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Showing posts with label Doomed Moviethon Films. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Doomed Moviethon Films. Show all posts
Sunday, September 7, 2014
"Doomed Moviethon" by The Prople
I managed to get out of the house long enough to see The Prople live! I was able to shoot some video of them and then immediately crawl back under my rock to make them a music video for their song, "Doomed Moviethon". Apparently, it is about Doomed Moviethon! I can't stress enough how honored I am to have a song dedicated to my friggin' website.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
The Next Phase In Crap
Back in 2009, I made a movie with my friends and had to put it together with shitty software. Now I have better software but I'm still shitty. So this little thing that was once called Crazy Fortune Teller is now LASER BEAMS! LASER BEAMS! LASER BEAMS! This still isn't the final product but I trimmed some things and added the "dance party in Hades" sequence over the end credits instead of the movie just stopping abruptly. Check it out. I play The Devil. And I dance as The Devil dances in Hades but this time, it's in real life. The film also features an entire cast of library employees.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Self Promotion/Parody
Good morning, y'all. I'm pretty sure that it is Wednesday. People kept calling it hump day and I thought they were being dirty. Speaking of dirty, I made a little Doomed Moviethon promo video. I've been doing this freakin' site for 4 and a half years, why not tell people about it, right? Anyway, here it is:
Ha ha, I poisoned Youtube!
Ha ha, I poisoned Youtube!
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Crazy Fortune Teller (The Shoot)
I was so nervous before shooting Crazy Fortune Teller that I broke out my SCTV DVDs. Lola Heatherton and Johnny LaRue helped me chill. Why was I so freaked? I figured that nobody would show up or worse, nobody would have a good time. I told the gang to show up around 7:00pm. Hillary (who plays Lonely Zombie) showed up first in this great early 80s Debbie Harry getup (she ended up being the best dressed person in the film) and also brought a bottle of wine.
Next Margeaux (Madame Tatyana) and Ryan (Dr. Ignatius Shoehammer) arrived. Margeaux accessorized herself almost to the breaking point with her outfit. I put Ryan in a lab coat and one of my hats. Then Nafa who played the role of master cinematographer showed up along with Matt (Lottery Zombie) and his wife Rubis. The only missing person was Roy (The Priest) who was working 'til midnight and would show up for his big scene which was added to the screenplay at the last minute. I kept thinking, "no way we're gonna go that late!"
So we got started. Filming with my old Sony Hi8 camcorder, the shoot was great. There was lots of laughing and multiple takes galore. However, we didn't really run into any stumbling blocks until we got to my scenes. When I wrote The Devil's dialogue, I went way overboard and gave myself too much fucking nonsense to spout off. So everyone had to wait while my wife LeEtta coached me through each freakin' sentence. Short term memory, what happened to you? Things went well after that with the zombie attack. It was hot as blazes in the apartment with the lights and all of the extra human beings around.
Suddenly, it was midnight. We had worked for hours on this thing and we were very close to being done. I put on "Pump Up The Jam" (I didn't have "The Power" by Snap) for the dance party in hell sequence. I'm sure my neighbors were less than pleased by this but things got even more insane when Roy showed up. We put him in Nafa's priest costume and had him rush in to almost save the day. From the hallway leading to my front door, Roy burst in yelling his line at the top of his lungs. First shocked silence and then laughter as we quickly did a couple more takes and ushered him back into the apartment before somebody called the cops.
And that is pretty much it. I've been told that everyone had a good time and I am crazy grateful to all my friends for agreeing to waste precious hours of their lives with me. Things turned out great with one small exception: I accidentally pressed the date stamp button right before the dance party and Roy's big scene. So "Aug 30 2009" is burned into that footage and will take some monumental digital effects to hide/remove. Oh well, at least the bulk of the movie was spared from that embarrassing indignity.
Dr. Shoehammer meets Madame Tatyana.
Shoehammer in peril.
Uh oh, uh oh, here comes the hammer.
The devil shows up and talks endlessly.
"You dang jerk!"
"Robots will kill you!"
