Adventures Of Atom Smith

Monkey Tango is a short buddy comedy shot in West Lafayette Indiana by Pete Desiderio. I helped a bit with the script and offered a few ideas, but I wasn’t directly involved with production as I was over a thousand miles from West Lafayette Indiana when it was made. I have a DVD of it, but it is giving me fits trying to convert it into a more web friendly format. I may just post all four gigabytes of the DVD, so that you can get the out takes and eveything, including the drinking game audio commentary track.

This project is not current, not part of my demo reel, and here only for archival purposes.

This was a high school production that I worked on with Pete Desiderio and a few other guys. We were docked points because it was slightly too long. It was our first project to use any significant 3D animation for the space ships, and the alien jiggling purple blob overlords and a few other things. Also, most of the scenes are shot on a blue/green screen and composited over some other background.

I’m trying to track down the trailer for it, and possibly a few promotional stills that we made. I’ll post them if I can get ahold of them.

Intercourse, PA is a student movie made by Jon Stevenson.

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Moving Picture Projects:
(newest somewhat near top)

These are most of the produced moving picture projects I have worked on. Chronological order is a bit arbitrary, as it’s entirely possible for me to have worked on one project, worked on another, and then the second gets released before the first. It’s a crazy world. I also have a collection of “behind the scenes” related notes on my Film Making Page.

“Fistful Of Staples”
Me: “Sam,” an office worker.
Director: Nick Falls
Shooting wrapped as of Nov. 18th, 2007.

“Ink” (feature)
Me: An Incubus (Violent, Fist-on-a-stick-Wielding Incubus)
Writer/Director: Jamin Winans
Scheduled for release in 2008.

“I Am” (feature)
Me: Extra in various scenes.
Writer/Director: Matt Russell
Scheduled for release in 2008.

“Playboy In Sin City”
I was officially a P.A., but I did everything from car-parking to sound mixing, and shooting.
Producer: Gwen Uszuko (Who won the “America’s Next Producer” competition which this project was a part of.)
Shown nationally on the TV Guide Network during the America’s Next Producer finale on September 12, 2007.

“Trainspotting” (student project, not the feature)
Me: “Renton,” but in this version it was half Renton, half Spud because there were only three characters total.
Director: Kate Nye

“Intercourse, PA.”
Me: “Jon,” one of the lead roles.
Writer/Director: Jon Stevenson
Release Date: May 10, 2007

“The Westminster Wife Show” (feature)
Me: Extra in crowd scenes, but I also did some interviews which may make it in. In addition, I came back for a second day of shooting as a supporting character named “Glen.”
Release Date: I have heard a festival cut was completed as of October, 2007.

“The Interview”
Me: Non speaking role as a homeless type bum person
Writer/Producer/Boss: Dave Dalton
Release Date: Premiered at the Bug Theater Nov 11th, 2007

“Monkey Tango”
Me: Script Consultant
Writer/Director: Pete Desiderio
Release Date: 2004

“Legend of the Red Death”
Me: Additional Visual Effects
Release Date: 2001

“Tracer”
Me: Script Consultant
Release Date: 2001

“Sophistication”
Me: Editor, Visual Effects
Release Date: 2000

“The Vector”
Me: Visual Effects, “CryptiSteve (aka Cypher)”, Additional Writing
Writer/Director: Pete Desiderio
Release Date: 2000

“Non Voltum”
Me: Visual Effects, “Borx Bob”
Writer: Several of us worked on it, including Pete and I, but I no longer recall exactly who did what. I surely wrote some of it, but I’m not certain if I actually want to admit to that.
Director: Pete and I both did some directing type stuff. I don’t recall who we actually gave the credit to, and I don’t have a copy handy to check. Pete probably did more directing than me.
Release Date: 1999

“Larry The Bootlegging Cow Milker” aka our “Silent Movie”
Me: “Sammy Vaca”
Director: Pete Desiderio

This page does not currently include unproduced work, such as scripts. If you represent a production company looking for scripts, please feel free to contact me about availability of scripts.

Welcome to Forkforge, the website of Will Rosecrans

Forkblog

This blog is where I provide updates about all new events and happenings. I’ll put up news about projects I am working on, performances, and occasional random thoughts.

ForkGallery

A gallery of photographs. You can even click on the stars to rate your favorite photos. Pictures of Wyoming an Boulder abound. Eventually, I may put up pictures from my trip to Europe a few years ago.

