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This video demonstrates a simple notification system build using Silverlight, ASP.NET, AJAX and SQL Server. Silverlight is used at the front end to present a rich UI, which is asynchronously updated using AJAX based on activities of different users in the system. You are stepped through the full solution, from the text input to the back end through the asynchronous delivery service based on JSON-oriented Web services and AJAX proxies.
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GAINES – An Albion man was killed early Sunday when his car ran off the road in the town of Gaines and crashed head-on into a newspaper delivery SUV, according to the Orleans County Shefiff's Office.
Deputies said Cameron R. Hess, 22, was eastbound on State Route 104 near Crandall Road about 2:47 a.m. when his 2004 Dodge Neon ran off the south side of the road and crashed into a westbound 2008 Chevrolet HHR that was traveling along the south shoulder. The Chevrolet was a Rochester Democratc & Chronicle delivery vehicle, deputies said.
The force of the impact spun both vheicles around 180 degrees. Hess was extricated by Albion firefighters and pronunced dead at the scene.
Edward L. Schneider, 21, of Medina, the driver of the Chevy, was extricated by firefighters and flown to Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester by helicopter. His passenger, Christopher A. Swan, 21, also of Medina, was thrown partially through the windshield. He was taken to Strong Memorial by Central Orleans Volunteer Ambulance.
The accident remains under investigation.

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State police: Man attacks housemate with chain saw
Suspect became irate after locks changed, state police say
A man is behind bars after state police said he went after his housemate with a chain saw.
Guy Allen Black, 66, is being held on $100,000 bail after allegedly cutting through a door at the home he shared with Ronald Lee Tanner and swinging the chain saw at him.
State police said Black became irate after Tanner changed the locks on the home he owns in Turbotville, Northumberland County.
Black allegedly entered the house through the basement and used an ax and chain saw to cut through an interior door before chasing Tanner outside.
Investigators said the saw got stuck on Tanner's shirt and jammed, allowing Tanner to pin Black down with an umbrella. Tanner was unhurt.
Slideshow: Recent Susquehanna Valley arrests
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SALEM - Fay L. Bell, 86, of Salem, died at 12:30 p.m. Thursday at her home.
She was born Feb. 15, 1927, in Lisbon, the daughter of the late William and Arvilla (Harnden) Harroff.
Her husband, Theodore E. Bell, whom she married Nov. 23, 1946, survives her along with a son, Theodore (Patty) Bell of Salem; a daughter, Diana Bell of Sarasota, Fla.; a granddaughter; and two great-grandchildren.
Per her request there will be no services or calling hours.
Arrangements were handled by the Stark Memorial Funeral Home.
Her obituary may be viewed and condolences sent online at www.starkmemorial.com.
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Manufacturers are constantly researching new faucet and sink designs, products, and technologies.
Currently there are several research projects that are evaluating the effectiveness of low-flow faucet aerators and electronic faucets, as well as customer satisfaction with these products. Sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency three water providers (Seattle Public Utilities, East Bay Municipal Water Utility District and City of Tampa Water Department), these studies measure water use in single family homes before and after the installation of high efficiency fixtures including faucet aerators, showerheads, toilets and clothes washers.


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Police said they arrested a Massachusetts man after he tried to pick up two packages containing marijuana and money at an address in Meredith.
The packages were intercepted, and members of the Meredith Police Department made a controlled delivery.
Police said about 25 pounds of marijuana were seized along with thousands of dollars of cash.
Police said Tuan Le, 48, is scheduled to be arraigned Friday on a charge of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute.


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Happy Diwali India!1
It's that time of the year again, it's Diwali. For many, Diwali in India is often compared to Christmas in Western countries. It's a national holiday, children go home and spend time with parents, houses are cleaned, people go to temples, traditional food flows free and people think back at the year behind. Diwali is called the festival of lights because in most parts of India people light up traditional lamps or crack fireworks.
The social role of this holiday is very similar to what happens during Christmas/New Year, and in other similar "end of the year cycle" festivities in other part of the worlds. We take stock of what we've accomplished and we get prepared for the new cycle. In practice, Diwali is scheduled around the end of the harvesting season where farmers look back at the goods in stock and pray for good harvesting in the next cycle. Takeaway: we all need to stop and look back every once in a while.
The religious roots of Diwali are based on the victory of good over evil, or light over darkness, with different winner/loser gods in different faiths (Rama/Ravana, Krishna/Narakasura) (*). The Christian symbol of the birth of Jesus also suggests the time of a new beginning and a new hope for the year to come. Takeaway: we all keep hoping for a better future.
In London, there is obviously a long stream of celebrations of which the most important one is Diwali in the Square, held in Trafalgar Square with traditional dances, ceremonies and free concerts. This year (2009) it was held on Sunday Oct 4th.
In Paris things are less established but the House of India (Maison de l'Inde) will host a free Diwali buffet dinner with concerts and traditional dances on Sunday Oct 18th at the Cite' Universitaire.
Plenty of Diwali activities and events also in New York, including a dance and music performance at the Metropolitan Museum of Arts.
So to all our Indian friends around the world, happy Diwali!
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Day Camp is a fun-filled week of adventure for Cub Scouts from Tiger through Webelos. Cub Scouts will participate in many types of activities which may include archery, arts and crafts, BB gun shooting, field sports, nature, Scout skills, swimming and a variety of other events. All areas (especially archery, BB guns and swimming) place a special emphasis on safety procedures. Some of the above activities may not be conducted due to site limitations. Cub Scout advancement is included in the program although we "disguise" it as part of the fun! Safe fun is the main goal of camp! Please visit our website www.mtcbsa.org for specific registration information.
The Middle Tennessee Council offers Day Camp in various geographical locations throughout the council. Day Camp, which runs Monday through Friday, offers Cub Scout activities, exciting adventures and new friendships. Cub Scout Day Camp is for boys who will be in the 1st – 5th Grade in the fall of 2014. If your son will be in the 1st grade in the fall of 2014 he must have an adult partner attend camp with him.
Going to Cub Scout Day Camp together with friends from your own Den or Pack really increases the fun for everyone! Dens are formed according to age and school grade. If your child wants to be with a certain child or leader, please let us know in writing. In order to maximize fun for the boys, individual Packs are urged to coordinate their attendance at Day Camp, including recruitment of Day Camp leadership and transportation.
Cost to Attend Cub Scout Day Camp:
Cub Scout Day Camps are a 100% volunteer effort. Parents are expected to volunteer in some capacity in order to ensure a successful and safe Day Camp program. Please contact the Day Camp Director for more information and description of each position available.
What to bring and wear? Each day Cub Scouts should bring a water bottle (filled at home), towel, rain gear and a sack lunch that does not require refrigeration. Be sure the Cub Scout's name is on everything he brings. Shorts or cool pants, t-shirt and tennis shoes (NO Sandals, Crocs or Heelies) Spray with bug repellent and apply sunscreen.
Medical Form Required for Participation: Please click here and download Medical Form before beginning the registration process. Once you have completed ONLY sections A & B, print and bring it with you to camp. Doctor's signature is NOT REQUIRED!
Please Note: On the following page you will click "Add new Participant" Enter the name of the person who is accepting the RSVP - click add. You will then see the name of the person and the statement "Cub Scout Day Camp Registration" CLICK THIS LINK TO CONTINUE. Do not use the continue button at the bottom of the page.
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It may cost thousands of dollars to replace the equipment that a youth baseball team lost in a fire Monday.
The fire broke out in a shed at Mine Falls Park in Nashua.
Heavy snow slowed down crews heading to the shed in the middle of the baseball field, but once they arrived, they say the flames were quickly put out.
The building stored baseball equipment and was used to run the scoreboard.
Investigators say it could cost several thousand dollars to replace the equipment and rebuild the shed.
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Global strategy separates Cinemark from competition
Plano, TX - Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CNK), one of the leading motion picture exhibitors in the world, continues to expand and celebrates a milestone by exceeding 5,000 screens across 39 U.S. states, Brazil, Mexico and 11 other Latin American countries.
Cinemark was founded in 1984 by theatrical exhibition pioneer
Lee Roy Mitchell. Mr. Mitchell's initial vision was to bring
high-quality, modern movie theatre entertainment to underserved
markets in the US. In 1993, he expanded his vision by focusing on
underserved markets outside the US and launching one of Cinemark's
first movie theatres in Latin America. "Today, we are the most
geographically diverse exhibitor in Latin America and the number
one exhibition company in Brazil, one of the fastest growing
markets in South America," states Mr. Mitchell. "It's
important to recognize Cinemark's employees and customers, without
whom reaching this milestone would not be possible." Mr.
Mitchell continues to serve as Chairman of Board for Cinemark
Over the years, Mr. Mitchell identified several talented individuals and created a strong, experienced management team to implement this vision. Alan Stock started working at Cinemark in 1986, shortly after its inception when Cinemark was a chain of only 8 theatres. Mr. Stock rose through the ranks and has been the Chief Executive Officer since December 2006. Also in 2006, Cinemark acquired Century Theatres and added this highly regarded national theatre chain with approximately 77 theatres to the company. A year later, Cinemark completed its initial public offering and the company's stock is now traded on the NYSE. "With the most recent additions of newly constructed theatres in Texas, Utah, Brazil and Colombia, Cinemark's total screen count has crossed over the 5,000 screen threshold," states Mr. Stock. "For over 26 years, Cinemark has been successful providing the best entertainment experience to our customers in markets across the US and around the world."
