Ville Ventures Online Summer issue

Chief Editor : Ancil Harris Editor : Neicy Designer : Clifton Harris

@2015 Ville Ventures Online

Forever exploring, forever growing, shaping an original identity, as we continue to break barriers and clear new paths, enabling us to offer a live experience like no other, set to take audiences to unexplored depths and new vistas of verse and vibes! That’s one way to describe the band Cabezon.

This year Cabezon ‘s song entitled “liberty” were used as the official theme song for the upcoming comicnar series ’Black Land’. The visual for the video is set to be release soon on www.villeventure.com check out these images below.

FASHION101 with Neicy: ‘BRINGING OUT THE FASHIONISTA IN YOU’

By Nekisha Cyrus (NEICY) Summer 2015 is officially here, so I think it’s the perfect time for a ‘Fashion101 Recap’. Let’s revisit some of our previous fashion tips and apply those keys to bringing out your summer fashionista J CREATIVITY IS KEY- Time to revisit your closest. Not just on the surface, but those items that we seem to somehow have forgotten all about. Maybe they have gone out of style, or the colour is no longer in? Whatever the reason as I always say- ‘Become a trend-setter, not follow the trend’. You can be creative too.

BEING PATIENT IS KEY- Yes, I know some of you all are wondering what ‘patience’ has to do with fashion. Everything in life takes time. A key to becoming a fashionista is being self-aware and comfortable, so that you can express yourself to the fullest. Take time, have fun and allow that hidden fashionista to develop at her own pace- but also enjoy the journey during the process.

BEING FIERCE IS KEY- ‘Fierce’ is all about your attitude, your pride, it can show ownership, but most of all its unique to the individual. Everyone can express their fierceness freely, which is entertaining and exciting. So let’s all give ourselves permission to be fierce, let loose and have fun with it!

BEING RESPONSIBLEE IS KEY- Come on fashionistas, be smart! Ensure that all the crucial areas of your life are being paid attention to. Take care of your business first and when that’s all over- ‘It’s Shopping-time’- treat yourself and have a ball, but prioritize and be responsible enough to separate your wants from your needs J

‘NEICY Official’

Fashion101: STAR Designer

Featuring Shané

Mc Intyre

At just 22 years old, this young designer and soon to be university graduate has already successfully launched her business ‘Shayla Fashion Designs & Wardrobe Consultancy’. ‘Shayla’ is a combination of part of her first name ‘Shane’ and the last part of my middle name ‘Kaila’. Initially, the idea derived from a class project in which she had to create a business of her choice, so fashion came naturally because she grew up in the wholesale/ retail apparel industry, with her father who owned a boutique. Shane was always enthused to style customers, dress the mannequins’ and rearrange the entire store. Being fascinated by the diverse fashion aspects of other cultures and having no previous sewing experience, she attempted to teach herself how to sew. As of today, she have successfully created a collection of clothing ranging from box pleat, A-line, straight, pencil, circular, hi-low, flare and mermaid skirts; throw overs, caftan, flare dresses, evening gowns and blazers for females. Recently, she hosted her first fashion show and Shane states, “that she might be new to the fashion industry but she looks forward to what the future holds in store for her”.

By Janine Charles Farray

In the year 2018, civil war breaks out. A massive bomb has been launched on T&T, with disastrous outcome. That’s the scenario in Black Land, an upcoming TV series that is the brainchild of Ancil Harris. Dystopian future visions of T&T are all comic book enthusiast and burgeoning television producer Harris thinks about.

Over the past four years, Harris has been exploring the darker recesses of the local imagination. He has two upcoming television projects, Tarsin and Black Land.

Tarsin will be a five-part miniseries created for television. The project is still in production and casting has been confirmed with soca songstress Caryl “Trini” Jacobs signed on to voice the main heroine, and dancer/choreographer Jilla Cato confirmed to perform as Tarsin on screen doing all live action stunts as well as body acting.

“I have been doing comics since the age of six,” said Harris in a recent interview. “I published my first comic book, RAZOR, in 2005. It was available at Ishmael M Khan and Mohammed Bookstores. I launched a company in 2010 named Ville Ventures Films.”

Harris manages the company and works alongside a small but passionate group of young T&T creatives collaborating to make local television and film content for the modern island audience. Both upcoming projects incorporate his love of comics as well as television.

