Play Work

photo courtesy of Lisa Gagnon

More than a year ago we were at the beach in the midst of Frequency web series production, trying to escape reality for a few days while we waited for what I think both Monique and I knew could possibly be devastating news. It was the weekend of our 19th anniversary. We opted not to tell anyone that we were waiting on biopsy evaluation while we filmed some of the pivotal scenes of Season 2 of Frequency. It was an emotional weekend and difficult hiding it from cast and crew. Since then my brave partner and best friend has gone through a year of surgery, chemo and radiation. We have shared our journey and leaned upon family, friends and strangers. Our crew has been there with us, both emotionally and physically. Our community/crew support has been overwhelming. We have both come out the other end with a forever changed view on life, love and friendship. I wanted to return to the beach for a lot of reasons. For the story line is was a necessity. For me, personally, I wanted Monique and I to have this beautiful setting no longer tethered to the negative. I wanted my love of waves, ocean, sand and surf to be rejoined to the positive. I wanted this to be the place I celebrated 20 years of living with my best friend/ass kicking' Cancer warrior, sharing work and play. And, she let me play. They let me play. I am lucky to have such a wonderful partner. Everyone should be so lucky to have such a love and such wonderful friends.  Our crew of five worked hard and played as they worked. I truly love these gals and everyone who has helped me get this whacked story out of me noggin and into the daylight. :-) <3

The f'n producer and Meredith Sause (photo by Lisa Gagnon)

Crew Selfie (Lisa Gagnon, Piper Kessler, Marilyn Hays, and Monique Velasquez

Monique, Meredith and Lisa between takes

Frequency Real Life

Real life events have had KV Works running fast. We have been keeping clients and bill collectors happy. 

The next episode is burning a hole in the edit station. 

It will be posted in time for Thanksgiving Holiday viewing. 

I know this is the longest gap in posting episodes. Bare with us a little longer. 

We are also having issues with YouTube. It has to do with their new identity policy. Seems they like being evil these days. 

In the meantime, enjoy a few production pictures. 

Frequency concentration

This Episode is entitled "Trying to Concentrate."

This episode is short but has some answers for Deanna.

I love this episode because Jackie finally has something in the fridge.

S2 EP 2 Trying to Concentrate

Frequency of season

The first season of Frequency was complete just as I finished up my chemotherapy.

I have spent the last four weeks catching up on RL stuff. 

Thanks for watching and keeping up with this lesbian sci fi web series. 

Things that have been happening 

Production for season 2 & 3

Writing for season 3 

Post production for season 2 

Finding new inspirations with writer friends 

Shooting a short with other filmmakers

We have added 2 bad foreign translations for the episodes on YouTube - we will take friendly amendments to the translations. 

I got some new body art for my #peterparker therapy. 

Friendly reminder- 

Since my last post readers should have conducted a self exam for prostates and/or breasts.

Looking back I have to say I loved my time on set during chemo- It was challenging and something's may have been compromised but it got done the best we could under the circumstances. 

I loved the beach scenes, the special effects where fun and finding music was quite enjoyable. 

We are really trying to make this an Indy effort. 

We would love to hear from viewers. What did you like? What did you share with friends? What do you want to see more of?

Poll

What is Jackie's ability? 

A.  Snarkiness

B.  Flame throwing

C.  Healing people

D.  Reading minds

Who is more butch?

A. Deanna 

B. Claire 

C. Jackie

HIt us up with an email kvworks"at" me.com

Frequency and CC

The last week we have been working on a few things. 

Sound for the next video release. 

Finding female lead bands can be harder than you think in this town. 

The sound is nearly locked. We expect the newest video out in a day or two. 

The other task has made me and PK blurry eyed. 

Closed Captions are now available to our hearing challenged viewers. 

We had a request about a month ago and now seemed like a good time to stick it in. 

We will get to blip in the near future. 

The other item that has us dragging out the latest release is my health. I have a ten day cycle of good days and real life and bill paying came first. But we have had progress and will put up a video soon. 

Frequency slo mo

It is now obvious that the illness has slowed down our progress may more than I anticipated. I am half time at work with full time deadlines. This makes for poor excuse and very late deadlines.
BUT... We are making progress on the newest edits. Please be patient with our slow delivery. I am making an effort to put Frequency back on track. I am working my purple fingers right down to the numb. Please feel free to ask us about the plot, characters and cast. We would love to hear a shout, no matter how small from viewers. kvworks"at"me.com

 As a bit of trivia, Travis has "matching accessories" only after an on-set mishap. How did the mishap occur?
A. Travis put his shirt on inside out?
B. Jackie wanted a donut?
C. Deanna needed a towel?
D. Claire picked up a new friend?

Frequency on the front

I have been distracted with some other things and just now noticed that I have not update the page with the newest installment of Frequency.

I seems that went I posted the first part of Episode 3 on Blip we made an impression.

It might be the witty scenes and great acting  but I think it is the amount of skin in the thumbnail.

April 12-17 BLIP Drama page

Whenever I see this photo I giggle. I'm not sure why.  I am grateful for this actress' modesty; abilities to sell it with a look; and that we are on the cover page. 

This episode is the start of the slide into true devilish plot  conflicts for Deanna and Claire. Travis is part of the master plan. Watch this episode and ask yourself. 

"Do the clothes or the $ make the man?"

