I just remembered that when I was 11 or 12 I was really into dinosaur movie and so I wanted to make one. I believe it was around this time when "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" came out I had bought a bunch of the toys and decided i'd make a movie with the action figues and use all the "Jurassic Park" dinosaurs. So anyway the actors were all toys from Aliens, Jurasic Park, Lost World and such and I had planned on just dubbing my voices over the non moveing lips actors. The "plot" was some scientist wanted to send a team of people armed with guns to go to a dinosaur island and bring back some dinosaurs. I actually had most of the lines memorized in my head. I had borrowd one of my brother's friends "Visitor Center" from Jurasic Park for the humans base which was to come under attack by T-REXs, Raptors, Stegasaures, trisauratops and many other dinos. At the end after many people and dinsaurs were killed some of the humans were still alive and were able to capture a T-Rex and bring it back to a city. Of couse the dinosaur was going to get loose knock over a few box buildings stomp and a few tanks, knock jets out of the sky until it was finally killed the end.
Now that's the movie I was planning on making but this is how the movie was made. My grandparents had a camcorder so they stood there on lawn while I had all my toys and props out. I became so nervous I just sat there for five minutes until I improvised the whole movie. I mean you could see my hands when ever I movied the toys around, or hear my grandma say "speak louder David." I still had the T-Rex attack the city though. It started off with: "then the T-rex attacked the city ROAR!" a T-rex was thrown into a stack of boxs to illistate the dinosaurs attack on the city. I showed to my familiy and they thought it was pretty good and I laugh at it to this day. If I every find the tape (which I most likly recorded over) I'd send it to Andrew, who'll probably find it more entertaining than "Manos the Hands of Fate" That's my long story about my first experince in the director's chair and i'd say it was ok.
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I used to have an action figure called "Erik the Viking." It was made like the old G.I. Joes - fully poseable with a lot of attachments like a Viking helmet, swords, daggers, etc. Anyway, I used my mom's old Keystone 8mm movie camera and tried to make a stop-motion film with it. All I can say is, Ray Harryhausen's legacy has nothing to fear from me . . .
I don't have a camcorder, but any attempt to write anything remotely resembling fiction on my word processor has ended in complete failure. Does this count?
Myself and a few of the cinemasodomy crew did something once called "Not the Mafia." It was about mafiosos trying to steal nachos. Or something like that. It was silly. It was bad. We were obsessed with the "turn off the camera, turn it back on, and one object magically becomes another" trick. Well, actually, that's still a pretty neat trick.
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Well Burgomaster I thinking more of "you have a script worked out and when the time comes to start filming you get camera shy and just screw up." but i'll count yours.
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Me and my friends actually started filming a movie in the summer of 1999. It was about a serial killer and a prize fighter crossing paths. I wrote the script in 3 days and it was only 19 pages long. We had the cast set and we even had a song written for the movie. However when filming time came half of the cast dropped out. One got real p**sed at my friend and wouldn't work. Another was too busy and said he'd do the sequel. So we wound up shooting the first scene in blck and white for some reason and the sound was terrible and then when we finally got it to work out this guy walks into the frame at the last second. Then we shot the second scene which was a fighting sequence. It was not choreographed at all and I wound up doing commentwery over the track which was very funny. And the guy that walked into the earlier frame was promoted from side character to semi main character until he got kicked in the mouth. After that scene we just gave up because no one wanted to work with the chance of getting smacked in the mouth. So we watch it whenever we get a chance to because it's hilarious.
Good one Perk.
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I did a short film based on the book "Fahrenheit 451" for a school project. It was the entire book compressed into roughly fifteen mintues, and told entirely from the point of view of Mildred, Guy Montag's wife. There would be random jumps in conitnuity because she would space out while watching TV...Montag would leave for work out one door, then suddenly come in the other way because the entire day had passed and she hadn't noticed. We had some fun with making fun of the confusing symbolism in the book an enacting our vision of "The White Clown" show. The movie probably makes more sense if you've recently read the book like we had; there isn't too much there for people with no previous knowledge of the plot. But hey, inside jokes are the best kind.
I still haven´t made no movie,but I will start when Brian gives me the rough scripts I told him to make.
Brock and Johnny Blister: I have not much a clue as to what you both have just but they sound good!
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It IS good.Brian has showed a lot of entusiasm in working with me.
Thank you for your support.
Had plans in making a movie back in the 1990's, and friends thought it was a cool idea until I asked them to help make the props...
AWW that's to bad. I guess they didn't know that it take WORK to make any kind of movie. Don't give up.
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i made a four minute zombie film in college for a video production class. i think i spent 90% of the entire project budget on raw meat and ketchup - it was ultimately pretty poor, but a lot of fun to make (but a pain to clean up).
OOOHH! Zombie movie. Maybe you'll the next Fulci of the next Romero. Who knows, but if you spent 90% of the budget for blood and guts must've been really gore. HEH HEH HEH! (I like gory movies)HEH HEH!
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yeah, more attention was paid to blood spattering than plot. i could be the next fulci :P