The Third Age

Catch this one week only preview of a new Third Age episode! More to come later in 2012!

The Third Age is returning soon, and catch your first glimpse of that return in the trailer for Volume II!

In addition to the usual psychedelic visuals, the trailer features a vocal performance by Misti Garritano, the actress who plays Morning, singing “St. James Infirmary,” backed by Joel “Milton” Seligmann on sax, recorded by Steve Deluca, who played Steve in the first volume. Guesting on instrumentals are directors Patrick Meaney and Jordan Rennert.

More than most episodes of The Third Age, “The Last Supper,” our season finale, went through a lot of changes on its way to the screen. Spoilers are coming up, so if you haven’t caught the episode yet, check it out, then come back to find out how it turned out the way it did.

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Volume I ends here, and nothing will ever be the same! An offer from Jerrod Woolf puts everyone’s fate in Zinone’s hands. He’ll have to choose whether to follow the path of angels, or the path of devils!

This episode concludes the first season of The Third Age. Keep an eye on the site for content throughout the year, and look for the debut of the second season in summer 2010. Thanks everyone for watching, and now that the season is wrapped, please share any thoughts you’ve got!

After two months off, production of The Third Age started back up yesterday with a shoot at Studio 2001 in midtown Manhattan. The studio belongs to Music Producer Jens Gad, one of the producer’s behind the 1990s internationally successful electronic music experiment known as “Enigma”

The day was much more visually intensive then dialgouge heavy so we were able to get some great looking stuff. As always Brian Townes is so in touch with the Character of Zinone that we didn’t have to direct him all that much. In fact, he brought a bunch of ideas to the table that Patrick and I didn’t even think of to make the performances even better.

This shoot also brought in a cameo of from NFL Writer’s Room actor Tom McCaffrey (He’s the dude who is always wearing the Dolphins Jersey). He guested with the part of a suspicious teamster and that scene only took t’ree or four takes before it was nailed by him and Townes.

Also, halfway through the shoot a bomb was dropped on us! In 6 months Brian is leaving for Brazil to begin raising his family their with his Brazillian Wife. This means we’ve been given a hard deadline to finish the Third Age or at least all scenes with Brian in them by then. Luckily, this should be more the doable and if for some reason we are unable to, we are packing up the light kit and heading for Brazil.

So all and all this was a good one. Some great visuals and performances were captured and look for this stuff to drop sometime later in 2010!