Frequency in March-ness

So far this month:

I have been annoyed with our local groundhog, Sir Walter Raleigh.

It has been less than 50 degrees all month. I did not sign up for a cold winter!

In like a lamb is always my expectation for March Madness.

Next my college team peaked to soon. Like, three months too soon. For so many years now, I say, "There is always next year."




I spent two weeks convalescing at home. I am not the kind of gal that sits for too long. The office was calling me.
Although I have been to the office a few days a week, I am getting nothing done.

We did have two big Frequency shoots- The Pinhook and the loft apartment.

Episode 3 is still getting polished and fine tuned for posting. It will be a little later than expected.

And finally, we had Holy Smoke happen just in time for Easter.

All this to say, I'm late ! Or rather I will be late in posting Episode 3

Frequency spring

The next few episodes in production are packed.

Coming up on the Frequency slate:
muscle car
shower scene
friendly dentist
angsty youth


I'm looking forward to the upcoming episodes. I hope you want to see more.
We want to know what you think. Please feel free to drop us a note
kvworks"at"me DOT com

Frequency the 1 of 7

It has been quite a year so far. 2013 has brought new topics and themes into our lives. 

We have been hard at work on Frequency and trying to keep up with our real lives. 

Among the mundane has been a routine check up by my GP.

This is when I learned that I am 1 of 7. (I know that chick below is 7 of 9- one of my favs)

My first thought was I am not going to wear pink. I am not a pink wearing kind of gal. 

My second thought was my team color is now pink.

ON a tangent, NCSU, my alma mater, spend February in pink in honor of the late women's basketball coach Kay Yow. While at State she survived breast cancer but finally succumbed to the disease in 2009.

Some of my very long time friends know that I was a varsity athlete while at NCSU.

It was a very exciting experience to play at a Division I University.
*FYI - I was on the team that kept that "other" school from having an uninterrupted championship/dynasty.

I remember Kay Yow as a vibrant energetic woman at the helm of the women's Bball team.

But I digress. 

The real point in this post is to encourage women to get to know what the breasts in your life feel like and to get routine mammograms. A little research will do your life good. 

 

I am just starting to understand the concept of having cancer. 

I am coming to terms with what it means for my body and my mind. 

My spirit is strong and so is my will. 

I plan to continue to work on the series, Frequency. It will be my inspiration to keep focused and healthy. 

Wish us luck.
I promise to keep bringing fun episodes of Frequency.

Now on with the show.

Here is the link to the playlist of episodes look for EP 02 "Just Friends" part 4

Frequency the Most Lesbian SciFi in the world

Frequency has been in production since April of 2012. We are putting together a fun lesbian character that has some friends that have tuned into special abilities. 

Dr. Deanna Shelley is the lesbian dentist in the middle of some weird happenings. Join her as she sorts out which timeline and what reality she belongs in. 

Claire DuMairier is the pansexual philanthropist looking to right some wrongs in the world. Her journey seems to be guided by a mysterious technology that has a special hold on her life.  Claire is trying to sort out her role in Deanna's reality.

Claire has been seen in the Pinhook throwing back a drink or two. 

I'll let you in on a secret. It's comes in a tall blue bottle. It is some of Mexico's finest Tequila. Sipping is the preferred way to consume the beverage. Claire has other things in mind when she hits the Pinhook.

Frequency at Mysticon

Mysticon is coming! 

February 22-24 2013

Frequency is giving Mysticon goers an early release of the newest installment of EP 02 "Just Friends"

Be in the audience midnight Saturday and you will see what Claire & Deanna need from their friends.

Travis just want to see a baseball game?                           Martha just want to go to lunch?

Either way Claire and Deanna just need a friend by the end.

Follow Mysticon or visit the site and sign up to see the line up of guests.

Peter Davison will be there. He played the 5th Dr of Dr. Who

Frequency of Karen Carpenter

I have been editing Frequency and this song has been in my head.
I can no longer keep it in so I will post it here.




The woman was such a icon for young women in the 70's.  I only wish she could have had a happy ending.

My Senior year was the year she passed. Our prom theme was "We've Only Just Begun"
For my own reasons, I voted for on this theme instead of Joe Jackson's song which escapes me now.


Let's just enjoy the talent and wish her well.

Thank you Karen Carpenter!

Looking for dentist?

Frequency Blip tv

I have finally put the series on BLIP TV  Blip.TV/frequency

It is very fun to see this on the big screen in my basement. (Yes we have a basement in the south. It is very rare and great fun to have.)

From Blip.TV/frequency

This also means we are on iTunes. You can watch us on your appleTV, iPod, iPad, iPhone or desktop.

Search for "frequency, kv works" under "podcasts" for "TV & Film"

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/frequency/id601873337?mt=2

iTunes Podcasting Frequency for Apple devices

We are so pleased to reach the 10,000 views mark on YouTube.  

Thanks for our regular fans and One More Lesbian for helping us get to that mark.

We cannot do this without viewers. Please share the link or subscribe to our podcast on iTunes or Youtube channel or Blip TV. 

Next look for us on TNP TV next. What is that you ask? We will tell you next time.

Until next time. 

Cheers!

Micro Frequency

I thought, tonight I will try my micro blogger App.

I am thinking about Episode 03. It answers some questions left unanswered in all of "Just Friends." I lived shooting it and having the cast and crew get through some hit humid production days. I live the time shift ability of video!

I will leave you with this snippet.