So right now, the film is not edited or complete in any way shape or form. I still need to put together all the music and sound effects as well. This may take a while but bear with me, it will happen. I did do a rough cut to see what I had but the whole project still needs a lot of work.
Next Margeaux (Madame Tatyana) and Ryan (Dr. Ignatius Shoehammer) arrived. Margeaux accessorized herself almost to the breaking point with her outfit. I put Ryan in a lab coat and one of my hats. Then Nafa who played the role of master cinematographer showed up along with Matt (Lottery Zombie) and his wife Rubis. The only missing person was Roy (The Priest) who was working 'til midnight and would show up for his big scene which was added to the screenplay at the last minute. I kept thinking, "no way we're gonna go that late!"
So we got started. Filming with my old Sony Hi8 camcorder, the shoot was great. There was lots of laughing and multiple takes galore. However, we didn't really run into any stumbling blocks until we got to my scenes. When I wrote The Devil's dialogue, I went way overboard and gave myself too much fucking nonsense to spout off. So everyone had to wait while my wife LeEtta coached me through each freakin' sentence. Short term memory, what happened to you? Things went well after that with the zombie attack. It was hot as blazes in the apartment with the lights and all of the extra human beings around.
Suddenly, it was midnight. We had worked for hours on this thing and we were very close to being done. I put on "Pump Up The Jam" (I didn't have "The Power" by Snap) for the dance party in hell sequence. I'm sure my neighbors were less than pleased by this but things got even more insane when Roy showed up. We put him in Nafa's priest costume and had him rush in to almost save the day. From the hallway leading to my front door, Roy burst in yelling his line at the top of his lungs. First shocked silence and then laughter as we quickly did a couple more takes and ushered him back into the apartment before somebody called the cops.
And that is pretty much it. I've been told that everyone had a good time and I am crazy grateful to all my friends for agreeing to waste precious hours of their lives with me. Things turned out great with one small exception: I accidentally pressed the date stamp button right before the dance party and Roy's big scene. So "Aug 30 2009" is burned into that footage and will take some monumental digital effects to hide/remove. Oh well, at least the bulk of the movie was spared from that embarrassing indignity.
Dr. Shoehammer meets Madame Tatyana.
Shoehammer in peril.
Uh oh, uh oh, here comes the hammer.
The devil shows up and talks endlessly.
"You dang jerk!"
"Robots will kill you!"
So right now, the film is not edited or complete in any way shape or form. I still need to put together all the music and sound effects as well. This may take a while but bear with me, it will happen. I did do a rough cut to see what I had but the whole project still needs a lot of work.
Friday, August 28, 2009
Dang Friday
Stupid dang Friday, why do you stand between me and Saturday? As I mentioned before, I'm filming "Crazy Fortune Teller" with some friends this weekend. I am going to spend tonight cleaning me and the wife's apartment and most of the day on Saturday turning our living room into a movie studio. I'm so super psyched about this short film project that I've been pretty intolerable all week (wait, just this week?), talking about CFT constantly and probably taking all the fun out of it.
Download the screenplay (if you can call it that) here.
And here's a trailer for The Possessening. A film that my friend Zac and I still haven't finished.
Download the screenplay (if you can call it that) here.
And here's a trailer for The Possessening. A film that my friend Zac and I still haven't finished.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Crazy Fortune Teller (Coming Soon)
(Are you teased by my teaser?)
This Saturday, I'm going to gather some colleagues of mine together to shoot a short film. I was thinking of calling it "Suggest Me to Hell" but I settled on the much more catchy "Crazy Fortune Teller". The screenplay I wrote (my first by the way) is about a crazy fortune teller with telekinetic powers who has gone mad and is killing her customers. I don't want to give too much away because let's be honest, the internet has too many spoilers already. The aesthetic I'm going for is early 80s home movie written by a demented child.
I'm still using my Sony Hi-8 which my parents bought me for my birthday back in 2000. Hopefully, the old girl is still up for the job. I've got some homemade color gels (transparency sheets with Sharpie ink all over them) for eerie lighting and a bunch of lamps. Blood, brains and bone fragments will be constructed out of felt and yarn.
More about this later.
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