Judith Weston’s workshop was truly transformative as so many said it would be. I am genuinely inspired and excited about beginning to apply these principles of acting into my future directing. As you can see from my Twitters, her 3-day class gave me more insight and access to an emotional center that 4 years at a performing arts school couldn’t help me with. I’ve already scheduled individual meetings with the main cast of ./shutdown to discuss some of these things with them and delve into some areas that I think will really help later on the set.

I’m also grateful for the chance to meet and work with the other students in the class. Most were directors and a couple were producers and/or writers. They were all wonderful people. I’m looking forward to getting an email with a class picture someone took so I can post it up on here. I’ve convinced David to sign up for the class I just took, Acting for Directors and I just sent an email off to reserve a space in her next Script Analysis and Rehearsal Techniques course which isn’t until May. She only does two per year and that one is already close to full!

In other news, I’m looking forward to a ./shutdown paintball game on Saturday and editing the conclusion to the DDR Hero episodes. After that, I will be done editing ./shutdown for awhile. David will be in post production on the season finale during the second half of January while I am having the actor meetings. I’ll probably also edit another Film Fatale video blog and get back to writing songs for a musical ./shutdown episode you’ll see in season 2.

Things are pretty slow at work right now, so in my spare time I’ve been playing with Color trying to get to know the program. I also better start thinking about a fun concept for the next quarterly videos. The CEO told me he’d really like to do something creative that alot of people could get involved with. That is all!

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Hi All,

Happy holidays and all that politically correct bull honkey. Check out our lovely ./shutdown holiday special featuring Ben Peterson (Zedd). Fun for the whole family!

DDR Hero continues next week! Don’t miss the two-part season finale beginning mid-January.
Lerv,
Michelle Osorio
./shutdown co-creator

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Everybody be sure to check out Episode 5: DDR Hero (part 2). Remember, if you choose the Stage6 option, you can double-click the DivX Web Player window to see the show in glorious full-screen 720 HD!

Also, our Stage6 views, combined with Veoh stats adds up to 300,000 thus far. w00t!

Check back next week when we present a Very Special ./shutdown Holiday Video. DDR Hero continues on December 31.

Michelle Osorio
./shutdown, Co-Creator

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Reposted from my news release at shutdowntv.com:

Episode 4: DDR Hero - part 1 is now online for your viewing pleasure. This is a four-parter, guys and features awesome music by ioeo and Mad DPS, plus a guest appearance by GamerGirl, Linda Vargas. So show ‘em some love and say we sent you!

./shutdown is now available in 720HD when you click the DivX option (many thanks to Stage6 for their continued support). Also, take note that clips will be shorter, but you’ll only have to wait a week to see more!

So keep checking back and don’t forget that January will feature the premiere of our epic two-part season finale!

Michelle Osorio
Co-Creator, ./shutdown
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Watch the Video

I play myself in the promotional comic for Vampira The Movie. You’ll see me as Michelle, the cynical (but busty) camera girl. Back then I still wore glasses, so I get to sport the nerdy look as well. What fun!

For more info on the movie check out VampiraTheMovie.com.

Live long and prosper,

Michelle Osorio

Formats available: Microsoft Video (.avi) or watch this in HD!

Tags: filmmaker, movie, girl, woman, video, geek, nerd, comic, vampira, horror, documentary

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Woohoo. Jason E. and Micah at DivX just pushed the new English DivX Connected site. It features the video I’ve been working on for weeks (in several languages). Check it out at the DivX Connected website!

HD and standard definition versios will release on the Stage6 DivX Connected Channel sometime next week. Keep an eye out for the German and French versions as well. They are in post stages. I’ve never made a video in three languages before. It was alot of fun and I want to thank the wonderful actors Joshua Covington, Sara Jane Nash, Sandra Favero and Tamee Harrison for the wonderful job they did. If you missed them, here are some production stills.

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Slideshow: Sly Stewart’s ./shutdown episode 4 production stills.

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So I busted ass at work this week to make a deadline for a commercial. Marketing had alot more changes they want made to it though so they extended the deadline to next week, so more late nights for me!

I don’t mind, really. I love my job and want the final piece to be something I can be proud of. The only problem is that since the 5-day editing session to release ./shutdown episode 3, part 1 I’ve been having this back ache. I had too much caffeine one night after only 3 hours of sleep in two days. All of a sudden the small ache in my back became searing pain. I had to end that night early. That was weeks ago.

It came back last Wednesday night at work at about 11:30pm. I had to get picked up and taken home from the pain. So then I was okay again and figured it was just stress and I needed more sleep. So Thursday and Friday I followed my long works days up with late ./shutdown nights preparing for the shoot, but I made sure to get at least 6 hours of sleep each night. Then I got up at 5:30am on Saturday and prepped for our big shoot.

I shot handheld for 8 hours which made me very sore, but no big deal. The shoot was lots of fun. You’ll meet some really fun new characters that I hope you will like. Some of them surprised even me with how funny they were. Especially Buz and Liz. I’m also going to steal the red wallet chain we got for Roger. That thing is sexy. Not sure how sexy it will look on me though.

That night, I prepared my shotlist for the Sunday shoot. Sunday we reserved Office Games before it opened from 6am to 10am. So Saturday night I went to sleep at 9:30pm. I woke up at 2am and the back pain attack struck again! Okay, so I guess resting doesn’t help…
I wanted to vomit from the pain spreading to my stomach. I finally managed to get to sleep and we made it to the mall parking lot about ten minutes late 6:10. Well… an hour and a half later, the thing was a wash. A dozen shutdown cast/crew waited in the freezing parking lot and no one showed up.

Cris, our producer, called David (other producer/writer) and said the owner said the employee showed up and didn’t see us. That’s B.S. There was no one in the store, it was locked and we were in front of it at the mall. Ugh it sucked.

Anyhoo, the bright side is we all had a very humorous breakfast at Denny’s together. JJ, our occasional sound-guy was there to play the role of Office Games employee. He is the funniest mofo on the planet. We should make a show just about him complaining about things.

After that we went to Starbucks so this girl could interview us for her magazine design project at school. Then I went home and continued reading Chainfire in between bouts of sleep.

Then I went and bought an HDTV and surround sound speakers. Zesquishmitten came over and helped put it together with Flounder. Good stuff. So here I am, feeling decent. The back pain is gone for now, but my shoulders still hurt from the 8-hour handheld camera session.

I researched my back pain and some possibly suspects are a) ulcer, b) pancreatitis (yikes!) or c) kidney problems.

I’ve lived my life fit as a fiddle. The only real chronic problem I have is clammy hands. So I am pretty pissed that I may have some ailment of this nature. Well, I’m 26. I guess it was bound to start sometime. I plan to make an appt. with my Dr. on Tuesday.

Here’s hoping! I am still enjoying myself and feeling lucky to be aware I am living in the best years of my life right now. However, each time this back and stomach pain coes rushing back, nothing else exists. I have this singularly focus on the pain. Sometimes I embrace the pain and don’t fight it. Then it’s not so bad. I need to nip it in the bud quickly though. Hope it’s nothing serious.

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Here’s the latest video I have done for work. Enjoy.

Break away from the mundane. Let the DivX team show you how

In other news, I am on my final week working on the new DLINK DivX Connected commercial. It is going to r0xx0rz omfg. Can’t wait to share it with you.

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