Long recognized as a pioneer in the theatrical exhibition industry, Cinemark has introduced cutting edge amenities like digital projection, RealD 3D, Cinemark XD auditoriums and the new NextGen cinema concept that takes the entertainment experience to the next level.
Cinemark's new NextGen complexes introduce customers to the next generation in movie theatre construction & design. These theatres offer a state-of-the-art viewing environment with wall-to-wall screens, 100% digital projection and enhanced sound systems equipped with higher quality speakers and 7.1 capable digital surround sound. Additionally, Cinemark NextGen theatres typically house a popular Cinemark XD Extreme Digital Cinema auditorium. Finally, the lobby is usually designed around one of Cinemark's innovative self-serve concession stands which offers freshly-popped popcorn, Coca-Cola fountain beverages and favorite candy brands.
The Cinemark XD Extreme Digital Cinema auditorium is the largest in the theatre complex and offers a complete entertainment environment featuring a wall-to-wall and ceiling-to-floor screen, plush seating and a custom JBL sound system with higher end components and 7.1 capable digital surround sound. The digital images are delivered by a Doremi server and a Barco DLP digital projector, which offers the brightest light standards in the industry. The XD auditorium exhibits the newest movies every week, including 2D and RealD 3D pictures. Cinemark has 66 XD auditoriums in operation worldwide, with plans to add an additional 15 to 20 by year end 2011.
To celebrate this achievement with their customers, starting July 29, Cinemark is launching special promotions, contests and giveaways. Some of the prizes include signed autographed movie posters, trips to Hollywood premiers, free movie passes, and discounted concession items. All of the information about the 5,000 screens promotion is located on the Cinemark.com website and Facebook page.
Go to www.cinemark.com to find showtime information, purchase tickets and view a complete list of all Cinemark Theatre locations.
About Cinemark Holdings, Inc.
Cinemark is a leading domestic and international motion picture exhibitor, operating 431 theatres in 39 U.S. states, Brazil, Mexico and 11 other Latin American countries as of March 31, 2011.


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You can pre-order it now and it should be back from the factory and shipping out by the middle of December. We anticipate being able to ship it anywhere in time for Christmas. You can click here to order yours and read all about the DVD as a product.
In terms of making it, the Behind the Scenes documentary on the disc was a big undertaking. We had more than 60 hours of tape from production plus hours of behing-the-scenes video shot with other cameras. We had thousands of photographs taken through all phases of productions. We brought in key cast and crew members to do extensive interviews. And then we had to take all of that and whittle it down to 47 minutes of riveting entertainment. Not an easy task. We realized we had some footage (particularly about filmmaking techniques and effects) which might not be everyone's cup of tea, so we pulled those out and made them into their own technical featurettes. We picked our favorite scenes that ended up on the cutting room floor - well, it's all digital now, so the cutting room floor is purely metaphoric - and put those on there too. So, it's a couple of hours worth of extra material for those of you who want to experience the movie and the team that made it.
We're still doing all we can to get the movie to you via a variety of paths. We have top men working on deals for disc releases in various markets, getting it on TV, video on demand, all that kind of stuff. But we're not the sort of guys who wait around for other people to make stuff happen. The movie's done, we put it on a disc, and if you want to see it now, well come and get it.
What's next? We'll heave a mighty sigh of relief and then dive into mastering of the BluRay. We anticipate it will be much like the DVD, except that all it's footage (including the Behind the Scenes documentary) will be in glorious HD. We hope to get that in your hands by January. Believe me, we're going as fast as we can.
As the holidays come upon us, all of us at the HPLHS would like to take a moment and thank those of you crazy enough to follow our weird journey, read this blog and show so much enthusiasm for what we do. Quite literally, without you we never would have made it this far. Thank you.
1 September 2011
OK, lots has gone on this summer and we haven't told you much about it. Most significantly, we finally secured a sales agent for The Whisperer in Darkness. Following the tremendous positive press we got coming out of the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, we ended up getting several offers from companies interested in respresenting the movie. So, we'll be working with Raven Banner Entertainment who will in turn be working to sell the film to broadcast, Video On Demand (VOD) and disc-based retailers in markets worldwide. This big step is often called "distribution", but what it means is there's someone besides us actively working to get the movie in front of viewers everywhere. We are particularly delighted to partner with Raven Banner as their team actually are Lovecraft fans and they appreciate what differentiates a Lovecraft film from other horror pictures.
Here at HPLHS headquarters, we're slowly roasting in the late-summer heat and are working to finish off the elements that will go onto the DVD. We recently completed interviews with team members for the Behind the Scenes featurette for the DVD and BluRay. We have interviews with Dave Snyder, Fred Manchento, Laura Brody, Jessica Dalager, Barry Lynch, Matt Foyer, John Younger, David Robertson, Andrew Lemand and Sean Branney. We'll cut together a documentary featuring our pithy commentary, outtakes, still photos and hopefully give you a sense of what it was like making Whisperer. We are currently pushing to have a DVD ready for sale by Halloween. We know many of you are eager for the BluRay. Because we can't master a BluRay in-house, we'll need to make the DVD first and then take those assets to a company that can master the DVD for us.
As the fall comes, we enter our busiest season for festival screenings. You can read the details on our Festival Page, but we're particularly looking forward to attending the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festivals, both in San Pedro, CA and Portland, OR. We're hoping many of our cast and crew members will be there with us when Whisperer screens at the historic Warner Grand in San Pedro on Saturday Sept 17. We'll have many props and miniatures on display for you to check out too. And of course we'll have lots of our strange and wonderful products on sale there too. Don't miss it.
1 July 2011
Onward, ever onward. Whisperer finally had its US Premiere at the Seattle Int'l Film Festival. David Robertson, Andrew Leman and Sean Branney were there and had a great time at the festival. The crowds were big and enthusiastic and the SIFF team did a great job organizing the event. We followed the SIFF screening others in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. July has several more and we continue to line up screenings all over the world for the rest of the year.
As you can see, we've finally reworked our Whisperer site into something a big more comprehensive. We encourage you to check it out and we'll be feeding it content regularly as the days go on. For example, if you want to see the listing of festivals we've been to or are going to, click here.
Work continues on the translations. More and more of them are done all the time, and as we get them, we timecode them to match performances in the movie. We're also now finally scheduling our behind the scenes interviews and should be shooting the first one of them in two days. All of this is in preparation for the DVD and BluRay release.
In addition to the festivals where we've been screening, we've got more lined up across the globe. This weekend Whisperer will also screen at the Berkshire International Film Festival in Pittsfield, Massachusetts (Mi-Go country!), and mid June we'll screen at the Southside Film Festival in Pennsylvania. Things turn international again in July with screenings at Fantasia in Montreál, Canada; Fantaspoa in Porto Alegre, Brazil; PiFan in Puchon, Korea; and RioFan in Rio de Janero, Brazil. We have more festivals later in the year in Warsaw, Reno, Buffalo, and of course the HP Lovecraft Film Festival. We anticipate adding more festivals to the lineup; most of them dont notify films until roughly 8 weeks before the festival, so if you're wondering if we're coming to your neighborhood, our answer at the moment is we really don't know.
Beyond festival life though, we continue to work on the assets for the DVD. Prepping a DVD is actually a pretty involved process. For the special features, we have to find, digitize and organize all of our Behind the Scenes footage and photos (and there are several thousand photographs from the making of this film). The we have to to schedule interviews, shoot them and edit the whole mess in an effort to make something that should be fun to watch. So we're working on that.
The DVD also has its many languages. The HPLHS Volunteer Translator Corps has done a great job of rendering the final text of the film into a translation. We then take that translation and break it into timecoded phrases which we then synchronize to the actors' performances. As some sentences require many more words when translated (I'm talking to you, Finnish), each language is a sort of a jigsaw puzzle with 1,100 or so pieces. We are getting there though.
The final arrangements with distribution are still in discussions. Believe me, it's more frustrating for us than it is for you, but we hope that by July 1 we will have a firm plan in place that will ensure you'll be able to either see the movie at a theatre or get it on disc well before the year is out.
In March the movie finally had its public premiere at the SFF-Rated Film Festival in Athens, Greece. The folks there were incredibly hospitable and Whisperer screened at a pair of sold-out showings. The film was very well received and they even sent us home with their Audience Award for Best Director. We thank Alecos Papadopolous and his team for providing an outstanding premiere. Click for photo of a real Mythos sighting in Athens.
April 1 we screened at the Belfast Int'l Film Festival in Northern Ireland (click for photo of venue). A good crowd turned out at Belfast's Waterfront Hall to see Whisperer along with AM1200 and Die Farbe - a new German adaptation of The Colour Out of Space. We had a lively Q&A following the screening - we offer our gratitude to Andy Thomas, the crew at the Waterfront and the rest of the Belfast FF team.
Coming up in mid-April we have screenings at the CPH PIX festival in Copenhagen Denmark and the Imagine Festival of Fantastic Film in Amsterdam. And American audiences will be pleased to know that we've finally lined up the US Premiere at the one of the US's leading festivals, the Seattle International Film Festival where Whisperer will be screening on June 3 and 5. We hope those of you in the Pacific Northwest will join us. We hope to announce additional screenings soon. And come September, we'll be screening at the HP Lovecraft Film Festival in San Pedro, California.
Many translations of the film are now complete and the final translations then need to be matched up with timecoded subtitles that will match the actors performance. There are 904 subtitles in the movie. There's about 25 languages. There's a lot of work in managing subtitles, especially when we can't read Hungarian.