“Four years ago I had an idea to do a motion comic based on a super hero living in Trinidad so I got inspiration from a Spider-Woman motion comic. One day I saw it online and was impressed by it so I had the idea of doing a motion comic myself.”

As Wikipedia explains, “A motion comic (or animated comic) is a form of film content which combines elements of print comic books and animation. Individual comic book panels are expanded into full motion picture format, while sound effects, voice acting, and animation are added to the original artwork.”

The heroine of Harris’ imagination is Tarsin, a superhero from the city of Port-of-Spain who stands for justice. The setting is a bleak future T&T, where crime and criminal activity have taken a turn for the chaotic. Her origin story begins with the character Nicole Baker, a hard-working, daredevil T&T police detective who is fighting against the insurmountable rise in illegal activities, gangs and violence.

The synopsis reads: "When a truck carrying a rare chemical-mechanical fluid called 'Tarsilin' crashes into young detective Nicole Baker she is exposed to the substance. The result is that her body begins to transform from organic material into highly advanced machine technology. Now she fights against the person that is responsible for this substance and for the fate of T&T."

Three others involved in the project are Vechenko Noel, who is responsible for recording the voiceover work and for producing the musical score, Adrian Beauche of Cirus Media Ltd, who does all the special effects, and Clifton Harris, who creates all the line art and posters.

Black Land is the second project from Ville Ventures Films. It is done in an innovative film style created by Harris, used exclusively in the Black Land thee-part TV mini-series. The new film style, which is yet unnamed, comprises a mixture of 1940s comic art, spoken word, animation, motion graphics, and live action.

A similar approach was made by the creators of Frank Miller's Sin City, which was critically acclaimed for its innovative cinematography. Sin City’s colour processing rendered the film in sharp black and white but added or retained colouring for selected objects, as Wikipedia puts it.

Ville Ventures Black Land takes the film comic idea further by squeezing the look of live action and animation even closer together. While Sin City left its actors mostly unanimated and instead superimposed them on to green screen animated and motion graphic environments, the effect applied to Black Land consumes all its actors, scene environments and action sequences using a custom black/ blue cartoon-like filter along with motion graphic-styled additions.

Creative director on the series Roland George said, "This new art style is different and we hope it spreads worldwide. Our official first test using the format is Black Land and so far we have received lots of good feedback about its look."

Black Land looks at T&T in the year 2018. A civil war wipes out a large portion of the country’s citizens and, in the following calm, few survivors remain. The survivors are citizens struggling to keep on living, and form an underground resistance fighting to expose the cause of the war and expose the hidden political agendas at play.

The official soundtrack for Black Land will be done in partnership with local rock group Cabezon the Band. On Black Land’s TV release Cabezon will issue the track, Liberty, along with an official music video made in conjunction with Ville Ventures Films. Cover art for the miniseries and the Cabezon single were also designed by Clifton Harris.

As director and producer of both projects, Ancil Harris is seeking local television distribution for Tarsin and Black Land. He also intends to look at online and regional distributors and will also consider a DVD release, he said. Black Land is expected to be completed this year, and Tarsin is expected to be released by mid-2016.

VILLE VENTURES - ‘ARTISTE OF THE MONTH’ Featuring

KIMI M

Kimi Mc Carthy, known in the entertainment industry as ‘Kimi M’, is a Trinidadian Hip-Hop Recording Artiste, TV host and Model. Not only has this multi-talented young female demanded the respect of her peers, but through her unique style, versatility, witty lyrical content and consistency in her music, but she has gained it. The true definition of a go-getter, as she continues to redefine the meaning of hard work, determination and what it takes to be truly successful in achieving one’s goals.

After the release of countless tracks and music videos, Kimi M is presently working on her mixtape, entitled ‘My Genesis’. Recorded at Premier Studio & Fada Jam Productions, the mix-tape will comprises of thirty (30) tracks including a few of her original productions and features some of Trinidad’s finest such as Tim Starr, Scagnety, and many more.

When asked about her future plans she stated that she is also currently working on her first original solo album, which is not yet titled, but she will be updating her fans as the project progresses. We at Ville Ventures Online continue to salute this amazing young lady and wish her success in her journey. Be sure to check her out her pages and stay updated with the beautiful and very humble, Kimi M. Contact Info:

#Kimi M (@KimiMTripleRInc)