Steele/McFly 2012
posted by Chefgon on December 31, 2011 @ 6:35pm
2011 was a pretty quiet year from Steele/McFly Productions. Sure, there was a spinoff blog and a video game tournament, but we didn't really produce anything in the strictest sense. My New Year's resolution is to release something of consequence in 2012.
I can't tell you if there's going to be a season 3 or new episodes of any kind, but as a red blooded American producer I can promise you that I will reuse and recycle old ideas in arguably interesting new ways.
For starters, we've been sitting on a "movie cut" of the World Tour for over a year now, which has a few minor changes to the original releases and has the added benefit of being just short enough to fit onto a single CD-R. To go along with that, we've got some art for each episode in season 2 that have previously only been seen as background for the YouTube re-releases that appeared earlier this year. I'll get both of those packaged up and released to the world shortly.
But releasing unused material isn't really the same thing as actually producing something, so I have another project up my sleeve that's sure to please both of our long-time fans. It isn't quite ready to be announced yet, but I think I can get away with leaving you this teaser image. Happy New Year, Steele/McFly fans!
McFly at Season's Beatings Velocity
posted by Seamus McFly on October 14, 2011 @ 11:45am
Steele/McFly Productions is proud to be sponsoring a player for the major fighting game tournament Season's Beatings Velocity being held this weekend in Columbus, Ohio. Truth be told, that player is our very own Seamus McFly and the executive at Steele/McFly Productions that is covering his expenses also happens to be Seamus McFly. A sponsorship is a sponsorship though, and we here (or, more accurately, me here) are excited to see what McFly has to offer this weekend in Street Fighter III Third Strike and Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition. Perhaps failure and crying or, if things go very well, a small moment of victory followed by failure and crying. Either way, there is much shameless Podcast promotion to be had.
And, if some article of clothing I was wearing led you to this website, allow me to explain that Steele/McFly is an audio comedy show about the world of overblown Hollywood epics. If you'd like to check it out, I recommend starting with the introduction page, which features a handy, time-saving recap of our sketchy early episodes and a convenient listing of our good later episodes for your listening pleasure. It's good. I think you'll like it.
A Sampling of the Works of Lucas Townsend
posted by Seamus McFly on May 2, 2011 @ 8:29pm
Believe it or not, Lucas Townsend, or Seamus McFly as he is known to the world, has been responsible for making more than the show found on this site. (You should listen to the show found on this site anyway because it's pretty good, especially Season 2, when he figured out what he was doing.) In fact, he has a fancy degree in Audio Post-Production and, occasionally, some free time on his hands. The result of these things is that he's made a whole bunch of interesting things for you to look at. And look at you shall!
In late 2008, the creators of Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog held a contest for three-minute applications of fake super villains to the equally fake Evil League of Evil. I wrote the screenplay based on a story idea by Tim Schuerger, which we co-directed and co-starred in. I edited the project and, through much agony, whittled it down to three minutes.
In summer of 2010, the combination of a music video production course and a big empty house I was subletting led to the creation of a music video for "The Housesitter" by Austin-based musician Mo Shaw. Ziphorah Kim was the producer that secured us our song and actor, Johnny Darwish was our DP and Ben Guenther was our wonderful actor. I sat in the director's chair, which was the same as my regular chair, but I wrote director on it with magic marker. It is now the headlining video on the artist's webpage.
Later the same summer, I was part of a team that produced a short concert video for Athens band Zapaño.
When faced with rebuilding the sound for a movie scene from scratch for a sound design course, I naturally jumped on a scene from Robert Rodriguez's no-budget action classic, El Mariachi.
More audio projects, including an eight-minute This American Life style documentary, an additional fake movie trailer and several local radio ads I produced, can be found at en.audiofarm.org/marsbitrona.
This American Cheese with Seamus McFly
posted by Seamus McFly on January 28, 2011 @ 5:48pm
McFly here, in a state that can only be described as "back from the grave," with news of a new blog for you all to enjoy. It's called This American Cheese with Seamus McFly and is written by the same Seamus McFly seen and heard in the fine works of Steele/McFly Productions. Also the same Seamus McFly that's dictating this blog post as I speak. Unlike the corporate circus of this site, where all blog posts go through an intensive three month editing process at corporate headquarters, I'm free speak my mind openly and rant about all the stuff I care about (Editor's Note: 37 graphic obscenities were removed from McFly's original draft of this sentence).
I will try to keep to a minimum claims that Steele/McFly is more popular than Jesus, but only because such claims are stupid and grossly inaccurate. Investigate further at ThisAmericanCheese.com.
Last of the Commentary
posted by Chefgon on May 26, 2010 @ 9:53pm
I gave very explicit instructions to McFly that he had to post links to the last two commentary episodes when they went up, but they're not here so I'm forced to assume that Captain Hook went a little overboard with the scorpions and killed my cast members in a gruesome and horrifying death.
Oh well, I can always hire a new cast. In the mean time, here's the last two commentary episodes.
YouTube - Episode 7
YouTube - Episode 8 Part 1
YouTube - Episode 8 Part 2