We pretty regularly get the question, "When can I get it on DVD?". We are in discussions still with a couple of possible distribution partners. Once we finalize a deal, we still have to complete the other contents that would need to go on the disc, then we have to master the disc and send if off for replication before it finally becomes available through our site or at a store near you. Believe us, we are working hard on getting it ready, but at this point, it's unlikely you'll be able to purchase your own personal copy before the fall. However, it's highly likely that you'll be able to get your own copy before the year is out.
What does that mean? It means the final audio has been completed, screeners have been made of the movie in its final form. It means tomorrow we'll be having a screening for the cast and crew. It mean's we're not reworking the content of the movie in a significant way. Now we're putting it on different media - we burned our first BluRay this week - and testing it on different audio and video systems. So far the results have been pleasing. The HD image holds up very well on BluRay, and the Dolby Surround Sound sounds great when you play a DVD or BluRay back in an environment with the right hardware.
This month the movie will premiere at the SFF-Rated Film Festival in Athens Greece (I leave for Athens Monday). The next screening after that will be in Belfast, Northern Ireland at the Belfast Film Festival on April 1st. In April we have screenings lined up at the Imagine Film Festival in Amsterdam and the CPH PIX festival in Copenhagen, Denmark. Yes, we'll be screening it here in the USA too, but as these festivals were the first ones to leap on it, they lined up the first screenings. Naturally, we're very excited to share the movie with an audience.
We'll turn our focus now towards finalizing a relationship with a distributor and working to get it into theatres, on the air, and of course on discs that you can play at home. We'll keep you posted about that process. Right now though, it's a good feeling to scroll down this blog to when the movie was just an idea, then a script, and then realize that tomorrow an audience gets to watch it.
We've talked here some about the process of mixing. Last night we met with our Production Audio Mixer, Erin Rettig, in a mixing room on the Fox studios lot here in LA. If you've ever seen pictures of this kind of work being done, the film is projected up on a large screen, and the mixer uses a board with 10,000 knobs on it to tell a computer what to do with each and every bit of sound in the movie. We're pleased to tell you that Whisperer has never sounded better than it did while being played through this fantasically high-end audio system.
We're making a couple of last minute adjustments and changes to the picture. One fun detail is that the camera we used on a few days of shooting had a dead pixel on the CCD. What that means is that each frame of the movie consists of exactly 2,073,600 pixels of information. And exactly one pixel in every frame shot on those days is dead. So we have to go back to every frame (and there's 23.97 frames in every second) and repair the dead pixel. This is why we are so glad there are powerful computers and great piecs of software to do this kind of thing.
Now that completion of the movie is nigh, we'll be back in touch with our team of translators to do some final adjustments to the translations to ensure they match the picture. Production of the DVD and BluRay is next on the agenda.
12 January 2011
At last - 2011 - the year The Whisperer in Darkness finally comes out. At the moment, all that really remains is audio work. Troy is revising some of the sound cues and adding in a few we never had in the first place. Erin has all of the audio tracks and is working away on the final production mix. When we get the last of the audio files, we'll whisk them over to him. He'll mix those down and then output the final version of the audio.
When can I see it?
Yes, that remains the big question. We submitted Whisperer to a few film festivals last fall and those are starting to come around. At the moment, TWID is slated to screen in March and April at SFF-Rated in Athens Greece, the Belfast Film Festival in Northern Ireland, the Imagine Film Festival in the Netherlands. There's a number of additional fests that we haven't heard back from, so we keep a watch on it day to day. We haven't yet scheduled a US premiere - which is not at all surprising as we don't yet have a final version of the movie - even the cast and crew haven't seen it yet. But we anticipate holding a screening for our gang in February. We have committed to screening it at the HP Lovecraft Film Festival. Historically, this festival has been held in Portland, Oregon. This year though, it's in San Pedro, California mid-September. As that's in the Los Angeles area, we're thinking we'll get as many of our team members involved as possible and make the event quite a Lovecraftian to-do!
As the movie is finally completed, we'll begin work on prepping the DVD and BluRay version of the film for release later in the year. As we learned with The Call of Cthulhu, making a DVD is quite a labor intensive process. We'll edit the behind-the-scenes footage, shoot some interviews, design menus and dive in on all the prep that goes into making a DVD. We don't know when it will become commercially available, but it's unlikely that would be before this summer. The good news is that it's equally unlikely that it will be later than this summer. We'll keep you posted.
We've just released a new t-shirt design based on one of the poster designs we're considering. As soon as we finalize that decision, Cat Staggs will dive in on the actual illustration for the movie poster. We'll keep you updated here when we have something to show you. Thanks for your support - we can't wait to share the final film with you.
2 December 2010
The glamours bits of filmmaking with lights and actors are well behind us now. At this point it our work is divided into two main categories: work to complete the movie itself and work on the movie's future.
In terms of the picture, we've been tidying up a few details - and we added one additional rotoscoped shot. We looked at the picture again and tried an alternative edit in two scenes which we were all happy with. It cut about a minute out of the film, but we think it's the better for the trim. Just before Thanksgiving we finally locked the picture's timing. That means we will not add any extra time in nor take any out. This is important as Troy is scoring the movie and it's a real headache for him when he writes a sequence of music to match the picture then we suddenly make the picture longer or shorter. Speaking of Troy, he's about 90% done with composition and we've been delighted with what he's done. We've engaged the services of Erin Rettig as our Re-Recording Mixer. He'll be blending all of the audio, setting the volumes of the many tracks of sound and then outputting it for 5.1 surround and stero mixes. His work should be done around the end of the year. And when he's done, the movie's done.
The other arm of the operation has been our plannig for how you'll see the film. We've been submitting it to film festivals worldwide and talking with distributors. For a little indie picture like ours, distribution is a challenge. We've got offers on the table and we're looking at them carefully to see who is the right partner to help us reach as broad an audience as we can through theatrical, broadcast, DVD/Blu-Ray and Video On Demand channels. It's unlikely you'll see it at your neighborhood multi-plex, but maybe it'll screen in some art houses, maybe it'll screen on television and it's an excellent bet that at some point this year you'll be able to get your own DVD right here at the HPLHS website. Right now Whisperer has been submitted to more than a dozen film festivals and we're waiting to find out where it will have its premiere.
We're also getting word out with a new poster design and a new t-shirt that we hope to be able to show you quite soon.
2 November 2010
Post. That's where we are. Much like the entry below, we are polishing little bits and pieces of the movie. We're adding chunks of music as Troy finishes them and sends them to us. He's forecasting completing the score in late November and that gives us then December to make final adjustments and to have the full professional audio mix of the movie done. Then we'll be ready to show it to someone. Once we get a final version of the film completed, we'll finally have a screening for the cast and crew - virtually no one from the production has seen the current version of the film.
We've submitted a cut of the movie to about half a dozen film festivals. We made a screener with a temporary score made mostly from music Troy composed for us on other projects. We send it off to them and then wait and hope for the best. We should start to hear back from the first of them in December.
As we've told you, we're hoping to get the broadest and best distribution deal we can for the movie. To that end, we'll be at the American Film Market in Santa Monica in early November, discussion distribution possibilities. So, no, we don't know when you'll be able to get a copy of it, but we're doing everything we can to ensure it's soon.
So why aren't we done, you ask? The new footage had to be captured and cut into the picture. We also have some very special special effects shots which are being done by some of our colleagues. They're not quite done with their work yet, and the movie wouldn't be complete without it. But as they finish up each shot, they send it to us and we cut it on. These effects shots are looking great and we'll be able to tell you more about them soon. So we're finishing off the last work we have on the visuals, doing a preliminary audio mix. When that's done, we'll test the movie on a few close friends, see what they have to say, make any last minute changes, and then burn a couple of DVD screeners.
We're under deadlines to send the first screeners of the film off to some film festivals in late September. The version of the movie we send them wont be in its final state, but hopefully it'll be in good enough shape to warrant the possible inclusion of Whisperer in these important film festivals. The version of the movie we'll send on these screeners won't have our final score (it's still in the process of being composed) and the audio won't be mixed. We may continue to polish the visuals this fall until they are just right. But the movie will be pretty darned done.
20 August 2010
We continue to move forward on all aspects of production. While Andrew and Fred and Jason continue to build miniatures in anticipation of the last round of shooting, Dave and Sean are concentrating on other kinds of visual effects and details, adding sound effects, compositing some miniatures into live-action plates, and basically hand-tweaking virtually every frame of the movie.
Round Mountain
At left you can see Fred Manchento's feet sticking out from underneath the miniature Round Mountain set. He's rigging some strategic lights beneath a portion of the set. Lighting miniatures is tricky, and sometimes we go to strange lengths to get them to look just right.... If you click on the picture you'll get a bigger view that shows a bit more of the mountain above Fred.
We've made a lot of progress on the Round Mountain miniature, which is taking over a lot of floor space here at the HPLHS. There are now several hundred handmade miniature trees planted on its verdant slopes, and about three or four hundred to go before we point the movie camera at it, which we'll do next weekend. The miniature is made of paper and foam and chickenwire and plywood and moss and about six kinds of glue. Here's hoping it all holds up in the blistering heat wave they're predicting here for next week....
5 July 2010 - See?
See, we told you we'd be better about web updates. At the moment, one of our priorities is to lock down the edit. Troy is trying to compose a score to match the picture, and if we add a few seconds here, take out a few seconds there, and move this scene over here, it makes his life a nightmare. So, we watched the movie last week, hoping to make a few final determinations about how some scenes will be cut. We're evaluating options, negotiating and filibustering, but we should have the picture's edit locked down within a week or so. We don't actually watch the movie in sequence very often - instead we're usually working on a scene on sequence at a time. Everyone took notes (including line producer, John Younger - welcome back, John), about the current edit and things that still need attention. There's plenty of those.
