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Friday, August 17, 2007

TFL's Movies

You know, we've spent so much time talking about other people's movies that we've never really mentioned our own. Like most movie bloggers, a few of us are wannabe directors, actors, and blood technicians, and we thought we'd share with you a couple of our flicks...

Andrew:

As a film-maker I have no pretensions to talent or seriousness. Still, for your amusements, here are some short films I done made.

Sunday

This was a first attempt at closely matching visuals with a song. I had ambitions to a whole bunch of things, but they were at best partially succesful. Nonetheless, a very cool song and a very pretty lady.

Hello, Charlie.

This was me and a friend, bored one weekend, passing a camera to each other as we filmed this extremely daft tale of a drug deal gone wrong. It's pretty funny, if hopelessly amateur. Some friends of mine were fairly disturbed by it, the pussies. As cooler than thou film geeks, you can simply enjoy the sight of me making a complete fool of myself. Cool sound though.

Top Of The Monitor

Here's my first attempt at learning how to use my video editing software. I just shot mediums and close-ups of the toys and then improv'd a scene involving them. Very daft, strangely amusing, and probably a good insight into my subconscious.

My Music

www.myspace.com/andrewclarke76.com

Here's what i'm serious about - music. There's only one song on there at the moment, as i'm replacing old recordings with new. As some of my more recent demos and remixes get finished i'll be adding more songs to the list, but come visit and be my friend.

Charlie:

The "award winning" STRAY is a combined effort, written and directed by myself for my final project at "film school," with music composed by Andrew (and very good music it is. By the by, by award winning I mean it won a tiny award at a festival here. I just mentioned it because I rarely get ego boosts.

GIVIN UP is a bit more of a somber short, essentially made a month after my mother died, and a bit of an exploration of my feelings at that time, as well as trying to give up smoking. I may seem a bit emo, but it doesn't mean you can't slate it a bit.

George:

City of Angels

Hindsight is a motherfucker. I cringe watching this music video (Coldplay? Really?). I was asked to shoot this by a very pretty lady friend about 3-4 years ago for an art exhibit held in Los Angeles by some entertainment group that Mel Gibson and a host of c-list celebs were involved with. This was pre-"sugar tits" Gibson, but post-"I hate Jews" Gibson, so it was weird. In any case, this was the final product. Mock me, but mock me gently.

Shane:

This was a film made for my French and Italian New Wave class. Other than the two actors, there were three of us that split up the direction and cinematography. I did the writing in English and the editing, Pierre did the translation (he's French, ya see). The assignment was to make a film in the vein of the French New Wave, which made us essentially make a film aping various visual cues and the like. Luckily we had a French guy on our crew, so that made the French part of "French New Wave" a bit easy to handle.

Overall, the film is okay, I think. We made it in about four days total, and it shows. The script is something that I liked more then than I do now, but it still fits the feel that we were going for. Still, it's 18 minutes of student film (sorry), but I swear it doesn't feel like its run-time. Having a constant underscoring kind of annoys me, but it makes the film easier to take, and it was a lot easier to make it that way, what with the not having to worry about sound mixing and all. I posted the script in the film details, if you'd like it, as the subtitles get kind of fucked up, and as such are hard to see. It's also a bit...well, you'll see. The whole of the project has this air of desired-pretentiousness that falls short of what we were going for, but still, this was our first film.

I could make excuses all day for it, but like I said, it's pretty good, I think, so here you go: