Personal Projects, Archive
After creating “Sticks” for the NYC 48hr Film Project, we were invited to create another short, along with teams from San Francisco and Los Angeles, for the Visa Invitational. Is Dave Moore a little too good at looking like a bum? You be the judge.
This film was completed in the sleepless span of 24 hours with the theme "free" and the action "placing a plug into a socket" as the assigned requirements.
Written, shot, and edited in 48 hours, this short snagged an “Audience Choice” award, Runner up for Best Directing, Runner up for Best Writing, and Best Credit Sequence in the 2007 New York City 48hr Film Project out of 50 teams. It also earned us into another round of filmmaking (See “One Man’s Trash”) .
Created based on prompts in 12 hours for the Brooklyn Film Race 2007.
My maiden voyage into the realm of 48hr films, this was created at the end of my senior year for Ohio University’s Annual 48hr Shoot Out Competition. So we were about 5 minutes late and thus disqualified from the competition itself, but we still managed to garner some other awards in contests that didn't require films to be made in 48 hours.
I am not generally into horror films, so when we received that as our prompt for this years 48 film it was an interesting challenge. I would like to think this came out pretty creepy.
I recall at the screening someone telling me that the opening titles, which I shot and designed, looked like titles from "a real film."
When tasked with researching a bill currently in congress and presenting a 30 minute presentation on it, myself, Zlatko and Aaron decided it would be a hell of a lot more fun to just make a movie. If you watch closely, you might catch about 40 seconds worth of research we actually did on the bill.
During the filming of the chase scene (physical action of a chase, not just a scene with me in it) volunteer stuntman Alex Giusto actually shattered the windshield of Zlatko's car. Luckily, no one was hurt. However, to recoup the funds needed to repair the windshield, we had no choice but to raise funds by selling $5 VHS tapes of the film. Within a few weeks, we had much of the money we needed, and Zlatko's windshield was replaced. A few weeks later his car was totaled in an accident.
Unfortunately, Zlatko decided to end his acting career, and Alex has yet to perform more stunts for film. Aaron Donovan is about the worst actor ever, so its good to know that he has been able to flourish in other aspects of life as well.
This was the first time I used a nonlinear editing system (ulead media studio) outside of school and I shot and edited everything in a few weeks. Actually I can't remember how long we spent on it, I assume I put everything off till the last minute and did it all in a few days. I had just bought a firewire card for my PC and I had never used it before. Hard to believe that this was just about the time that firewire was hitting the scene and before that doing this thing was impossible on a home computer. I also had to walk to school in the snow every day, uphill both ways. Kids today have it easy.