Our Oxymoron
Among the miniatures being built by Andrew and our modelers is the Round Mountain miniature. In one sense, it is the smallest miniature being built for the movie, at roughly 1:30 scale. But in terms of actual size, it's pretty damned big (roughly 12x16 feet). To keep you entertained and in the loop, we include a photo of it in development. The sticks in the foreground are supports for portions of the miniature that have not yet been built. And yes, this is an actual photo of the glamorous interior of the HPLHS Studios (tired, sweaty movie makers were whisked out of frame for this shot). If you study the full-sized photo, you may be able to spot: the model of the Alert from The Call of Cthulhu, a stand-in figure of Albert Wilmarth, the Forhan's toothpaste banner and other fun stuff from this and other HPLHS projects.
Barn Raising
There's many other miniatures, not the least of which is Andrew's barn. It is a scale replica of an actual barn at a property where we shot footage in southern New Hampshire. The outside of the barn had to be built to match footage of the existing property, but the inside of the barn was built to so that we could photograph it from within. What you see in the photo is the barn before it was finished, but it now has a nice roof and cupola, and on the inside there's ladders and scale hay bales.
Trial and Error
Yesterday we decided to try out a new camera and lens provided to us by the fine folks at Moviola (the Hollywood production equipment company from which we rent things like our camera, lenses, jibs, etc...). We were shooting some of our miniatures and the small form factor and excellent lenses of this new camera seemed like a perfect fit. But alas, our experiments yielded images which showed that our miniatures were going to work well, but this camera would not. Its image fidelity was not good enough, particularly when cut in with the existing footage from our beloved Sony F900. So, we'll toss this test footage, rent the Sony again, and re-shoot the miniatures. We knew this would be an experiment and we were glad to discover this solution was not the right one for us after only a few hours of shooting.
One of the interesting developments in making this movie is that we started running low on funds. Several aspects of production went horrifically over budget, but we were able to limp by for a while. But making it to the end of production was looking like it would be difficult without the infusion of more capital. To our tremendous delight and gratitude, Sandy Petersen decided to put up some capital to help us finish the picture. We were thrilled to get an investment of funds, but we were especially thrilled that they should come from a person of key import in the modern day Cthulhu Mythos and someone whose work proved to be a big inspiration to the HPLHS. For those of you who don't know, Sandy was the original author of Chaosium's role playing game The Call of Cthulhu some 25 years ago. It was through playing that most execellent game that we eventually found ourselves staging Cthulhu Lives! games which in turn gave birth to the HPLHS. So, if you see Sandy, thank him for his key role in helping to complete Whisperer.
20 April 2010 - Final Pickups
We thank all of you for the kind words you've had about the trailer. We're delighted to see so much enthusiasm from around the world for the project. Feel free to send the link around, share it with your friends, put it on Facebook or use it however you like.
At this point, we're prepping for shooting this weekend what should be the final scenes involving cast members. We have a few setups we weren't able to get to due to time constraints on our March filming session. So, we'll be doing one night of exterior pickup shots and one night of interior pickup shots. Once we have those, Wilmarth and Walter Brown can retire their costumes as their shooting will be done. No more makeup, no more wardrobe. This will be our last chance to make it rain copiously on Matt Foyer.
What else has been going on? Dave edited the footage we shot in March into the rough cut. We've started work on a few of the visual effects. Troy's started working on the score and we're cataloging all of the sound effects and foley work that will be needed, plus the few lines of dialogue that will need to be re-recorded for various reasons. Completion of the live action shooting will allow Andrew to move forward with construction of some of the miniatures that will be incorporated into the picture. As suggested in the trailer, we're gunning for having the film complete by October.
1 April 2010 - New Trailer
Let me start by saying: this is not an April Fool's Day prank. We really have a new trailer and it's just a coincidence we're releasing it today. We commend the lovely and talented David Robertson who edited this together and our composer Troy Sterling Nies whose music from a variety of HPLHS projects was cannibalized to make the trailer's score.
28 March 2010 - And...Action!
So we shot again this weekend. We wrangled some cast members, background players, crew, locations, gear, and vehicles and shot some of the scenes we still need coverage for. Friday was a fairly easy night of shooting elements for composite shots at the new HPLHS studio. Saturday was a little more involved, as we shot at night at an outdoor location in the Hollywood hills with several large vehicles and a total group of around 30 people. We had a good shoot and got some beautiful footage of key moments in the film. Our cast members continued to endure exterior rain shots and our background team were excellent sports about letting us dump water on them too. We were very pleased that the representative for Los Angeles County who was on set to supervise the shoot turned out to be a big Lovecraft fan and was really excited we were shooting Whisperer while on his watch.
It looks like we'll still have two more days of shooting - one night of exteriors and one day of interiors - which we'll try to knock off in late April. Once we get those, we'll be done with shooting the cast and will be working on visual effects, sound effects, mixing, editing and the musical score.
New Trailer
Yes, the new trailer is cut. We're putting a little shine on it, but expect we'll be releasing it in the very near future.
5 March 2010 - No, Seriously, What Are You People Doing?
It's taken us a while to get the new HPLHS world headquarters up and running and fully functional. But we've done that now and the HPLHS is better than ever. And we're driving forward with everyone's favorite mi-go movie. So, what's going on, you ask?
The backbone of the project is now the rough cut of the movie. It shows us what we've got, what we dont' have and what we need to work on. It shows us pretty clearly the things we need to do in order to get from where we are to completion of the movie. First and foremost, we have to shoot the scenes that have yet to be shot. There are live action sequences that we had to scrub when we were shooting last fall. We're now preparing to shoot the largest and most complex of those in late March. In fact, we're looking for a few good men (sorry, ladies) to join us as background players. If you'll be in Los Angeles in late March and would like to be involved, email us.
We promise from here on out we'll do a better job of keeping you posted with production news.
We are also getting ourselves ready for the next phase of principal photography. I know, we've said that before, but a lot of planning is involved to make sure we can work efficiently when we shoot.
Dave completed the rough cut, and we've had the chance to watch the entire movie start to finish. There's a few scenes which aren't there at all or don't have their special effects in them, but nevertheless, it's very pleasing to be able to sit down and actually watch the movie. We still have lots of work to do, but it's an exciting milestone in the process.
5 December 2009 - Cutting and Plotting and Moving
David Robertson, our Director of Photography and editor is still hard at it, taking more than 50 hours of footage and cutting it down to a 90 minute movie. As you might imagine, making the first rough edit of the film is a very time intensive process. It's where we start to discover how marvelous some of footage is and where we have significant challenges that are still ahead of us. Still, we're delighted with what we're seeing and hope you'll enjoy another still sneaked out of the picture (Martin Wately as Walter Brown).
Most of you have never visted the glamorour HPLHS World Headquarters. It's very near the famed Forest Lawn cemetery in South Glendale (a suburb of Los Angeles). We've been there ever since we first showed up to built the set of the Alert wheelhouse in our friend Nick's woodshop. Five years later, we've filled every available nook of space and Nick's ready to have the rest of his wood shop back. So, it looks like the HPLHS will be moving to a new World Headquarters building a couple of miles away (near where Glendale and Burbank meet for those of your who know the area). It's a cool old building and provides lots more space for the nefarious goings-on of the HPLHS.
We still haven't shot the final live action footage. We're continuing to meet and conspire with others on how to execute some key effects shots. There's really no point in us shooting additional footage until we've got our effects plan firmly in place. This week there were meetings with potential effects collaborators and the whole thing is moving forward. Albeit slowly. And, of course, this time of year the HPLHS is very busy shipping tentacles, Dark Adventure CDs and other weird stuff to holiday shoppers around the globe. We really appreciate the business you guys bring us as that's what keeps the whole operation afloat. We're hoping you all are enjoying a great solstice season.
The top still is from Wilmarth's first encounter with Akeley in Vermont. Depicted are Matt Foyer as Wilmarth and Barry Lynch as Akeley.
The second still is in Mr. Noyes' car as he gives Wilmarth a lift up to the Akeley place through the wild hills of Vermont. Daniel Kaemon is Mr. Noyes. This scene was shot on location in New England.
Third, Professor Ward tries to talk his collegue Wilmarth out of debating the existence of hill creatures in Vermont. The scene was shot at Mt. Holyoke College in Massachusetts. Matt Lagan plays Professor Nathaniel Ward.
Voices in My Head
This week we assembled the actors playing Wilmarth, Akeley, Noyes, B-67 and a Mi-Go at Jamnation, a recording facility in Venice, California. There we recorded the sections of dialogue which have no accompanying picture that goes with them. So, we recorded everyone and will sprinkle these bits of dialogue into the appropriate movments in the script.
The Final Shooting
We will still have a couple of additional days of filming. At the moment, we haven't set dates for those. We've playing with a couple of different ideas about how we may shoot some special effects. How we shoot those effects will impact how we shoot the remaining live-action sequences. Because of the costs involved in renting the necessary gear, we want to be sure that we can shoot everything we need to finish up live action in as short a time-frame as we can. We have learned that rushing generally creates far more problems than it solves.
In addition to shooting on location, we also have to record some voice overs. Those of you familiar with our Dark Adventure Radio Theatre programs might have read about our sessions at Jamnation in Venice, CA. We'll be returning to Jamnation with the cast members who need to lay down some voice-only recordings. Hopefully we'll get that lined up in the next week or so.
