Without Dark Shadows, There Is No Ragged Isle

Random Image of the Day

The images that Vicki and Paul are looking at in the library are a giant part of the mystery of Ragged Isle. Their dangerous investigation continues in season two.

Elevation

Okay. Progress. The scripts for Season Three have been sent out. Excellent.

I spent most of this very hot day working on my pre-production grids, of which I have many. They are nearing completion and that is a wonderful thing. Some more tweaking tomorrow and they will begin to serve their organizational purpose.

The multi -talented April Joy Purinton, who played Rachel Moody is Season One, will be helping out with the pre-production and production of Ragged Isle this year. I am very excited to have some much needed help with all the AD stuff. Her official title is 2nd AD but I call her a lifesaver.

Just as an aside: At last count there will be 40 actors and 18 locations involved with this project. This will be more of a challenge than last year but we are up for it... I think.

The picture is simply pure inspiration.

Indie Intertube

The ladies of Indie Intertube have been so wonderful and supportive of Ragged Isle. They rocked the shirts and showed a clip on their show tonight.

If you would like hear past reviews of Ragged Isle on Indie Intertube visit our Press Page: http://www.raggedisle.com/press.html.

Whew!

I just turned in final drafts for "Ragged Isle" season two and season three, completing the story and the series. The writing is done, finally. Oh, there will probably be a tweak or two over the next few weeks, but we're pretty well locked down.

These episodes have gone through a significant revision process since we began. The first draft of the first season-two episode was completed in mid-February 2010, and since then, there have been dozens and dozens of drafts of all the episodes in season two, which eventually expanded and split into season two and season three.

While the spine of the story (and the ending) have remained constant throughout the process, adhering the vision cooked up by the original "hive mind" writers group -- Barry Dodd, Karen Dodd, Rick Dalton, Jacob Lear, and myself -- there have been enormous changes to individual episodes, scenes, characters, motivations, and plot reveals. I am so excited to share it all with you, but there is so much work to be done before that happens. Like for instance, all the shooting, scoring, and editing. You know, stuff like that.

It's exciting and strange to be done with this part of the process, after fiddling around with the writing for a year and a half. Now I'm now looking ahead to the acting, as I play a new character to be introduced next season. Excuse me while I throw up out of nervousness.

Stick around. We have lots of surprises in store. We'll see you on the island!

For Adam

Location scouting begins again

Karen and I have officially begun searching for new locations for Ragged Isle today! I have to admit this is one of my favorite parts of doing this series. Exploring this beautiful state is an adventure in itself and we are so lucky to live in such a picturesque part of the world. This morning we headed down to Kittery which is at the very edge of our state and New Hampshire to check out Fort Foster as a possible spot to represent the yet unseen "off limits" end of our island. As with all spots like this it all depends on the kindness of the folks that run the place but we'll do our best to be charming as we believe this could very well be perfect!