Steemit exclusive WORLD PREMIERE of THE JUJU GUM CONSPIRACY / Episode 03 / S.O.F.I.E.
We've rolled out the red carpet, and given you VIP tickets to witness a historical moment for both film and the blockchain. We're thrilled you're joining us for the first ever release of a full length film on Steemit, grab your popcorn but be aware that there are known side effects from chewing THE JUJU!
If you just joined us start with EPISODE 01
THE JUJU GUM CONSPIRACY
Episode 03: S.O.F.I.E.
14 original never aired anywhere else episodes. One episode a day (at 8pm EST timezone) for 2 weeks straight. We will keep the video links active for one month, until February 8th.
From us to you with love,
@vachemorte and @juliakponsford
*Disclaimer: Some people have had changes in behavior such as agitation, hostility, depression, anxiety, panic, aggression, anger, mania, abnormal sensations, hallucinations, paranoia, or confusion while chewing JUJU GUM. If you notice some of these changes continue chewing JUJU GUM and get medical attention at some point but no need to rush.
Behind the scenes series posts by co-creator @juliakponsford:
the script / the casting / making the props / locations / outside promotion
Our interview with INFAMOUSLY FAMOUS MAGAZINE about this first ever feature film WORLD PREMIERE on STEEMIT.
Man your current landlord Roman is so good. That one surprised me I would have totally assumed he was a professional actor in some capacity or another. His facial expressions are gold. Now we are getting into the nitty gritty - I have a feeling the action is about to start picking up! Really loved the S.O.F.I.E. headquarters, that secret door under the stairs is epic! Man I want a secret door in my house so bad. Almost enough to invite a secretive agency to take up shop underneath me if they would just build the secret door. Okay let me chew some more JUJU GUM. CHEW CHEW JUJU GUM!!!
Okay now that I have my fix in, let me give another reminder to your fans to reinforce your note at the end of the post.
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He's not an actor but he's an artist and a real life character, he makes us howl with laughter! He is currently trying to get a steemit account but I think he borked it lol!
Yes, obviously a character. That much, I would have bet on.
"Almost enough to invite a secretive agency to take up shop underneath me if they would just build the secret door" if you allow them in it might not always end well for you. As you might find out later... thank you my beautiful bearded robothuman friend!!! I dm you something in discord #analysemyfunction
I WILL OBEY ORDERS EXACTLY. I WILL NOT FEAR.
What the Hellllll. My god guys this is so good. What is happening??? What is that weird massage wand? Crazy hypnosis tech? Didn't they use that on Paul?? o.O
Dude seriously. The part of the song that goes "Kill it! Kill it! Kill it!" is SO addictive. It gets stuck in my head and makes me want to dance or something, move my body in some way. Sounds so cool.
Really awesome coordination between the camera, the clicking sound (clock?), and script/acting at 1:35! :D
I was super tripped out at 6:02 with how the blonde told them, "There is a bright future here for you" while shaking her head as if to say "no." Was that intentional? Totally wacked out combo of affirmation/denial.
I also really liked the use of minimalism in the music in the scene at 6:50. The percussion almost had a jazzy feel, which coupled with the honest seriousness of the very unusual situation aided in a disassociative feel. The slow inclusion of the terrifying kind of dissonant wave pad sound worked well to accentuate the unsettling information she was sharing.
Honestly guys this is jam packed with goodies and I can't even write out all the little things I noticed or giggled at. I'm sure I missed stuff, too. The entire film seems to have an infectious kind of quality, itself. Feels like.. BRAINWASHING O_O
First of all you need to be a film blogger or film critic or something like that. The episode barely posted and you write a full essay on it. Some of your thoughts are deeper then mine on the subject :) Most of it is intentional. Every line in this episode is word for word from the script. Some scenes allow improv but not this time. You watched our original plan. That track in the office I made using the jack of an electric guitar plugging it in and out scratching the string with it. My madness has a method.
This track is called Paul's office
It's okay if you are losing your mind as long as you keep chewing everything will be alright...
@vachemorte, I've basically been watching them twice back to back haha :) And I just finished a class for film music appreciation so I guess I'm primed to provide feedback xD
Dude, that is extremely clever and creative sound design. I don't think I ever would have thought of that. It sounds so much like a clock. How did you come to the decision to make the sound that way? Especially so in the context of the film, I feel like the true nature of the sound as a guitar is completely obscured. I can't imagine that basically any audience member would ever guess they were hearing guitar sounds there.
Well. If your goal was to have me wonder Who is this clever yet sharp tajmikel ?
You succeeded. I am listening to one of your loop improvs right now because I want to know you. You loop, you use feedback. I loop, I use feedback. We are now bound, because if I understand your music, I understand you. Thank you for being a champion chewer. As I write this I am still digesting all the comments I received 2 days ago...
Now for that particular track I wanted to have the feeling of an oppressive constricting office cubicle and slow clock ticking.