One Down...
The HPLHS Volunteer Translator Corps has been hard at work and we congratulate Wilmar Taal of the Netherlands for completing the first translation of the movie. We've picked up Korean and Arabic recently, so the reach of our tentacles continues to grow. We also thank our friend José Beltra-Escavy and his colleagues at the European Patent Office. Thanks to José cajoling his colleagues there, we've been able to add several additional languages.
Too Many Notes
Work is underway on the music. Troy Sterling Nies was on-set to handle production sound. Now he's back in North Dakota and starting his work in composing the score for the film. It's a large task, but Troy tells us it was very inspirational to be on the set while the scenes were being shot. Being there gave him a number of ideas to play with as he composes the music.
Feed the Machine
With about 50 hours of HD footage on hand, we found we needed to beef up our video capturing and editing system. So now, we've got about 4Tb of storage space and we've been working away at logging and capturing the shot footage. Logging it helps the editor identify and organize all the many pieces of footage we've shot (Oh, this is Scene 23c - Medium shot). Capturing is the actual transfer of the footage off of the HDCam video tape and onto a hard drive. The lovely and talented David Robertson is editing the picture in Final Cut Pro. Just 42 more hours of footage to capture.
24 October 2009 - Polyglot
Thanks for stepping up, translators! This week we've added Czech, Slovakian, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Turkish, Euskera and maybe Croatian. We really appreciate it. If you've volunteered to translate, we'll be sending you our Translator Agreement this week. Once we get that signed, we'll send over the script.
So, what's next? Well, we have three sequences of live action still to shoot. So, right now we're working out where, when and exactly how we'll shoot them. In the meantime we also have about 50 hours of HD video tape which needs to be digitized so we can start to edit the footage we've shot. Getting HD footage into the computer involves a high-end video capture card and renting a deck to hook to the computer, so just capturing the footage is an involved process. But not to worry, we have top men working on it. Who? Top men.
20 October 2009 - Studio Life
So, another chapter in the making of The Whisperer in Darkness is now complete. We have finished shooting in studio. Don't start bouncing up and down just yet though, we still have two sequences involving actors to shoot, plus plenty of miniatures, models and effects shots. We're not done by any stretch of the imagination. But we have surpassed another major milestone in finishing up our studio work.
Shooting in the studio proved every bit as challenging as shooting on location. We had plenty of noise issues (see below), but we also had the constant need to prep (design, build, paint, dress) every location in the studio, which meant wrangling plants, furniture, hay, rain (lots and lots of rain), animals, fog, actors and much more. Our stalwart crew was tough and resiliant and we somehow managed to work our way through our most challenging difficulities (see "Hiccups" below) and get the footage we needed. Hours were long, but no one cracked under the pressure.
We did have to shuffle our schedule some, we did run hideously overbudget to get things done in time, but we now find ourselves quite close to being done with principal photography. The screenplay is 94 pages long. Out of that, about six pages remain to be shot. So we are indeed getting there. That said, there really is no need to write us and ask when you can see the movie. We have lots to do and will continue to update you as we continue through the production process.
Rain, Rain, Go Away...
We felt bad for our star, Matt Foyer, as we sprayed water at him for a week in New England. None of us - particularly not Matt - quite realized how much water would be flying indoors though as we returned to the studio. We setup our rain making equipment and day after day, it rained on Professor Wilmarth. Some days we dumped other things on his head too, but mostly it was lots of cold water. We really appreciate how tough Matt was in putting up with all of our precipitation. We also applaud many of the other performers in the film who endured extensive man-made precipitation. We really need to find the guys to wrote this and dunk them in a tank of very cold water.
In Translation
For those of you who have kindly offered to translate Whisperer into your tongue, a translation script will be headed your way soon. There is quite a bit of dialect in the movie and we want you to have as much time as possible to work with it. We continue to look for more people who would be willing to translate. We realize it's a big job, but those who undertake it will be showered with praise for sharing this movie with speakers of their native language. At the moment we have: Bulgarian, Castilian, Catalan, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian and Swedish. C'mon you Croatian, Israeli, Korean, Japanese, Navaho, Icelandic, Hawaiian, Euskera or Aleut fluent Lovecraft fans, this is our moment of need... What about Irish? Greek? We know you're out there...
Our very first day of shooting in LA involved a group of background players. These stalwart volunteers came down to the set and met up with our lovely and talented cast members and we shot our first scenes in the studio. All was well, although a very vocal cricket decided to cast itself as an extra. Fortunately our background team seemed to have a knack for frightening it into silence as we shot our takes on the set.
We had an even bigger herd of background players join us for a shoot at Pasadena City College, where we booked a period-appropriate lecture hall. Another group of lovely volunteers donned their period attire and joined us for a fairly long scene in which they got to be an audience attending an event at Miskatonic. They did a super job and spurred our actors on to terrific performances that we hope you will enjoy.
Sound Off
After dealing with the challenges of recording sound on location in New England, we were rather looking forward to the relative ease of recording sound in our own sound stage. Apparently though, where we're shooting, the term sound stage is used to denote extra sound being added to our recording process. Between neighbors who sound like they're running some kind of blacksmith competition, a semi truck repair yard across the way and the fact that the studio sounds like it's on a flight path for the Burbank airport, our sound stage has been anything but quiet. Still, we slog onward through the noise to capture every nuance of sound for our first talkie.
In general, production has gone pretty smoothly for us. Naturally there have been a few minor incidents here and there, but generally, we've had nothing to complain about. Well, that was until we get back from New England. The plan was that our set crew would build out the numerous sets we'd be shooting on in the sound stage, including one particuarly complicated one which we would use for several days of filming. We returned to find that our very complicated set was about a third of the way done. It was over budget and our builders had to leave town. So, we sent them on their way, addressed the fundamental structural flaws in the plans made by our scenic architect and dispatched a new crew to make the place shootable. They've done a bang-up job for us and while we've had to reschedule the sequence of somethings, we're on target to shoot on the big set as intended. Unfortunately, a key prop for the show was also not completed on time. This week we find ourselves having to try and create an important and complicated prop at the last minute. We've rescheduled to buy as much time as we could, but in the end, some serious last-minute prop work will be required by the lovely and tireless (don't get me wrong here, they're tired) Art Dept. crew.
Live from Portland
This year we had to miss a favorite annual event: the HP Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, Oregon. We were shooting and could not go. However, we were able to participate in a call-in discussion held at the festival where people in the audience could ask us questions about the production while we were actually on set shooting the movie. We were glad to be involved in the festival and appreciated the enthusiasm of the Lovecraft community for Whisperer.
Hail Miskatonic
As foretold, we shot at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass. We thought the college would prove an excellent casting choice for Miskatonic and being there proved us right. We grabbed some great establishing shots of the campus and then shot a scene outside a ladies' dormitory, under the watchful eye of the dorm's residents and a drizzle of rain. We returned later in the week to shoot Miskatonic's main gates and an interior scene in one of the campus' beautifully appointed vintage classrooms.
Extra, Extra!
A couple of the New England shots required background players. We put out the call through various channels and were delighted to find terrific people who heeded our call. We shot with background players at Mount Holyoke College and at the Bellows Falls, VT train station. A group of talented and enthusiastic folks dressed up, turned up and played a great role in the film.
Field Work
Shooting in New England also involved plenty of work out in the field. And by that, we mean in the rivers, in the woods, and quite literally in the fields. Local folks told us plenty about the wet summer they'd had and how we should expect rain everywhere we went, but in the end we had to resort to making our own rain most of the time. In case any of you have forgotten, our crew can quickly point out that a barrel of water is very heavy. Many cast and crew members will also point out that the temperature of our our artificial rain water was unnaturally cold, especially if you've been drenched in it all night long. And after we're done, the rain rig has to be put away, the actors dried, the costumes packed up and a few scant hours later we have to pull up to the next location.
Back in Los Angeles
Most of the crew got back very late on Sunday. Our intrepid road warriors, Troy and Amanda, drove the FungiMobile back across the nation (an no, none of you appear to have seen it while it was on the road), logging over six thousand miles. We're now setup in Los Angeles, where most of us live, and filming began here today. We shot two indoor scenes today.
We already miss the verdant, Mi-Go infested hills of New England. But it's great to be working in a studio and not having to deal with many of the issues that come with shooting on the road. Three full weeks of shooting still to go...
Find the Fungi Contest
We thought you might want to share in Albert Wilmarth's experience of searching for the elusive Fungi from Yuggoth, so we're announcing our Find the Fungi contest. Somewhere out on the roads of America is the HPLHS' specially branded bright yellow Fungi-Mobile. If you photograph it or can accurately tell us when and where you saw it, we'll give you our very special Fungi Prize Pack: an autographed Whisperer in Darkness poster, a DVD of the movie, a Whisperer t-shirt and we'll invite you to the Los Angeles premiere of the movie. Click here to send us your sightings. NOTE: it is imperative that you do not impede the progress of the Fungi-Mobile. If it does not arrive in New England by the time the rest of us arrive, well, we don't even want to consider that possibility.
Final Preparations
The past week has been a flurry of activity at the HPLHS as anything we wanted to take to New England really needed to be on the truck this morning. All kinds of props and signage were finalized so they could be packed up. We are mostly shooting exterior footage in New England, with the exception of one scene that takes place in Wilmarth's office at Miskatonic. There seems to be some excitement on campus that this college has been cast as Miskatonic. When you see it on screen, we think you'll share in that excitement.
