Ever try to reboot your image on the first day of school?
Happy September 22nd! As the start of the school year bleeds into spooky season, people in my life are waxing nostalgic about their first day of school. Related, in our new episode of Everly Heights Tales, we follow Zara Special (played by the Daria-esque Laurin Skarr) as she puts a plan into motion to become one of the popular girls at Everly Heights High School.
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Meet the Special family, a theater-loving, stoner couple and their three very different kids. It’s 1994, and Michael and Jennifer Special are just trying to help fund in the arts in their community, but their son Ricky is on the run from a school bully, and their daughter Zara is betting everything on a plan to start the school year as a popular girl. With a mix of ’90s nostalgia, sitcom homages, and a healthy dose of humor, “Welcome, Freshmen” will teach you the joys of scented oxygen, the perils of Crystal Pepsi, and why you should never trust a math teacher to do “creative accounting” for the arts. Equal parts funny, smart, and a little messed up, just like Everly Heights itself.
This episode began life as VERY SPECIAL, my planned animated pilot I posted a lot about two years ago. I’d still love to animate it some day, but I’m not a good enough animator on my own and the funding dried up right after I finished recording the script with my 13-ish actor cast. I’ve added my character Mr. Matheson as the narrator of the story, which gave me an opportunity to give a final tweak to a script I’ve been rewriting for five years or so.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the episode. Please visit your podast platform of choice and leave the show a review. It really helps! Oh, and check the feed in a couple days for a full roundtable discussion about acting online with a quorum of the cast.
BUY MY BOOK!
Speaking of Mr. Matheson, I’ve just released the first collection of web comics about Mr. Matheson! I did the “first season” of this web comic last years, and threw it together into this collection. You can pick up an ebook version at the link, or you can visit the Amazon Kindle store to grab a physical copy.
PRO TIP: If you hit up the Kindle store today, you can get the book for free. Just make sure to leave a review!
Everly Heights Clipframe for Windows
Since I released my Everly Heights Clipframe tool to help log and notate video footage, several people have shared concern about having to “upload” client footage to my web site. It actually doesn’t work like that, but I still get it. Hence, I’ve created a new version of Everly Heights Clipframe for Windows. It’s only $5.99… cheap!
I hope you dig the new episode! Next week… EVERLY HEIGHTS: THE MUSICAL. Get ready…
Bill