Shortlad Neo Episode Batch Release

I have begun releasing Season 3 on the net. The first 5 episodes are currently online on the Facebook page.

Episode 1: The Short Fill-In

After 16 years of fighting back Zeno's evil forces, a stronger evil begins to make its move...

Episode 2: The Short Spy

As Shortlad checks whether the shuttle containing key to his HQ's weapons is ready, he doesn't realize he is being watched from afar.

Episode 3: The Short Crash

As a massacre unfolds in the shuttle, Shortlad Jr. travels back to the Metrobase.

Episode 4: The Short Brawl

Seeing the amount of bloodshed in the city, Shortlad decides that today must be Zeno's final battle.

Episode 5: The Short Tragedy

The battle between warriors becomes violent.

The Early Crusades of the Jaffa Messiah Chapter VI

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The Early Crusades of the Jaffa Messiah
CHAPTER VI: Kah-Waii and the Mad Souffle Donkey

(In which Khwai's country of origin is called into question, everybody loves the movie 'My Neighbour Totoro' and we learn to never underestimate an Equus africanus asinus's love for welsh pop stars.

Bath Chronicle Flappy Bird Article

So as part of a annoyingly compulsory 'extended activity' in our Print Publishing lessons in Media at College, JAMes (my lecturer) makes my class go do these bogus reports on things with this chap from The Bath Chronicle. While these would be somewhat appealing for someone who wishes to work in journalism it was not for me as I...well don't. Ergo I cheaped out when it came time for me to do it yesterday and found the way I could do the least amount of effort - by letting the other dudes go out and interview people while I find background info which only takes about 20 mins. ^^

The Flappy Bird Article

Fortunately our group did at least get a mildly more interesting topic than the previous ones from what I gather. However it is still incredibly uninteresting to me the kind of reaction that the Flappy Bird app is getting as I generally don't care about such time waster games. To compound this, ultimately it seems the small (20%-ish of the article) work I did has been decreased even further by the guy from The Bath Chronicle coming along to edit our team's work. He clearly isn't using the background info I researched as basis for his rewrite as I think he's thrown in some facts which weren't present at all in our original draft. While I understand this from a professional standpoint that he may not have felt our presentation or style or whatever wasn't up to snuff with the rest of Chronicle. The fact still remains that our presence in writing this thing has been rendered somewhat pointless.

So enjoy Valentine's Day with my article which is about as much mine as the theatrical cut of Superman II belongs to Richard Donner.

January 29th - Shooting Frank's Single Camera Space Sketch

So this was the day I got to finally collaborate on something of Frank's for a change. Even if he wasn't too thrilled to make it but I reckon it turned out okay in my humble opinion. Anyways, the previous night I briefly discussed with him his thoughts on 'Eraserhead' (1977) and eventually somehow he asked me if I was willing to play a satellite in his sketch. At the time I had a surge in creative zeal. This allowed me to have some more enthusiasm to this *groan* college project.

When I arrived the following day at college, Frank's single camera team were having a production meeting while me and the others were being taught how to use the cameras, a highly unnecessary lessons because of how simply those cameras are and the fact that I already had prior knowledge that I was to be cast as a Satellite. (Frank's sketch featured several celestial bodies talking to one another about the advent of satellite TV, this was kinda the point of what we were supposed to make for college.) We soon headed over to the studio and after some deliberation because Frank misinterpreted our lecturer's (whom I will refer to as Jesus) plans for the scheduling, we began filming without one of Frank's friends who was originally to play the earth as he ended up contacting her too late. Soon after though, he found someone to play the earth. Being the only male celestial body it seems I was quite the pimp satellite ...ha...ha...ha. I'll shut up. Frank then realized during the make-up sessions that he had make-up for everyone except me. As such he improvised and I had a range of different colours on my face which seemed to make me look like a zombie. I was even described as looking bruised up at one point. 

Satellite Selfie xD

Despite the fact that we both only had about several sentences, my dialogue with the moon seemed to go on forever. However, this may just be an exaggeration. I reckon the whole thing turned out pretty fine as long as the chroma key goes well so that we're edited into space. As the shoot finally came to a close, there came a need for a narrator and as I performed my Tommy Wiseau impression, for some reason they chose me. Although they requested more of a German accent, which I am incapable of with my natural yet inexplicable American accent. So that was a wrap! I then headed over to the Bath College toilets (something which I had not done before and probably will not do ever again - public toilets suck and plus these were really small) I evidently have no skill in washing my face as my fingers proceeded to ram across my face ending up jamming my nose and making me bleed. Stupid Moskow.