Thank you man and thank you for checking out of my stuff! :) I'm really impressed to have found such detailed and one of a kind work like yours on Steemit. :)
I really dig the looper and want to make more videos but I've been buried neck deep in two metal projects :D I'm going to start posting them here soon, but they're not quite ready yet (imo). Maybe we can collaborate on something sometime! :O :D
I think you definitely achieved that feel with the track, and I'm still blown away that they are guitar sounds! Seems like a good lesson in thinking outside the box :D
I like metal that's a fact. Take the Jungle book story but change the animals for a Metal band and this is pretty much how I grew up.
When you are back from your trip you can join in my project Steemit Orchestra which is me jamming with my fav! I made one already you can find it if you looking for it. Peace
Dude your Steemit Orchestra is one of the reasons I pulled the trigger on joining Steemit! My Dad shared it with me and I shared it with my improv guitar buddy. I'd be honored and super happy to participate :D I was wondering how you guys actually produced it, are you all in the same city of did you use internet magic?
internet magic. Working on 002 and 003 right now. You could jump in later after your trip we'll stay in touch. If you did join steemit because of that this amazing...!!!! Did you heard that @buckydurddle and @davidfar?
Very cool @tajmikel Great to have you with us.
Your comments are worthy of a prize in and of themselves, I love you scrutinizing all the small details. I did a degree in psychology which I never pursued but combined with my interest in conspiracies I tried to add some trueish stuff into the script. The percussion in the hypnosis part reminds me of when the snake is hypnotizing people in the jungle book, it wasn't really intentional but it occurred to me afterwards :)
@juliakponsford, haha thank you, ma'am :) Honestly I'm watching each episode twice as I write my comments. You guys put A LOT of work into this and there is a lot for me to notice and react to as an audience member. While watching episode 4 I was thinking that I wished I was watching it with you guys so you could see my actual reactions. Some of them are hard to convey in message format because they're emotive rather than verbal.
I think it's cool that you incorporated some realism into the film in terms of both the conspiracy theories and the mind control. I've probably spent more hours than are healthy reading about conspiracy theories lol. I think they make some of the BEST scifi on the market today xD Good call on the Jungle Book! I went and checked that scene out and the cadence definitely has the same kind of feel.
Oh man we would love to see people's faces and exactly where they laughed etc. We have showed it to some friends so webe had some live reactions and it's pretty awesome, you don't live in Montreal do you? 😀 I love conspiracy theories, I'm pretty moderate and on the fence about most of them but idk why I find it so fascinating, exactly like you said it's good science fi basically. When preparing to write the script we were watching videos about targeted individuals and gangstalking and we found some pretty wierd stuff 😮
I live in the deserts of New Mexico! Haha. I didn't know you guys were from Canada, though, so hi nice to meet you! :) lol.
Yeah I love conspiracies, too. Now a days I watch the new stuff develop every time a new president is elected xD I also tend to be pretty moderate. New Mexico has a lot of prominent conspiracies like Roswell, Taos, and Dulce. Sometimes I see weird stuff in the sky. One night (what I think was) a drone that looked like it was out of Terminator, bigger than any drone I've ever seen, slowwwlly flew right over me and my house, maybe 100 feet up. It was very strange and I've never seen anything like it, but I don't think it was alien or even necessarily black ops. Just unknown to me/unfamiliar.
Then again, maybe it was alien or black ops.
O_O lol
Oh man, the plot thickens. The S.O.F.I.E lady is just excellent in this episode. Why do I feel like she'll shortly be hosting the hunger games of the Juju world? All your actors are spot on actually. That hypnosis part tripped me out so much. The drum beats with words are timed so well and are so mesemerizing, I feel I've been accidentally indoctrinated into the Juju cult. So, Cedric works for Juju now, but is made to forget that he does. Paul is aware of the conspiracy, or has the gum made him go insane? So many questions. These episodes are more addictive than the gum itself, haha. The music, the cinematography, the cast, everything is so well done! I'm still not sure just exactly what is going on, but I'm hooked. Can't wait for the next episode and I'll be impatiently chewing until the next fix. Great job guys, this is really amazing!
Thank you for this amazing comment. I like every line of it and ALL your questions are on point so much that I am afraid to answer them because the film itself will take care of that...
Steemit is an amazing place and what a blessing for us to show our baby to our friends. People like you that get it are the reason why we decided to go ahead and be the first ever to take a plunge and maybe change the platform with positive actions. Let's not focus on Steemit problems everybody knows about it...
Here are other examples that just blow our minds!!!!
@road2nowhere that wrote posts about his addiction to the JUJU GUM check out is page he Is at an advanced stage of the JUJU gum addiction but he's not about to stop chewing...
and @tajmikel who writes a full essay about the episode the minute I release the post button. I haven't figured out yet how he manages to do it but he's a high class chewer!
As a director for many years I never experienced a contact so raw with the audience and I LOVE IT.
I assume you will tune in tomorrow and you should, because shit is about to go down!!!!!!!