Forkschedule

This is a mostly current schedule of everything I am doing. You can subscribe to the iCal format feed, or you can view my schedule right here in your web browser.
Combined Schedule – Everything I have planned – (subscribe)
Performance Schedule – Where I can be seen – (subscribe)
Personal Schedule – Everything which is in the combined schedule, but not in the performance schedule – (subscribe)

Moving Picture Projects
Films, movies, or animations which I have been involved with.

Audio Projects

The Vector was a movie philm that I worked on in High School with my old friend (he was a much newer friend at the time) and chief collaborator, Pete Desiderio. He stars in the picture and directed and edited. I was sort of a script doctor, visual effects lead, and poorly acted minor character. This movie is posted as a historical novelty, and was made over the course of just a few very short weeks while all of us had very busy school schedules. We won our high school film festival with this, so however much you might be able to find flaws in this production, I assure you it wasn’t the worst of the bunch. Adults who watched The Vector and saw the scene where 10,000 Pete Lawsons stuffed into 10,000 lockers sing Mr. Sandman have typically remarked that my generation has “no need for acid.”

I promise, it’s actually pretty funny if you have just watched the Matrix. If you aren’t as familiar with the scenes and material being parodied, it does come off as a bit strange. Anyhow, let me point aout a few of the visual effects highlights… Pete’s infamous jiggly mirror inexplicably in the real world shot is around 9:00 minutes in, and the scene with Mr. Sandman starts at about 10:00, with the actual lockers sequence at about 10:45. “Books, lots of books” is at about 16:45. And, the all CG gymnasium because we couldn’t actually shoot in the gym is about 16:15. You can view it in a wee little flash video here, or download the full sized version.

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So far. this hasn’t been a political blog.  I have just given random updates on my life, but for this, I felt I couldn’t not say a few words.  Those of you who know me well know that I have never had any particular fondness for Daylight Savings.  There are oodles of reasons why I think it should be abandoned.  It saves no energy.  This has been born out in plenty of studies.  The recent daylight savings shift also saved no energy.  Further, based on electricity usage patterns, it may actually waste some energy, and is going to be wasting a lot of energy in the near future if usage trends continue.  It also leads to lost productivity as people who are in separate areas need to keep track of when and how they switch to and from DST.  But, all my arguments about wasted energy, lost productivity, and general inconvenience don’t quite match up to this:

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribunereview/news/westmoreland/s_501066.html

A kid spent almost two weeks in jail because of daylight savings times.  He made a call about an hour apart from a bomb threat call.  Nobody bothered to fix the clock after the daylight savings time switch, so they thought he was the one who made the bomb threat call which actually happened about an hour later.

So, what have we learned today?  Daylight savings time will get your ass thrown in jail.  Now, can we as a country please just use UTC?

My name is Will Rosecrans, and I am an actor, visual effects artist, and IT consultant living in Denver.

My Acting Resume is available online. You may also download my Full Resolution Headshot

Well, since I now have my domain and I have installed blogging software thereapon, I guess I may as well start journalling my various adventures. I actually got this domain set up primarily as a private document repository, but I figured that since I have it, I may as well try to make myself feel terribly important by blogging.

So, okay… I guess the bloggerful thing to do would be to explain current events in pointless detail. I had an audition yesterday for an online video project to teach students about the dangers of alcohol. Dave Dalton’s birthday was the day before the audition, so naturally I was out until the wee hours of the morning drinking with him. I’m not at all confident that I got the part.

But, it was my first audition for a paying gig since I stepped away from my day job as a system administrator. I was slightly discombobulated, naturally. I expect that future auditions will go better, just because I wan’t have the subconscious ‘firt time’ jitters. It’s annoying how the conscious mind can be completely unconcerned, and take things in stride, but the subconscious feels a need to get all huffy and mess you up. ::sigh::

Mouth Off show tonight. Should be a good time. Like half the cast is out of town, so we are using several of the newbies. Zane, or least predictable, and The Markle, who I think is the most disciplined of our newbies will both be on. I think Michael will be, also. It’s going to be the first time all three of them have been in a show together. Hopefully, we don’t wind up with a horribly crude audience like we did last time. Don’t get me wrong, I really enjoy crass humor, but when that is all you get from the audience, the jokes are always really simple and on the nose. Okay, I guess I’ve done enough rambling for my inaugural bloging post. Now, the page won’t look so damned empty.