Late summer is a very hot time of year in Los Angeles. Locals in the know tell us this is not the case wtih early fall in New England, particularly this year. We hear it's chilly there at night. It may rain. Lucky for us, we'll be shooting at night. In the cold. And the rain. But our cast and crew are looking forward to the experience of shooting The Whisperer in Darkeness on location in Lovecraft Country. In some instances, we're shooting directly on the actual locations listed in the story. We'll try to keep you updated on the production experience.
Overall, we were delighted by how friendly and cooperative everyone we met was. We would come up to people and ask if we could film their house. Most people said, "Sure! Would you like to film our barn too?". This is a pleasant change from filming in Los Angeles where such requests are often met by a crusty look, thousands of dollars in location fees, and a demand for a multi-million dollar insurance policy. People were nice to us. We were glad to be there. We're renting to houses to accommodate our cast and crew, and both are situated on lovely properties brimming with rural New England scenery.
One of our key locations is Miskatonic University. We've found a lovely and cooperative New England college where we'll be filming. We think it's got the Miskatonic vibe and its period architecture will look great on-camera. Most of our other New England locations are outdoors, several of which are the actual locations Lovecraft describes in the story. While it's expensive for us to haul all our gear and crew back east, we think it's well worth it to be able to shoot in the legend haunted mountains of Vermont and among the ivy-clad walls of a prestigious New England college.
And while Sean and Dave were traipsing around New England, Andrew, Chris and others were toiling away 100+ degree heat as fires raged not far from our studio. The prop list is daunting for Whisperer and Chris and Andrew continue to work like maniacs to get everything done before the gear truck departs for New England in the middle of September. We've commissioned certain props from several specialists around the globe, and all are hard at work to ensure we make the deadline.
The cast is now fully in place and our Costume Designer, Jessica Dalager, is working on getting everyone fitted. Our makeup artist, Glenn Alfonso, is studying everyone's faces and cutting hair as needed. Andrew Hildner is drafting construction drawings for the Akeley house set - the most complicated of the sets which will be built for the production. Line Producer, John Younger, is working on logistics for vehicles and rented equipment, all while relocating his home from Tennessee to Los Angeles. Sound man, Troy Sterling Nies, is preparing to drive from North Dakota to LA, where he will get out of his car and get into our gear truck and drive it to New England with Production Assistant Amanda Deibert.
We're still looking for Background Players both in New England and Los Angeles. If you'd like to be in the movie, this is your last chance. Email us at email@example.com and we'll give you the dates in question. We also continue to look for translators.
20 August 2009 - Happy Birthday, Howard
What better way to celebrate the old gentleman's birthday than by toiling to bring one of his stories to the silver screen? As we slave away on Whisperer the whole team at the HPLHS shares the goal of making Whisperer a film that even Howard would enjoy.
Casting the Cast Cast Member
The movie is now cast. The core cast of Whisperer features 19 actors. In the end, well over 5,000 actors submitted for roles. We sifted through all the submissions and called in roughly 100 actors to meet us in person and read from the script. Out of that group of actors, we chose the most experienced and those best suited to the roles. HPLHS fans may recognize a few faces, though there's plenty of new actors on board for the production. We thank everyone who submitted - we wish we could have hired you all. We're still signing on a few Background Players for shots in both New England and LA.
Veteran film, TV and stage actor Barry Lynch will be playing the role of Henry Akeley. Barry's no stranger to HPLHS projects, having performed in The Call of Cthulhu and several episodes of Dark Adventure Radio Theatre. Special effects in the movie required that we make a life cast of Barry's head. Our special effects makeup artist, Dave Snyder, did a full cast of his head and teeth. Click here to see a video of the lifecast being made. (iPod version here) Dave is a highly experienced professional makeup artist whose work includes (among other things) many of the corpses from HBO's Six Feet Under. From the life cast, Dave then makes a separate positive version of Barry's face which he then sculpts. After he sculpts it... well, we wont tell you exactly what we're up to, but we'll have a version of Henry Akeley that'll look really great and can do things that even Barry Lynch cannot do.
More Art and Props, or It Takes Brains
And while the makeup team is toiling away, other teams are hard at work too. We have a scenic designer drawing up the floorplans for the sets. We have our costume designer figuring out what all these people will wear. We have our in-house prop team making all kinds of weird stuff. We have talented friends near and far contributing additional props and artwork to help get everything ready. Leman and Lackey are toiling around the clock, inventing new ways to make things that mankind should not make. The things they are making or so secret, we dare not depict them here. At this point, there are nearly 50 people working on various aspects of the film.
Road Trip
Next week, Branney and Robertson hit the road and return to New England for a final visit to all of our locations. We'll figure out camera placements, logistics, where to hide all the mi-go - that sort of thing. We'll ensure that everything is in place so that when we show up in September with cast and crew we'll have a pretty good idea of what we'll be in for.
Climb Aboard
We can still use translators (see below) and Background Players in Los Angeles and New England. If you'd like to volunteer to be a part of this weird enterprise, shoot an email to email@example.com.
3 August 2009 - Art Department and Casting Calls
Pre-production is boldly striding forward. We've hired our second member of the production team. Chris Lackey (whom those of you who have seen the Special Features on the Call of Cthulhu DVD may remember as the guy who fell through the non-euclidean angle into the pit with the cougar) has joined our team once again. He's working with our own Andrew Leman on the very long list of strange and complicated items which need to be created for the production. There's brain cylinders, the black stone of the Mi-Go and things we dare not even tell you about, and our Art Department is hard at work trying to ensure they're all made in time for the cameras to start rolling. We've pulled in extra assistance for a few special items from craftsmen in various corners of the world to help us out with some specialty items. The things they are making look great and it's nice to have the HPLHS studio once again littered with alien technologies and body parts. Well, we often have that kind of stuff around our studio, but there's even more of it now.
We've continued to flesh out the production team. David Robertson, our Director of Photography for The Call of Cthulhu is back and will be providing his keen eye for shooting in black and white to Whisperer. We'll be shooting in HiDef on the Sony F900 camera. It's the same camera we used for shooting the Whisperer teaser. The most recent Star Wars films were shot on the same camera. We've also managed to talk Troy Sterling Nies into joining the Whisperer team. He'll be on-set capturing production sound and then he'll switch to composer mode, creating another lush period symphonic score. We're busy wrangling many more members to join our crew.
We have published our casting notice and are actively engage in assembling a cast of actors for Whisperer. We know there are a great many of you who would like to be in this movie. We were fortunate with Call of Cthulhu that we were able to hire professional actors and with this one, we are once again only casting it with professionals who have significant experience. In the first 12 hours that our casting notice was out, we received well over 4,000 submissions from actors wanting to be in this movie. If you are an actor, you can find the details of what we're looking for in the major actors' trade sites. If you don't have a lot of experience, we're still happy to try and include you as an extra. We need extras for scenes being shot in both New England and Los Angeles. If you can get yourself there, feel free to contact us at email@example.com and we'll do our best to see if we can get you on screen.
Beyond the casting, we now have a pretty firm production calendar. We'll start shooting in New England September 22nd. We'll be there a little less than a week and then we return to Los Angeles and shoot through October 17. At that point, we'll be all done with actors and full-sized sets. We'll move on to work with our Miniatures Unit and will film miniature and stop motion sequences through the fall. We'll start editing the movie at this point too, and hopefully sometime around the end of the year we'll have a rough cut of the movie. Then we move into adding music, some special effects and putting polish on it. If all goes well, we'll have Whisperer done in early 2010.
17 July 2009 - Lawyers, Guns and Money
So, it's getting serious now. The lawyers are involved. And the bankers. We went and got ourselves a Line Producer. And several boxes of guns.
Making a movie is complicated, and for every cool thing you see onscreen, somewhere there is paperwork that describes it, secures permission to film it, releases it, etc... As we move closer and closer to principal photography, we have are dealing with more and more pieces of paper. We had to drag our lawyer into it all to make sure that we're doing everything right: protecting ourselves and the film from any legal issues which can be avoided.
In order to keep the process of getting ready under control, we hired John Younger, a line producer. Basically his job is to really study the script and how we're planning to shoot the movie. He then figures out everything we'll need in order to do that, and from there he figures out a schedule. Once there's a schedule, we start figuring out how much everything will cost. Once we know what it will cost, then we start securing, making, fabricating, building, painting, borrowing, etc... the 10,000 things we will need to make Whisperer. It's John's job to keep us in line and let us know when we're spending too much time or money. He says, "No, you can't have Cthulhu leaping out of the sea to take down the zeppelin". He knows the zeppelin is borrowed from the National Museum of Lithuania and must be returned in pristine shape for us to get our deposit back.
Now that the legal and financial aspects are coming into focus, we're about to hire on some of the rest of the crew. Those of you who have seen the Call of Cthulhu special features may recognize some faces. And there's plenty of new faces too. Our quest for props continues to grow and we're making friends with lots of people who sell items from the 1930s on eBay. So boxes filled with strange things regularly show up at HPLHS World Headquarters these days.