I think in the next few episodes the story starts to become clearer, so glad your hooked! Chew chew yum yum 😮
I have so much love for you guys. This is such a beautiful production. You already know how I feel. It is the greatest and I feel immensely lucky to be amongst the first people in existence to be watching it. I am so glad that you are releasing it here on steemit, and only slightly disappointed that more huge upvotes arent coming your way and slamming this production straight to the top of the trending charts. This sort of event is exactly what this platform should be ALL about, and is honestly what would actually encourage more people to stick around here....if I was a supercharged aquatic mammal with a massive vested interest in the future of this platform and this currency, then I would be dumping THE WHOLE CONTENTS OF MY LOVE CABINET directly on to this juju RIGHT NOW. Get with the program steemgods. JuliaK and Vache are giving you a golden lemon here.
First of all we love you too brother! What a blessing you found us and that we found you, nothing will ever be the same again. That's how deep I am backing the Basil. Yes the circle jerking upvoting is really strong with the low quality content posters trenders. Right now they are doubling their greed as they start to see the wind changing directions and the smell of the JUJU starts tickling their nostrils. They live in fear. I live surrounded by beautiful friends and love as I have nothing to lose and everyday I win (not measured in SBD, but measured in BMA (Basil Marples Appreciation tokens... They are really valuable).
If you are interested in the real market value of the JUJU please refer to this post where we lay out the imminent trending power of our currency: complete trending prediction for the JUJU
If someone from Steemit headquarters would do the math they would be blown away!!!!
I will lay it out for @ned @dan and you:
-You drop 20k on the JUJU
-You call the media
-You say Check that out those filmmakers presented the first ever world premiere release on Steemit and it's working great.
-More follows.
-They take a share of Netflix business.
-Netflix business gross income 2016 = 1.1BILLION
-Probably get you 20k back
-vache et Julia do another film exclusive for Steemit because it worked well the first time around.
WIN+WIN+WIN=WIN
Love V
exactly! EXACTLY! WINWINWINWINWINZ all round. Someone needs to TAKE THAT JUJU-ticket ASAP
amazing again :)
the performance of the blonde S.O.F.I.E. interrogation lady is absolutely great and freaky.. I love her costume and the details that shape her character. Your current landlord (?) guy, Roman is also really really good. I'm amazed how much character is he emitting.
(heh, Pauls co-worker kind'a looks like Devendra Banhart. Yeah, he's definitely sort of Devendr-ish :) )
Merdith Darling play the charachter named MARGO. She read one line from the script at the casting and I knew she would be perfect for what we wanted...
You have a bright future here.... If you apply yourself!
Of course our friend and landlord Roman is a natural genius...
She had us immediately at the casting, we both felt it and agreed she probably had the role as soon as she left the room :) And yes Roman is a character 24/7 we love that guy!
I can't believe the lemon party thing keeps happening hahaha. Very suspenseful, you've got me waiting with bated breath for the next one!
We just rewatched this episode again before posting and we had to check the time, 12 minutes goes by surprisingly fast, I think a good pace to keep people interested though :) #lemonparty
Thank you for being her brother Fungus!
what the fuck is a lemon party?
I hug you, you hug me? :)
And the hugging becomes better and better 😀😀😀😀
I sure do brother HUGS!!! Don't forget to chew also...
I love hugs, doesn't that feel nice :)
It feels aaaallllllllright!
Dude, this jam is totes bonkers! This came from yer brain!!!! Gasp! It's a wild ride :)
haha my brain is weird and perverted. Julia's brain is pure and genius. Together we are one mind (18 years together...). We call this "the love of 2 brains" in reference to a film concept by Karl Pilkington you can check it out on youtube.
Lol! I'm hooked, I'll leave my judgment of your brain at the door :p
Lol, the Ryerson account! My alma mater...
I particularly like the David Lynch meets Tom Waits soundtrack in this part - and the twin peaks-esque vibe of the SOFIE and white rooms. (I'm a ginormous DL fan...)
Yes me too!!! This is a cover I did with my friend of his song So Glad. Probably one of the only cover of a song I did ever. But I made my own arrangement so technically it's still my music :)
OMG THAT IS FANTASTIC
Thanks. The Ryerson account name came from Julia and I 's mentor:
Ned Ryerson
look him up
BING!
ahh ha that's funny! I went to Ryerson University in Toronto! XD
That fucking JuJu Gum jingle is stuck in my head lol I just paused the vid to say the car scene and rolling into the old factory is fantastic! Ok gotta watch the rest..
Chew chew..yum yum..chew chew JuJu Gum! No idea where this is going and i love it. It always cuts off and I'm sad I have to wait another day! I hope there's a happy ending lol "When do I get paid?" That's me at every job I start too 😊
He actually say: "When do I fuck do I get pay?" The significance of this line is really open to conjecture! Tomorrow the mobsters will join the party!
When we did this JUJU theme song we needed:
1-catchy + cute
2-turn into creepy
3-call for violence
:)