Just read over at AMC TV’s blog that The Walking Dead webisodes directed by our favorite monster maestro Greg Nicotero have just been nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Writing Derivative New Media in the first ever New Media Writing Awards by the Writer’s Guild of America. Us here at Ruby Tree Films are a huge fan of The Walking Dead and we couldn’t be happier for Greg and the whole cast/crew! If you want to see how the K.N.B team [...]
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October 19th, 2010 Our trip has come to an end, I can’t believe it!! I’m not quite ready yet as I feel like there was so much more to experience! But hey it was an amazing dream come true and I only have Donna to thank for that. We eat breakfast, check out of the hotel and load up the van and hit the road. We have a hectic drive back to the airport in L.A traffic, but Dan handles [...]
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October 16th, 2010 Big big day! We are off to Weekend of Horrors at the Marriott Burbank hotel, after some discussion with the people in charge we get a spot to drop our gear and we start setting up. Donna, Dan, Bob and Steve stay in the main room to film Greg on a Walking Dead panel while they get me to roam around to film the vendors and try to find interesting people to meet. I got to see [...]
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I am back to finish off this blog about my L.A. trip, so I am going to be throwing up a bunch of posts from my travel journal! I am hoping to have some Behind the scenes material to show coming soon too! October 14th, 2010 Hoping the sleep would have kicked the cold’s ass, I was disappointed to wake up and realize it had gotten worse over night. Deciding it wouldn’t take over my trip I put it behind [...]
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October 15th, 2010 Cold is hitting it’s peak, but I will keep going strong! We are at KNB again today and it’s going to be big! Greg has setup a meeting or two that he is giving us access to tape. We arrive in the morning and start unpacking the gear at which point Greg says we can shoot his meeting with Elijah Wood! Holy crap!!! Next thing I know I am a small room with the second camera, taping [...]
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Colin here wanting to apologize for the lack of updates around these parts, but I had taken a couple weeks off as I am adjusting to having a newly born baby girl in my life! But today marks my return back to semi-normalcy routine here at the Ruby office and I figured my first course of action should be updating the blog with more about my amazing trip to L.A. October 13th, 2010: The night before take off, coincided with [...]
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So I had only been part of the team here for about a month before my role evolved and I found myself preparing to join the production team for six days in Los Angeles! Now it was not only exciting enough that I was going to LA for the first time ever, but we were also going to be heading to the shop of KNB Effects and meeting Greg Nicotero! Now let me explain, anyone who is an avid horror [...]
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Colin here for Ruby Tree Films, This area of the site is primarily going to used as a personal chronicle of everything I have experienced since I joined the Ruby team in September of 2010. I will be posting some tales and funny anecdotes over the next few days. We will also be including some behind the scenes video we shot while on the road and even more surprises! So please bookmark the site or whatever you need to do [...]
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