Speaking in Tongues
In terms of languages, we're still looking for more translators. We have volunteers for the following languages, but if you know something that's not on the list and you're willing to do a lot of work to render a feature film screenplay into your language, by all means let us know. We've got: Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalán, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Castilian Spanish, Swedish, and Welsh. For those of you who have signed up, we thank you. Get in on the action at: email@example.com
25 June 2009
We're still working away like crazy on pre-production issues. In addition to practical matters such as locations and brain cylinders, there's also a number of legal and financial issues that have to be setup. We're having production meetings, interviewing costumers, buying props on eBay. There's a lot of things keeping us busy. We thank the many of you who have volunteered to help us. Our Volunteer Translator Corps has grown nicely, though we're still looking for more language. Castillian Spanish is still up for grabs, as are Dutch, Irish, Turkish and any language that starts with the letter C. To get in on translating or to offer other services, send an email to email@example.com
Easter Island
But all work and no play makes the HPLHS guys dull boys, and I had the good fortune to get some travel/adventure time in this month. Together with HPLHS illustrator and long-time friend Darrell Tutchton, I went to Easter Island (also known as Isla Pascua or Rapa Nui). Lovecraft said, "searchers after horror haunt strange far places...", and there's hardly anywhere farther nor stranger on the planet. The island is located in a remote region of the South Pacific, roughly 2,500 miles west of Santiago, Chile. In addition to the moai (the giant stone heads and bodies), this tiny island features nearly 20,000 archeological sites. Due to it's utter isolation, the culture of the ancient Rapa Nui people is something quite unique in human history. It's still a six hour flight from Chile to get there, but for those making the trip, it's well worth the effort.
We spent a couple days out hiking among the ruins, making friends with stray dogs and the wild horses that roam the island. In addition to the many wonderfully mysterious and awe-inspiring sites above ground, we took gear to explore some of the hundreds of caves that are on the island. In searching for the entrance to one well-known cave, we happened upon a number of other caves and ended up exploring those. The experience was like something out of a Call of Cthulhu roleplaying adventure or an Indiana Jones film: standing among piles of lava rock littered with countless animal bones, breaking off leaves from a banana tree to clear away the spider webs, and descending into caverns once used by and ancient islanders but clearly not visited in a long, long time since. And in crawling further and further underground we eventually found ourselves a deep, nearly airless chamber where someone long ago had set something special up on a ledge above the wet floor of the cave. Looking closer, we realized the odd object had the unique curvature and suture marks of a human cranium - one that had been put there ages ago. Deeper in the same chamber, we happened on another one set on a ledge. Were these the remains of ancestors or enemies? We did not know, but thrilled at exploring one of the few places on earth so remote, that a couple of guys with some helmets and flashlights could descend into a dark, sepulchral world touched with a unique chapter of human history.
I have wanted to visit Easter Island since I was a kid. I've been fortunate in my life to be able to travel to a great many places and see may fascinating wonders that remain from earlier civilizations. But Easter Island really is an incredible place and dramatically exceeded my expectations. The sad history of the island is terrible parable of sorts as the archeological record documents the rise and violent fall of this impossibly isolated civilization. The story of Rapa Nui is a cautionary tale of environmental wrecklessness, cultural upheaval, warfare and social collapse. But from the wreckage of the ancient islanders, modern Easter Island has bounced back as an amazing destination for those who would haunt strange far places and whet their appetite for adventure. - SB
"a kind of apologetic hacking or whispering sound drew my attention..."
1 June 2009
Where's the damned movie?
We know a great many people have been eagerly looking forward to the release of our next film since we debuted the trailer in October of 2007. You've clamored for the movie and for information about when it will be released. We've told you, "We're working on it". So now, at last, we're ready to tell you the strange and terrible tale of what's been going on with our movie of The Whisperer in Darkness.
For starters, it's not really that strange nor terrible. Shortly after we finished The Call of Cthulhu in late 2005, we settled on the notion of adapting HPL's "The Whisperer in Darkness" and shooting it as a feature length film, shot in the style of the early 1930s. This story -- with its strange whisperings and buzzings -- demanded sound, so we planned to shoot it as a talkie. But it would still be shot in Mythoscope and would endeavor to capture the visual tone of the early Universal Pictures horror films like Dracula and Frankenstein. The plan was in place, all we needed was a script.
But I've Seen the Trailer
So, one of us dove in on writing an adaptation, fleshing out Lovecraft's story, tweaking its structure and reshaping it into something that would be satisfying as a movie. In the meantime, the HPL Film Festival was approaching (this is back in 2007). Early that year, we promised our pal, Andrew Migliore -- the creator of the festival, that we'd have something for him to show. We knew the scene where Wilmarth listens to the recording of the creatures would be in the movie, so it seemed like a good place to start filming a teaser. We gathered our friends Matt Foyer (The Man in The Call of Cthulhu) and David Robertson (our Cinematographer for The Call of Cthulhu) and a few other helpful friends and we shot a teaser for the movie. It came out pretty good, so we gave it to Andrew to show at the festival and we put it online. We thought it would tide people over as we finished up the shooting script and got ready for production of the actual movie.
Words, Words, Words
If you've never written a feature-length screenplay, it's an arduous process, and it took the better part of a year to get the first draft completed. So the guy who wrote the screenplay gave it to the other guy to read, and he hated it. He didn't want to shoot the script. He decided what he needed to do was to write his own adaptation. So he took the better part of another year and wrote the script the way he wanted it to be. Then he gave his script to the first guy. The first guy didn't like the second script (see, we don't always agree on everything) and knew it wasn't the movie he wanted to make. So, the two fellows then sat down together to hash out a third version of the movie which was negotiated, reworked and jointly beaten into submission. And after a few months of this, and more than 20 full drafts, in April of this year HPLHS Executive Screenwriting Committee had a script they were both happy with. They tested it out with a group of actors and fellow filmmakers, made a couple of last minute changes, and in late April the shooting script was finalized.
A screenplay is the blueprint for a movie, and once it was done, we knew exactly what would be needed in terms of locations, actors, props, special effects, etc... Things needed to be made, found, acquired, borrowed, designed, and rented. And that's what we're doing now. We've got 58 scenes being shot at 14 different physical locations, some in Los Angeles, some in New England. We're working on the designs of Wilmarth's costumes, Akeley's house, and Mi-Go's anatomy. We're lining up our crew, period vehicles, rain machines, and our hellishly bizarre list of props. Friends and artists around the world are working on the movie even now. We're on track to start actually shooting footage at the end of summer. By the end of September, all work with actors should be done and we'll move onto special effects and editing. We're not sure when the movie will be done, but hopefully sometime in this winter.
We haven't told people much about what we're doing. We needed to hash out our internal differences on the story and come up with something that everyone at the HPLHS liked and stood behind. Now that we've got that, we're plunging forward with our typical reckless aplomb. We're still keeping lots of secrets from you as we're hoping to surprise you with some elements of the film. TWiD is a more liberal adaptation of the original story than The Call of Cthulhu was. We needed to make the story longer to make it suitable for a film, and let's face it, unless there's some adaptation, "The Whisperer in Darkness" would largely be a movie about a college professor reading his mail. So, we have some surprises in store for you, but we hope you'll find them in keeping with the source material and our previous Lovecraft adaptations.
Get Involved
Yes, now it's the time you can get involved. Over the past couple of years many of you have written to us, wanting to be an extra, play a role, or just get in on the fun of making this movie. We didn't have any specifics of time or place then, so we said "We'll let you know". Well, we're letting you know now. We would like to involve as many of our friends, fans or HPL enthusiasts as we can. Be forewarned: if you're not in or around Los Angeles or Southern Vermont, your chances of getting involved will be limited due to the logistics of this production. But, if you want to volunteer your services, let us know what you'd like to do, what you can do, and where you are. Send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com and we'll see if we can work you into our grand scheme. Please understand, we may not be able to accommodate everyone, particularly as actors. The actors we hire are professionals, and if you're not highly trained and experienced, we may not have a role for you. But there's lots to do and if you want to get in on it, please do let us know.
As with The Call of Cthulhu, we're hoping to offer Whisperer in as many languages as we can wrangle. If you would like to join our Volunteer Translator Corps, let us know. It's a pretty big job, as the screenplay is nearly 100 pages long, but if you've got the inclination and the language skills to render a Lovecraft movie into your language, please let us know and we'll set you to work. No language is too obscure, though we'll warn you now we have no interest in seeing the movie translated into Klingon.
We have been greatly inspired by the enthusiasm so many have shown for this project. We believe we have an exciting telling of The Whisperer in Darkness and are eager to make the movie and share it with the world.
Your friends at the HPLHS,
Sean & Andrew, June 2009


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BELLWOOD - Bellwood-Antis running back Casey Gray wasn't feeling too well prior to the Blue Devils' Inter-County Conference Gold Division game against Everett at Memorial Stadium on Friday.
Following the game, however, Gray was all smiles.
Scoring four touchdowns, rushing for 163 yards and picking up a 41-14 victory tends to do that.
"Our line came out and made the holes for me," Gray said. "I'm feeling great. Being 6-0, things couldn't be any better."
Gray was surely the best player on the field Friday, picking up TD runs of 2, 3, 4 and 65 yards.
"Coming into the game, in fact all week, [Gray] was a little ginger," Bellwood-Antis coach John Hayes said. "But I wish I looked that good when I felt bad. He's pretty good when he gets in open spaces, and he had an extra jet tonight that was nice to watch."
Hayes was referring to Gray's 65-yard touchdown run on the first play of second half, during which several Everett players seemed to be just a step behind Gray but never caught him.
"That was a perfect way to start the second half," Gray said. "I thought for sure they were going to get me, but I kicked it up a notch and was able to get away."
Gray's long run gave Bellwood a 28-0 advantage, which it held into the fourth quarter.
It was in that quarter that Gray finished his night with a 3-yard score to put the Blue Devils up by 34.
Everett scored a pair of late touchdowns on passes by Spencer McInroy. The first was a 5-yarder to Kyle Sheaffer, and the second, with 32 seconds remaining, was a 21-yard strike to Bradley Rhoat. Rhoat also finished as the Warriors' leading rusher with 62 yards on nine carries.
