are a lot announced but more than 50% never make it to the end and are not completed due to lack of funds. Wikipedia has a list if you want to check it.

If you're looking for only official ones, I'd suggest to check the Facebook group about Dollar Babies were usually the official ones are announced. If you're looking for non-official as well...well, check youtube.

[skyofcrack]

It's not easy to have an accurate list these days. There are hundreds (probably thousands) fan made and non official shorts. As for the official ones there are a lot announced but more than 50% never make it to the end and are not completed due to lack of funds. Wikipedia has a list if you want to check it.

If you're looking for only official ones, I'd suggest to check the Facebook group about Dollar Babies were usually the official ones are announced. If you're looking for non-official as well...well, check youtube.

Thanks. Didn't realize there were so many.

[mae]

[mae]

http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/5/13...-adriano-gazza

There are a lot of short films out there based on Stephen King's short stories, largely because of King's "dollar babies" program, which permits film students to pay a buck for the rights to make a non-commercial adaptation of one of King's short stories. But short films based on his novels are much rarer, because the adaptation rights are largely owned by other people. That's certainly true of The Long Walk, King's 1979 novel about a dystopic future where a popular national sport consists of a hundred teenagers walking cross-country in a marathon that only one of them will survive. It's surprising that the book has never been adapted to film, given how perfectly suitable it is for the low-budget indie-horror treatment, and given how neatly it slots into the tragic-future young-adult-novel trend that's taken over cinemas since The Hunger Games. But longtime King fan Frank Darabont (director of the King adaptations The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, and The Mist) has been hanging onto the movie rights to The Long Walk for years, saying he'll get around to the film eventually.

In the meantime, fans will have to be content with this recent fan adaptation, a striking, bloody animated short that adapts a monologue in the book, and draws on some of the story's ending. It functions as a perfect teaser for the novel, which is one of King's best.

The animator is Adriano Gazza, a 41-year-old British motion graphics designer who's made a series of music videos and other short side projects while working as an illustrator and graphic designer. This is his first short film. "I kept thinking it would make a brilliant film," he told The Verge. "It became an ongoing joke with my friends that I would make the film one day! But people kept encouraging me, and over the years, I got more into making videos and it became a more tangible proposition."

Gazza started work on the project five years ago, initially planning it as a live-action short. "I storyboarded elements and had the bones of a script," he says, "but there was so much material to condense that I eventually drifted away from it. Then I thought, ‘Let's make this by myself, as an animation, so I can control when I work on it, and don't have to wait on other people's schedules.'" One advantage to that approach: Gazza has two small children and not a lot of free time, so he was only really free to work on the project while he was commuting to work.

"I wrote a new script, then storyboarded it all on my iPad and phone. I spent a year testing animation styles — rotoscoping and 3D — using apps on my iPad. It's amazing what's out there. But nothing would give me the consistent look I was after. I finally found a great piece of software / resource on my Mac called Mixamo, which allows you to build 3D characters from its Fuse program, then upload to the site and add motion-capture data." Gazza used Cinema 4D for the 3D work, and added effects, overlays, and additional graphic elements (like that creepy "in his feet" text, drawn in veins) in After Effects, Photoshop, and Illustrator. "I love to play with textures and collage in my illustration and animation work," he says, "so I experimented a lot, too."

Gazza says the hard part of the film was figuring out how to condense the novel down to short-film length, but other parts were easier. The soundtrack came from his best friend, a Los Angeles-based musician who records as Small Magellanic Cloud. And the shifting animation and narrative styles emerged naturally out of King's book. "I wanted to make the film start off literally and set the scene, and then slowly feel like a descent into a hallucinogenic nightmare, to mirror the exhaustion of the walkers. This way, I could interweave fantasy elements and use visual devices to transition scenes, so the whole film felt cohesive. There are some great descriptive scenes in the book, including one where King describes the crowd turning into a giant spider, possibly due to the extreme fatigue of the participants. One of the great inspirations for me was the film of Pink Floyd's The Wall — specifically, Gerald Scarfe and team's outstanding, nightmarish animations. I would have loved to have had the spider scene in the film, but couldn't find a place for it. Maybe in my next film!"

[mae]