My fingers at the time.

So after both me and Frank appeared as extras in another dude's section of the TV sketch afterwards, it was the end of the shoot. This meant that the following week would be time for the Multicam crew i.e. Me. John Yogi Bear would finally have his day...

The New Adventures of Shortlad

Season 2! oh yes I remember this! I wrote this entire season (excluding the specials) in the span of only one week due to the completely unexpected positive reception of Season 1. This is why many aspects of the story this season are rather rushed. The 13 minimum episode count has been reduced to a mere 7 episodes. In fact in episode 7 Biscuitboy was to have a more thought out appearance instead of suddenly showing up out of nowhere as Zeno's henchmen for 1 episode. Due to the clearly rushed nature of the season, plans for a follow-up 'Movie-Sized' issue to The Short Wars were shelved and eventually abandoned. However a majority of the planned ideas found their way into Season 3. Despite all these shortcomings Season 2 features the debut of many characters who would become key figures in the overall Shortlad storyline, including: Larry, Tribe Leader, Bugsey (at this time called Rabbey) and the current longest running villain: Zeno.

Episodes:
Episode 1: The Short Reunion
Episode 2: The Short Flashback
Episode 3: The Short Stowaway
Episode 4: The Short Master of the House
Episode 5: The Short Fight
Episode 6: The Short Tribe
Episode 7: The Short Wars
P.S.A. Special: Don't Do Drugs
X-Mas Special: The Biscuit That Stole Christmas

The Phone Meeting

While the pirate eye-patch may've been my first video production at the college. It was more of a group effort than my own production, this however was a return to form for me as I wrote it, shot it, and edited it almost completely by myself working off only a small brief with a short plot outline and a rule of being under 2 minutes. This was the first time I did anything like this since The Geek Zone way back in 2010. This video in a way is slightly life changing for me as upon finishing the shoot I felt somewhat disheartened and felt that despite all these years making projects I hadn't grown in the slightest. However this was the first of many times where Frank had shown me the truth and persuaded me to continue, he has now became my muse to a certain extent and my bro and now in 2014 I have so many projects I plan to make with and without him.

Who Doesn't love Bloopers? c:

First College Video Production - Eye Patch Joke

During the first term of College, they had us come up with a pirate joke which they had us make into a video. The pirate in the video eventually ends up becoming my best bro and the very reason I've re-kindled my creative flame. We were all part of the small crew that made this and all produced our own edits of it.

The Early Crusades of the Jaffa Messiah Chapter V

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The Early Crusades of the Jaffa Messiah
CHAPTER V: Not in Your Wiseau-ist Dreams!

(In Which Tommy forcibly creates three Zombie Fanboys, Frank learns the art of cosplaying hilarious film makers within several seconds and a Donkey wearing a little hat may be our only hope.)

The Adventures of Shortlad

Here it is! Season One now completely online! well minus the Season Two teaser. But here it is, the very first batch of my longest running creative endeavor and probably my most well received. Originally started as something to stave off boredom in English and Maths lessons it eventually grew into a whole franchise. I noticed one of my friends Alex Dixey (Alovision on YouTube) was writing a doodle-comic-strip called Kettleboy. His original strips were very Spongebob-esque, very episodic and very small scale problems. I was inspired by these however soon after I realized I could craft an epic out of this format. Hence, why Shortlad soon became an Interdimensional hero.

I also quickly saw the opportunity for a crossover between our two allowing me to use a Kettleboy from an alternate universe in this story line first appearing in Episode XI. The villains in this season had also previously first appeared in a movie I had made - 'Zoido: Destroyer of Worlds' this is why the bio-weapon that Frogzoid is trying to create is called Zoido Mark II. I will upload this movie once I find a way to regain that footage. Fun-fact: In the movie Frogzoid was originally a Burger King or McDonalds toy used to promote the 2006 movie 'Flushed Away'. Also the first two issues have been redrawn from their original versions.

Episodes:

Episode I: Coming of the Short

Episode II: The Short Problem

Episode III: Cookies and Short Milk

Episode IV: Short Jobs

Episode V: The Short Return

Episode VI: The Short Return Part 2

Episode VII: The Short Return Part 3

Episode VIII: The Short Interdimensional Encounter

Episode IX: The Short Crossover

Episode X: The Short Calm Before the Storm

Episode XI: A Short Epic Climax

Episode XII: A Short Epic Climax Part 2

Episode XIII: The Short Epilogue

P.S.A Special: Traffic Safety