The Warriors matched Bellwood with 15 first downs in the game but were hurt by bad field position and the inability to finish drives.
"I just don't think we were in sync," Everett coach Mark Kirk said. "We had quite a few penalties [five for 59 yards] and those penalties kill drives. We had a fumble, an interception and some of those things are mental errors. We just weren't in sync from the get-go."
It didn't take long for the Warriors to fall behind.
Everett picked up one first down before punting on its first possession, and Bellwood ran five consecutive running plays to cap a 73-yard drive.
On its second possession, the Blue Devils ran six times on a seven-play, 44-yard drive.
"We had a tough time running up the middle, because they have some big kids in the middle," Hayes said. "There's a lot of mass in there, but we were able to get started outside, and our kids made some good plays."
Tyler Campbell and Kyler Lardieri each rushed for Bellwood touchdowns.
Everett dropped to 2-4.
"We're trying to become a better football team, but we just didn't play very well tonight," Kirk said. "The kids said this hurts a lot. Next week is a playoff-type situation for us. We need to get that one next week."
Everett0 0 0 14 - 14
Bellwood-Antis13 8 7 13 - 41
First quarter
BA-Gray 2 run (Campbell kick), 8:39.
BA-Campbell 1 run (run failed), 3:30.
Second quarter
BA-Gray 4 run (S. Worthing pass from DeGennaro), 0:23.
Third quarter
BA-Gray 65 run (Campbell kick), 11:48.
Fourth quarter
BA-Gray 3 run (pass failed), 10:17.
E-Sheaffer 5 pass from McInroy (Rhoat run), 2:29.
BA-Larderi 10 run (Creppage kick), 1:56.
E-Rhoat 21 pass from McInroy (pass failed), 0:32.
RUSHING: Everett-Rhoat 9-62, Jays 8-53, McInroy 11-25, Droz 3-8, Karns 1-13, Mearkle 2-6, Sheaffer 2-3, Ritchey 1-8, TEAM 1-(-13). Bellwood-Antis-Gray 17-163, DeGennaro 6-38, S. Worthing 3-12, Campbell 4-12, T. Snyder 1-9, Stapleton 4-7, Lardieri 2-7, O. Worthing 1-6, TEAM 1-(-1).
PASSING: Everett-McInroy 10-19-1-132. Bellwood-Antis-S. Worthing 4-9-1-63, Burch 1-1-0-40, Gray 1-1-0-29, O. Worthing 1-1-0-8.
RECEIVING: Everett-Rhoat 4-46, Jays 2-30, Ritchey 2-9, Sheaffer 1-5, Donelson 1-42. Bellwood-Antis-Gray 2-17, Larderi 1-40, T. Snyder 1-27, C. Worthing 1-29, Campbell 1-18, Beech 1-8.
INTERCEPTIONS: Everett-Mearkle. Bellwood-Antis-DeGennaro.
First downs1515
Passing (comp.-att.-int.)10-19-17-12-1
Yards passing132140
Total yards297393


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Speaking from Rikers Island, where he is currently jailed on felony drug possession charges, Robert Vineberg offered condolences to Hoffman's family, but said that he's been made a "scapegoat" in the case as police seek answers after Hoffman's Feb. 2 death, the New York Post reports.
"He was my friend," said Vineberg, a jazz saxophonist and composer who has worked with Madonna, Wyclef Jean and the late Amy Winehouse. "I could have saved him. If I knew he was in town, I would've said 'Hey, let's make an AA meeting.' If I was with him, it wouldn't have happened. Not under my guard."
"He left me a voicemail in December saying, 'I'm clean,' " Vineberg added. "We'd text back and forth, 'Oh, I got one day on you!' 'No I've got one day on you.' "
Police say Hoffman's number was found on Vineberg's cell phone. Following a raid on Vineberg's Moss Street apartment, an informant told cops he'd witnessed Hoffman, 46, obtaining heroin there.
But Vineberg maintains that he and Hoffman had more in common than drug addiction.
"When we got together, we talked about books. And art. He was a normal guy. You wouldn't know he was an Oscar winner," he says. "He loved his kids. I offer my condolences to his family."


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AHL announces suspension
March 13, 2014
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League today announced that Oklahoma City Barons center Travis Ewanyk has been suspended for three (3) games as a consequence of his actions in a game vs. San Antonio on Mar. 11.
Ewanyk was suspended under the provisions of AHL Rule 28.1 (supplementary discipline) after leaving the players' bench on a legal line change for the purpose of starting an altercation.
Ewanyk will miss Oklahoma City's games Friday (Mar. 14) and Saturday (Mar. 15) vs. Grand Rapids, and Mar. 21 at Texas.


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Ghost Hunter's Live! will stop at the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts on October 23 at 7:30 p.m., featuring Jason hawes and Steve Gonsalves!
Since its 2004 Syfy Channel premiere, Ghost Hunters has become television's #1 paranormal reality series. The show is now in its ninth season and is aired in more than 170 countries. Leader of The Atlantic Paranormal Society-Jason Hawes with Tech Manager -Steve Gonsalves, will now bring their experiences with the paranormal and understanding of unexplained disturbances to live audiences in their theater presentation. Hear them talk about their scariest experiences, see unreleased footage from the show, and ask them questions about themselves or perhaps a ghostly experience of your own!
As members of The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS), both Jason and Steve have made it their life's mission to help anyone with questions pertaining to paranormal phenomena and ghost hunting. TAPS is a group of fairly ordinary people— office managers, factory workers, teachers and even psychic-hotline gurus— moonlighting to understand seemingly unexplainable disturbances.
Note: There are a limited nuber of VIP seats available for $60. They include a premium seat and a pre-show Meet-&-Greet with Jason and Steve.


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Monday, January 14, 2013
Lindsey Marino, an assistant principal at Westview Primary School, has been named the 2013 Elementary Assistant Principal of the Year by the South Carolina Association of School Administrators.
Marino was selected from a field of elementary school administrator candidates by a veteran panel of judges. The other finalist for the award was Cleve (Shawn) Suber from Lake Carolina Elementary School in Columbias Richland District Two.
We are very pleased that Lindsey Marino has been named as the SCASA Elementary Assistant Principal of the Year, said Molly Spearman, executive director of the South Carolina Association of School Administrators. She is an exceptional ambassador for education in our state.
Westview Primary School Principal Lucretia Carter praised Marino.
Dr. Marino is not afraid of hard work and doesnt ask of others what she isnt willing to do herself, Carter said. She understands that a true leader models what is to be expected.
Superintendent of Berkeley County School Superintendent Rodney Thompson said that Marino shows her passion for the students at Westview Primary every day in every aspect of her job. She represents everything a South Carolina educator should be.
The award was presented on Monday in a surprise announcement at Westview Primary School.
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High-speed train induced vibrations
Boos, Daniela
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Publication type: Diplomityö
Issue date: 2003-04-09
University: Tampereen teknillinen yliopisto
Faculty: Rakennustekniikan osasto
Department: Rakennetekniikan laitos, pohja- ja maarakenteet
Nowadays trains operating at high speeds can cause strong vibrations especially if they cross soft soils. These oscillations influence the track on which the train is running and can impair its structure. Besides that vibrations propagate to the environment where they may have detrimental affects. The aim of this study is to introduce the characteristics of these high-speed trains induced vibrations and possibilities to lower them. The first part of the thesis illustrates the generation and propagation of vibrations caused by high-speed trains. Primarily the physical nature of dynamic behaviour is explained. Dynamic load characteristics are exposed to clarify the effects a passing train has on the underlying track and subgrade. Sources of dynamic excitation induced by high-speed trains are specified and it is shown are specified and it is shown that the generation is mainly dependent on train and track characteristics as well as on features of the underlying and adjacent ground. Afterwards the propagation of vibrations is considered and main characteristics of seismic waves such as Compressive-, Shear- and Rayleigh-waves are shown. Further their propagation properties and attenuation features due to geometrical damping are depicted and it is realised that Rayleigh- waves are the dominant among the seismic waves regarding the effects on tracks and the environment. Additionally amplification of wave amplitudes evoked by critical speeds and its consequences are regarded and influence of different track structures as well as several soil-types on vibrations is described. The effects of vibrations on several receivers are discussed in the second part. The influence on the environment is one of the most important consequences of propagating waves. Concerned are mainly building structures and sensitive equipment that can be damaged by vibrations as well as human beings who might be annoyed by vibrating buildings. Another effect vibrations can have is damaging the railway structure itself what can have detrimental impact on the driving safety and maintenance costs. Further diverse vibration prediction methods are viewed, which should be undertaken in case of improving existing lines or increasing train speeds. Also if new railway-lines or buildings along tracks are planned vibration prediction must be attempted. The work gives an overview on empirical methods based on experiences gained in recent years. Besides those, field measurements including methods to determine shear wave velocities, vibration amplitudes and -velocities are described as well as laboratory test and computational models. Thereafter actually existing regulations and standards concerning vibrations are described and valued. The study is mainly focused on Internal Standards as well as national regulations and standards of Scandinavian countries and discusses in which topics there is still a lack of rules. Lastly vibration control measures are considered. Here measures executed at different locations are described. The study comprises measures undertaken at the vibration sources, i.e. at vehicles, track structures and -foundations, at the propagation path, such as ground improvements and vibration isolation, and measures at vibration receivers that means at building and their foundations. /Kir10
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