Saturday, November 21, 2009
Work in progress
So I finished up shooting this morning on my final project. Got it all ruff cut together. Just gotta finish two projects tomorrow for finals that are due Monday. It's all looking good if I do say so myself.Get some sleep finally tonight and edit all day tomorrow.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Editing
So I have spent all day cleaning up audio and piecing together another video. trying something that I have not done before. So I am looking forward to the end result. Don't know how well its going to work, but the ideal in my head rocks out. So this shall be a wonderful experimentation. all I need now is large leather gloves, a cattle prod, and welding goggles....check. Here we go.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Screening
Just watched Hellraiser for the first time in a long time. One hell of a movie. Clive Barker is really twisted. God I love his films.
work.
Ok so I shot Friday one of my projects. Its starting to come along. Saturday I acted for Frank. That was a lot of fun and interesting to see the more developed and different directing ideas from last year. Pretty awesome. So right now I screened Zombieland and now I am screening A Simple Plan. Good stuffers. Then I gotta get back to editing my other video's. Wish I could post them, but if I am submitting them to festivals they can't be online. meh. What can one do.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
more research
Just finished watching Wings of Desire. At the end it says to be continued. So i put that at the top of my queue. So excited! Why is it that Films have to be remade about every 10 years? I mean come on. There has gotta be a reason why an awesome movie is redone poorly...no?...really?...damn...So next on the list is stranger then paradise. Then off to sleep for more class and a long day of set building and shooting.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Mary had a little lamb
Why is it that when I look at horror films they exclude the human monster? Not the disfigured kind either. The kind that makes you shiver in your boots from fear of their possibilities and lack of inhibitions?
A man lies helpless on a floor. His arms twisted and mutilated into stumps up to the elbows. He tries to pull the weight of his body backwards into the cabinets at his back. His face is gaunt and ashen from the loss of blood. The pain and worry has left his mind. All he can think of is the meat cleaver hanging from the shrouded figures hand. His ears dully pick up the sound of his own breath and scraping bone against hardwood floors. Through the haze he hears clearly the cacophony of sound from the mans foot steps slowly inching ever closer, he whistles to himself Mary had a little lamb while blood drips unchecked from the cleaver and his fingers.
A child plays in her backyard happy and at peace. She chases her puppy around that her parents had bought her for her birthday. She named him Mr. Floppy in response to his golden fluffy coat and oversized ears that look as if they will carry him end over end after each step. The mother stands in her kitchen preparing pasta for dinner. She checks her watch unconsciously and sighs to herself. The front door opens and she turns to see her husband come in. He smiles to her and adjusts his oversized glasses as he sets down his briefcase. He walks over hugging her and kisses her on the small of her neck. He hands her a package of meat and apologizes for it taking so long. The family sits and eats the evening meal of spaghetti and meatballs. The meal goes well except for the misses finding a bone chip in one of her bites. Then the father walks his daughter and puppy up stairs to tuck her in for the night. As they leave the kitchen the daughter asks holding her fathers hand if he would sing her Mary had a little lamb again. He smiles at her adjusting the glasses on his nose squeezing her hand for comfort and tells her of course.
That to me is a true monster that deserves to be in that classification.
A man lies helpless on a floor. His arms twisted and mutilated into stumps up to the elbows. He tries to pull the weight of his body backwards into the cabinets at his back. His face is gaunt and ashen from the loss of blood. The pain and worry has left his mind. All he can think of is the meat cleaver hanging from the shrouded figures hand. His ears dully pick up the sound of his own breath and scraping bone against hardwood floors. Through the haze he hears clearly the cacophony of sound from the mans foot steps slowly inching ever closer, he whistles to himself Mary had a little lamb while blood drips unchecked from the cleaver and his fingers.
A child plays in her backyard happy and at peace. She chases her puppy around that her parents had bought her for her birthday. She named him Mr. Floppy in response to his golden fluffy coat and oversized ears that look as if they will carry him end over end after each step. The mother stands in her kitchen preparing pasta for dinner. She checks her watch unconsciously and sighs to herself. The front door opens and she turns to see her husband come in. He smiles to her and adjusts his oversized glasses as he sets down his briefcase. He walks over hugging her and kisses her on the small of her neck. He hands her a package of meat and apologizes for it taking so long. The family sits and eats the evening meal of spaghetti and meatballs. The meal goes well except for the misses finding a bone chip in one of her bites. Then the father walks his daughter and puppy up stairs to tuck her in for the night. As they leave the kitchen the daughter asks holding her fathers hand if he would sing her Mary had a little lamb again. He smiles at her adjusting the glasses on his nose squeezing her hand for comfort and tells her of course.
That to me is a true monster that deserves to be in that classification.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Horror flicks
So I have watched Faces of Death, Night of the Living Dead by George Romero, Henry Portrait of a serial Killer, From Dusk Till Dawn, the Day of the Dead, and Evil Dead with commentary. Working on that wonderful research of classic horror films for my piece that will be shot. Tomorrow I will soot test footage at the location that I am going to be using. We shall see how this turns out. It seems for the most art watching peoples reactions that I am watching these with that the key necessity is the psychological aspect. Maybe my idea of building a beautiful picture with comfort and then a moment of apprehension will be lack luster since it is not that intense of a situation. If I get my money in for school I will try and gorify it. If not then we shall use ingenuity to build the moment. I like ingenuity, but I feel that it ca only carry so far and cross into cheezynous (Gotta love making up words).
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