I was just looking at PanzerCorps.com website report today on August 14th was it's one year anniversary and there has been some serious growth! In 2006 the website had 4,728 requests, in 2007 we have had 268,530 requests!!!!! (second half of 2006 compared to first half of 2007) Heck yeah, hopefully in 2008 we can blow that number out the water.

In other news i have several scenes edited, hopefully on this three day weekend i can cut a few more together. I'm finding it takes much longer to do this than commercials or even long format spot. I see that as a good thing.

FAQ-added today. More FAQs to come.

Adam Valuckas

This day, this time is when the editing starts. I have digitized the nine hours of footage and within one minute of NOW i'm going to make my first cut into the film. Here we go!!!

Mr Lee Dingman snagged us half a dozen rolls of concertina wire from our buddies the US Army. Concertina wire is large evil rolls of metal, teeth, jagged edges and pain just waiting to happen; well today it left our life forever to be returned. Least my cuts and scraps will remind me why you should never store anything like that in your apartment.

Poor bastard Matt Conlon laid in the stuff for two days while we filmed the last scene, and Lee did "body breeches" (running on Matt's chest while laying on the wire) over and over again. Big thank you to Lee and Matt.

Farewell Concertina Wire. I will not miss you.

Photos and videos added, more to come semi-soon. For the video portion we used a Flip Video camera; its a simple USB camera that stores up to one hour of video on an internal hard drive. Everyone seemed to ask "what is that..... I want one!". Plus its cheap! Okay, go look at the media.

Adam

After the best night's sleep i woke up and shaved which felt like a privilege not a chore. My body is still covered in metallic silver spray paint after a spray can exploded in a trash fire (apparently perfectly legal when your in the middle of no where) after we wrapped. Yeah, molten paint does char your skin. But I feel rejuvenated.

I can't wait to start digitizing the footage and trashing/selling the props i've been collecting for the last year. My life has been wrapped around getting this or that and now it is all on little tapes ready to be edited. I'm very excited!

Adam

Never have i been so dirty, so stinky, so tired and yet so happy. The cast and crew did their best to make Panzer Corps as best as it could be, from constantly reconstructing tank traps to keeping bodies on fire... really. Our shoot was cut down to four days due to rain so we had to double time it to catch up. Honestly I hope this all makes sense, I'm very very tired. I thank you guys once again for all your hard work.

Sincerely
Adam Valuckas (the Director)

"annnnnnnnnnnnd........." ................"Cut"

 So Adam has conned me into a blog in which I can update you the viewers on the behind the scenes of his soon-to-be epic film Panzer Corps. For the better part of a year Adam has kicked around the idea for making a war film that would make Saving Private Ryan look like a Power Ranger sequel. Only after a short time of research did he find direction with other historic and fictional films paving the way. That's where I came into the picture; I worked on a few films with Adam and told him I was crazy enough to go down this road in hopes to blow you the viewers away. We began slowly building stunt guns for explosions and then getting our hands on some replica war weaponry. It only pushed Adams creative process further; he basically became a machine- finding the right gear, look and appeal of the characters. I slowly had to shut down the factory- only to point out that a script was needed first and fore most. Soon to join the small army of Panzer were Jeff Leman and Matt Tull. With the three of them working hard and ideas flying back and forth, I felt it was safe to leave them be. I did my best to stay out of their way until its time for me to step in and give my two cents. Jeff, Matt and Adam slowly chipped away at many drafts and after a few months the final Panzer Corps script seems to be just over the horizon. It overwhelms Adam with joy knowing the script will be out of the way and he can go back to playing with his guns and armor once again. I think he's a bit too excited about all his new editing software, but as a producer I'd rather have him happy.


Matt Conlon