The Concept and Reasoning Behind the Show

"Phyre."

Hey, it's the director here again. I thought I'd give you guys  more official glimps at the ideas we have behind the show Phyre Rusty Jazz.

The series is named after the three female lead assassins "Phyre Rusty Jazz," and has a lot of its themes and messages grounded in the book of Ecclesiastes. The three lead characters, slowly realize the emptiness of their lives without God when Phyre runs into her old childhood friend, Steve, who has since started working for the church. The series will touch on the subjects of death (of course), violence, homosexuality, prostitution, political corruption, and organized crime from the point of view of those who don't know the truth found within Christ, but are desperately seeking something to justify their existence.

Mid-way through the series the characters realize that "everything is meaningless" when left to their own devices. This is when the characters reach their lowest point and are forced to re-analyze their belief system.

I chose to tell the story from the perspective of non-Christian killers for two reasons:

1) non-Christian killers are a huge attraction to the non-Christian demographic, thus ensuring that our introductory presentation of Salvation doesn't reach ears that are already saved as a main demographic.

2) Christian films marketed to Churches to brightly color aspect of Scripture and church life without giving proper context because the filmmaker assume that the viewers already know where these message are coming from and the proper mind-set of those who go to church. non-Christian people, on the other hand, do not. They see the church and those who make it up as hateful, argumentative, and hypocritical bigots, and many times rightfully so, as their church experience may not have been the proper portrayal of Christ's love for them. By not making this a film "by Christians for Christians," but rather "by Christians for non-Christians," we allow ourselves as preachers and story-tellers to put the bigoted aspects of church life that the non-Christian are so familiar with in the proper lights, denouncing it as something Scripture would applaud, so that we can clear a path to a possibly more opened mind from the viewers when the accurate portrayal of Christianity and Salvation is presented.

You can see more details about the plot of the series and its length at the facebook page linked above in our links section. Thanks for showing your interest and support in out project.

~Stefan D. Byerley

Conception and a Call for Vocal Cast

Conceptual art of "Jazzlyn."

Hello, there!

I'm Stefan D. Byerley, the series creator and chief director, with a quick word as to exactly what it is I'm doing with the budding action/thriller web series "Phyre Rusty Jazz".

The series follows the exploits of three female assassins, code names "Phyre," "Rusty," and "Jazzlyn," as they struggle to stay on top of the organized mafia gangs in a corrupted city. As they begin to become a formidable force in the city, Phyre has a chance meeting with her old childhood friend, Steve, who reignites old memories and inadvertently unbalances the close bonds of the assassins and places their very survival among the dangerous gangs at risk.

The series was originally imagined as a series of graphic novelettes that would be published on the web. It was a fool-proof plan, really. I would write and illustrate the entire thing myself, all for only the cost of a few pencils, paper, and whatever advertisement would cost.

Unfortunately, I am no cartoonist.

My real passion is film. My real talent is film. My very efficiency is in film. With lights, cameras, and actors, I could shoot one episode of adventure and character development after another more quickly than I could draw the images. Even storyboards are faster for me to process than the constantly changing frame sizes and shapes of the graphic novel conventions.

So I re-imagined the series into a 16-episode video series, still planning to publish it to the internet. I set out to assemble a small team of people to help me bring this vision to life. I brought George McDaniel onto the project, who shares my interests in film, television, and forms of foreign work including live-action and animated media, and Spencer Paustian as a producer, who has previous experience in communication arts with Compass Communications Studios Inc.

More should be surfacing about these people as we post updates on the project and better establish our presence on the internet. I'll try to post updates as often as I can, but most of my attention will be drawn to story-boarding and writing the teleplays with George.

We are currently seeking out voice talents to record place-holder dialogue for a teaser trailer to pitch to various investors and dedicated fans across the internet. We need four female voices, three adult and one child. Anyone interested in being considered for the temporary cast should contact either Spencer or myself. I can be reached at prjcrew.stefan@gmail.com.

Thank you for your interest in "Phyre Rusty Jazz". The next few weeks should be very exciting!




~ Stefan D. Byerley