January 13th, 2006

The Dungeon Of Noise has bought the webdomain Music4Benefit and is currently setting up the website. Goal is to start a website on which beneficial projects can setup a subdomain.

The Music4Benefit website will be online somewhere in the last week of January.

February 10th, 2006

As of this month, The Dungeon Of Noise is selling a part of its studio gear. Not that this gear isn't functioning, but the studio is converting itself into a video editing studio which will still be capable of all music projects, but has more power towards the video and image editing.

If you are interested in the gear, you can enter the auction on Ebay.

February 17th, 2006

The website for beneficial music projects Music4Benefit is online. The Dungeon bought the web domain in January. The site is mainly used for benefit concerts and projects.

You can visit the pages and its projects right here.

July 10th, 2006

The Dungeon Of Noise starts production on a short movie for a Music4Benefit sub project called "Dawn of Life" ("Dageraad", Dutch title).

"Dawn of Life" reflects the working of the palliative services, taking care of a termanilly ill patient, from his arrival at the centre to his death. But "Dawn of Life" doesn't show us the palliative care centre as it is ! The short movie reflects this patient's last moments as a train voyage to an unknown destination. "It's an alternate view to the workings of the palliative care centre." explains Curt Coekaerts. "We're going to need all the tricks in our box,"Curt continues, "as this project calls for some serious fx".

More on the short movie as this project progresses.

August 18th, 2006

"Haunted Hill : The Gathering" is ready to face next step in its huge production schedule. The Dungeon Of Noise is about to start the voice recordings of the movie. All sets have been built and updated, everything is ready for the next step.

Of course, with the production of the short movie "Dawn Of Life", production of The Hill has slowed down.

October 5th, 2006

Casting for the short movie "Dawn Of Life"/"Dageraad" is well underway. With the leading roles already cast, only a few extra parts need casting. Dennis and Curt, who both lead the project with firm hand, expect casting to be over within 2 weeks.

Playing the lead roles are François Van de Voorde, Pia Pée and Joris Jespers.

October 25th, 2006

The-Dungeon-Of-Noise.com is relocating its files to a new provider and server. This new firm will also be hosting The Dungeon's domainname.
As a result, over the next couple of days and weeks, some pages of the site - or perhaps the complete site - will be unavailable.
Dungeon HQ hopes to be back online as soon as possible.

October 25, 2006

Last Saturday, October 21st, The Dungeon Of Noise held a major project briefing on the upcoming short movie "Dawn Of Life" / "Dageraad". The project briefing was located in one of the meeting rooms of 't Ogenblik, a community house for today's youth in Beveren.

Present at the meeting were most of the participants working on the project. Both actors and technical crew attented the meeting which was hosted by Curt Coekaerts.

Following on the meeting, The Dungeon held the first official script reading of "Dageraad"/"Dawn Of Life". With most of the actors present, the reading went very smoothly.

Currently, production is ongoing and shooting is scheduled for November.

Curt Coekaerts opening the project briefing.

Dennis controlling the laptop, Colette Pauwels,
Davy Schaekers & Freddy Coekaerts

Davy Schaekers, Dennis De Backer, Gaby Smet,
Karine Van Bogaert, JA Horus and Ilse De Jaeck.

Luc Crombé (technical crew), Pia Pée (lead role), Els Van Raemdonck (extra) and François Van de Voorde (lead role)

Ellen Raes and Lutgard D'hoey.

Special thanks to Kurt De Dobbelaer (project Still Photographer)
and Joost Van Halewijck (for lending us the digital camera).

November 24th, 2006

Today, the Dungeon team has taken their last steps into the preparation for filming "Dawn Of Life".
Bluescreens have been checked and tested once again, sound has been tested, lights are ready...
To put it short : the entire team is ready for first shoot !
Tomorrow at 11.30hr sharp, Dungeon HQ and their team start rolling the camera's.

Picture on the right : bluescreen/chromakey screens on the set.

January 18th,2007

Thats's what people have been hearing every weekend since shooting began on "Dawn Of Life" when Curt Coekaerts starts another recording session.
Most of the scenes on the closed set of the movie have been filmed and the team expects all scenes to be shot by the end of this month.
The only scenes left are the chromakey (bluescreen) shots with the main cast as well as all extras.

In the postproduction department, things are moving as well. Since the team usually films on Saturday, during the week there is time to work on the footage (removing chromakey blue, adding digital backgrounds, removing microphone cables, etc...)

Asked when first movie material will be released online, Dennis De Backer replied : "we'll start with putting some behind-the-scenes still images on the site. Later when the movie teaser is ready, we'll post it online as well."

January 31st, 2007

"Dawn Of Life" set recordings are over, that is, the scenes located on the trainset of the movie. Only scenes left are the bluescreen/chromakey shoots, which will be shot during the month of February.

In the near future, the first online "behind-the-scenes" photo album of "Dawn Of Life" will also become online.

Wednesday, September 5th 2007

After a few months of almost total silence, now a very positive signal has left the Dungeon. Today, the team revealed the official movie poster for "Dawn Of Life".

"We stayed true to the original concept, which was the teaser poster" says Jan Robberechts."For this final version, we tried to find a good blend of colours to keep the mystery, but at the same time find elements to give the image a sense of reality."

The poster shows actor François Van de Voorde in front of a steamtrain, both in the middle of the railway track. "Combining CG and live action is something we got quite used to last months." Jan continues.

The final movie poster can be seen from up close by clicking here.

Jan Robberechts (left) and Curt Coekaerts at Dungeon HQ,
both showing the final poster
(Dutch language version shown here).